# 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/b5dd03e7-5650-4d91-b302-588cbfce40f7 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/mental-health-practitioner/b5dd03e7-5650-4d91-b302-588cbfce40f7.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust - **Location:** Guild Lodge - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Mental health practitioner - **Grade:** Band 6 - **Salary:** £39,959 - £48,117 Per Annum - **Contract type:** 9 months (Fixed term 9 Months) - **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-10-30T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-10-16T12:54:48.047Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/-v8374013 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8374013?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.lscft.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview This is an exciting opportunity for a senior mental health practitioner to join the Fylde Coast Home Treatment Team. The Fylde Coast Home Treatment Team provides 7day support to service users 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 high quality care in a community setting. The Fylde Coast Home Treatment Team are always striving towards excellence in service delivery and ensuring that the Trust values are achieved. Currently the team is undergoing an exciting period of change that will see the working together to develop a model of care that ensures effective service delivery in partnership with local services and across the Urgent Care Pathway. The successful applicant will be dynamic and forward thinking they will be passionate about working with service users with acute mental health concerns and providing a recovery focused approach. The successful applicant will have the ability to work as part of a Team and in partnership with local services. Successful applicants will be provided with a full induction and appraisal to formulate a Personal Development Plan and to identify training and development needs ### 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 support with the role of reviews within out crisis house and crisis lounge on a rostered basis - 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 more information about this post please review the attached job description and person specification. ### 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** - 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 - Evidence of assessment across a broad range of mental health problems ### Qualifications **Essential** - Recognised Core Mental Health Professional Qualification (e.g. RMN/Dip SW/OT) ## Documents - [jdps (pdf, 200.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10702008) - [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.