Associate Nurse Practitioner - MH

Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust; Lancaster; On-site; GBP 27,000 - 31,000; Full time

Job summary

A local healthcare provider is seeking a qualified Associate Nurse Practitioner to join their Community Mental Health Team. You will oversee your caseload and support senior staff in providing quality care to older adults with mental health challenges. The role offers a salary of £27,485 to £30,162 per annum, with opportunities for flexible working arrangements. Applicants should have a Nursing Associate Foundation Degree and ongoing NMC registration.

Qualifications

• On-going registration with the NMC.
• Evidence of Continued Professional Development that supports clinical practice.

Responsibilities

• Oversee and monitor your own caseload for mental health patients.
• Support senior staff in delivering quality care and treatment.
• Work within a multidisciplinary team to support service users.

Skills

Mental health understanding

Clinical supervision

Multidisciplinary teamwork

Education

Nursing Associate Foundation Degree

Job description

Overview

Go back Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust

Associate Nurse Practitioner - MH

The closing date is 02 October 2025

An interesting and varied vacancy has become available for a qualified Band 4 Associate Nurse Practitioner. The role will be in the Community Mental Health Team function within the wider Older Adult integrated Mental Health services.

Main duties

• Oversee and monitor your own caseload and support senior staff in delivering quality care and treatment programmes to patients with mental health challenges. Supervision will be provided to support you in the role.
• Be enthusiastic about the role and its development, and driven to provide excellent mental health services to the local older adult population.
• Undertake a range of other generic clinical duties to support the team functions and be responsive to the needs of patients, their family and carers.
• Work within a multidisciplinary team to support older adult mental health service users in the community to remain at home and prevent hospital admission.

About us

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.

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Job responsibilities

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

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Nursing Associate Foundation Degree
• On-going registration with the NMC.
• Evidence of Continued Professional Development that supports clinical practice.

Knowledge

• Can demonstrate an understanding and knowledge base of mental health conditions and their treatments.
• Can demonstrate a working knowledge of physical health conditions and the complications that this can cause to patients experiencing mental ill health.

Experience

• Experience of assessing, planning, implementing and reviewing care needs.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust

£27,485 to £30,162 a year, per annum, pro rata