Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust
Mental Health Practitioner
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Exciting Opportunity for Band 6 Community Mental Health Practitioner
We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced and motivated Band 6 Community Mental Health Practitioner to join Chorley Community Mental Health Team (CMHT), based at Chorley Health Centre.
Chorley CMHT is a busy, supportive and forward-thinking multidisciplinary team providing specialist secondary mental health care to adults with a range of complex mental health needs. We are looking for a core registered mental health professional who can bring strong clinical skills, sound professional judgement and a collaborative approach to supporting people to achieve meaningful recovery within their communities.
Key Responsibilities
- Work within a keyworker model, providing assessment, care coordination and evidence-based interventions for people with identified secondary mental health needs.
- Work closely with service users, families and carers, colleagues across the multidisciplinary team, primary care and partner agencies to develop coordinated, person-centred plans that promote recovery, independence and effective management of risk.
- Undertake comprehensive mental health assessments and contribute to multidisciplinary formulation and care planning.
- Act as keyworker for an allocated caseload, coordinating agreed interventions, reviews and pathways of care.
- Develop, implement and review collaborative care plans, safety plans and risk assessment and management plans.
- Recognise and respond appropriately to changes in mental state, risk, safeguarding concerns and social circumstances.
- Work collaboratively with psychiatrists, psychologists, nurses, occupational therapists, social care colleagues, support workers and partner services.
- Support safe and effective medicines management within your professional scope, including appropriate monitoring of psychotropic medication such as lithium and clozapine where relevant.
- Promote physical health, social inclusion, recovery and the involvement of families and carers where appropriate.
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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.
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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.
Flexible Working
LSCFT supports 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.
Wellbeing
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).
Contact Information
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: James Cornthwaite
- Job title: Service Manager
- Email address: james.cornthwaite@lscft.nhs.uk
- Telephone number: 01772 520400
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