Job summary
- Main area
- Mental Health
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 351-BAY910-MF
- Employer
- Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- The Bay Network (Lancaster, Morecambe and South Cumbria)
- Town
- Barrow-in-Furness
- Salary
- £47,810 - £54,710 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 08/03/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Risk Support Liaison Worker - CYPMH
Band 7
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
Lancashire & South Cumbria (Children and Young Peoples Mental Health) CYPMH services. (Located in the Bay, across Lancaster & Morecambe, and South Cumbria)
This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced clinician to join our CYPMH Team in this newly revised role, together with our partners across Lancashire & South Cumbria as we move towards mobilising the revised 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 Worker, who will be integral in fulfilling the Risk Support approach that has been developed through the CYPMHS 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 CYPMHS 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. Please note, it is expected that successful applicants would be working on-site through the working week across a range of these settings to develop and sustain key relationships.
Main duties of the job
Whilst the post holder will be based within local CYPMHS teams, our vision is that 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. There will also be an expectation to cross cover other localities during times of A/L and high acuity as and when required.
If you would like to know more about this exciting opportunity please feel free to contact:-
Deborah Parry – Head of Clinical Service (The Bay)
[email protected]
Mobile: 07484091751
Rachelle Stassen – Service Manager – Urgent Care Pathway (RAIST)
[email protected]
01772215389
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
- Core profession (HCPC, Social Care, Nursing) or recognised degree level broad based health & social care qualification OR IAPT qualification
- Supervision qualification
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Evidence of knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health
- Evidence of knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health
- Evidence of working understanding of systemic, psychodynamic, and cognitive theories along with recognition of when each approach is appropriate.
- Knowledge of ACE’s – Adverse Childhood Experiences and evidence of working within a trauma informed approach.
Experience
Essential criteria
- 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.
- Evidence of experience in providing risk assessment of self- harming behaviour.
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
- Deborah Parry
- Job title
- Head of Clinical Service (The Bay)
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07484091751
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