Job summary
An exciting opportunity has become available for a Band 6 Practitioner, to join our award winning ongoing developing CCETTS Team based in Lincoln.
Our service covers areas across North of Lincolnshire so having a means to travel is essential.
We are looking for enthusiastic, highly motivated individuals to join our award-winning team. You will be providing 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 looks at providing an alternative to a tier 4 admission and supporting those being discharged from an acute inpatient admission following an episode of care.
The role will include providing Crisis Assessments, 1:1 therapeutic intervention; utilising 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.
You will be expected to work a shift pattern on a Rota basis covering 7 days per week: 08:45-19:00hrs.
Main duties of the job
To 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 over a 24/7 rota.
Work as part of a team managing referrals for assessment and intensive community treatmentfor 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 taking appropriate therapeutic risk for young people following 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 delivery.
Work in accordance with relevant childcare, health legislation and professional standards in partnership with wider children's services and to engage fully with Safeguarding, Common Assessment Framework and other processes which requires working together with other agencies.
About us
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.
Details
Date posted
05 November 2025
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 6
Salary
£38,682 to £46,580 a year per annum
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-time, Flexible working
Reference number
274-11770-SP
Job locations
Horizon Centre
Monson Street
Lincoln
LN5 7RZ
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please view the attached Job Description and Person Specification documents for complete details regarding this post.
When completing your application, please demonstrate how you meet the role criteria.
We can also offer you many staff benefits to help support you which include:
Early access to Psychological Therapies and Physiotherapy
Competitive annual leave allowance
Car leasing scheme
NHS pension scheme
Free eye tests
Money saving options through our salary sacrifice scheme
Discounts on major high street retailers and restaurants
Get in touch today:
Job descriptionJob responsibilities
Please view the attached Job Description and Person Specification documents for complete details regarding this post.
When completing your application, please demonstrate how you meet the role criteria.
We can also offer you many staff benefits to help support you which include:
Early access to Psychological Therapies and Physiotherapy
Competitive annual leave allowance
Car leasing scheme
NHS pension scheme
Free eye tests
Money saving options through our salary sacrifice scheme
Discounts on major high street retailers and restaurants
Get in touch today:
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Post graduate professional with current registration
- Mentorship Module (degree level)
- Evidence of specialised continued professional training in clinical practice
Desirable
- Leadership training Training in Dialectical behavioural therapy (DBT) or Family systemic practices
Experience
Essential
- Relevant experience of working with people with mental health needs.
- Experience of working with individuals in crisis
- Experience of working with people with severe and enduring mental illnesses
- Experience of managing and developing staff including supervision
- Experience of working with children and young people
Skills and Competences
Essential
- Expert knowledge of Child Care legislation, Safeguarding, Mental Health Act, Care Programme Approach and Risk Assessment
- Good knowledge of current local and national strategies concerning CAMHS, Children's Services and mental health
- Good understanding of child and adolescent development, risk assessment and risk management of young people in crisis.
- Experience of using evidence based practice
- Ability to work both as a member of a team and autonomously and to manage own and other colleagues anxieties
- Sound knowledge of clinical/risk assessment and understanding of Information Governance principles.
- Highly developed communication skills
- Ability to delegate whilst maintaining overall responsibility for service users care, where appropriate.
- Highly motivated & able to engage with service users & carers to improve outcomes
- Well-developed IT skills
- Excellent time management skills, organisational skills, ability to work under pressure and to manage own and other workloads efficiently.
Special Requirements
Essential
- Able to travel around the county independently and in a timely manner
Qualifications
Essential
- Post graduate professional with current registration
- Mentorship Module (degree level)
- Evidence of specialised continued professional training in clinical practice
Desirable
- Leadership training Training in Dialectical behavioural therapy (DBT) or Family systemic practices
Experience
Essential
- Relevant experience of working with people with mental health needs.
- Experience of working with individuals in crisis
- Experience of working with people with severe and enduring mental illnesses
- Experience of managing and developing staff including supervision
- Experience of working with children and young people
Skills and Competences
Essential
- Expert knowledge of Child Care legislation, Safeguarding, Mental Health Act, Care Programme Approach and Risk Assessment
- Good knowledge of current local and national strategies concerning CAMHS, Children's Services and mental health
- Good understanding of child and adolescent development, risk assessment and risk management of young people in crisis.
- Experience of using evidence based practice
- Ability to work both as a member of a team and autonomously and to manage own and other colleagues anxieties
- Sound knowledge of clinical/risk assessment and understanding of Information Governance principles.
- Highly developed communication skills
- Ability to delegate whilst maintaining overall responsibility for service users care, where appropriate.
- Highly motivated & able to engage with service users & carers to improve outcomes
- Well-developed IT skills
- Excellent time management skills, organisational skills, ability to work under pressure and to manage own and other workloads efficiently.
Special Requirements
Essential
- Able to travel around the county independently and in a timely manner
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional informationDisclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details
Employer name
Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Horizon Centre
Monson Street
Lincoln
LN5 7RZ
Employer's website
https://www.lpft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)
Employer details
Employer name
Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Horizon Centre
Monson Street
Lincoln
LN5 7RZ
Employer's website
Salary range
- £38,682 - £46,580 per year