Job summary

Do you have a passion for Older Adults Community Mental Health Care?

Our Team at the Spalding OACMHT have an exciting opportunity for a Psychological Intervention Facilitator (PIF) to join our team. The post if for full time, however, we would consider part time and job share applicants.

It is based at the Johnson Community Hospital in Spalding, and it is a Monday to Friday role, with no bank holidays or weekend, meaning the perfect work-life balance for some.

The NHS and mental health services are changing and adapting to the needs of our service users, and now is a great time to join the team and start a new career pathway.

This role does require the applicant to be dedicated, trustworthy, kind, considerate and passionate about the care of our local older adult population.

This role also offers a chance to further your education as well as development, and you will be require to attend a course to facilitate this role. This will allow you to train alongside being able to earn.

We welcome all applicants, including those with a university or college background, and particularly encourage applicants with a specialist interest in psychology and this role will also help individuals who are wanting to progress in into Nursing or Therapy roles.

Could this be your ideal job, with clear career progression, a great team for support, and in the community you love - what's not to like?

For further information, an informal chat or to book a visit, please contact the team.

Main duties of the job

Carry out relevant risk assessments and risk management with the multi-disciplinary team

Engage calmly and with sensitivity and empathy to support service users in highly distressing or emotional circumstances.

Engage with and gather information from service users, relatives and patient records to develop a formulation.

To be a named professional for a caseload of service users supporting and monitoring their progress in treatment.

To set collaborative goals for intervention with service users.

To deliver specified wellbeing-focused psychologically-informed interventions, in line with best available evidence, under close supervision from a wellbeing practitioner, clinical psychologist or CBT therapist including, behavioural activation, graded exposure, teaching problem-solving skills, improving sleep, recognising and managing emotions, guided self-help for bulimia and binge-eating, building confidence, medication support and relapse prevention.

To be responsive to service users' needs and choices; and uphold their right to be treated with dignity and respect.

To include carers and families in line with the service user's wishes.

To liaise with other health and care providers, including third sector agencies and primary care, to ensure continuity of care for service users.

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.