# Mental Health and Wellbeing Practitioner

> NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust.

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## Summary

- **Status:** Live
- **Employer:** Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust
- **Town:** Preston
- **Region:** North West
- **Country:** England
- **Profession:** Nurse practitioner
- **Grade:** Band 5
- **Salary:** £32,073 - £39,043 per annum
- **Contract type:** Permanent
- **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- **Closing date:** 2026-06-11T23:59:00.000Z
- **Posted:** 2026-05-29T13:40:56.836Z
- **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Lancashire/Nelson/Lancashire_South_Cumbria_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Mental_Health/Mental_Health-v8045989
- **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8045989?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002
- **Employer website:** https://www.lscft.nhs.uk

## Job Content

### Job overview

These are new roles designated under the Additional Roles Reimbursement Scheme for Primary Care (ARRS). The roles will provide an opportunity for better joint working across primary care and adult secondary care mental health systems and will make it easier for patients to obtain the help they need.

In the North East many of our APP practitioners are undertaking their training to transition from an APP to an MHWP and we would welcome applications from MHWPs in training as well as qualified practitioners.

### Main duties of the job

This is an exciting role for someone who is proactive and passionate about innovation and providing a high-quality holistic approach to the care of people who have been identified as in need of mental health support in a primary care setting.  We are really excited to be developing our integrated community services and look forward to welcoming you to a hardworking and dedicated teams.

Across Lancashire we have roles within all our integrated care partnerships (ICP) in the following areas:

- Burnley East PCN

### Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For more details on this vacancy please review the attached job description and person specification.

## Job Details

These are new roles designated under the Additional Roles Reimbursement Scheme for Primary Care (ARRS). The roles will provide an opportunity for better joint working across primary care and adult secondary care mental health systems and will make it easier for patients to obtain the help they need.

In the North East many of our APP practitioners are undertaking their training to transition from an APP to an MHWP and we would welcome applications from MHWPs in training as well as qualified practitioners.

## Job Description

This is an exciting role for someone who is proactive and passionate about innovation and providing a high-quality holistic approach to the care of people who have been identified as in need of mental health support in a primary care setting. We are really excited to be developing our integrated community services and look forward to welcoming you to a hardworking and dedicated teams.

Across Lancashire we have roles within all our integrated care partnerships (ICP) in the following areas:

Burnley East PCN

## Responsibilities

For more details on this vacancy please review the attached job description and person specification.

## Person Specification

### Skills

**Essential**

- Able to plan and deliver interventions with a variety of service users presenting with mental health difficulties, their families and carers and the clinical team, on a daily basis
- Able to establish and maintain empathic, supportive relationships with people in significant distress or who are cognitively impaired, their families and carers
- Able to receive, understand and communicate confidential client information of a sensitive and often complex nature, including discussing care with family members within boundaries of confidentiality

### Experience

**Essential**

- Experience of working with people with mental health needs gained through a graduate certificate or postgraduate certificate training with significant supervised practice
- Experience running groups/activities
- Experience working as part of a team

### Qualifications

**Essential**

- Registered as a Mental Health and Wellbeing Practitioner on a professional register recognised for this role by NHS England
- A graduate certificate (Level 6) or postgraduate certificate (Level 7) delivering the national curriculum for Mental Health and Wellbeing Practitioners (Adult Specialist Mental Health)

## Documents

- [jd ps (pdf, 512.3kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10334796)
- [we do more at lscft (pdf, 654.2kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?ddoc=2256)

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