Perinatal Community Mental Health Practitioner

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

Job summary

Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust in the Pennine Lancashire area is seeking a Perinatal Community Mental Health Practitioner.

You will conduct specialist assessments for women referred to the service, manage an allocated caseload alongside senior clinicians, and contribute to high-quality care delivery.Applicants should hold RMN, social work or occupational therapy registrations, with a passion for perinatal mental health.

Qualifications

• RMN/OT/SW registration and professional qualification.
• Up-to-date training in mental health nursing, occupational therapy or social work.

Responsibilities

• Carry out specialist assessments for referred women with caseload management.
• Work alongside senior clinicians to deliver high quality care.

Skills

Diversity awareness

Written communication

Education

RMN/OT/SW registration

Job description

Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust

Perinatal Community Mental Health Practitioner

The closing date is 20 November 2026

The team covers the Pennine Lancashire footprint of East Lancashire and Blackburn with Darwen. 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.

Main duties of the job

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!

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

• RMN/OT/SW professional qualification and registration with appropriate professional body.
• Evidence of up to date training related to contemporary mental health nursing, occupational therapy or social work practice

Knowledge

• An understanding of the Children's act 1989
• An understanding of the Mental Health Act 1983 (revised 2007)
• Able to demonstrate knowledge of safeguarding children and how to manage this within a specialist mental health setting.
• Specialist knowledge in perinatal mental health or willingness to undertake training

Experience

• Post graduate experience in a mental health setting.
• Able to demonstrate and evidence a broad range of therapeutic clinical skills for the post

Skills

• Able to demonstrate an understanding of diversity and gender issues and how these relate to service provision
• 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 yearpro rata per annum