Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust
Location
Blackburn, Lancashire | United Kingdom
Job description
Our Vision is to provide the best mental health, learning disability, autism and community based services for the populations we serve.
As an integrated Mental Health, Learning Disability and Community Trust, Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust provides a range of services including:
The Trust was first established in 2002 and employs approximately 7,000 staff who provide care from more than 400 sites. The organisation offers opportunities for medics, mental health and general nurses, allied health professionals, Psychology, administration and clerical staff, apprentices and volunteers.
Lancashire & South Cumbria Foundation Trust supports 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, home/remote working, and flexi-time.
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An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Modern Matron (8a) to join the Learning Disability Intensive Support team.
We are looking for a Registered Nurse in Learning Disability who is forward thinking, innovative and creative. Do you have a can do attitude to problem solving? Do you champion service user and family carer involvement? Are you a team player who leads with compassion and inclusivity?
If so this is the role for you. The Intensive Support team is an all age team who work with people with a learning disability and additional complex needs to prevent inappropriate admissions to hospital. The team is multi-disciplinary and works across the whole of Lancashire and South Cumbria. The modern matron will be responsible for the operational and clinical leadership of the team ensuring patient experience is a priority. You will be expected to provide leadership and clinical expertise within the IST working collaboratively with people with lived experience and registered practitioners.
You will have an in-depth clinical knowledge of mental health issues and how they affect people with a learning disability. You will also have in-depth knowledge around Positive Behaviour Support. The successful candidate would clearly demonstrate a dynamic understanding and experience of problem solving and be able to explain plans and changes to others, be able to form and develop positive relationships with all key stakeholders internally and externally to the Trust and exhibit and role model resilience and compassion.
The role will also involve reviews of patient care, safety incidents, and undertaking Serious Incident Reviews, and will embed a learning approach within practice from this. The post holder may be required to attend coroners’ court or support others to do so, write reports and demonstrate compassionate leadership to a high standard. The successful candidate would be able to demonstrate that they work well with the Trust values on a daily basis.
This is a community role and will require travel between various sites across Lancashire and South Cumbria. You will require your own transport for travel between sites.
Working hours are Monday – Friday 09:00 – 17:00 although some flexibility in regard to start and finish times may be required.
The post holder may wish to apply for development and training in line with the role requirements, and their professional development as they arise and will participate in the Trusts supervision and appraisal processes.
Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust provides a range of services including secondary mental health care across this area. Specialist provision comprises inpatient child and adolescent mental health services, perinatal mental health and forensic services including low and medium secure care.
The Trust also provides a range of physical health and well-being services in the community alongside a range of partners in the Lancashire, Cumbria and Sefton area.
Lancashire & South Cumbria Foundation Trust encourages 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, flexi-time and career breaks. We encourage applicants to state clearly on their application forms this request and discuss these options at interview.
For more information please visit our website via Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS FT.
For more details on this vacancy please review the attached job description and person specification.
Please note that further communication from Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust (LSCFT) will normally be to the email address given on the application form. You should also ensure that email addresses and telephone numbers are provided for your referees, to enable LSCFT to contact them.
Please ensure that you read the Person Specification attached below as your application will be measured against this document. Applications from job share partners are welcome and other forms of flexible working will be considered for all posts. For all posts which require a Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) check please be aware of the Disclosure & Barring Service Code of Practice, a copy of which is available by logging on to the DBS website. If the post is subject to DBS disclosure, a charge will be made to the successful candidate(s).You are advised to consider applying for LSCFT vacancies as soon as possible as in some instances vacancies are closed as soon as a sufficient number of applications have been received. If you are not invited to interview within three weeks of the closing date then please assume that on this occasion you have been unsuccessful, as it is not possible to contact all unsuccessful candidates.
Lancashire & South Cumbria Care is committed to celebrating difference as an asset and we know that recruiting talent from diverse backgrounds helps to create a more flexible, creative and effective workforce. We actively challenge discrimination and welcome applications from people regardless of age, disability (especially those with experience of accessing mental health, or Learning Disability Services or caring for someone who has accessed mental health services or Learning Disability Services), ethnicity, gender, religion or belief or sexual orientation. Our goal is for the Trust to be truly representative of the communities we serve so we are particularly keen to receive applications from people in under-represented groups. The organisation is proud to be listed as one of the Inclusive Top 50 UK Employers and our HR department holds the Lancashire LGBT Quality Mark. If there is anything you’d like to discuss in relation to your application then please ask.
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.
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£50.95k - £57.35k per annum
