# 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/mental-health-practitioner/731c5d08-c492-4bd8-9bed-b34094767692 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/mental-health-practitioner/731c5d08-c492-4bd8-9bed-b34094767692.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:** £38,682 - £46,580 per annum - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-06-18T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-06-04T09:22:10.997Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Lancashire/Accrington/Lancashire_South_Cumbria_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Mental_Health_Nursing/Mental_Health_Nursing-v8057884 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8057884?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.lscft.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview Pennine Lancashire is seeking a Band 6 Mental Health Practitioners at our Initial Response Service, based at The Mount, Accrington. This is an exciting opportunity, and the successful candidate will be part of an evolving service that has the needs of our service users at its heart. We are looking for someone who is enthusiastic to come and join a forward thinking, dynamic and constantly developing team. ### Main duties of the job To provide a fast, responsive service to assess individuals’ needs for access into mental health services. To undertake Mental Health Assessments including Risk Assessments, providing rapid and holistic assessment, care and sign posting of individuals presenting with other urgent risk issues. To be proficient in referring to other clinicians within the service and/or referring to other services/agencies where necessary. To provide a “gatekeeping” function as detailed in the Operating Procedure. To provide managerial support to the team in the absence of the Team Manager. To organise and deliver a rapid intensive intervention service in order to meet the health and social needs of people experiencing a serious mental health crisis. To form close working relationships with and provide highly specialised advice and information on mental health issues to a variety of other services/agencies/organisations and carers both within and outside mental health services. To participate in and contribute to local and National strategies to improve services. To carry out clinical supervision and appraise and produce development plans with lower grade staff members. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities For further information please review the attached Job Description and Person Specification or contact the ## Job Details Pennine Lancashire is seeking a Band 6 Mental Health Practitioners at our Initial Response Service, based at The Mount, Accrington. This is an exciting opportunity, and the successful candidate will be part of an evolving service that has the needs of our service users at its heart. We are looking for someone who is enthusiastic to come and join a forward thinking, dynamic and constantly developing team. ## Job Description To provide a fast, responsive service to assess individuals’ needs for access into mental health services. To undertake Mental Health Assessments including Risk Assessments, providing rapid and holistic assessment, care and sign posting of individuals presenting with other urgent risk issues. To be proficient in referring to other clinicians within the service and/or referring to other services/agencies where necessary. To provide a “gatekeeping” function as detailed in the Operating Procedure. To provide managerial support to the team in the absence of the Team Manager. To organise and deliver a rapid intensive intervention service in order to meet the health and social needs of people experiencing a serious mental health crisis. To form close working relationships with and provide highly specialised advice and information on mental health issues to a variety of other services/agencies/organisations and carers both within and outside mental health services. To participate in and contribute to local and National strategies to improve services. To carry out clinical supervision and appraise and produce development plans with lower grade staff members. ## Responsibilities For further information please review the attached Job Description and Person Specification or contact the ## Person Specification ### Education **Essential** - Recognised Core Mental Health Professional Qualification (e.g. RMN/Dip SW/OT) ### 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** - Experience of post qualification clinical work with service users experiencing a range of mental health problems - Experience of delivering evidence based interventions in a time-limited framework ## Documents - [jdps (pdf, 592.3kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10347909) - [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.