Job summary
- Main area
- Mental Health
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 351-BAY939-SRP
- Employer
- Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- L7F9 30350 Furness Home Based Treatment Team
- Town
- Barrow-in-Furness
- Salary
- £38,682 - £46,580 Per Annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 17/03/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Community Nurse - Mental Health
Band 6
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
Barrow Home Based Treatment Team is looking to welcome a Mental Health Practitioner to their team.
The Home Based Treatment team work in the community with people in acute mental health distress, they support people in their own home to avoid hospital admission and support early discharge from hospital.
The team are looking for a mental health practitioner that is highly motivated and enthusiastic. The successful applicant will need to be able to demonstrate excellent clinical skills. It is expected they would have a good working knowledge of mental health and community services. Excellent communication skills are essential with an ability to manage change and support colleagues around learning and development.
You will need to be proactive, innovative and able to provide quality care, put the service users and carers at the heart of everything you do. In return we will offer excellent supervision, training, support and an environment for you to develop and enhance your current skills.
The Barrow HBTT are a 12 hour service working shift pattern of long days, although happy to discuss flexible working patterns.
Main duties of the job
- You will provide a comprehensive assessment and triage service and, where necessary signposting or clear onward facilitation to a mental health pathway. Your referrers will include GPs, Police, self-referrals and referrals from carers via the Initial Response Service and direct referrals via from our Acute Hospital Colleagues and directly from other LSCFT agencies. Service users will be triaged collaboratively and a decision will be made in consultation with the referrer.
• This comprehensive, collaborative triage system will lead to comprehensive assessment clear onward facilitation of service users to the most appropriate care following assessment
• The post holder will provide evidence based mental health assessments and/or signposting to alternative service provision for people who present requiring a specialist urgent mental health assessment. The post holder may offer follow-up appointments within the agreed timescale for intervention as part of the on-going assessment process.
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
If you would like to learn more about this opportunity, please review the attached job description and person specification.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Registered Mental Health Nurse/ Social worker / Occupational therapist
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Able to understand the difference between crisis planning and contingency planning and able to formulate explicit planning in these areas
- Knowledge, understanding and experience of the care pathways for psychosis and non psychosis and relevant interventions
- Effective communication with service users, carers and members of the multidisciplinary teams. Strong customer service and negotiation skills
Skills
Essential criteria
- Motivational skills
- Assertiveness skills in relation to bed management
- Demonstrate the ability to work sensitively in a non judgemental way with service users who are in crisis
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
- Karen Ellis
- Job title
- Team Leader
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01229 404360
- Additional information
Anyone wishing to discuss this opportunity please contact Team manager Karen Ellis on 01229 404360.
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