Community Mental Health Nurse

Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust

The closing date is 11 March 2025

Job summary

An opportunity has arisen for an experienced and dynamic Mental Health Nurse to join the Positive Lifestyle Team on a full time basis.

The successful applicant will work across the Greater Preston and Chorley/South Ribble Clinical Commissioning Group footprint. The role will involve working with Service Users who have a Severe Mental Illness and referred both from the CMHT and GP's but require more interventions around Physical Health Monitoring and improving their quality of life as well as monitoring mental health. It is anticipated that the successful applicant will have a caseload of Service Users from both Primary and Secondary services.

Main duties of the job

The successful applicant will be able to work well within a team as well as independently and have excellent liaison and communication skills. Working across both the Primary Care Team and Mental Health Services means they will need to be flexible and adaptable and able to form good working relationships with others.

Regular supervision and CPD opportunities are available.

Please note: This post is subject to an Enhanced CRB Clearance

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.

Date posted

25 February 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 6

Salary

£37,338 to £44,962 a year per annum

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

351-CEN2224-CPC

Job locations

Positive Lifestyle Team Central - Pathways

St. Aidan's Road

Bamber Bridge

PR5 6GD

Job description

Job responsibilities

For further information about the role, please see the attached recruitment pack which includes a detailed job description and person specification, or visit our website via Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS FT.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Registered Mental Health Nurse

Knowledge

Essential

Awareness of understanding of the importance of service users and carers being central to the process of planning and delivering services
Dual Diagnosis
Pharmacology and associated biological factors

Experience

Essential

Venepuncture skills or willingness to learn
Inter-agency working
Enthusiasm for working with the client group and service type

Skills

Essential

Commitment to the Employee/Management Competencies (Flexible working hours, rota work, etc.)
Commitment to Equality & Diversity
Ability to travel throughout LSCFT trust footprint as per the requirements of the post

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Registered Mental Health Nurse

Knowledge

Essential

Awareness of understanding of the importance of service users and carers being central to the process of planning and delivering services
Dual Diagnosis
Pharmacology and associated biological factors

Experience

Essential

Venepuncture skills or willingness to learn
Inter-agency working
Enthusiasm for working with the client group and service type

Skills

Essential

Commitment to the Employee/Management Competencies (Flexible working hours, rota work, etc.)
Commitment to Equality & Diversity
Ability to travel throughout LSCFT trust footprint as per the requirements of the post

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.