Senior Mental Health Acute Care Nurse​/Clinician

Overview

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 towards change, and an ability to contribute to the evolving nature of the service.
• Coordinate 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.
• Provide professional advice and support to other agencies and members of the multi-disciplinary team.
• Work within the Crisis Team, which includes the S136 Suite, Triage Car and the new Rapid Response Car pilot service.
• Be involved in shift work (long days) including nights, weekends, and bank holidays over 7 days as the shift coordinator, crisis vehicle response team, and as part of the home treatment team.
• Provide regular supervision both management and clinical, and be expected to provide supervision to junior members of the team and students.
• There are training opportunities available to support growth in the role.

This current 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 have been specified, you will be required to work unsociable hours and shift patterns.

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’re really 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 networks groups and are always looking at what more we can do to support our staff.

For further details / informal visits contact:
Name:
Jacqui Hunt

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