Mental Health Practitioner | Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 17 March 2026 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £38,682 - £46,580 per annum |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 16 April 2026 |
| Location: | Preston, PR2 9HT |
| Company: | Lancashire Care Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7878174/351-CEN2478-SRP |
Summary
This is an exciting opportunity for a band 6 Clinical Lead to join Central Home-Based Treatment Team covering the C&W locality.
The Central Home Treatment Team offer intense support to service users, and their families/carers, who are suffering from mental health concerns that would otherwise require admission to an acute in-patient environment. There is a strong focus on a recovery model and effective risk management to provide quality care in a community setting.
The Central Home Treatment Team are always striving towards excellence in service delivery and ensuring that the Trust values are achieved. The successful applicant will be dynamic and forward thinking with the ability to work as part of a Team and in partnership with local services.
1. To deliver high quality care to individuals who have specific mental health problems i.e. have a severe and enduring mental health problem and multiple, complex needs.
2. To act as a key member of the Multi-Disciplinary Team ensuring the effective assessment, including Risk Assessment and Risk Management, planning monitoring and evaluation of care giver to service users with severe and enduring mental illness in acute crisis, ensuring the effective supervision of staff accountable to the post holder, whilst liaising with a wide range of multi-agency professionals.
3. To provide a “gatekeeping” function as detailed in the Operating Procedure.
4. To provide rapid and holistic assessment, care and sign posting of individuals within the above group but also for those presenting with other urgent risk issues.
5. The work of the Crisis Team will be managed as a whole though the post holder has crisis co- ordination responsibilities for a caseload specified within the team.
6. To act in the role of “Shift Co-ordinator” as detailed in role protocol.
7. To undertake the role of Bed Management for the local area.
8. To organise and deliver a rapid intensive intervention service in order to meet the health and social needs of those adults experiencing a serious mental health crisis.
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.
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For more details on this vacancy please review the attached job description and person specification.
This advert closes on Tuesday 31 Mar 2026