Senior CYPMH Practitioner
The closing date is 29 October 2025
Job summary
This is an exciting opportunity to work as a Senior Mental Health Practitioner within the CYP Mental Health RAIS team, which will provide acute hospital assessments, intensive support and interventions for young people and their families within the community.
Your role will be integral to the delivery of an urgent care pathway for children and young people that is young person and family focused, needs-led, responsive, accessible and flexible.
A key element of your role will be to work collaboratively with the young person and their family or carers to develop a care plan and to provide time-limited intensive support which promotes resilience and reduces the likelihood of future crisis episodes.
You will also work collaboratively with other services to ensure that plans are in place to meet any ongoing care and support needs of the young person and their family.
The hours of operation for the service will be variable and will require unsociable hours working that will be across 7 days per week.
Main duties of the job
We are looking for experienced practitioners who have an ethos of delivering young person-centred, needs-led, recovery-focused, and values-based services. Successful applicants should be able to work sensitively and non-judgementally with children, young people & families who are in crisis.
Your main duties will include working intensively with children and young people to provide a collaboratively agreed time-limited package of care and to support their families and carers to provide appropriate containment during periods of high expressed emotion and crisis.
You will promote active involvement of young people, their families and other significant persons in developing collaborative care/support plans and pro-active risk management plans, whilst liaising closely with children and young people's community mental health teams and specialist in-patient services to ensure that the least restrictive care option is provided to young people
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.
Details
Date posted
16 October 2025
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 6
Salary
£38,682 to £46,580 a year per annum
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-time
Reference number
351-SPS1494-MF
Job locations
Rapid Assessment Intensive Support Team
Leyland
PR25 3ED
Employer details
Employer name
Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Rapid Assessment Intensive Support Team
Leyland
PR25 3ED
Employer's website
https://www.lscft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)
Employer contact details
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