# Mental Health 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
- **Location:** A&E Department - Royal Lancaster Infirmary
- **Workplace type:** onsite
- **Profession:** Mental health professionals
- **Salary:** £39959.00 to £48117.00
- **Contract type:** Permanent
- **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- **Closing date:** 2026-08-25T22:59:00.000Z
- **Posted:** 2026-08-11T14:17:55.553Z
- **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/-v8222072
- **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8222072?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002
- **Employer website:** https://www.lscft.nhs.uk

## Job Content

### Job overview

As an integrated Trust, Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust (LSCFT) delivers a comprehensive range of services.

Patients may present with a wide range of mental health and psychological problems, including following an episode of self-injury, psychiatric emergency and as a consequence of physical illness. You will be expected to work with individuals experiencing psychosomatic disorders and a variety of psychological and adjustment issues resulting from physical illness.

### Main duties of the job

You will be required to make autonomous decisions, based on an analysis of complex presenting problems, while utilising effective clinical judgments about the most appropriate treatment, discharge and follow-up options.

Providing a mental health consultation-liaison and advice service. Offering an assessment service to patients presenting with a range of mental health and psychological problems. Supervise and support the band 6 practitioners in the decision-making process of all service users referred to MHLT that the band 6 practitioner have completed an assessment with.

### Detailed job description and main responsibilities

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.

Explore our full wellbeing offer here: Keeping our workforce well

Please see attached the job description and person specification for more information about this role.

### Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

## Person Specification

### Knowledge

**Essential**

- Significant post-registration mental health nursing experience is essential.
- Involvement in innovative nursing practice and multicultural nursing environments.

### Experience

**Essential**

- Skills in assessing, planning and evaluating mental health nursing interventions.
- Skills in interacting therapeutically with distressed and / or disturbed individuals.
- Skills in individual nursing interventions.

### Education / Qualifications

**Essential**

- Registered Nurse (Mental Health) – current NMC Registration. Or equivalent.
- Evidence of professional updating and development in the nursing care of patients in an acute or community setting.
- Diploma in Professional Studies (Nursing) - or equivalent.

## Documents

- [we do more at lscft (pdf, 654.2kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?ddoc=2256)
- [job description & person specification (pdf, 624.3kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10530768)

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