Associate Nurse Practitioner - MH | Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 18 September 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £27,485 - £30,162 per annum, pro rata |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 18 October 2025 |
| Location: | Lancaster, LA1 5AN |
| Company: | Lancashire Care Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7491298/351-BAY832-SRP |
Summary
An interesting and varied vacancy has become available for a qualified Band 4 Associate Nurse Practitioner. The role will be in the Community Mental Health Team function within the wider Older Adult integrated Mental Health services.
The core responsibilities of the post will be to oversee and monitor your own caseload and support senior staff in delivering quality care and treatment programmes to patients with mental health challenges. Supervision will be provided to support you in the role
The successful candidate will be enthusiastic about the role and, its development, and be driven to provide excellent mental health services to the local older adult population.
In addition to core professional skills, the post holder will also be expected to undertake a range of other generic clinical duties to support the team functions and be responsive to the needs of patients, their family and carers
The role will involve working within a MDT to support older adult mental health service users in the community to remain at home and prevent hospital admission.
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 Thursday 2 Oct 2025