Perinatal Community Mental Health Lead Practitioner

Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust; Lancaster; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 48,000; Full time

Job summary

Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Perinatal Community Mental Health Lead Practitioner to oversee a perinatal service within a multi-disciplinary community mental health team. The role involves specialist assessments, caseload management alongside senior clinicians, and delivering high-quality care for mothers and infants.

The post welcomes applicants with RMN/Social Work/OT registrations and provides training; flexible working patterns are supported with opportunities

Qualifications

• Registration with the appropriate professional body (NMC, SW, OT).
• Up-to-date training in contemporary mental health nursing or occupational therapy.
• Understanding of the Mental Health Act 1983 (revised 2007).
• Understanding of the Children’s Act 1989.
• Safeguarding children in a specialist mental health setting.
• Post-graduate experience in a community mental health setting.
• Ability to provide clinical supervision.

Responsibilities

• Work as part of a multi-disciplinary team delivering perinatal mental health services.
• Develop and maintain a region-wide perinatal service through collaboration with statutory and non-statutory organisations.
• Build local care networks for mothers across Lancashire and South Cumbria.
• Lead Practitioner coordinating complex care packages for mother and infant within the Care Programme Approach.

Education

NMC/SW/OT registration

Evidence of up-to-date training in mental health nursing or occupational therapy

Job description

Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust

Perinatal Community Mental Health Lead Practitioner

The closing date is 11 November 2026

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.

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.

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

• 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

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

£39,959 to £48,117 a yearper annum pro rata