Nurse Practitioner (Non Medical Prescriber) | Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust


Company:	Lancashire Care Foundation Trust
Salary:	£49,387 - £56,515 per annum (subject to confirmation)
Hours:	Full-time
Location:	Skelmersdale, WN8 6DS
Job type:	Permanent
Posting date:	28 Sept 2026
Closing date:	28 Oct 2026

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Summary

We are looking for an experienced and compassionate Nurse Practitioner (Non-Medical Prescriber) to join our dedicated West Lancashire CYPMH Team within Specialist Services.

This is an exciting opportunity for a motivated mental health professional to play a key role in delivering high-quality, evidence-based care to children and young people experiencing complex mental health difficulties, including ADHD and emotional distress.

Working within a supportive multi-disciplinary team, you will provide specialist assessments, therapeutic interventions, clinical leadership and independent prescribing support while helping shape and develop services for children, young people and families across West Lancashire.

As a Band 7 Nurse Practitioner, you will:

Manage a specialist caseload of children and young people with complex mental health needs

Undertake comprehensive assessments, risk assessments and care planning

Deliver evidence-based therapeutic interventions in line with NICE guidance

Act as an Independent Non-Medical Prescriber within CYP services

Provide leadership, consultation and clinical support to the wider team

Work collaboratively with families, schools, social care, GPs and partner agencies

Contribute to safeguarding, clinical governance, service development and quality improvement initiatives

Support ADHD pathways and integrated working across CYPMH and wider services

If you are passionate about improving outcomes for children and young people and want to be part of a compassionate and dynamic CYPMH/ADHD team, we would love to hear from you.

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

For more details on this vacancy please review the attached job description and person specification.

This advert closes on Monday 12 Oct 2026

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