Community Mental Health Nurse

NHS; Lancaster; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A regional healthcare organization is seeking a Community Mental Health Nurse to serve the older adult population in Lancaster and Morecambe. The successful candidate will provide leadership within a multidisciplinary team, perform mental health assessments, and develop treatment plans. Candidates must have a Registered Mental Health Nurse Degree and demonstrate strong clinical and communication skills. This full-time role offers a dynamic environment to support individuals in their community and prevent hospitalization.

Qualifications

• Experience of working with older adults with mental health needs.
• Proficient in mental health assessments and risk assessments.
• Able to lead the multidisciplinary team effectively.

Responsibilities

• Promote teamwork, respect, and integrity within the clinical team.
• Ensure effective assessment and planning for patient care.
• Provide mentoring and clinical supervision to staff.

Skills

Clinical skills

Leadership skills

Communication skills

Teamwork

Education

Registered Mental Health Nurse Degree

Specialist qualification or equivalent level in skills and development

Job description

Go back Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust

Community Mental Health Nurse

The closing date is 04 January 2026

Band 6 Mental Health Nurse Practitioner - Lancaster and Morecambe OA CMHT

An interesting and varied full time vacancy (37.5 hours) has become available for an innovative and dynamic Band 6 Mental Health Nurse Practitioner to work across for the Older Adult CMHT in Lancaster and Morecambe.

The successful candidate will have sound clinical and leadership skills, be enthusiastic about the role and its development and be driven to provide excellent mental health services to the local older adult population.

Ideally applicants should have experience of working with older adults with mental health needs and the ability to lead on assessment and provide treatment plans. They should also have excellent communication skills.

The role will involve working within an MDT to support older adult service users on the dementia diagnostic pathway and in the community to remain at home and prevent hospital admission.

Main duties of the job

To actively promote teamwork, respect, integrity, accountability, excellence and compassion within the clinical team in accordance with the Trust values and code of conduct.

To provide nurse leadership within the multidisciplinary team and ensure the effective assessment formulation planning, monitoring of care given to service users.

To undertake mental health assessments including Risk assessments within a multidisciplinary assessment team.

To be proficient in referring to other clinicians within the service or referring to other services/agencies where necessary.

To provide a fast, responsive service to assess individual's needs.

Providing a communication structure between GP's, IAPT and non IAPT services in LCFT, non-statuary service, as a means of ensuring the highest possible standards of patient care.

To provide mentoring and clinical supervision to other staff and trainees on placement.

Where the post holder is a non-medical prescriber, practice responsibly and maintain competence to effectively prescribe from the relevant prescribing formulary

About us

LSCFT values diversity and inclusion, recognising that talent from varied backgrounds creates a flexible, creative, and effective workforce. We actively challenge discrimination and welcome applications from all, regardless of age, disability (including those with experience of accessing or caring for someone who has accessed mental health or learning disability services), ethnicity, gender, religion, belief, or sexual orientation.

Our aim is to reflect the communities we serve, so we particularly encourage applications from under-represented groups. If you'd like to discuss your application, please ask.

We also welcome individuals with lived experience relevant to the role or service area, as your insight brings authenticity to our services.

LSCFT support 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 and flexi-time.

Job responsibilities

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

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Registered Mental Health Nurse Degree
• On-going registration with the NMC
• Specialist qualification or equivalent level in skills and development

Knowledge

• Understanding of Health and Safety policies and procedures
• Knowledge and practice of Mental Health Act 1983
• Demonstrate understanding of how research has influenced practice

Experience

• Supervision and management of staff
• Able to work as part of a multidisciplinary team

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