Advanced Clinical Practitioner | Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust

Lancashire Care Foundation Trust; Lancashire; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare provider is seeking an Advanced Clinical Practitioner with a passion for Adult Mental Health care. The role involves exercising advanced clinical expertise, working collaboratively in a multi-disciplinary team, and contributing to the delivery of high-quality mental health services. The position offers flexible working patterns to promote work-life balance and is based in Lancashire. This opportunity is centered around improving health outcomes for service users with complex needs.

Benefits

Flexible working patterns

Work-life balance

Qualifications

• Experience in mental health care, particularly adult mental health.
• Ability to work in urgent care community settings.
• Commitment to promoting recovery based care.

Responsibilities

• Exercise advanced clinical expertise in care delivery.
• Work within a multi-disciplinary team providing mental health services.
• Contribute to medical prescribing provision.

Skills

Advanced clinical expertise

Judgment and decision making

Multi-disciplinary team collaboration

Job description

Are you an Advanced Clinical Practitioner with a passion for Adult Mental Health care? We have an exciting opportunity for you to join Fylde Coast Home Based Treatment team (HBTT).

Fylde Coast HBTT is an adults Community Mental Health urgent care service based at the gateway, Blackpool football stadium covering the Fylde Coast locality.

We are a 7 day a week service covering 24hr time period.

The role will be Monday-Friday 9-5pm.

We are a multi-disciplinary team, with close working links with other health departments, social services and voluntary agencies.

Our service users can present with mental health difficulties which are often combined with complex social care and physical health needs.

Responsibilities

• Exercise advanced clinical expertise, levels of judgement, discretion and decision making in the delivery of clinical care. Provide advanced clinical skills in relation to assessment, diagnosis, treatment and management of the service user group. Promote recovery based care programmes and set high standards for the delivery of care to patients and their families and be responsible for delivering high quality services.
• Work as a member of the multi-disciplinary team providing mental health services to Urgent care community settings.
• Contribute to the medical prescribing provision within the team through supportive dedicated Non-Medical prescribing.
• Work collaboratively as part of the multidisciplinary teams developing shared goals, complementing the roles of others to support and maintain team growth and continuous improvement.

Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust provides a range of services including secondary mental health care across this area. Specialist provision comprises inpatient child and adolescent mental health services, perinatal mental health and forensic services including low and medium secure care.

The Trust also provides a range of physical health and well-being services in the community alongside a range of partners in the Lancashire, Cumbria and Sefton area.

Lancashire & South Cumbria Foundation Trust encourages flexible working, we believe that a positive work/life balance benefits NHS employees through improved health and wellbeing. We would consider working patterns such as; term time, part time, compressed hours, flexi-time and career breaks. We encourage applicants to state clearly on their application forms this request and discuss these options at interview.

For more information please visit our website via Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS FT.

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

This advert closes on Monday 15 Dec 2025.