Senior Nursery Nurse

Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust; Chorley; On-site; GBP 29,000 - 36,000; Full time

Job summary

Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust in Chorley is seeking an experienced Perinatal Senior Nursery Nurse to join the Ribblemere Mother and Baby Unit. You will lead the nursery nursing team, support mums and families, promote bonding, and ensure PQN and BFI standards with ongoing audits and training.

The role includes rotating shifts: three long days for three weeks, one four long day week, and nights.

Qualifications

• Excellent communication and relationship-building abilities.
• Understanding of mental health conditions and physical health implications.
• Experience in a multi-disciplinary team.

Responsibilities

• Lead the nursery nurse team and deliver specialist perinatal training.
• Support mums and babies, promote bonding, and ensure standards.
• Deliver audits and training within the MDT.

Skills

Communication skills

Listening skills

Decision making

Problem solving

Audit awareness

Education

Degree in Childcare and Education

Playwork Degree in Early Years

Degree in Children’s Care, Learning and Development

Job description

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.

Perinatal Senior Nursery Nurse permanent post working on Ribblemere Mother and baby Unit Chorley
An exciting opportunity for an experienced Nursery Nurse to become part of our dedicated perinatal team .

Main duties of the job

The successful candidates will receive appropriate specialist perinatal training. The shift pattern in the Mother and Baby Unit is three long days three weeks a month and one four long day week. All staff are expected to rotate onto night shift also. Your role will be to support mums and their families to look after their babies/promote bonding. In particular the senior nursery nurse will ensure that PQN and BFI standards are met and appropriate audit and training is delivered. This is a new role to provide leadership within the nursery nurse team supported by the wider MDT.

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.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see attached the job description and person specification for more information about this role.

Qualifications

• One of the following qualifications: Degree in Childcare and Education or Playwork Degree level in Early Years and Education, Degree Level qualification in Children’s Care, Learning and Development
• Evidence of Continued Professional Development that supports clinical practice

Knowledge

• Can demonstrate an understanding and knowledge base of mental health conditions and their treatments.
• Can demonstrate a working knowledge of physical health conditions and the complications that this can cause to patients experiencing mental ill health.

Experience

• Experience working within a multi-disciplinary team structure.
• Experience of assessing, planning, implementing and reviewing care needs.

Skills

• Excellent communication, listening, decision making and problem solving skills.
• Can demonstrate the ability to change and have an awareness of the NHS Plan
• An Ability to understand how research and audits effect and benefit nursing practice

Please ensure that you read the person specification as your application will be measured against this document.

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Employer certification / accreditation badges

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.

Application numbers

This vacancy may close early if it receives a high number of applications. You are therefore advised to consider applying for this vacancy as soon as possible to avoid disappointment.