CCETT Practitioner

Job Summary

An exciting opportunity has become available for a Band 5 Practitioner, to join our award‑winning, continuously developing CCETTS Team based in Lincoln.

Our service covers areas across the north of Lincolnshire, so having a means to travel is essential.

We are looking for enthusiastic, highly‑motivated individuals to provide 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 offers an alternative to tier 4 admission and supports those being discharged from an acute inpatient admission following an episode of care.

The role will include providing Crisis Assessments, 1:1 therapeutic intervention utilizing DBT and CBT skills, providing Emotional First Aid group work, and psycho‑education with parents and carers.

You will work closely with our CAMHS Mental Health Liaison Service.

The successful applicant will be expected to work a shift pattern on a rota basis covering 7 days per week: 08:45-19:00hrs.

• 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 on 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 co‑ordinators 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 take appropriate therapeutic risk following a 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 enregistré.
• Work in accordance with relevant child‑care, health legislation and professional standards in partnership with wider children’s services and engage fully with safeguarding, common assessment framework and other collaborative processes.
• Proactively involve children/young people and their families/carers in service development, including using service questionnaires to obtain structured feedback.
• Work closely with other colleagues within the service to enable effective transitions to and from other areas.
• Ensure best practice by incorporating NICE guidance and meeting healthcare standards.
• Adhere to Trust Policies in consideration of Children in Need and safeguarding issues, maintaining accurate and effective written records.
• Use outcome measures to evidence effectiveness of treatments provided.
• Propose changes and developments to service delivery and contribute to policy discussions at both team and service level.
• Participate in and deliver management and clinical supervision.
• Mentor students placed with the service.
• Participate in all clinical governance and audit developments, including training and continuing professional development.
• Maintain knowledge and standards of medicine management through training and supervision.
• Have an awareness of the Mental Health Act (MHA), Deprivation of Liberty (DOLs), Mental Capacity Act (MCA) and Children’s Act and understand how these affect the management of patients at home and as inpatients.

Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health services and a range 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.

We are rated by staff as one of the best mental health and learning disability trusts in England, with an outstanding Care Quality Commission rating for well‑led services and a good overall rating.

We offer flexible working options and a wide range of training and…