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

This role will require you to work within a multi-disciplinary Team, and take a leadership role in the delivery of high quality service provision that promotes and improves the mental health and well-being of children and young people, their families and carers. The post holder will work within a systemic and holistic framework and undertake needs led, evidence based, highly skilled assessments and brief therapeutic interventions to children and young people, their families and carers, who present to the service, including as a result of deliberate self-harm.

Responsibilities

• To screen referrals, signpost and offer an assessment to make sure children and young people are accessing the right services in a timely manner.
• Work as part of an integrated CAMHS service and actively liaise and support robust partnership working arrangements between the CAMHS Team and community partners and other key stakeholders involved with the child across agencies in order that an integrated package of care is developed.
• Provide a high level of generic skills and competencies and work towards development of areas of clinical expertise within the field of CAMHS, complimenting other members of the team.
• To provide clinical leadership and supervision to a skill mixed team, and to facilitate a culture of learning and reflective practice.
• To work in collaboration with the service manager / team leader to support the clinical governance / public health and NHS modernisation agenda.
• To actively contribute to the implementation of the safeguarding agenda within the service, in partnership with the Lancashire Care safeguarding team.
• Provide clinical leadership and support to other members of the skill mix team.
• To support the team co-ordinator and work with the clinical leadership team in the delivery of the clinical governance, quality improvement and performance management agenda within the team.

This is not an exhaustive list of the duties. Please see the Job Description for the full list.

Diversity and Inclusion

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 would 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.

Flexible Working

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.

Closing Date

This advert closes on Friday 8 May 2026.