Senior Staff Nurse

Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust; Blackburn; Sur place; GBP 36 000 - 48 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Senior Staff Nurse for Maplewood - Pendleview to lead clinical care in an acute inpatient mental health setting. This role focuses on ensuring high-quality, recovery-focused care and supporting junior staff within a ward environment.

You will provide clinical leadership, coordinate shifts, conduct risk assessments and contribute to discharge planning, working closely with a multidisciplinary team to safeguard patients and promote

Responsabilités

• Provide clinical leadership and act as a role model for best practice
• Deliver high-quality, person-centred care in an acute mental health setting
• Support and supervise junior nursing staff and students
• Coordinate shifts and contribute to effective ward management
• Undertake risk assessments and care planning
• Complete 5 P formulations to formulate a plan of care and discharge plan
• Work collaboratively within the multidisciplinary team
• Promote safeguarding, safety, and recovery-focused practice

Description du poste

We are seeking an experienced and motivated Senior Staff Nurse to join Maplewood - Pendleview. This is an excellent opportunity for a skilled mental health nurse to develop leadership experience while supporting high-quality, recovery-focused care in an acute inpatient setting.

You will play a key role in clinical leadership on the ward, supporting junior staff, coordinating shifts, and ensuring safe, effective, and compassionate care for service users experiencing acute mental health needs.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide clinical leadership and act as a role model for best practice
• Deliver high-quality, person-centred care in an acute mental health setting
• Support and supervise junior nursing staff and students
• Coordinate shifts and contribute to effective ward management
• Undertake risk assessments and care planning
• Completing 5 P formulations to formulate a plan of care and discharge plan
• Work collaboratively within the multidisciplinary team
• Promote safeguarding, safety, and recovery-focused practice

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

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Gavin McNamara-Jones Job title: Service Manager Email address: [e-mail]