Senior Practitioner | Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust

Lancashire Care Foundation Trust; Preston; Sur place; GBP 26 000 - 38 000; Temps partiel

Résumé du poste

The Senior Practitioner will join the MAPPA, Victims and Veterans (MVV) Team, working 22.5 hours per week across Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust. This role supports specialist consultation, risk assessment, and care pathways for service users in complex cases.

You will work collaboratively with multi-agency partners, contribute to service development, and provide trauma-informed guidance to staff.

Qualifications

• Live registration with relevant regulatory body (NMC, HCPC, etc.).
• Experience in complex risk assessment and safeguarding.
• Ability to work across organisations in multi-agency settings.

Responsabilités

• Provide specialist consultation on care pathways and risk management.
• Support staff with trauma-informed practice and formulation.
• Contribute to service development and multi-agency partnership working across MVV.

Connaissances

Nurse

Occupational Therapist

Social Worker

Psychologist

Description du poste

Senior Practitioner | Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Senior Practitioner (Nurse, Occupational Therapist, Social Worker or Psychologist) to join the MAPPA, Victims and Veterans (MVV) Team for 22.5 hours per week. The post is based within Secure Services and operates across Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust.

The role offers an opportunity to influence practice across LSCFT, provide specialist consultation, contribute to service development, and work collaboratively with a wide range of partner agencies. The post combines specialist consultation, complex risk management support, training, formulation, and multi-agency partnership working across the MVV portfolio.

The MAPPA, Victims and Veterans (MVV) Team is a well-established multidisciplinary team of psychologically informed practitioners providing specialist support across three interconnected areas of practice: MAPPA, Victim Services and Veterans Services. The team adopts a trauma-informed approach and works to enhance public protection, improve outcomes and strengthen partnership working across services.

The successful applicant will work across 3 to 4 days per week, including Mondays. The team is committed to delivering high-quality support with professionalism, compassion and respect. The post holder will provide specialist advice and consultation to staff regarding care pathways, risk assessment and risk management for individuals receiving services from LSCFT, often working alongside partner agencies.

We are seeking a motivated practitioner with experience of complex risk management, multi-agency working and trauma-informed practice who is keen to make a positive impact across services. This is a varied and rewarding role within a supportive specialist team, offering opportunities to influence practice, develop expertise and contribute to service improvement across the Trust.

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

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

This advert closes on Tuesday 10 Nov 2026