CYP Mental Health Liaison Team Clinical Lead

Come and work for CYP Urgent Care team as a CYP MH Liaison Clinical Lead. The vacancy is countywide and can be flexibly based at either Lincoln or Boston.

You will work within the county-wide MHLS to ensure you are responding to the needs of young people accessing acute general healthcare with mental health problems by offering rapid, effective liaison and assessment.

Through clinical leadership, support and training you will support the clinical team to manage any complex cases, supporting liaison with other agencies such as CYP services, paediatrics, emergency services etc.

As clinical lead you will work closely with the Team Co-ordinator to provide expert knowledge within areas of specialism in relation to young people's mental health and support the clinical team to develop their roles and the provision of care within the community setting.

Work jointly with other CYP services to support the delivery of a high standard of clinical care for young people experiencing an acute episode of mental health deterioration. This includes ensuring improved physical health monitoring, care delivery and parity of esteem.

Work collaboratively and in partnership with ULHT to ensure their workforce is aware of the MHLS offer and has a good understanding of mental health by offering training/education to help develop the workforce.

Use specialist knowledge to deal effectively with newly encountered clinical situations.

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 by linking them with evidence-based treatment pathways.

Plan, implement, review, improve interventions and treatment pathways to meet people’s identified needs and manage their inherent risk with comprehensive Clinical Risk Formulation and care planning

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

Protect people from abuse, neglect and harm.

To work collaboratively and promote effective working relationships with members of the multi-disciplinary team and community teams, ensuring appropriate clinical decision-making, with other professionals and agencies.

To support transitions of young people to adult services.

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.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Cheryl Goodwin Job title: Team Manager Email address: Telephone number:

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