Risk Liaison Worker

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The closing date is 12 March 2026

Risk Support Liaison Worker - Permanent
- Full time 37.5 hours per week

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced clinician to join our CYPMH Team, together with our partners across Lancashire & South Cumbria as we move towards mobilising the Risk Support Model in response to transforming Children & Young Peoples Mental Health Services as part of the iTHRIVE transformation programme.

The Risk Support Model is a Lancashire and South Cumbria (L&SC) wide programme and we are looking to recruit our Risk Support Liaison Practitioner, who will be integral in fulfilling the Risk Support approach that has been developed through the CAMHS Redesign Co-production work.

The post holder will be part of the Lancashire & South Cumbria innovative and exciting new approach to Risk Support across the integrated care system footprint, yet with a very strong local focus on working across a range of partner organisations including local CAMHS teams, Children's Social Care, education and voluntary sector partners to establish a coordinated, effective, efficient, high quality and consistent approach to Risk Support across Lancashire and South Cumbria.

Whilst the post holder will be based within local Child and Young People's Mental Health teams, colocation within other partner organisations in particular Children's Social Care Teams will form part of the working week, to help embed a culture of shared risk and collaborative working arrangements in which young people, parents, carers and professionals feel supported. The post holder must be comfortable with complexity and risk, be reflexive, resilient and have experience of sitting within times of considerable uncertainty, where anxieties amongst others can be high.

As part of the Risk Support approach the post holder will also be a key member of the AMBIT Community across Lancashire & South Cumbria and should feel confident in modelling the AMBIT approach across the children's and young people's workforce including education, social care and health professionals, as well as delivering training to partner organisation within their footprint.

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.

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

• Evidence of knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health.
• Evidence of knowledge of the evidence base in their practice.
• Evidence of understanding of child development and psychosocial influences
• Evidence of specialist mental health assessment and therapeutic interventions with children and young people with mental health problems and their families.

• Evidence of specialist mental health assessment and therapeutic interventions with children and young people with mental health problems and their families.
• Evidence of working collaboratively in a multi-disciplinary team.
• Evidence of experience of working with a wide variety of child mental health problems, across the whole age range, reflecting all levels of clinical severity including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems and verbal and physical abuse.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust