# Nurse Practitioner (Non Medical Prescriber) > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/nurse-practitioner-non-medical-prescriber/51f29256-628f-43f9-8311-a5dfa3ba0930 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/nurse-practitioner-non-medical-prescriber/51f29256-628f-43f9-8311-a5dfa3ba0930.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust - **Town:** Preston - **Region:** North West - **Country:** England - **Profession:** Nurse practitioner - **Grade:** Band 7 - **Salary:** £49,387 - £56,515 per annum (subject to confirmation) - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-06-16T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-06-02T14:01:24.815Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/-v8052854 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8052854?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.lscft.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview We are looking for an experienced and compassionate Nurse Practitioner (Non-Medical Prescriber) to join our dedicated West Lancashire CYPMH Team within Specialist Services. This is an exciting opportunity for a motivated mental health professional to play a key role in delivering high-quality, evidence-based care to children and young people experiencing complex mental health difficulties, including ADHD and emotional distress. Working within a supportive multi-disciplinary team, you will provide specialist assessments, therapeutic interventions, clinical leadership and independent prescribing support while helping shape and develop services for children, young people and families across West Lancashire. ### Main duties of the job As a Band 7 Nurse Practitioner, you will: Manage a specialist caseload of children and young people with complex mental health needs Undertake comprehensive assessments, risk assessments and care planning Deliver evidence-based therapeutic interventions in line with NICE guidance Act as an Independent Non-Medical Prescriber within CYP services Provide leadership, consultation and clinical support to the wider team Work collaboratively with families, schools, social care, GPs and partner agencies Contribute to safeguarding, clinical governance, service development and quality improvement initiatives Support ADHD pathways and integrated working across CYPMH and wider services If you are passionate about improving outcomes for children and young people and want to be part of a compassionate and dynamic CYPMH/ADHD team, we would love to hear from you. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities For more details on this vacancy please review the attached job description and person specification. ## Job Details We are looking for an experienced and compassionate Nurse Practitioner (Non-Medical Prescriber) to join our dedicated West Lancashire CYPMH Team within Specialist Services. This is an exciting opportunity for a motivated mental health professional to play a key role in delivering high-quality, evidence-based care to children and young people experiencing complex mental health difficulties, including ADHD and emotional distress. Working within a supportive multi-disciplinary team, you will provide specialist assessments, therapeutic interventions, clinical leadership and independent prescribing support while helping shape and develop services for children, young people and families across West Lancashire. ## Job Description As a Band 7 Nurse Practitioner, you will: Manage a specialist caseload of children and young people with complex mental health needs Undertake comprehensive assessments, risk assessments and care planning Deliver evidence-based therapeutic interventions in line with NICE guidance Act as an Independent Non-Medical Prescriber within CYP services Provide leadership, consultation and clinical support to the wider team Work collaboratively with families, schools, social care, GPs and partner agencies Contribute to safeguarding, clinical governance, service development and quality improvement initiatives Support ADHD pathways and integrated working across CYPMH and wider services If you are passionate about improving outcomes for children and young people and want to be part of a compassionate and dynamic CYPMH/ADHD team, we would love to hear from you. ## Responsibilities For more details on this vacancy please review the attached job description and person specification. ## Person Specification ### Education **Essential** - First level nursing qualification, RMN or equivalent - Independent & Supplementary Nurse Prescribing V300 - Information technology skills sufficient to the undertaking of the post ### Knowledge **Essential** - Demonstrable knowledge and skills in evidence based needs led assessments, of highly complex and co-morbid presentations of children, young people, their families and carers - Demonstrable knowledge and skills in evidence based therapeutic interventions relevant to the needs of the client group - Demonstrable ability to communicate to clients, their families and professionals sensitive and often difficult to receive information, using various methods including verbal, non- verbal, written and presentation skills ### Experience **Essential** - Specialist working knowledge and experience of supporting and monitoring children and young people in CYP services including those diagnosed with ADHD - Demonstrable knowledge/understanding and experience in assessment of young people with complex mental health and/or complex needs such as ADHD/ASD - Evidence of an ability to effectively manage own workload and able to work autonomously ## Documents - [jdps (pdf, 408.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10342419) - [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.