Senior Mental Health Acute Care Nurse​/Clinician

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The closing date is 02 February 2026

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a qualified RMN, OT, or Social Worker to work as a band 6 in the Boston Crisis and Home Treatment team. The team supports people experiencing an acute mental health episode in Boston, Skegness, Spalding, and the surrounding areas.

You will need to demonstrate a commitment to providing a high-quality standard of care, excellent communication and interpersonal skills, a positive attitude toward change, and an ability to contribute to the evolving nature of the service. You will receive regular supervision from both management and clinical leads, and be expected to provide both to junior members of the team and students.

Training opportunities are available to support growth in the role. You will be expected to work shifts (long days) including nights, weekends, and bank holidays over 7 days, as the shift coordinator, crisis vehicle response team member, and as part of the home treatment team.

This vacancy is for 37.5 hours per week.

We offer 24‑hour services within our Inpatient, Crisis, and SPA teams. If you are successfully appointed to posts in these areas or others that might be specified, you will be required to work unsociable hours and shift patterns.

You will be responsible for the coordination of care needs, assessment, planning, and implementation of evidence‑based care to a defined group of service users and their carers within the service catchment area. The post holder will provide professional advice and support to other agencies and members of the multi‑disciplinary team. The post will involve working within the Crisis Team, which includes the S136 Suite, Triage Car and the new Rapid Response Car pilot service.

Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health services and a number of learning disability, autism and social care services in the county of Lincolnshire. Employing around 2,800 staff and serving a population of over 766,000, our people lie at the heart of everything we do.

You could be part of a Trust rated by staff as one of the best mental health and learning disability trusts in England, in an area heralded as a fantastic place to live and work. We firmly believe the key to high quality care is a contented workforce. This is reflected in our Care Quality Commission rating of ‘outstanding’ for well‑led and ‘good’ overall.

In the most recent National NHS Staff Survey, our staff rated us as the number one trust nationally for staff morale and one of the top scoring NHS Trusts in the Midlands for being compassionate and inclusive. We are proud of this!

We are also leading the way in transforming care, with multi‑million‑pound transformation of patient environments and radical redesign of community services.

This is the time to join and help redesign our services of the future. We offer options for flexible working and provide a wide range of training and promotion opportunities in all professions. We support and celebrate diversity, have active staff network groups and are always looking at what more we can do to support our staff.

Please view the attached Job Description and Person Specification documents for complete details regarding this post.

When completing your application, please demonstrate how you meet the role criteria.

We can also offer you many staff benefits to help support you:

• Early access to Psychological Therapies and Physiotherapy
• Competitive annual leave allowance
• Car leasing scheme
• Free eye tests
• Money saving options through our salary sacrifice scheme
• Discounts on major high street retailers and restaurants

• RMN or RNLD or RN, S/W, O/T: 1st Level Registration (NMC) or degree or equivalent.
• Current Registered Professional
• ENB
  998 / FLIPS or equivalent
• Evidence of specialised continued professional training (degree level) in clinical practice.
• Management training

• Relevant experience of working with adults with mental health needs, or clear evidence of substantial experience of working with individuals in crisis and skills transferable to both community and in‑patient settings.
• Experience of working with people with severe and enduring mental illnesses.
• Evidence of continuing professional development.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust