Senior Community- Mental Health Nurse

Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust

The closing date is 17 February 2026

An exciting opportunity has become available for a Band 6 Nurse to join the South Lakes Older Adult Community Mental Health Team for 22.5 hours per week. The team are looking for a dynamic colleague who shares our passion for ensuring that individuals enjoy great care and health regardless of age and diagnosis.

We are looking for a forward thinking, caring individual who has excellent leadership qualities and experience of working with mental health difficulties relating to the ageing process and people who have a dementia diagnosis as well as an emerging memory issue. Experience in a care home setting is desirable as well as robust assessment skills.

One of the main roles of this post is to supervise, educate and support staff, manage referrals and to communicate team needs. This person must be able to work as a member of a strong multi-disciplinary and a very progressive team.

For further details / informal visits contact:
Name:
Helen Bradford,

Job title:

Team Leader, Email address: , Telephone number:

Working within the wider, integrated Community Mental Health Team as a senior member of the OA CMHT to provide person centred, evidenced based assessment and care to support the needs of service users who are in need of therapeutic intervention and treatment for functional mental health conditions and complexities from an established dementia diagnosis.

To ensure that service users and their carers receive the best quality care and support in line with their changing complex mental health needs. Working closely with nurses, OTs, doctors and the wider MDT to maintain positive health, utilising occupation, formulation, observation and education to provide Dialog+ care plans to support needs and recovery in collaboration with service users and their carers at all times.

Key Relationships

To work within the OACMHT and wider MDT with service users, carers and families. Working with primary and secondary healthcare organisations as well as Adult Social Care, and 3rd sector organisations to ensure that service user s needs, wants and care are at the forefront of all that we do.

Work closely with care homes to provide education and support to focus on the wellbeing and recovery of service users utilising the assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of care with service users and their carers.

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.

Please review the attached job description and person specification for more information about this vacancy.

• First Level Registered Nurse RNMH, RMN
• Evidence of post-registration training in clinical/ psychological interventions / skills relevant to the post.
• Proven track record of post registration clinical experience relevant to the post.

• Awareness and understanding of professional accountability, NMC standards and other local and national initiatives.

• Experience of Leadership, Experience of mentoring teams and achieving successful outcomes
• Experience of working with people with a range of MH conditions
• Experience of caring for people with Dementia
• Experience of care home environments and care required within them

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