CCETT Senior Practitioner Boston

An exciting opportunity has become available for a Band 6 Practitioner to join our award-winning ongoing developing CCETTS Team based in Boston. Based at the Galaxy Suite, our service covers areas across the south of Lincolnshire, so having a means to travel is essential. We are looking for enthusiastic, highly motivated individuals to join our team.

You will be providing crisis and enhanced home treatment for young people struggling with acute deteriorating mental health difficulties, including self-harm, suicidal ideation, eating disorders/disordered eating, and psychosis. Our team looks at providing an alternative to a tier 4 admission and supporting those being discharged from an acute inpatient admission following an episode of care.

The role will include:

• Providing Crisis Assessments
• 1:1 therapeutic intervention; utilising DBT and CBT skills
• Providing Emotional First Aid group work
• Psycho-education with parents and carers

You will work closely with our CAMHs Mental Health Liaison service and will be expected to work a shift pattern on a rota basis covering 7 days per week: 08:45-19:00hrs.

Main duties of the job:

• To provide a high standard of community clinical care, ensuring safe and effective assessment, treatment, and comprehensive discharge planning using highly developed clinical reasoning skills and appropriate assessment tools.
• Provide rapid response to children/young people presenting with urgent and emergency mental health presentations over a 24/7 rota.
• Work as part of a team managing referrals for assessment and intensive community treatment for young people experiencing a mental health crisis or at risk of hospital admission.
• Act as bed coordinators for out-of-county placements.
• Support the Access Assessment of new referrals for in-patient beds.
• Act as lead professional for complex cases within the team.
• Engage with young people to provide mental health and risk assessment, risk management plans, and taking appropriate therapeutic risk for young people following crisis.
• Provide full assessment and collaborative care planning for implementation by the multi-disciplinary team, in partnership with young people/carers and other workers involved in care delivery.
• Work in accordance with relevant childcare, health legislation, and professional standards in partnership with wider children's services and engage fully with Safeguarding, Common Assessment Framework, and other processes which require working together with other agencies.
• Proactively involve children/young people and their families/carers in service development.

About us:

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 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.

Job responsibilities:

Please view the attached Job Description and Person Specification documents for complete details regarding this post. 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
• NHS pension scheme
• Free eye tests
• Money saving options through our salary sacrifice scheme
• Discounts on major high street retailers and restaurants

Qualifications:

Essential:

• Post graduate professional with current registration
• Mentorship Module (degree level)
• Evidence of specialised continued professional training in clinical practice

Desirable:

• Leadership training
• Training in Dialectical Behavioural Therapy (DBT) or Family systemic practices

Experience:

Essential:

• Relevant experience of working with people with mental health needs.
• Experience of working with individuals in crisis.
• Experience of working with people with severe and enduring mental illnesses.
• Experience of managing and developing staff including supervision.

Desirable:

• Experience of working with children and young people.

Skills and Competences:

Essential:

• Expert knowledge of Child Care legislation, Safeguarding, Mental Health Act, Care Programme Approach, and Risk Assessment.
• Good knowledge of current local and national strategies concerning CAMHS, Children's Services, and mental health.
• Good understanding of child and adolescent development, risk assessment, and risk management of young people in crisis.
• Experience of using evidence-based practice.
• Ability to work both as a member of a team and autonomously and to manage own and other colleagues' anxieties.
• Sound knowledge of clinical/risk assessment and understanding of Information Governance principles.
• Highly developed communication skills.
• Ability to delegate whilst maintaining overall responsibility for service users' care, where appropriate.
• Highly motivated & able to engage with service users & carers to improve outcomes.
• Well-developed IT skills.
• Excellent time management skills, organisational skills, ability to work under pressure and to manage own and other workloads efficiently.

Special Requirements:

Able to travel around the county independently and in a timely manner. 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. Applicants must have current UK professional registration.