Job summary
- Main area
- Mental Health Practiioner
- Grade
- Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 351-CEN2420-CL
- Employer
- Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- CMHT South Ribble
- Town
- Preston
- Salary
- £31,049 - £37,796 pa
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 10/02/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Community Mental Health Practitioner
Band 5
Our Vision is to provide the best mental health, learning disability, autism, community, and physical health services for the populations we serve.
As an integrated Trust, Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust (LSCFT) delivers a comprehensive range of services, including:
- Primary and secondary mental health care for children and adults, including specialist inpatient child and adolescent mental health provision, perinatal mental health, and forensic services with low and medium secure care.
- Specialist mental health inpatient care for individuals with learning disabilities, alongside specialist community support for children and adults with learning disabilities and autism, including intensive support.
- Extensive community physical health and well-being services for children and adults, covering prevention, treatment, rehabilitation, and long-term condition management.
The Trust was first established in 2002 and employs approximately 7,500 staff who provide care from more than 400 sites. The organisation offers opportunities for medics, mental health, general nurses, children’s nurses, allied health professionals, psychology, administration and clerical staff, apprentices and volunteers, as well as those specialising in learning disabilities and community physical health services.
For more information visit our website via Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS FT.
Job overview
We are seeking a dedicated and compassionate Mental Health Practitioner to join our Community Mental Health Team based at Pathways MHRC in Bamber Bridge.
We are a dynamic and innovative team who are committed to upholding the highest standards of care. Our service is built on strong values of collaboration, respect, and recovery, and we believe in working in true partnership with patients, carers, and families to form the Triangle of Care — ensuring everyone involved in a person’s care is listened to, supported, and included.
As a Band 5 Keyworker, you will hold a defined caseload and deliver holistic, recovery-focused care to adults with complex and enduring mental health needs. You will play an active role within a multidisciplinary team (MDT), contributing to assessments, care planning, risk management, and evidence-based interventions.
A thorough understanding of psychotropic medications, including Clozapine and Lithium, is essential, as you will be responsible for supporting safe medication management and monitoring within community settings.
Main duties of the job
We have an exciting opportunity for a Band 5 Community Mental Health Practitioner to join our Adult Community Mental Health Team service, based at Pathways, Bamber Bridge, Lancashire.
You will join a friendly team who are committed to their own development and who are, outgoing and sociable. The team is also flexible and family friendly where everyone's individualised cases are considered to help manage work-life balance where possible.
We are looking for a Core registered mental health practitioner, with significant post qualification experience in working clinically with service users experiencing a range of mental health problems, who are able to work as part of a multidisciplinary team, and has experience in assessing, planning, implementing and reviewing care needs and pathways with complex mental health issues.
We require someone who has great knowledge of medications and how to monitor them. Particularly psychotropic medications including Clozaril and Lithium.
You will also be required to have experience and knowledge of risk assessment and care and safety management, the ability to explore issues relating to the impact of health and social needs in mental health and well-being. We take an multi-disciplinary approach, in a holistic way.
You will also be expected to take part in our Duty system on a rotational basis.
Working for our organisation
LSCFT values diversity and inclusion, recognising that talent from varied backgrounds creates a flexible, creative, and effective workforce. We actively challenge discrimination and welcome applications from all, regardless of age, disability (including those with experience of accessing or caring for someone who has accessed mental health or learning disability services), ethnicity, gender, religion, belief, or sexual orientation.
Our aim is to reflect the communities we serve, so we particularly encourage applications from under-represented groups. If you’d like to discuss your application, please ask.
We also welcome individuals with lived experience relevant to the role or service area, as your insight brings authenticity to our services.
LSCFT support flexible working, we believe that a positive work/life balance benefits NHS employees through improved health and wellbeing. We would consider working patterns such as term time, part time, compressed hours and flexi-time.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the attached job description and person specification for more information about this role.
Person specification
Education/qualifications
Essential criteria
- Professionally Registered Mental Health Nurse.
- Equivalent professional registered social worker.
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Knowledge of mental illness and impact upon quality of life
- Pharmaceutical knowledge of medications: particularly psychotropics, Clozapine and Lithium
- Risk formulation
- Demonstrable interest in continuing developing knowledge
- Evidence of continuing professional development.
- Ability to manage complex caseload
Experience
Essential criteria
- Post qualification experience within mental health services. With some of these to have been within acute mental health services.
- Experience of working with a full range of mental illness
- Experience of providing supervision.
- Demonstrable experience of providing teaching/training
- Working with and supporting Carers
- Engagement / working closely with wider agencies (e.g. ASC, housing, 3rd sector)
Personal
Essential criteria
- Skills in the use of methods of assessment, formulation / interventions, and evaluation
- Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex and or clinically sensitive information to service user, their families, and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
- Well-developed skills in providing clinical supervision and consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
- Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of multi- media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional, academic settings
- Ability to work sensitively and supportively with staff who are retraining and/or changing their way of working
Other
Essential criteria
- The resilience necessary to overcome obstacles and resistance.
- Sensitivity towards organisational and political complexities.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Application numbers
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- David Gardner
- Job title
- Interim Team Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01772 676068
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