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Job overview

This is an exciting opportunity for a qualified Mental Health Nurse to work in our Older Adult Home Treatment Team. The team provides a swift response to people who are in the acute phase of mental illness, providing home treatment in order to prevent hospitalisation. To be successful in this role, we want to hear from Practitioners who really want to ‘make a difference’, with the Trust values at the core of patient care, who have previous experience working with acute mental illness, or who are seeking to develop a career within acute care. You will need to demonstrate a commitment to providing a high-quality standard of care, excellent communication, interpersonal, and assessment skills, and a positive attitude towards change with the ability to contribute to the evolving nature of our service. The post holder will have regular management and clinical supervision. The post holder provides a high standard of clinical care ensuring safe and effective assessment, treatment and comprehensive discharge planning using highly developed clinical reasoning skills and appropriate assessment tools. 

Main duties of the job

This is a community based service covering the whole of the Lincolnshire County working from 2 Main hubs. This service is to provide a hospital at home service providing initial assessment and continuing health and social care assessment of service users based on their individually assessed needs. Ensuring that an agreed assessment of care needs is implemented which reflects the Trust’s policy and Values. Engage services users and their carers in all aspects of their care and treatment. Working with other professionals such as Occupational Therapy, Pharmacy, Medical professionals and Clinical Psychology in care delivery. Older Adults Home Treatment Team supports service users for around 6 weeks and is a short intensive team. The aim is to reduce the risk, assess and treat the mental health condition and for the service user to be in recovery then refer/sign post to other support services through to safe transfer of service.

Working for our organisation

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 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 beinlincolnshire.com to find out more.