Senior Mental Health Practitioner – Lincolnshire Recovery Partnership

Job Introduction

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join Lincolnshire Recovery Partnership, a vibrant new partnership delivering substance use treatment and recovery services across Lincolnshire from April 2024. Lincolnshire Recovery Partnership is delivered in partnership between Turning Point, Framework and Double Impact. The partnership combines Turning Point’s national experience as an outstanding substance use provider together with Double Impact’s specialism in lived experience and recovery and Framework’s expertise supporting service users with complex issues.

Our ‘Recovery First’ model underpins everything at Lincolnshire Recovery Partnership, with lived experience recovery fully integrated and visible throughout. Lincolnshire’s residents will benefit from Lincolnshire Recovery Partnership’s highly integrated and highly localised approach, supporting with multiple issues across all parts of Lincolnshire.

You will have opportunities to progress your career with a structured learning journey and clearly defined career pathways that will enable you to achieve your long-term goals and work to your strengths.

Role Responsibility

• Leading the implementation and delivery of interventions to address cooccurring substance use and mental health issues
• To enhance quality of Recovery Planning and review and to ensure that individual and group interventions are delivered to a high quality throughout the services.
• To provide clinical assessments to the highest standards of practice
• To work therapeutically with a small caseload of clients with complex needs including substance use and mental health co-existing difficulties using a trauma enhanced approach.
• To work autonomously within professional guidelines and exercise responsibility for the systematic governance of psycho-social practice
• To provide an advisory service on matters related to the practice and delivery of trauma-informed psycho-social and mental health interventions across the organisation and with multi-disciplinary partner agencies.
• Supervision and performance management of team of staff (as operationally required)
• To promote and maintain links and effective referral pathways with Primary and Secondary Mental Health services
• Proactively contributing to continuously improving services by making evidence-based suggestions, providing constructive feedback and assisting in the implementation of agreed new ways of working.
• Meeting agreed performance targets and outcomes
• Supporting Clinical Lead, Clinical Services Manager, Operations Managers and Senior Operations Manager in service developments as required.
• Supporting organisational developments, such as information, consultation and/or review for tenders or business developments.
• To independently maintain registration with the relevant professional body (HCPC/Social Work England/NMC)and to meet all requirements associated with the professional role specified therein.

The Ideal Candidate

• RMN or CQSW/DipSW
• Up to date registration through the NMC or Social Work England
• Experience of delivering and coordinating mental health services.
• Ensure knowledge and Continued Professional Development are maintained.
• Experience of line managing staff and providing clinical supervision and reflective practice
• Experience of working with substance use and/or mental health Service Users

About us

What Benefits Will I Receive?

We know reward looks different to each person and so whether its ways to make your money go further, a culture supporting recognition and celebration, or opportunities to boost your career – we want to support you in every way we can with our total reward package that includes:

• 25 days’ paid holiday a year + Bank Holidays, increasing with each year of service up to 27 days + Bank Holidays. Plus the option to buy additional holidays and spread the cost.
• Join our team and discover the comprehensive benefits we offer by following this link to explore all the exciting perks available to our employees https://jobs.turning-point.co.uk/benefits.html?utm_source=jobad&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=benefits

We reserve the right to close this advert early if we are able to appoint to the vacancy before the advertised closed date.

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