Mental Health Practitioner
At a glance
- Band
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Posted
- 17/09/2026
- Closes
- 01/10/2026
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Role summary
This is an exciting opportunity for a Band 6 Nurse Practitioner to join the Central Home Treatment Team. The team provides short-term, intense support to service users with enduring or new mental health concerns, aiming to prevent acute inpatient admissions. The role involves delivering high-quality care, conducting risk assessments, and coordinating care for individuals in mental health crisis. The successful applicant will work flexible shifts and provide clinical support and supervision to junior staff.
Essential criteria
- Registered Mental Health Nurse
- CQSW, CSS, DipSW or equivalent and/or experience relevant to the post
- Significant post registration experience
- Able to manage own time and prioritise workload
- Demonstrate advanced Risk Assessment and Risk Management skills
- Skills and Knowledge
- Demonstrate understanding of Health & Safety policies, procedures and effects on Practice
- Can demonstrate knowledge of severe and enduring mental health problems and its effect on clients, families and carers
- Good interpersonal skills
- Registered Mental Health Nurse
- CQSW, CSS, DipSW or equivalent and/or experience relevant to the post
- Significant post registration experience
- Able to manage own time and prioritise workload
- Demonstrate advanced Risk Assessment and Risk Management skills
- Skills and Knowledge
- Demonstrate understanding of Health & Safety policies, procedures and effects on Practice
- Can demonstrate knowledge of severe and enduring mental health problems and its effect on clients, families and carers
- Good interpersonal skills
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 6 at £37,338 – £44,962 a year, across England.
This advert: £39,959 – £48,117 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust
Mental Health Practitioner
The closing date is 01 October 2026
Job summary
This is an exciting for a band 6 Nurse Practitioner to join Central Home Treatment TeamThe Central Home Treatment Team offer short term, intense support to service users, and their families/carers, who are suffering from enduring or new mental health concerns that would otherwise require admission to an acute in patient environment. There is a strong focus on a recovery model and effective risk management to provide quality care in a community setting.
The Central Home Treatment Team are always striving towards excellence in service delivery and ensuring that the Trust values are achieved. The successful applicant will be dynamic and forward thinking with the ability to work as part of a Team and in partnership with local services.
There will be an expectation that the successful applicant will have the ability to work flexible shift pattern across 7 days a week, to provide clinical support, upskill and guidance to junior members of the nursing team including the completion of formal clinical supervision reviews in accordance with the Trust policy.
Successful applicants will be provided with a full induction and appraisal to formulate a Personal Development Plan and to identify training and development needs
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