Job summary
- Main area
- Mental Health
- Grade
- Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 22.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 351-BAY970-MF
- Employer
- Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Burnley General Hospital
- Town
- Burnley
- Salary
- £57,528 - £64,750 per annum pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 28/04/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Non-Medical Prescribing Lead
Band 8a
Our Vision is to provide the best mental health, learning disability, autism, community, and physical health services for the populations we serve.
As an integrated Trust, Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust (LSCFT) delivers a comprehensive range of services, including:
- Primary and secondary mental health care for children and adults, including specialist inpatient child and adolescent mental health provision, perinatal mental health, and forensic services with low and medium secure care.
- Specialist mental health inpatient care for individuals with learning disabilities, alongside specialist community support for children and adults with learning disabilities and autism, including intensive support.
- Extensive community physical health and well-being services for children and adults, covering prevention, treatment, rehabilitation, and long-term condition management.
The Trust was first established in 2002 and employs approximately 7,500 staff who provide care from more than 400 sites. The organisation offers opportunities for medics, mental health, general nurses, children’s nurses, allied health professionals, psychology, administration and clerical staff, apprentices and volunteers, as well as those specialising in learning disabilities and community physical health services.
For more information visit our website via Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS FT.
Job overview
Are you an enthusiastic, experienced Nurse Prescriber with a passion for providing and developing quality specialist Child & Adolescent Mental Health Services for young people? We want you to join an expanding service recognised by the Care Quality Commission as outstanding. Do you have an ability to drive a service forward and improve quality and productivity.
In CYP MH East Lancashire (Child and Young People Mental Health East Lancashire) We have well established Consultant-led teams providing specialist mental health services across East Lancashire and Blackburn with Darwen. This is an exciting time to join our team as a Lead for Nurse Prescribing as we build on our existing track record and develop our range of services in line with a regional transformation programme modelled on Thrive.
Main duties of the job
We are looking for a committed qualified nurse prescriber who is passionate about working with children and young people with complex presentations, and who is also interested wider CYPMH – East Lancashire development initiatives.
This role is open to a qualified Non-Medical nurse prescriber with an active MNC pin and an accreditation post graduate Non-Medical prescribing qualification. This role requires:
- Experience of working with children and young people
- Work as an independent Non-Medical prescriber for children and young people within specialist CYPMH services.
- To contribute to clinical effectiveness and quality across the Lancashire footprint including productivity.
- The ability to act as a clinical supervisor to Nurse Prescribers, trainees and colleagues
- The ability to relate and provide accessible services to a diverse community
Working for our organisation
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
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For more details on this vacancy please review the attached job description and person specification.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- 1st level registered nurse to diploma level AND Non-Medical prescribing qualification
- Active NMC registration
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Skills in the use of complex methods of assessment, intervention and management.
- Ability to communicate effectively orally and in writing appropriate to a variety of audiences.
- Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
- Evidence of potential to provide collaborative team leadership.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Extensive CAMHS experience as a practitioner.
- Extensive experience of assessment and treatment in a variety of multi-disciplinary settings.
- Experience of managing CAMHS cases in a multi-disciplinary setting consolidated experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of children, young people and their families/carers.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Angela Taylor
- Job title
- Associate Director of Operations
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01282 628800
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