Senior CYPMH Practitioner | Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust

Lancashire Care Foundation Trust; Thornton; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare provider in the UK is seeking a Senior Mental Health Practitioner to join the CYP Mental Health RAIS team. This role involves providing acute assessments and support to young people and their families in the community. The successful candidate will develop collaborative care plans and work with various teams to ensure effective mental health support. Flexible working options are available.

Qualifications

• Experience working with children and young people in a mental health setting.
• Ability to develop collaborative care/support and risk management plans.
• Strong communication skills for collaboration with families and other services.

Responsibilities

• Provide acute hospital assessments for young people.
• Develop care plans with young people and families.
• Work collaboratively with community mental health teams.

Job description

Overview

This is an exciting opportunity to work as a Senior Mental Health Practitioner within the CYP Mental Health RAIS team, which will provide acute hospital assessments, intensive support and interventions for young people and their families within the community.

Responsibilities

Your role will be integral to the delivery of an urgent care pathway for children and young people that is young person and family focused, needs-led, responsive, accessible and flexible.

A key element of your role will be to work collaboratively with the young person and their family or carers to develop a care plan and to provide time-limited intensive support which promotes resilience and reduces the likelihood of future crisis episodes.

You will also work collaboratively with other services to ensure that plans are in place to meet any ongoing care and support needs of the young person and their family.

Your main duties will include working intensively with children and young people to provide a collaboratively agreed time-limited package of care and to support their families and carers to provide appropriate containment during periods of high expressed emotion and crisis.

You will promote active involvement of young people, their families and other significant persons in developing collaborative care/support plans and pro-active risk management plans, whilst liaising closely with children and young people’s community mental health teams and specialist in-patient services to ensure that the least restrictive care option is provided to young people.

Trust Information

Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust provides a range of services including secondary mental health care across this area. Specialist provision comprises inpatient child and adolescent mental health services, perinatal mental health and forensic services including low and medium secure care.

The Trust also provides a range of physical health and well-being services in the community alongside a range of partners in the Lancashire, Cumbria and Sefton area.

Working Hours & Flexible Working

The hours of operation for the service will be variable and will require unsociable hours working that will be across 7 days per week.

Lancashire & South Cumbria Foundation Trust encourages 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
• flexi-time
• career breaks

We encourage applicants to state clearly on their application forms this request and discuss these options at interview.

Application Details

For more information please visit our website via Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS FT.

For more details on this vacancy please review the attached job description and person specification.

Additional Information

*There will be clarity on bases provided at interview due to a period of transformation to ensure that Urgent Care pathways delivered in CYPMH are completed in localities.

Closing Date

This advert closes on Wednesday 29 Oct 2025