Perinatal Community Mental Health Lead Practitioner

NHS Trust; Lancaster; Vor Ort; GBP 40.000 - 48.000; Teilzeit

Zusammenfassung

Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust (LSCFT) seeks a Perinatal Community Mental Health Lead Practitioner (Band 6) for 22.5 hours per week, fixed-term to 30 May 2027. Based in Lancaster, you will assess women, manage a caseload, and work with senior clinicians to deliver high-quality perinatal care.

Applicants should hold RMN/SW/OT registration and have post‑graduate community mental health experience. Training and flexible working options are offered.

Qualifikationen

• Postgraduate experience in a community mental health setting.
• Ability to demonstrate a broad range of therapeutic clinical skills.
• Experience providing clinical supervision.

Aufgaben

• Work as a member of a multi-disciplinary community mental health team offering a comprehensive perinatal mental health service.
• Participate in development and maintenance of a region wide perinatal service through collaboration and prioritisation.
• Contribute to building local care networks for mothers across the Lancashire and South Cumbria Region.
• Lead Practitioner within the Care Programme Approach for complex care packages for mother and infant.

Ausbildung

NMC/SW/OT registration

Jobbeschreibung

Perinatal Community Mental Health Lead Practitioner

Band 6

Main area Specialist Perinatal Grade Band 6 Contract 7 months (Fixed Term end date 30.05.2027) Hours Part time - 22.5 hours per week Job ref 351-CEN2493-EB-D

Site East Barn Town Lancaster Salary £39,959 - £48,117 per annum pro rata Salary period Yearly Closing 11/11/2026 23:59

Our Vision is to provide the best mental health, learning disability, autism, community, and physical health services for the populations we serve.

As an integrated Trust, Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust (LSCFT) delivers a comprehensive range of services, including:

• Primary and secondary mental health care for children and adults, including specialist inpatient child and adolescent mental health provision, perinatal mental health, and forensic services with low and medium secure care.
• Specialist mental health inpatient care for individuals with learning disabilities, alongside specialist community support for children and adults with learning disabilities and autism, including intensive support.
• Extensive community physical health and well-being services for children and adults, covering prevention, treatment, rehabilitation, and long-term condition management.

The Trust was first established in 2002 and employs approximately 7,500 staff who provide care from more than 400 sites. The organisation offers opportunities for medics, mental health, general nurses, children’s nurses, allied health professionals, psychology, administration and clerical staff, apprentices and volunteers, as well as those specialising in learning disabilities and community physical health services.

North Lancs & South Cumbria SPCMHT covers a vast footprint including Blackpool, Fylde & Wyre, Lancaster and South Cumbria. We are seeking applications from confident and enthusiastic professionals who hold RMN/Social Work/OT registrations who are passionate about working in a perinatal service and have experience in a mental health, care coordination role.

Post holders will carry out specialist assessments of women referred into the service and also be responsible for an allocated caseload working alongside senior clinicians and have responsibility for the delivery of high quality care.

We welcome applications from both male and female applicants and although advantageous, there is no requirement to have previous perinatal experience, as training will be provided.

As a team and service, we support flexible working and offer fantastic training and development opportunities!

Main duties of the job

To work as a member of a multi-disciplinary community mental health team offering a comprehensive perinatal mental health service to women experiencing mental health difficulties.

To participate in the development and maintenance of a quality region wide perinatal service through effective collaboration, liaison and prioritisation with statutory and non-statutory organisations.

Contribution to the building up of local care networks for mothers across the Lancashire and South Cumbria Region.

To work as a Lead Practitioner in partnership with service users and other professionals’ within the Care Programme Approach framework managing and co-ordinating complex packages of care for both mother and infant.

Working for our organisation

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.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

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

Person specification

Qualifications

• Professional qualification and registration with appropriate professional body (NMC,SW, OT))
• Evidence of up to date training related to contemporary mental health nursing or occupational therapy practice.

Knowledge

• An understanding of the Mental Health Act 1983 (revised 2007)
• An understanding of the Children’s act 1989
• Able to demonstrate knowledge of safeguarding children and how to manage this within a specialist mental health setting

Experience

• Post graduate experience in a community mental health setting
• Able to demonstrate and evidence a broad range of therapeutic clinical skills for the post
• Experience of providing clinical supervision
• High level of written skills and ability to compile reports, assessments and maintain detailed and accurate service user records

You are advised to consider applying for LSCFT vacancies as soon as possible as in some instances vacancies are closed as soon as a sufficient number of applications have been received. If you are not invited to interview within four weeks of the closing date then please assume that on this occasion you have been unsuccessful, as it is not possible to contact all unsuccessful candidates.

Please note that further communication from LSCFT will normally be to the email address given on the application form. You should also ensure that email addresses and telephone numbers are provided for your referees, to enable LSCFT to contact them.

Please ensure that you read the person specification as your application will be measured against this document.

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Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.