Assistant Practitioner

Job summary

We currently have two exciting opportunities to join our Children and Young People's Emotional Wellbeing Service as an Assistant Practitioner.

Our Lincolnshire Emotional Wellbeing Service supports children and young people aged 0-19 who are presenting with emotional wellbeing or mental health problems, which are of a low level of complexity and/or intensity, by offering a variety of evidence-based interventions.

Please note that, as we are currently undergoing service transformation work, this post will be part of a new hybrid team that is bringing together the existing Healthy Minds Lincolnshire (HML) and Mental Health Support Teams (MHST). The name of the hybrid teams/service is to be Healthy Minds Lincolnshire.

This is advertised as full-time post operating Monday to Friday 9am-5pm, however other working patterns can be considered and base can be negotiated.

Main duties of the job

Our Lincolnshire Emotional Wellbeing Service work with children and young people on a variety of emotional wellbeing needs, including but not limited to: anxiety, low mood, self-harm, self-esteem, and anger.

This is an exciting opportunity for motivated and highly organised individuals with a passion for children and young people's emotional wellbeing to help shape the Emotional Wellbeing Service. You should be able to travel around this large rural county and able to work flexibly according to the needs of the service. The successful applicant will need to have knowledge and experience of delivering evidence-based therapeutic interventions.

The successful applicant will be expected to be familiar with children's safeguarding procedures in Lincolnshire and demonstrate good working relationships with other professionals to enable the provision of holistic care to children, young people and their families.

You should possess a Level 3 qualification in Health and Social Care or equivalent, or extensive experience working within mental health/emotional wellbeing services.

There are well-established links between all of the community-based Children and Young People's Mental Health Services and partner organisations.

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 2,900 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 arange 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.Visitbeinlincolnshire.comto find out more.