Mental Health Legislation Coordinator

You will work as a member of the Mental Health Legislation Team. You will be responsible for ensuring compliance with the legal requirements of the Mental Health Act and associated legislation by coordinating a variety of interconnected quality improvement and compliance projects; this will include analysing data, drafting reports, coordinating audits and maintaining policies.

You will provide an important role in ensuring that patient rights are identified, clearly communicated to the relevant people and facilitated in line with the legislation, managing complex cases in an effective, efficient and sensitive manner. You will also be expected to use your specialist knowledge of mental health legislation and regulation to oversee and provide assurance on the effective administration of the department, provide relevant training sessions and advise Trust officers.

You will have day-to-day contact with Trust employees at all levels and must maintain excellent working relationships with external organisations as well, including Lincolnshire County Council, solicitors, CQC and the Tribunal service.

• Provide accurate and complex advice to staff on practical aspects of mental health legislation.
• Share the management of a generic inbox of all MHA related queries, varying in complexity.
• Identify the need for, schedule, and coordinate relevant audits of the Trust's use of, and compliance with mental health legislation. Provide analysis of the results and make relevant recommendations to appropriate colleagues to improve compliance. Ensure an annual schedule and action log of MHA audits is maintained.
• Identify and coordinate quality improvement projects. Ensure that advice provided and recommendations made are clear, consistent, and reflected in relevant policies and procedures, independently coordinating and communicating updates to key team documents when necessary.
• Support inpatient wards by developing and maintaining close professional relationships, ensuring the effective implementation of the heatmap audit system.
• Support the senior managers of Divisions by providing monthly summaries of MHA related issues for review and analysis within Divisional Management Team Meetings.
• Provide focused training sessions on specific parts of the Mental Health Act to relevant groups of Trust officers.
• Collate and analyse Mental Health Act data to inform the drafting of detailed reports for a variety of audiences.
• Provide ongoing training, mentoring and leadership to Mental Health Legislation Administrators.

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.  to find out more.