Mental Health and Wellbeing Practitioner | Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust


Company:	Lancashire Care Foundation Trust
Salary:	£32,073 - £39,043 pa
Hours:	Full-time
Location:	Nelson, BB9 9TG
Job type:	Permanent
Posting date:	4 Aug 2026
Closing date:	3 Sept 2026

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Summary

Applications are invited from qualified Associated Psychological Practitioners or Mental Health Wellbeing Practitioners. The post will provide assessment, psychological skills based interventions and group work for the care of Service Users within the Burnley and Pendle CMHTs. The post holder will work alongside a Clinical Psychologist and a Senior Psychological Therapist as well as other mental health professionals in the wider multidisciplinary team (MDT).

The teams provide services to people with complex mental health needs using a model of trauma informed care. The post holder will be operationally managed within the teams as a core team member, while strong professional leadership works alongside to support the role.

An interest in working with individuals experiencing significant levels of distress and complexity will be essential. Good team working skills are essential and skills in group approaches, or an interest in developing these, would be an asset. The postholder will also have opportunities to support with service development and evaluation.

Clinical and professional supervision is provided, and a growing network of complex case for and expanding menu of psychological therapy models afford excellent opportunity for the post holder to develop their skills in MDT working and psychologically informed care in a secondary context.

To work alongside service users, families, carers and multi-disciplinary team members to co-ordinate care as a key worker, supporting collaborative decision-making about care and treatment.

To deliver a set of wellbeing-focused psychologically-informed interventions, aligned to cognitive-behavioural principles, based on the best evidence available, that address problems often experienced by people with severe mental health problems

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.

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.

LSCFT support 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.

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

Please see the attached job description and person specification for more information about this role.

This advert closes on Tuesday 18 Aug 2026

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