Mental Health Legislation Advisor

Overview

The Mental Health Legislation team is looking for a motivated and hardworking advisor to support the smooth running of this specialist team. You will work with the Mental Health Legislation Team to ensure that clinical staff receive timely and expert advice and training on the Mental Health Act 1983. This is a corporate role supporting clinical services to develop their use of the Mental Health Act and confidently understand their responsibilities afforded to them by the legislation, often in time pressured and distressing circumstances.

Analysing data and making connections between recurrent events and the cause of themes and trends across the legal and MHA aspects will allow you to successfully progress quality improvement projects to ensure that human rights are upheld, people are protected, and communities are safer.

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 2,900 staff, and serving a population of over 768,400, our people lie at the heart of everything we do.

• Work with a range of key professionals and partner agencies to contribute to the ongoing development and delivery of the Trust’s specialist MHA Legislation function, and participate in future projects monitoring, understanding, and educating the Trust on key legislative developments.

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.

Whether you’re taking the first exciting steps in your career, itching for a new challenge or searching for a better place to raise a family, Lincolnshire has a range of rewarding health and social care careers in a county that’s friendly, fascinating, affordable and brimming with everything you need to live a happy life. Visit  to find out more.

For further details / informal visits contact:
Name:
Sophie Jackson;

Job title:

Head of Mental Health Legislation;
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