# Family Safeguarding Mental Health Practitioner > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/family-safeguarding-mental-health-practitioner/2c65eed4-50ec-47d9-b42a-1e3bbbcede11 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/family-safeguarding-mental-health-practitioner/2c65eed4-50ec-47d9-b42a-1e3bbbcede11.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust - **Town:** Preston - **Region:** North West - **Country:** England - **Profession:** Nurse practitioner - **Grade:** Band 6 - **Salary:** £39,959 - £48,117 per annum - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-06-11T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-05-28T09:43:15.166Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Lancashire/Fleetwood/Lancashire_South_Cumbria_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Mental_Health/Mental_Health-v8041781 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8041781?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.lscft.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview We are seeking an organised, compassionate, and reflective Mental Health Practitioner to join our Family Safeguarding Service in Fylde and Wyre. This is an exciting opportunity to work within an innovative, evidence-based model supporting parents whose mental health difficulties impact their ability to safeguard their children. This role offers a protected caseload (maximum 15) and no care coordination or keyworker responsibilities, allowing you to focus on delivering high-quality psychosocial interventions. The post is open to applicants with a Recognised Core Mental Health Professional Qualification (RMN, Social Worker, OT). Working Pattern: This is a hybrid role. You will spend part of your week working in the office to support effective multidisciplinary working, attend meetings, and collaborate with colleagues. There is also flexibility to complete administrative tasks from home, supporting a healthy work–life balance. Specific working patterns can be discussed at interview. ### Main duties of the job Completing mental health needs and risk screening assessments - Providing consultation on mental health issues to Family Safeguarding teams - Delivering short-term, psychologically informed interventions for parents - Supporting engagement with adult mental health services - Signposting or referring to Clinical Psychologists within the service - Attending MDT meetings, group supervision, and reflective practice sessions - Contributing to service evaluation and development - Co-facilitating training and workshops for colleagues Experience in delivering DBT skills is desirable, particularly in supporting parents to develop emotional regulation and distress tolerance. However, ongoing training and supervision will be provided to support the development of psychosocial intervention skills, including DBT-informed approaches. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities For more details on this vacancy please review the attached job description and person specification. ## Job Details We are seeking an organised, compassionate, and reflective Mental Health Practitioner to join our Family Safeguarding Service in Fylde and Wyre. This is an exciting opportunity to work within an innovative, evidence-based model supporting parents whose mental health difficulties impact their ability to safeguard their children. This role offers a protected caseload (maximum 15) and no care coordination or keyworker responsibilities, allowing you to focus on delivering high-quality psychosocial interventions. The post is open to applicants with a Recognised Core Mental Health Professional Qualification (RMN, Social Worker, OT). Working Pattern: This is a hybrid role. You will spend part of your week working in the office to support effective multidisciplinary working, attend meetings, and collaborate with colleagues. There is also flexibility to complete administrative tasks from home, supporting a healthy work–life balance. Specific working patterns can be discussed at interview. ## Job Description Completing mental health needs and risk screening assessments Providing consultation on mental health issues to Family Safeguarding teams Delivering short-term, psychologically informed interventions for parents Supporting engagement with adult mental health services Signposting or referring to Clinical Psychologists within the service Attending MDT meetings, group supervision, and reflective practice sessions Contributing to service evaluation and development Co-facilitating training and workshops for colleagues Experience in delivering DBT skills is desirable, particularly in supporting parents to develop emotional regulation and distress tolerance. However, ongoing training and supervision will be provided to support the development of psychosocial intervention skills, including DBT-informed approaches. ## Responsibilities For more details on this vacancy please review the attached job description and person specification. ## Person Specification ### Knowledge **Essential** - In-depth knowledge of mental health problems - In-depth knowledge of issues that impact upon people with mental health problems. - Detailed knowledge of the impact of risk and protective factors that affect people with mental health problems. ### Experience **Essential** - Post qualification experience of clinical work with service users experiencing a range of mental health problems - Experience of delivering evidence based psychosocial interventions in a time-limited framework. - Evidence of assessment across a broad range of mental health problems. ### Qualifications **Essential** - Recognised Core Mental Health Professional Qualification ( RMN, SW or OT) ## Documents - [jdps (pdf, 568.3kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10330344) - [we do more at lscft (pdf, 654.2kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?ddoc=2256) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.