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Job overview

We are excited to be recruiting for a CAMHS - Leaving Care post, who will help us expand the support available to care experienced young people in Lincolnshire.

LPFT, Barnardo’s Leaving Care Service, NACRO Education Support and Transition (NEST) and Lincolnshire County Council are working in partnership to offer support to staff and young people who are care experienced and/or accessing accommodation via NEST (16 -25 years).

The support will be flexible and adaptable to the mental health and emotional well-being needs of care experienced young people. You will be based with Lincolnshire’s Children and Young People (CYP) Complex Needs Service and will work across the county, with a specific focus on supporting and working with Barnardo's Leaving Care workers, and NEST staff. You will be involved in developing an advice, training and consultation offer to the staff to support them in their understanding of a young person’s mental health and/or behavioural presentation. You may be required provide assistance to help these young people access relevant emotional well-being and mental health services, or direct assessment and intervention when appropriate.

Please be aware that whilst we are advertising for a permanent post, this role is currently funded until January 2026. If not funded beyond this time, you would be offered a role elsewhere within our Trust Children & Young People's Services.

Main duties of the job

This is not an exhaustive list. To see the main duties in full, please download the job description.

• To provide 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.
• Provide care delivery to vulnerable groups, inclusive of but not exclusively: young people Leaving Care; young people accessing NEST; mild Learning Disability; those in contact with Criminal Justice System; survivors of abuse; those with harmful behaviour.
•  Work collaboratively, and promote effective working relationships, with members of the Leaving Care Service and the NEST services; members of the multi-disciplinary CYP Complex Needs Service; members of CAMHS multi-disciplinary team; members of Healthy Minds Lincolnshire Service; members of Adult mental health services, ensuring effective clinical decision-making, internally and with external agencies.
• Provide full assessment and appropriate follow up care via care planning and clinical pathways, individual and group interventions, in partnership with young people/families/carers and other workers involved in care delivery.
• Provide therapeutic interventions as appropriate within relevant care pathways.
• Work flexibly across the county from a designated base.    

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 2,800 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.