Staff Nurse | Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust in Chorley

We are currently looking to recruit a highly motivated mental health nurse for our Specialist Perinatal Mother and Baby Unit. Ribblemere Mother and Baby Unit is an 8 bedded mother and baby unit, offering conjoint admission for mothers and their babies. Applicants should be passionate about delivering a high level of individualised inpatient care, have excellent leadership skills and a genuine interest in perinatal mental health. The successful candidates will receive appropriate specialist perinatal training.

Care is provided over a 24 hour period and all nursing team members work rotational shift patterns including days, nights and weekends. You will be a Specialist Perinatal Mental Health Nurse working within a multidisciplinary team and carry out a diverse range of duties in perinatal services on the Mother & Baby Unit at Chorley Hospital. This will include close working with midwives, health visitors, social workers and the ward based multi-disciplinary team.

You will be given the chance to attend perinatal specific training aimed at enhancing your speciality as a perinatal mental health nurse. There will be opportunity in the future to rotate into our community team to gain further experience. As a Band 5 Staff Nurse within the team you will be regularly supported and supervised by a nominated Band 6 Nurse Specialist and you will be encouraged to take personal responsibility for clinical supervision and your continued professional development plan.

You will undertake a period of preceptorship overseen by a named Band 6 Nurse Specialist within your team and engage on the trusts Preceptorship programme. You will actively promote teamwork, respect, integrity, accountability, excellence and compassion within the clinical team in accordance with the Trust values and Code of Conduct. You are required to maintain links with your professional body and provide evidence for the revalidation process.

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

You will be required to offer clinical and managerial leadership to junior Health Care Staff, Nursery nurses and Student Nurses as part of your role within the team. You may be required to take on tasks that require you to operate electronic staffing record systems, authorising periods of leave, sickness and absence for junior nursing staff. To understand the need to elevate any patient, staff or environment concerns. The ability to manage a range of facts or situations requiring comparison of a range of options. The ability to make judgements on problems requiring investigation, analysis, e.g. assessment of condition.

You will be required to liaise with a large number of other agencies and health care professionals and provide specialist perinatal guidance/advice when appropriate. You will have excellent communication skills and an ability to engage with and form therapeutic relationships with your patients and their family. You will be required to help overcome barriers to understanding, e.g. patients who have physical impairment, mental health condition or learning disabilities. You will be required to exchange factual information with patients using persuasion, reassurance, tact and empathy.

You will be required to acknowledge the importance of multi-agency working and the contribution that each member provides the family as a unit and as individuals.