Senior Staff Nurse

Our Vision is to provide the best mental health, learning disability, autism, community, and physical health services for the populations we serve.

As an integrated Trust, Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust (LSCFT) delivers a comprehensive range of services, including:

• Primary and secondary mental health care for children and adults, including specialist inpatient child and adolescent mental health provision, perinatal mental health, and forensic services with low and medium secure care.
• Specialist mental health inpatient care for individuals with learning disabilities, alongside specialist community support for children and adults with learning disabilities and autism, including intensive support.
• Extensive community physical health and well-being services for children and adults, covering prevention, treatment, rehabilitation, and long‑term condition management.

The Trust was first established in 2002 and employs approximately 7,500 staff who provide care from more than 400 sites. The organisation offers opportunities for medics, mental health, general nurses, children’s nurses, allied health professionals, psychology, administration and clerical staff, apprentices and volunteers, as well as those specialising in learning disabilities and community physical health services.

Are you a patient-focused Registered Nurse looking for an exciting opportunity to develop your clinical triage and assessment skills within a new and evolving community service?

We are seeking a motivated and enthusiastic Band 6 Registered Nurse to work across the Urgent Community Response Team and Care Connexions. This role offers an excellent opportunity to be part of an innovative service supporting timely, joined‑up care for patients in the community, with a strong focus on hospital avoidance and ensuring people receive the right care, in the right place, at the right time. The service currently operates across 7 days, 08:00hrs – 20:00hrs

This exciting new role will support the ongoing development of an integrated community response model, working in partnership with acute trusts, primary care, Northwest Ambulance Service, the voluntary and third sector, Social Care, therapy services and wider community teams

Main duties of the job

A key part of the role will involve clinical triage, ensuring referrals are responded to in a timely and effective way so that patients are directed to the most appropriate service. You will also undertake clinical assessments within the community and where required respond within the national agreed 2‑hour time frame, supporting timely intervention under the direction of Advanced Clinical Practitioners and working collaboratively with therapy colleagues to support safe, coordinated care planning.

We are looking for a Registered Nurse who is confident, compassionate and committed to delivering high‑quality community care. You will have excellent communication skills, a flexible approach and the ability to work effectively as part of a multidisciplinary team. Experience in community nursing and triage would be beneficial, although support will be provided to help you develop within this evolving role.

Working for our organisation

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.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Person specification

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse (Adult) with current NMC registration
• Degree in appropriate subject or evidence of education to degree level

Knowledge

• Sound understanding of long‑term conditions/ frailty syndrome and management.
• Good understanding of systems in health and social care that are wider than immediate role.
• Good understanding of safeguarding adults and mental capacity

Experience

• Evidence of post registration experience working in a community setting
• Proven experience of undertaking complex assessments
• Continuing engagement in professional development and of reflective practice as evidenced in a professional portfolio

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Employer certification / accreditation badges

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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