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Mental Health Practitioner PDMCN (RMN/OT/Social Worker)

Job details
Posting date: 13 May 2024
Salary: Not specified
Additional salary information: £35,392 - £42,618 per annum
Hours: Full time
Closing date: 12 June 2024
Location: Accrington, BB5 5DE
Company: Lancashire Care Foundation Trust
Job type: Contract
Job reference: 6304114/351-PEN849-EB

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Summary

A Vacancy at Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust.


Fixed Term - 37.50 hours

My name is Jessica Bradshaw. I am the team leader for Hyndburn and Ribble Valley community mental health team.

I believe in leading people with integrity and kindness, ensuring that people feel happy and comfortable at work. I want to support people to work towards their development and career goals. It is important to me to promote wellbeing and flexibility within the team, ensuring a good work life balance is achieved.

The team are a friendly, dedicated, supportive and flexible team, who strive to provide the best care possible with the resources we have within and local area. We are looking for individuals with a passion for community mental health, who will help us deliver this to our Service Users.

We are looking for registered mental health practitioners, to provide structured clinical management (qualified social workers, mental health nurses or occupational therapists) to be part of our team.

This post is supported by the PDMCN who provide clinical supervision. Ideally, you will have been qualified for 2 years.

You need to be able to work as part of a multidisciplinary team and autonomously and have experience of assessing, planning and implementing and reviewing care needs, risk assessment and management, and the ability to explore issues relating to the impact of health and social needs on mental health and well-being.

For further information please contact us using the details provided

Working for the local CMHT, clinically supervised by the Personality Disorder Managed Clinical Network, to provide high quality interventions for service user’s who have a diagnosis/present with difficulties associated with the diagnosis of Emotionally Unstable Personality Disorder (EUPD)

You will be aligned to work within a Community Mental Health Team (CMHT) providing Structure Clinical Management (SCM) for a caseload of service user’s. You will facilitate and lead groups to support the recovery of service users.

Promote positive attitudes towards service users with complex needs by providing a responsive and non-stigmatising service, which will enhance inclusion and deliver better outcomes.

To undertake mental health assessments including risk assessments and be proficient in referring to other clinicians within the service or referring to other services/agencies where necessary.

Providing a communication structure between GP’s, IAPT and secondary MH services in LSCFT, non-statutory service to ensure the highest possible standards of patient care.

To provide advice and support for the CMHT Multidisciplinary Team to deliver the highest standards of care for service user’s with a diagnosis of EUPD. This may include joint working at times.

You will receive regular clinical supervision from the PDMCN Specialist Practitioners and PDMCN Clinical Lead.

This post supports Hyndburn and Ribble Valley CMHT and Hyndburn and Rossendale CMHT and covers some of the Hyndburn, Rossendale area and Ribble Valley areas and you will be expected to work within those area’s, and at your base at The Mount, Accrington.



Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust provides a range of services including secondary mental health care across this area. Specialist provision comprises inpatient child and adolescent mental health services, perinatal mental health and forensic services including low and medium secure care.

The Trust also provides a range of physical health and well-being services in the community alongside a range of partners in the Lancashire, Cumbria and Sefton area.

Lancashire & South Cumbria Foundation Trust encourages 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, flexi-time and career breaks. We encourage applicants to state clearly on their application forms this request and discuss these options at interview.

For more information please visit our website via Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS FT

Please see attached the job description and person specification for more information about this role.


This advert closes on Monday 27 May 2024

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