Mental Health Practitioner | Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust

Lancashire Care Foundation Trust; Lancashire; On-site; GBP 36,000 - 52,000; Full time

Job summary

Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a senior mental health practitioner to join the Fylde Coast Home Treatment Team. The role focuses on delivering rapid assessments and a recovery‑oriented approach within a community setting, and working in partnership with local services to improve urgent care pathways.

You will provide gatekeeping and risk assessments, support with crisis services, and contribute to service development while supervising junior staff and shaping

Qualifications

• Experience in adult mental health services and rapid assessment.
• Ability to conduct holistic mental health evaluations and risk assessments.
• Capability to provide leadership and supervision to junior staff.

Responsibilities

• Provide fast, responsive mental health assessments for access to services.
• Undertake risk assessments and signpost to appropriate care.
• Support crisis house and crisis lounge reviews on a rostered basis.
• Refer to other clinicians/services and act as gatekeeper as per procedures.
• Deliver rapid intensive interventions to meet health and social needs during crises.
• Supervise and develop plans with junior staff and contribute to local/national strategies.

Skills

Mental health assessment

Risk assessment

Gatekeeping

Teamwork

Job description

Mental Health Practitioner | Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust

This is an exciting opportunity for a senior mental health practitioner to join the Fylde Coast Home Treatment Team.

The Fylde Coast Home Treatment Team provides 7day support to service

users who are suffering from mental health concerns that would otherwise require admission to an acute in patient environment. There is a strong focus on a recovery model and effective risk management to provide high quality care in a community setting.

The Fylde Coast Home Treatment Team are always striving towards

excellence in service delivery and ensuring that the Trust values are

achieved. Currently the team is undergoing an exciting period of change that will see the working together to develop a model of care that ensures effective service delivery in partnership with local services and across the Urgent Care Pathway.

The successful applicant will be dynamic and forward thinking they will be passionate about working with service users with acute mental health

concerns and providing a recovery focused approach. The successful

applicant will have the ability to work as part of a Team and in partnership with local services.

Successful applicants will be provided with a full induction and appraisal to formulate a Personal Development Plan and to identify training and

development needs

• To provide a fast, responsive service to assess individuals needs for access into mental health services
• To undertake Mental Health Assessments including Risk Assessments, providing rapid and holistic assessment, care and sign posting of individuals presenting with other urgent risk issues.
• To support with the role of reviews within out crisis house and crisis lounge on a rostered basis
• To be proficient in referring to other clinicians within the service and/or referring to other services/agencies where necessary.
• To provide a “gatekeeping” function as detailed in the Operating Procedure.
• To provide managerial support to the team in the absence of the Team Manager
• To organise and deliver a rapid intensive intervention service in order to meet the health and social needs of people experiencing a serious mental health crisis
• To form close working relationships with and provide highly specialised advice and information on mental health issues to a variety of other services/agencies/organisations and carers both within and outside mental health services.
• To participate in and contribute to local and National strategies to improve services.
• To carry out clinical supervision and appraise and produce development plans with lower grade staff members.

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

For more information about this post please review the attached job description and person specification.

This advert closes on Friday 30 Oct 2026