# Mental Health Practitioner

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

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## Summary

- **Status:** Archived / closed
- **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:** Permanent
- **Employment type:** 37.5 hours per week (full time)
- **Closing date:** 2026-09-28T22:59:00.000Z
- **Posted:** 2026-09-14T08:20:35.133Z
- **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Lancashire/Blackpool/Lancashire_South_Cumbria_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Mental_Health/Mental_Health-v8292270
- **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.

### Main duties of the job

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

### Detailed job description and main responsibilities

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**

- In-depth knowledge of mental health problems
- Detailed knowledge of the impact of risk and protective factors that affect people with mental health problems
- Knowledge of medication prescribed for management of mental health issues

### 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

- [we do more at lscft (pdf, 654.2kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?ddoc=2256)
- [job description and personal specification (pdf, 392.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10610471)

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