Community Roots Facilitator

Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust; Lancashire; On-site; GBP 26,000 - 36,000; Full time

Job summary

Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust in Lancashire is seeking a Community Roots Facilitator to work in the Blackpool & Fylde locality, with occasional delivery in the Central locality. You will lead face-to-face and digital sessions, engage with communities, and help people access health and wellbeing opportunities.

The role focuses on co-designing and delivering mental health programmes, promoting recovery, resilience, reducing stigma, and building partnerships with community groups.

Qualifications

• Certificate in Community Mental Health at NVQ Level 4 or equivalent knowledge and experience.
• Substantial demonstrable experience of delivering and coordinating learning programmes.
• Evidence of on-going personal Development.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate face-to-face and digital sessions for learners.
• Build relationships with community partners and stakeholders.
• Co-produce curriculum content with experts by experience and professionals.
• Evaluate and improve course quality based on feedback and developments.
• Represent the Community Roots team and contribute to service development.

Skills

Community engagement

Facilitation

Partnership building

Education

Certificate in Community Mental Health (NVQ Level 4)

Experience delivering and coordinating learning programmes

Evidence of ongoing personal development

Job description

Go back Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust

Community Roots Facilitator

The closing date is 30 September 2026

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a motivated, enthusiastic and empathic people person to join our Community Roots service, working in the Blackpool & Fylde locality with occasional delivery in the Central locality as required. You will be customer focussed with a passion for engaging with the community and helping people access a wide range of health and wellbeing opportunities.

Are you passionate about mental health, community engagement, and inclusive learning? Join our Community Roots team to co-design and deliver transformative mental health programmes across diverse communities. This role is pivotal in promoting recovery, resilience, and reducing stigma through workshops, signposting clinics, and collaborative learning.

Applications are encouraged from individuals with demonstrable experience in working with communities and mental health care services.At Community Roots we offer courses that are co-designed, alongside people with lived experience and professionals by experience, to help people find accessible and fun health and wellbeing opportunities important to them.

We work alongside a range of community partners to bring the very best opportunities in your local area. We want to help people make connections in their community and we're able to signpost to support when needed. By working with a range of different partners, we hope to bring opportunities that are relevant to our community and people's recovery journeys.

We offer a modern workspace, working alongside a friendly and passionate team that prioritises wellbeing and opportunity to develop.

Main duties of the job

Facilitate face-to-face and digital sessions for learners

Build relationships with community partners and stakeholders

Co-produce curriculum content with experts by experience and professionals

Evaluate and improve course quality based on feedback and developments

Represent the Community Roots team and contribute to service development

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.

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.

The wellbeing of our people is at the heart of everything we do. We offer a wide range of resources, tools and support to help you thrive both in and out of work.

Explore our full wellbeing offer here: Keeping our workforce well

Job responsibilities

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

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Certificate in Community Mental Health at NVQ Level 4 or equivalent knowledge and experience
• Substantial demonstrable experience of delivering and coordinating learning programmes
• Evidence of on-going personal Development

Knowledge

• Knowledge of signs and symptoms of a range of mental disorders and its affects on individuals' and societies response
• Awareness of evidence based practise
• Ability to work autonomously and set own and others' priorities

Experience

• Experience of lone working within a community setting
• To have knowledge of the cultures and religions of the communities of Lancashire & South Cumbria

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.

Employer name

Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust