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Mental Health Practitioner (RMN/OT/DipSW)
The closing date is 27 October 2025
Band 6 Mental Health Practitioner - Lancaster and Morecambe RITT
An interesting and varied full time vacancy has become available for an innovative and dynamic Band 6 Mental Health Practitioner to work in the Integrated Lancaster and Morecambe Older Adult Mental Health Service. The role will be primarily in the RITT team.
The successful candidate will have sound clinical and leadership skills, be enthusiastic about the role and its development and be driven to provide excellent mental health services to the local older adult population.
Ideally applicants should have experience of working with older adults with mental health needs and the ability to lead on assessment and provide treatment plans. They should also have excellent communication skills.
Main duties of the job
The core functions of the RITT are; Home Treatment and Care Home Liaison. The post holder would be expected to work primarily in the home treatment function to support cover for a 7-day service, within the hours of 8am - 8pm and will require the ability to work flexibly within these hours.
The role will involve working within a MDT to support older adult service users in the community to remain at home and prevent hospital admission. Please see the job description for further details about the role and expectations.
For an informal discussion about the position please contact us using the details provided.
About us
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.
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 and career breaks. We encourage applicants to state clearly on their application forms this request and discuss these options at interview.
For more information please visit our website via Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS FT
Job responsibilities
Please see attached the job description and person specification for more information about this role.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Recognised Core Mental Health Professional Qualification (e.g. RMN/Dip SW/OT)
Knowledge
* In-depth knowledge of mental health problems
* In-depth knowledge of issues that impact upon people with mental health problems
* Detailed knowledge of the impact of risk and protective factors that affect people with mental health problems
Experience
* Post qualification clinical work with service users experiencing a range of mental health problems.
* Experience of delivering evidence based interventions in a time-limited framework.
* Evidence of assessment across a broad range of mental health problems.
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.
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