Community Mental Health Nurse | Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust


Company:	Lancashire Care Foundation Trust
Salary:	£32,073 - £39,043 per annum pro rata
Hours:	Full-time
Location:	Kendal, LA9 7RL
Job type:	Permanent
Posting date:	2 Nov 2026
Closing date:	2 Dec 2026

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Summary

This post is suitable for registered Mental Health Nurses.

South Lakes Community Mental Health Team (CMHT) are looking to recruit a qualified Band 5 Mental Health Nurse to work predominately within our Physical Health Monitoring Team. The applicant would need to be registered with the registered body NMC. This is a permanent 37.5 hour contract.

The team serves the population of the South Lakes area. It is an established team with a friendly and supportive culture. There is a visible and supportive leadership team who are committed to clinical supervision and professional development.

This is an interesting and rewarding role in a busy service. Ideally, you will have current or previous experience in a community setting and be able to work effectively in a multi professional context. You should have a collaborative and enthusiastic approach as well as passion and commitment in developing and promoting recovery based approaches for adults with severe and enduring mental health needs.

Please note that this vacancy may close earlier than the advertised closing date due to a high volume of applications. We therefore encourage interested candidates to submit their application as soon as possible.

As the Band 5 Community Mental Health Nurse you will manage a caseload of service users with a range of complex needs. You will develop care plans and deliver evidence based interventions and treatments to patients alongside managing risks in the community for patients who are under the CMHT for shared care and depot and Clozapine monitoring. You will be working under the supervision of the clinical lead and have support from the Community Mental Health team multi disciplinary team. You will also have the opportunity to supervise junior staff.

This role involves managing unplanned patient work within the team, responding to escalation of risk/crisis situations and if required to step up care to a CMHT Band 6 Practitioner to assess.

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 16 Nov 2026

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