Community Mental Health Practitioner

Community Mental Health Practitioner The closing date is 28 December 2025 The West Lancashire Community Mental Health Team within Lancashire & South Cumbria Foundation Trust has an exciting opportunity for a Band 6 Mental Health Practitioner to join their well established team. The West Lancashire Community Mental Health Team provides support and intervention to Adults with severe and enduring and complex mental health issues. The team offers a range of management strategies and interventions. Applicants must demonstrate a flexible approach, evolving around the needs of patients, their families and significant others. The role involves working as a mental health practitioner in a well established team, including acting as a keyworker and supporting a caseload of clients with varying mental health diagnoses. As a keyworker you will work closely with people in their own homes or in the community to help them recover from their illness and improve their general quality of life. This role includes assessing patients, providing care/support, developing risk assessments, collaborative care planning, medication management and physical health monitoring, managing patient documents. Along side becoming an advocate for the people in your care, supporting and signposting them, so they can focus on their recovery and helping them live the life they would like to live. Main duties of the job We are looking for an enthusiastic person with excellent team working skills, who will promote teamwork, respect, integrity, accountability, excellence and compassion. We are looking for someone who is keen to develop their knowledge and skills in this area. You should be a competent and motivated practitioner with appropriate demonstrable experience in accordance with the Trust values and NMC code of conduct, HPC code. You will work as part of a multi-disciplinary team providing assessment and therapeutic intervention in the community. There has never been a more exciting time to join our Trust. You will be joining at a time when the implementation and delivery of the Community Transformation Programme is underway which aims to transform the way community mental health services are accessed and delivered. About us 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. Job responsibilities Please see attached the job description and person specification for more information about this role. Person Specification Qualifications Professionally Registered Mental Health Nurse Equivalent professional registered Allied Health Care Professional Knowledge Knowledge of mental illness and impact upon quality of life Demonstrable interest in continuing developing knowledge Experience 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 Disclosure and Barring Service Check This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions. Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust #J-18808-Ljbffr