Senior Nurse

A senior nurse post on the inpatient units of the Forensic Inpatient Service at Guild Lodge, run by Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust. The role centres on leading professional and direct care staff, giving the wards clinical leadership around the clock and a visible point of advice for patients and staff. Most shifts are nights, with rotation onto days when needed.

Registration as a mental health nurse, a postgraduate diploma and an enhanced DBS check are required.

• Provide leadership to professional and direct care staff within the inpatient hospital model
• Support the delivery of the inpatient hospital model in the Forensic Inpatient Service
• Provide clinical leadership and expertise cover across 24 hours as part of the shift rota
• Work mainly night shifts and rotate onto days when required
• Act as a visible, accessible and authoritative presence on wards for patients and staff needing assistance, advice and support
• Support the holistic needs of service users, patients and carers
• Keep clinical skills up to date and expect others to perform clinically to a high standard
• Drive up clinical and professional standards
• Engage staff and get the best out of them as part of a supportive leadership team

• Postgraduate diploma
• Evidence of continuing professional development (CPD)

• Registered mental health nurse with NMC registration

• Experience in a senior nursing post
• Understanding of professional nursing issues
• Participation in practice development initiatives

• Up-to-date knowledge of contemporary mental health nursing
• Detailed understanding of clinical risk assessment and management and harm minimisation and its application in practice
• Detailed understanding of safeguarding

• Enhanced DBS disclosure

• Flexible working options, including term time, part time, compressed hours and flexi-time
• Wellbeing resources, tools and support
• Continued support and development