Perinatal Nursery Nurse – Mother & Baby Unit

Lancashire Care Foundation Trust; Chorley; On-site; GBP 24,000 - 32,000; Full time

Job summary

Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Nursery Nurse to join our 8 bedded Mother and Baby Unit. You will work as part of a multidisciplinary inpatient team to provide high-quality care to mothers and their infants, supporting perinatal mental health needs and promoting mother-infant attachment.

The role involves 24-hour care with rotating shifts, mandatory trainings, and opportunities for Specialist Perinatal training and clinical supervision to develop your practice

Responsibilities

• The nursery nurse will assist mothers with perinatal mental health problems to care for their babies, ensure that the emotional and physical needs of the babies are met and engage in activities to promote the mother-infant relationship.
• Care is provided over a 24-hour period and team members work rotational shift patterns including days, nights, weekends and bank holidays to facilitate this.
• The core purpose of the team is to deliver high quality, tailored interventions in maternal mental health and attachment based approaches to mothers and infants.

Job description

Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Nursery Nurse to join our 8 bedded Mother and Baby Unit. You will work as part of a multidisciplinary inpatient team to provide high-quality care to mothers and their infants, supporting perinatal mental health needs and promoting mother-infant attachment.

The role involves 24-hour care with rotating shifts, mandatory trainings, and opportunities for Specialist Perinatal training and clinical supervision to develop your practice