# Senior 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
- **Location:** Guild Lodge
- **Workplace type:** onsite
- **Profession:** Staff nurse
- **Grade:** Band 6
- **Salary:** £39,959 - £48,117 per annum
- **Contract type:** Permanent
- **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- **Closing date:** 2026-10-26T23:59:00.000Z
- **Posted:** 2026-10-12T13:01:13.497Z
- **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/-v8360236
- **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8360236?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002
- **Employer website:** https://www.lscft.nhs.uk

## Job Content

### Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen within the Secure Service Unit at Guild Lodge for a highly motivated and professional Registered Mental Health Nurse (RMN) to join our team as a Band 6 Clinical Lead.

In taking on this role, the successful candidate will become part of an established and supportive leadership team, with excellent opportunities to further develop their clinical and leadership skills. You will be supported to build on your existing experience, develop your leadership capabilities, and contribute positively to the ongoing development of the service.

### Main duties of the job

The successful candidate will bring excellent role modelling skills, a passion for supporting and developing junior colleagues, including student nurses and preceptors, and they should have a keen interest in quality improvement projects that can lead to improvements in patient care and staff wellbeing.

You should bring with you experience of nursing people with acute mental health needs, as well as some experience of providing high quality supervision, an awareness of not just how to complete an audit but what to do with the data an audit provides us with, and be keen to develop your own skills once in post.

### Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For more details on this vacancy please review the attached job description and person specification.

### Applicant requirements

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.

## Person Specification

### Knowledge

**Essential**

- Understanding of Health and Safety policies and procedures
- Knowledge and practice of Mental Health Act 1983
- Knowledge and practice of the Mental Capacity Act 2005
- Can provide evidence of recent professional/personal development

### Experience

**Essential**

- Supervision and management of staff
- Able to work as part of a multidisciplinary team
- Experience of assessing, planning and implementing and reviewing care needs

### Qualifications

**Essential**

- Registered Mental Health Nurse qualification with on-going registration with the NMC.
- Post graduate qualification or experience
- Specialist qualification or equivalent level in skills and development

## Documents

- [jdps (pdf, 384.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10686725)
- [we do more at lscft (pdf, 654.2kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?ddoc=2256)

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