Job overview

We have a vacancy in the Lincoln City and North Older Adult CMHT and are seeking to recruit a Band 6 Community Psychiatric Nurse to work within our team. The team consists of CPNS, associate practitioners, nurse associates and social workers. This post could also be a development post and therefore would be suitable for a newly qualified member of staff at Band 5 who could be supported through a competency framework to support transition to a senior Band 6 CPN.

The team provides a service from Monday to Friday 9-5, offering assessment, diagnosis, and treatment for patients of all ages presenting with memory difficulties and for older adults experiencing mental health difficulties. The successful applicant will be providing high-quality person-centred care to patients, families, and carers and working as part of the MDT to ensure good patient outcomes.

Liaising with various stakeholders will be a regular part of your job; this can include GP surgeries, carers and families, other teams within LPFT, and Adult Social Care. Regular joint working with other teams within LPFT, such as the Home Treatment Teams and the inpatient wards, requires some flexibility and shared responsibility.

Our division has an integrated home treatment team to support patients who may be requiring enhanced support. 

The team is based at Witham Court, but the applicant will be expected to work across the Lincoln and Gainsborough area.

Main duties of the job

To provide a high standard of clinical care, ensuring safe and effective assessment, treatment and comprehensive discharge planning using clinical reasoning skills and appropriate assessment tools.

To manage caseload and service delivery to contribute towards the attainment of Service/Trust productivity requirements.

Work with individuals to assess their mental health, recognise mental illness and identify their related needs and circumstances, and enable them to understand, manage and, where appropriate, change their behaviour.

Plan, implement, review and improve interventions to meet people’s identified needs and manage their inherent risk.

To assess carers’ and families needs and develop, implement and review programmes of support for carers and families.

Enable individuals to develop independent living skills and live in the community.

To work collaboratively and promote effective working relationships with members of the multi-disciplinary team, ensuring effective and appropriate clinical decision-making, both within the Community Mental Health Team and with external agencies.

To adhere to codes of professional conduct and ethics and associated legislation.

Develop and create networks that improve the pathway of care for clients referred to the Community Team.

Participate in all clinical governance and audit developments, including post-registration education, training and continuing professional development.

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.