# Perinatal Staff Nurse

> NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust.

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## Summary

- **Status:** Live
- **Employer:** Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust
- **Town:** Preston
- **Region:** North West
- **Country:** England
- **Profession:** Nurse (adult and children)
- **Grade:** Band 5
- **Salary:** £32,073 - £39,043 per annum
- **Contract type:** Permanent
- **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- **Closing date:** 2026-07-05T23:59:00.000Z
- **Posted:** 2026-06-19T14:12:26.108Z
- **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Lancashire/Chorley/Lancashire_South_Cumbria_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Perinatal/Perinatal-v8098693
- **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8098693?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002
- **Employer website:** https://www.lscft.nhs.uk

## Job Content

### Job overview

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.

### Main duties of the job

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.

### Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see attached the job description and person specification for more information about this role.

## Job Details

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.

## Job Description

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.

## Responsibilities

Please see attached the job description and person specification for more information about this role.

## Person Specification

### Knowledge

**Essential**

- Can demonstrate an understanding and knowledge base of mental health conditions and their treatments.
- Can demonstrate a working knowledge of physical health conditions and the complications that this can cause to patients experiencing mental ill health.

### Experience

**Essential**

- Post Graduate experience
- Experience working within a multi-disciplinary team structure.

### Skills and abilities

**Essential**

- Excellent communication, listening, decision making and problem solving skills
- Developed clinical nursing skills with a clear ability to understand new concepts and ideas in clinical practice.
- Can provide evidence of recent continued professional development within the scope of nursing

### Education/Qualifications

**Essential**

- Registered Mental Health Nurse Qualification.(RNMH & RNLD)
- On-going registration with the NMC.
- Evidence of Continued Professional Development that supports clinical practice.

## Documents

- [we do more at lscft (pdf, 654.2kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?ddoc=2256)
- [job description / person specification (pdf, 352.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10392611)

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