Mental Health Legislation Advisor

Go back Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust Mental Health Legislation Advisor

The closing date is 29 January 2026

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.

You will 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 they will also be part of future projects monitoring, understanding, and educating the Trust on key legislative developments.

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.

You could be part of a Trust rated by staff as one of the best mental health and learning disability trusts in England. 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 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 arange 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.Visitto find out more.

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 which include:

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

• Law degree or recognised certificate in Mental Health Law or relevant equivalent experience. Candidates who can demonstrate a strong MHA and Coroners knowledge base and who hold relevant experience in a similar role will be considered

• Mental Health Act
• Coronial process
• Managing a team
• Accurate recording of complex information under pressure
• Organising events/meetings, diary scheduling and emails
• Dealing with challenging people
• Developing, implementing and maintaining manual and electronic databases, filing/administrative and recording systems to a high standard
• Communication at all levels
• Preparing and drafting legal documents to a high standard under minimal supervision
• Delivery of training or public speaking/presentations

• Excellent knowledge of Mental Health Act
• Strong leadership skills
• Good working knowledge of Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook
• Taking detailed witness statements
• Ability to draft legal documents to a high standard under minimal supervision
• Highly organised
• Public speaking (presentation and training delivery)

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

£38,682 to £46,580 a yearper annum pro rata for part-time

Permanent

Full-time,Part-time,Flexible working,Home or remote working