Community Roots Facilitator | Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust

Lancashire Care Foundation Trust; Lancashire; On-site; GBP 26,000 - 34,000; Full time

Job summary

Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a motivated Community Roots Facilitator to work across the Blackpool & Fylde locality, with occasional delivery in the Central locality. You will run face-to-face and digital sessions, build relationships with community partners, and help people access health and wellbeing opportunities.

Join a supportive team focused on recovery, resilience and reducing stigma through co-designed workshops and signposting clinics.

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

Job description

Community Roots Facilitator | Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust

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.

Key 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

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

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.

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

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

This advert closes on Wednesday 30 Sep 2026