Job overview

This is an exciting opportunity for a Registered Mental Health Practitioner / Occupational Therapist / Social Worker to join the Adult CMHT within the Fylde locality as a clinical lead. This is a relatively new role in our teams having been set up in 2025 and already showing benefits in our service offer.
The Fylde and Wyre CMHT cover a vast area along the Fylde coast and for that reason have a split base where you will be expected to be visible across the 2 bases.

The Community Mental Health Team (CMHT) are always striving towards excellence in service delivery, ensuring quality is at the forefront of all we do and service users receive the right care at the right time. 
The CMHT’s are undergoing a period of transition with work underway on civility and respect alongside promoting an improvement culture where we are responding and adapting based on feedback from our service users and families. 

Main duties of the job

The post holder will provide specialist clinical input to the team and carry a small clinical caseload of complex cases, demonstrating competence in complex decision making, assessment and the management of clinical needs within the specialist area of practice. The post holder will:

•    Be responsible and accountable for ensuring the delivery of safe, effective and evidence-based care to Service Users as allocated within the designated pathway
•    Lead on the implementation of evidence based clinical protocols/pathways
•    Embed clinical pathways and support staff development in relation to this
•    Contribute towards the continuous development of the clinical pathways within the service promoting a learning culture within the team
•    Clinically support the flow of patient activity and bed availability by providing advice and support to colleagues in the Bed Hub in relation to relevant service user group
•    Support the service in its implementation of clinical effectiveness programs by taking part in any agreed research, quality improvement projects and audit projects, leading on key aspects when identified as appropriate.

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.

The wellbeing of our people is at the heart of everything we do. We offer a wide range of resources, tools and support to help you thrive both in and out of work.

Explore our full wellbeing offer here: Keeping our workforce well