Associate Nurse Practitioner - MH | Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust

Lancashire Care Foundation Trust; Lancaster; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare organization is seeking a qualified Band 4 Associate Nurse Practitioner for the Community Mental Health Team in Lancaster. The role involves managing a caseload, supporting senior staff, and working within a multidisciplinary team to aid older adults in their mental health challenges. Flexible working patterns are considered to promote work-life balance. This role closes on Thursday, 2 Oct 2025.

Qualifications

• Qualified Band 4 Associate Nurse Practitioner with experience in mental health care.

Responsibilities

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

Job description

Overview

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.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• 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 MDT to support older adult mental health service users in the community to remain at home and prevent hospital admission.

About Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust

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.

Working patterns

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.

Application information

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 Thursday 2 Oct 2025