Senior Staff Nurse

Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust; Preston; On-site; GBP 34,000 - 46,000; Full time

Job summary

Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust in Preston is seeking a full-time Senior Staff Nurse to lead within Pennine Inpatients at Pendleview. You will support multidisciplinary teams, provide clinical leadership, and help deliver high-quality care.

The role emphasises documentation, governance, and use of NICE guidance, care programme approach, and risk assessment, with a focus on adult mental health and wellbeing. Flexible working opportunities may be considered.

Qualifications

• Proven clinical skills in adult mental health.
• Excellent communication with multidisciplinary teams.
• Knowledge of care programme approach, NICE guidance and risk assessment.

Responsibilities

• Provide nurse leadership within the multidisciplinary team.
• Oversee and ensure timely, accurate recording of contacts with service users.
• Support information provision and contribute to governance activities and surveys.

Job description

We are looking for a full time Senior Staff Nurse to work within Pennine Inpatients. This is an exciting opportunity for a highly motivated, suitably qualified, experienced and forward thinking individual to join the teams at Pendleview.

To provide nurse leadership within the multidisciplinary team and ensure the effective assessment formulation planning, monitoring of care given to inpatient service users.

To provide leadership to oversee and ensure all contacts with service users are recorded promptly and accurately and are of a high standard.

Provision of information and participate as requested, to assist service development and Clinical Governance requirements e.g. surveys, audits etc.

You must have proven clinical skills along with excellent communication skills, good knowledge and understanding of adult mental health and the needs of individuals. You will also need to have a working knowledge of the care programme approach, NICE guidance and enhanced risk assessment and the ability to explore issues relating to the impact of health and social needs on mental health and well-being.

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.

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]