Total 37 Finance / Banking / Insurance job vacancies in Chorley, PR7 2TH

We are seeking Junior Clinical Fellows in General Medicine.

You will be part of the respective specialty teams on an acute specialty/GIM medicine wards based on Rookwood A and B (Elderly care), Hazelwood ward (Respiratory), Brindle (Gastroenterology and Elderly care), Coronary care Unit and Medical assessment unit.

You will work with the multidisciplinary team to provide excellent care to our patients.

The post holder will rotate every 4 months between Elderly care/GIM x 2, Respiratory/GIM x 1, Cardiology/GIM x 1, Gastroenterology/GIM x 1 and Acute medicine x 1 specialties and will be based at Chorley DGH.

The post holder will participate in an unselected General Internal Medicine on call on a one in 14 rota. The on call includes night shifts and weekend work.
• Be involved directly with the day-to-day functioning of your respective wards, and any associated medical outlying patients.
• Participate in multidisciplinary team working (including physiotherapy, occupational therapy, speech and language therapy, mental health liaison and palliative care etc.) to promote patient independence and wellbeing, and proactive discharge planning.
• Participate in consultant- and registrar-led ward rounds, and also perform independent ward rounds under supervision.
• Undertake the administrative duties involved with the care of your patients.
• Perform procedures (venepuncture, cannulation, arterial blood gas sampling, NG tube placement, catheters, mental state examination, Asitic tap)
• Develop communication skills (including obtaining collateral histories, conducting family meetings and addressing advance care planning needs)
• Promote high professional standards of clinical care for patients, both through direct patient care and by the maintenance of continuing professional development.
• Maintain continuing education and professional development.
• Actively participate in the audit process and the quality improvement activity in the department.

This post offers excellent experience in Elderly medicine / Respiratory/ Gastroenterology/Cardiology/Acute and general(internal) medicine and is suitable for those wishing to train in any medical specialty or general practice. It will be ideal for those wishing to explore a future career in the above medicine specialties.

We have a weekly departmental teaching programme at which you will have the opportunity to give presentations and receive written feedback.

You will also have exposure to clinical governance issues and be encouraged to participate in a quality improvement project using principles of continuous improvement to improve patient care. There will be opportunities to be involved in teaching medical students.

Please refer to the attached Job description, Person specification and Specialty/ Trust Brochure for further details on:
• What we can offer
• Job Plan/On-call Requirements
• The Team


This advert closes on Wednesday 17 Jul 2024

Mortgage Advisor

OTE £50,000 - £60,000

Basic Salary: £30,000 to £32,000 dependant on CeMAP qualification & CAS



We are currently investing in expanding the business to continue our phenomenal growth. This is an excellent opportunity to become a valued member of the team.

Core responsibilities

Management of leads via multi channels
Deliver excellent customer service through an evaluation of our customer needs and circumstances offering a recommendation best suited to them
Observe regulatory and ethical standards in line with SMCR
Demonstrate adherence to policies and procedures
Hit agreed service levels and targets, striving to overachieve
Work in accordance with the regulatory requirements as applied by the Company’s responsible lending and underwriting policies.
You’ll be target driven and enjoy operating in a fast-paced environment, all the while making sure the customers best interests are at the heart of what you do. This is a challenging, rewarding role where you’ll be supported in developing your skills and performance.

This role is for you if you have:

CeMAP qualification (or equivalent), or the dedication to complete the full qualification (study package provided).
At least 3 months service within the business (candidates are not required to have completed probation)
Excellent customer service skills
Strong communication skills
Great decision-making skills
An evidenced track record for hitting targets
Here’s what you’ll get back:

Up to 25 days’ annual leave + bank holidays
Your birthday off, every year!
A healthcare cash plan
A contributory pensions scheme, matched up to 5%
Long Service Awards
Cycle to work scheme
Life Assurance
For candidates who do not already hold the qualification, continued employment within the role is contingent on obtaining a pass in CeMAP 1 within 12 weeks for joining.

As an FCA regulated firm, this role falls within the certification function. This requires the job holder to comply with the individual FCA Conduct rules and meet the Company’s fit and proper standards assessment which is conducted on appointment and on at least an annual basis.

Please note that successful applicants will be subject to a Credit check and a Disclosure Barring Service check.

Job Type: Full-time

Schedule:

Monday to Friday
Work Location: In person

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: £30,000-£32,000.00 per year

A Vacancy at Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust.


Lancashire Child and Youth Justice Service works with children aged 8-18 either involved with or at risk of entering the Youth Justice System. Our guiding principles as a service are:
• Child-First
• Trauma Informed
• Restorative

The service provides support to children, their families, victims, and communities through enhancing the safety of children and supporting opportunities for them to achieve positive futures.

Your role will be hosted by an integrated Mental Health, Learning Disability and Community Trust, Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust which provides a range of services including:
• Primary and secondary mental health care for children and adults including specialist in-patient child and adolescent mental health provision, perinatal mental health, forensic services including low and medium secure care.
• Specialist community support for children and adults with learning disabilities and autism, including intensive support.
• Community physical health and well-being services for children and adults.

Lancashire & South Cumbria Foundation Trust are pleased to announce the development of a Criminal Youth Justice Service and we are currently recruiting to cover Fylde and Wyre and Central regions.

The successful applicants will ensure children and their families/carers are supported by working alongside Social Workers to contribute to assessments and interventions to achieve positive outcomes.

This is a highly developed specialist role and the post holder will be required to have an in-depth knowledge and experience of mental health services and how this impacts on and increases the vulnerability of children and adults at risk of abuse or neglect.

Assist the Child & Youth Justice Health Lead in co-ordinating provision to children and their families across Lancashire.

To analyse and communicate sensitive and complex information in relation to the safeguarding/MCA agenda within the organisation and to partner agencies as necessary.

To support and strengthen the knowledge and confidence of CYJS professionals working within the team, in relation to the health needs of children and young people.

To increase accessibility and develop a coordinated response to children’s health needs across agencies and professional boundaries ensuring all young people are offered a health assessment.

Increase the early identification of physical, emotional, and mental health in children and young people referred to the YJS. This could include providing short-term interventions and referrals to specialist services.

Assist young people to address their own health needs, identifying how their unmet health needs are contributing to their offending behaviour and supporting with this this when needed.

Provide a clear pathway and referral to other agencies, through the CYJS Family Strategy for families experiencing health problems.





The £7k Welcome Bonus package applies to this role. The bonus is only available for people who are not currently employed (or who have not been employed in the last 12 months) by any NHS provider trust in the Lancashire & South Cumbria Integrated Care System in a like-for-like role; e.g. a Band 6 Registered Mental Health Nurse at another Trust in the LSC ICS would not be eligible for the bonus if moving to a Band 6 Registered Mental Health Nurse role at LSCFT. Bank only workers for Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust are eligible for the scheme if they have not held a substantive role in Lancashire & South Cumbria Integrated Care System in the last 12 months (subject to all other terms and conditions being met). These incentives are subject to recovery clauses within the first 24 months of employment. This bonus is applicable to any successful candidate whose interview for this role is conducted prior to 30thJune 2024.

The £7k Welcome Bonus package is designed to attract and retain the very best staff in post. The amount a new starter would receive is shown in the Welcome Bonus Payment Schedule below:
• £3,000 after 2 months of employment (counted from start date with LSCFT)
• £2,000 after 12 months
• £2,000 after 24 months

PLEASE NOTE:This bonus scheme is subject to a Repayment Clause should the post holder leave this role within 24 months of commencing employment.

For more details, please visit our website -Welcome bonus and relocation packages terms and conditions :: Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust (lscft.nhs.uk)

If you have any questions, we would be happy to discuss them – please contactrecruitment@lscft.nhs.uk.

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


This advert closes on Tuesday 23 Jul 2024

What skills and experience we're looking for

We are looking for someone with excellent communication skills who can build strong relationships withstudents and their parents to gain an understanding of barriers to good attendance and how these can be addressed.

The successful candidate will be well-organised and able to work on their own initiative to implement schoolpolicies and procedures. Experience of working in a school environment and knowledge of school attendance regulations, SIMS and/or School Synergy would be an advantage but training will be provided.

In addition, you should show in your application that you have these skills and qualities:

● Experience of working with young people to provide personalised programmes of support

● Play an active part within the Pastoral Team

● A calm, patient and encouraging manner

● Confidence in supporting potentially vulnerable pupils

● An effective communicator with strong interpersonal skills and able to work effectively as part of ateam.

● The ability to be self-motivated and manage time effectively

● Enthusiastic, dedicated and reliable with an understanding of your professional responsibilities.

● Ability to show initiative and problem solving skills.

● Drive to further develop professional skills and knowledg

What the school offers its staff

Staff in our trust benefit from:

A culture that actively promotes a positive work-life balance.

A culture that promotes well-being initiatives.

Access to UK Healthcare (https://www.ukhealthcare.org.uk/) helping staff with the cost ofeveryday health expenses such as visiting the opticians, paying for glasses, dental treatment and even paying for prescriptions, up to agreed policy limits. Employees can also claim an allowance for hospital admissions, whether NHS or private, access telephone counselling services and receive a discount on gym membership to keep them fit and motivated for work.

Opportunities to participate in extra-curricular activities and school trips and activity holidays

An open-door policy, allowing any colleague to speak with a member of the SeniorLeadership Team without an appointment

Excellent relationships between the Trade Unions and the trust schools

Staff at Parklands High School also benefit from:

Free access to our state-of-the-art gym before and after school, as well as during schoolholidays

A comprehensive well-being programme with a range of benefits including; Friday treats,staff bar-b-ques, Christmas lunch, a well-stocked staff room…

Commitment to safeguarding

Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment. Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance. Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant): childcare disqualification Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) medical online and social media prohibition from teaching right to work satisfactory references suitability to work with children You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.

An exciting secondment opportunity has arisen for an Adult Safeguarding Practitioner, to join the Safeguarding Team.

Do you have a professional qualification in health or social care and knowledge of both safeguarding adults and the mental capacity act? The role is suitable for nurses, therapists or social care professionals .

Safeguarding is everyone’s business so in this role you will be working across the whole Trust with all professional disciplines and all grades of staff. The LTHTR Adult Safeguarding Team works to support clinicians to deliver safe, holistic practice, upholding the human rights of vulnerable adults in accordance with the law. The successful candidate will be key in ensuring that the Trust upholds its statutory obligations in line with the Care Act 2014. The team also has a responsibility for reviewing adult safeguarding alerts and identifying key themes and trends in support of the divisional governance processes and ensuring there are sufficient systems in place to ensure we meet operational standards. The post holder will contribute to and co-ordinate the investigations of Section 42 enquiries as instructed by the Local Authority. The team also provides training, support and guidance in relation to the Mental Capacity Act (2005) and ensures that the Trust are compliant with this legislation through having oversight of Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards applications made by the Trust.


• Act as a resource and provide support to clinical areas on Safeguarding patients.
• Provide training to all colleagues for safeguarding adults and MCA/ DoLS
• Provide quality assurance of Trust DoLS application by ensuring compliance with the Mental Capacity Act (2005)
• Work with Trust staff to promote Safeguarding and to identify relevant cases.
• Undertake regular audits of practice
• Document and communicate clear safeguarding management plans
• Maintain a high profile within the clinical environment
• Liaise with service managers on safeguarding issues to ensure consistency across the organisation
• Ensure all relevant staff are aware of the differentiation between appropriate and inappropriate disclosure of confidential information
• Ensure a culture of acceptance and understanding by all health professionals of their responsibilities for safeguarding vulnerable adults.
• Advise their line manager of safeguarding matters within the Trust as they arise
• Support the Specialist Safeguarding Practitioner, the Lead Professional for MCA/ DoLS and the Named Nurse for Safeguarding Adults in the delivery of the safeguarding agenda throughout the Trust.
• To take on the role of duty practitioner as per rota
• Use developed professional skills and knowledge to challenge practice Challenge professional misconceptions and poor practice, highlighting implications to staff for their own practice and therefore influencing change

We have 9000 fantastic people working hard to deliver quality services to our patients. Whatever your role, you help look after 370,000 people in our local area & give specialist care to 1.5 million people across Lancashire & Cumbria.

Working with us gives you the knowledge and sense of pride that every activity you do genuinely does make a difference to support our patients & staff, ensuring we keep thriving & delivering outstanding healthcare right across our local towns.

You'll have access to varied development opportunities, learn new skills, meet fab people & do things you'd never have done.

You'll make an impact, be challenged to think differently, be bold & help innovate to keep improving things. Everything we do centres around patient care and enhancing their experience which means your role is pivotal and something really to be proud of.
• Act as a resource and provide support to clinical areas on Safeguarding patients by:
• Ensuring adherence to Trust policies, procedures and guidelines
• Maintain accurate and confidential records
• Offer expertise and advice to multidisciplinary team members
• Work with Trust staff to promote Safeguarding and to identify relevant cases.
• Work closely with Safeguarding colleagues to ensure timely review and response to safeguarding referrals
• Under the direction of the Named Nurse for Safeguarding Adults, the Lead Professional for MCA/ DoLS and the band 7 Specialist Safeguarding Practitioner the post holder will undertake:
• Regular audits of practice
• The development of action plans to address any issues identified
• The promotion of education programmes to address issues
• The evaluation of the effectiveness of action plans and education delivered
• The post holder will document and communicate clear safeguarding management plans to the clinical teams concerned with individual patient care
• Maintain a high profile within the clinical environments to enhance clinical relationships and maintain personal practice knowledge and skills where appropriate by providing safeguarding support and advice
• Promote good communication links at all levels in respect of adults about whom there are concerns, in line with local information sharing protocols to achieve better outcomes for vulnerable adults
• To liaise with service managers on safeguarding adult issues to ensure consistency across the organisation
• Ensure a culture of acceptance and understanding by all health professionals of their responsibilities for safeguarding vulnerable adults.
• Establish and maintain effective relationships with Ward managers, Nurse Consultants, Clinical Nurse Specialists and other interested ward staff and members of the multi-disciplinary team within divisions to plan and facilitate changes and innovations in clinical
practice
• Use developed professional skills and knowledge to challenge practice and facilitate Emergency Department and Ward staff to find solutions to identified problems; using diplomacy, tact and negotiation to influence change in practice by accurately identifying,
assessing, implementing and evaluating different strategies to achieve identified goals
• Challenge professional misconceptions and poor practice, highlighting implications to staff for their own practice and therefore influencing change.
• Operate as duty practitioner receiving internal and external enquiries and providing expert advice on matters relating to safeguarding.


This advert closes on Sunday 14 Jul 2024

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a highly motivated and creative staff nurse to work on a busy female PICU in Chorley Hospital.

We are a 6 bedded female PICU, with a compact and committed staff team who all strive towards providing our service users with an excellent inpatient experience. We do this in part through our commitment to reducing restrictive practices, the use of activity on the ward and by providing the staff team access to a wide range of training and development opportunities. We are looking to employ an individual who can offer a commitment to effective teamwork as part of a wider multi-disciplinary team that delivers high quality person-centred care with a focus on recovery.

The position available will be suitable for both experienced and newly qualified nurses from either a mental health or learning disability background. Lancashire & South Cumbria Foundation Trust encourages flexible working, we believe that a positive work/life balance benefits NHS employees through improved health and wellbeing.



You will be an experienced or newly-qualified nurse working within a multidisciplinary team and carry out a diverse range of duties. As a Staff Nurse within the team you will be regularly supported and supervised by a nominated Band 6 Senior Staff Nurse and you will be encouraged to take personal responsibility for clinical supervision and your continued professional development plan.

As a newly-qualified nurse, you will undertake a period of preceptorship overseen by a named Band 6 Nurse Specialist within your team and engage on the Trust’s excellent Preceptorship Programme. You will actively promote teamwork, respect, integrity, accountability, excellence and compassion within the clinical team in accordance with the Trust values and Code of Conduct. You are required to maintain links with your professional body and provide evidence for the revalidation process.

You will provide nurse leadership within the multidisciplinary team and ensure the effective assessment, formulation, planning and monitoring of care given to service users.

You will exercise professional accountability and responsibility using skills, knowledge and expertise in changing environments, across clinical boundaries and in unfamiliar situations as outlined within the NMC Code of Professional Conduct.

You will be required to offer clinical and managerial leadership to junior Health Care Staff and Student Nurses as part of your role within the team.

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.

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


This advert closes on Wednesday 3 Jul 2024

Area: Central and West.

Base: West Strand House, Preston, with a view on occasion, to travel to teams based at Union St, Chorley and Bickerstaffe House, Ormskirk.

Candidate:Registered Mental Health Nurse

The Trusts Mental Health Rehabilitation care group is an exciting place to be with future developments in both inpatient rehab and community services currently under way.

An exciting opportunity for a band 6 Nurse Team leader Nurse to join our transforming Community Prevention and Engagement Team (CPET) fora highlyskilled practitioner to work across Central and West workingwithanarrayofmental healthservicesandkeystakeholdersthis team holds the importance of social inclusion at its heart.Working from ideology that people achieve a more sustained recovery when community connection is apparent this is a team that comprises of skilled and specialised support staff working across all mental health pathways to assertively engage and support individuals in working towards therapeutic recovery.
















This person will be a skillful communicator and able to liaise and negotiate across service boundaries across various settings. They will ideally be research aware, and use evidence to supportanddeveloppractice. Theywill havesomeexperienceofmentoringand/ordeveloping othersandbefamiliarwithsupervisingmorejuniormembersofstaff,completing supervision and 1:1 appraisal.
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.





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


This advert closes on Wednesday 3 Jul 2024

Have you ever thought about working in the community? Are you passionate about delivering high quality person centred care to patients within their own homes?

We have excellent opportunities for you to work in Community District Nursing Services. The post is based at Preston West. Working hours are from 07:45-22:00.

Working as a member of the team, you will provide holistic, high quality, clinically effective care to patients, working under the guidance and support of the Team Leader and Team Manager.

If you are a Registered Nurse or you are thinking about returning to practice after a career break or following retirement, this is the perfect opportunity for you to engage directly with our nursing teams across our community.

All our staff are encouraged and supported to develop within their roles, to meet the changing needs of the service and their own personal and professional development goals.

Chorley & Withnell District Nurses- based at Coppull Clinic, PR7 5EJ

Community Nursesare highly skilled practitioners who carry out interventions which include:-
• Holistic assessment of needs
• Wound care
• End of life and palliative care
• Lower limb assessment and management
• Diabetes management
• Bladder and bowel care
• Safeguarding/ MDT working
• IV therapy
• Admission avoidance
• Discharge facilitation
• Sepsis screening

The successful candidate must demonstrate excellent clinical and communication skills to provide a high standard of care to ensure a positive patient experience.

Experience in community care is an advantage however the post is also suitable for newly qualified nurses. We have an excellent preceptorship programme which all our newly qualified staff will follow.

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.

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

Interview date 22nd May 2024.


This advert closes on Thursday 20 Jun 2024

Have you ever thought about working in the community? Are you passionate about delivering high quality person centred care to patients within their own homes?

We have excellent opportunities for you to work in Community District Nursing Services. The post is based at Preston West. Working hours are from 07:45-22:00.

Working as a member of the team, you will provide holistic, high quality, clinically effective care to patients, working under the guidance and support of the Team Leader and Team Manager.

If you are a Registered Nurse or you are thinking about returning to practice after a career break or following retirement, this is the perfect opportunity for you to engage directly with our nursing teams across our community.

All our staff are encouraged and supported to develop within their roles, to meet the changing needs of the service and their own personal and professional development goals.

Chorley & Withnell District Nurses- based at Coppull Clinic, PR7 5EJ

Community Nursesare highly skilled practitioners who carry out interventions which include:-
• Holistic assessment of needs
• Wound care
• End of life and palliative care
• Lower limb assessment and management
• Diabetes management
• Bladder and bowel care
• Safeguarding/ MDT working
• IV therapy
• Admission avoidance
• Discharge facilitation
• Sepsis screening

The successful candidate must demonstrate excellent clinical and communication skills to provide a high standard of care to ensure a positive patient experience.

Experience in community care is an advantage however the post is also suitable for newly qualified nurses. We have an excellent preceptorship programme which all our newly qualified staff will follow.

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.

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

Interview date 22nd May 2024.


This advert closes on Wednesday 12 Jun 2024

Have you ever thought about working in the community? Are you passionate about delivering high quality person centred care to patients within their own homes?

We have excellent opportunities for you to work in Community District Nursing Services. The post is based at Preston West. Working hours are from 07:45-22:00.

Working as a member of the team, you will provide holistic, high quality, clinically effective care to patients, working under the guidance and support of the Team Leader and Team Manager.

If you are a Registered Nurse or you are thinking about returning to practice after a career break or following retirement, this is the perfect opportunity for you to engage directly with our nursing teams across our community.

All our staff are encouraged and supported to develop within their roles, to meet the changing needs of the service and their own personal and professional development goals.

Chorley & Withnell District Nurses- based at Coppull Clinic, PR7 5EJ

Community Nursesare highly skilled practitioners who carry out interventions which include:-
• Holistic assessment of needs
• Wound care
• End of life and palliative care
• Lower limb assessment and management
• Diabetes management
• Bladder and bowel care
• Safeguarding/ MDT working
• IV therapy
• Admission avoidance
• Discharge facilitation
• Sepsis screening

The successful candidate must demonstrate excellent clinical and communication skills to provide a high standard of care to ensure a positive patient experience.

Experience in community care is an advantage however the post is also suitable for newly qualified nurses. We have an excellent preceptorship programme which all our newly qualified staff will follow.

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.

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

Interview date 22nd May 2024.


This advert closes on Wednesday 12 Jun 2024

Are you looking for your next opportunity?

Well we are looking for you!

We are offering a fixed term Breast Clinic Nurse vacancy that would benefit anyone who is looking to develop their knowledge in Breast Care Nursing within our supported , well motivated and friendly unit.

This role is based in the One stop triple assessment clinic and associated Breast oncology clinics . You would be able to gain valuable experience and insight into a Breast Cancer patient pathway by working within an established diagnostic unit.

The Central Lancashire Breast Unit is a well established team of Surgeons, Oncologists, Radiologists, Nurses and Allied Health Professionals who provide care and support for Breast Cancer patients.

We are focused in developing both staff and the service.

You will have the opportunity to develop and learn new skills that can aid you to progress in your career pathway .

We can discuss flexible working patterns .



Join our dynamic team as you embark on a journey of patient care and support! As a vital member, you'll be right beside our clinic sister, extending compassionate assistance to patients referred to our unit.

Your role will involve orchestrating patient investigations with finesse, ensuring smooth coordination during their time with us. Plus, you'll have the exciting opportunity to accompany esteemed clinicians, including surgeons, oncologists, and nurse consultants, acting as their trusted chaperone.

But that's not all! You'll take charge of our wound clinics, showcasing your managerial prowess. And when it comes to patients and their families, you'll be the beacon of information and support during their investigations and diagnosis, offering comfort and guidance every step of the way.

We have 10000 fantastic people working hard to deliver quality services to our patients. Whatever your role, you help look after 370,000 people in our local area & give specialist care to 1.5 million people across Lancashire & Cumbria.

Working with us gives you the knowledge and sense of pride that every activity you do genuinely does make a difference to support our patients & staff, ensuring we keep thriving & delivering outstanding healthcare right across our local towns.

You’ll have access to varied development opportunities, learn new skills, meet fab people & do things you’d never have done. You’ll learn about working in a hospital, interacting with people from all different roles to build skills & enhance your career path.

You’ll make an impact, be challenged to think differently, be bold & help innovate to keep improving things. Everything we do centres around patient care and enhancing their experience which means your role is pivotal and something really to be proud of.

To provide information and psychological support for all patients who attend the Breast Clinic who are suspected or diagnosed with breast disease.

To be responsible for ensuring the planning, delivery and evaluation of care to ensure personalised health and well-being care needs of the patient are met, in line with the Trusts values and Nursing and Midwifery Framework.

To support the Breast Care Nursing Team in the delivery of excellent patient care and show compassion for patients, relatives and visitors who are cared for within the Breast Unit.

Contribute to the direction of the Breast Care Team, monitor and maintain standards of care and professional practice to ensure efficient running of the Breast care, oncology and wound clinics.

Engage in research and support opportunities for the service.

Act as a role model and provide development, clinical, education and advice for all disciplines of staff and students to support them in reaching their full potential.

Maintain accurate and comprehensive record keeping.

Liaise with members of the Multidisciplinary team and Allied Health Professionals

Complete referrals to other agencies / healthcare professionals.

To ensure the productive operation of the unit through the maintenance of a safe, clean and organised environment

To act in a manner at all times that upholds the Trusts values and Nursing & Midwifery Professional Framework goals, working as part of a team to ensure that patients and relatives receive excellent care with compassion.








This advert closes on Friday 31 May 2024

A Vacancy at Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.


Are you looking for a career move to enhance your clinical experience within anticoagulation? If so... then come and join our team where your passion will really be harnessed!

We are an ambitious, friendly and sociable team that cannot wait to welcome you and support you alongside a dedicated complete learning package to become an anticoagulant expert.

We are looking for a anti-coagulant Biomedical Science Advanced Practitioner or a Lead Nurse, to lead and support our anti-coagulant team who can demonstrate highly developed specialist knowledge and skills in the management of patients requiring anti-coagulant therapy.

You will line manage the staff within the team. The Biomedical Scientist Advanced Practitioner will formulate holistic care plans to manage and support the patient on oral anticoagulant therapy and will respond to actual and potential health problems appropriately.

The role ensures the provision of excellent care with compassion working with patients requiring anticoagulant therapy, developing a culture of patient self-management, allowing patients to develop responsibility for managing their own condition. Providing clinical expertise, specialist advice and support across service boundaries.


The anti-coagulant BMS Advanced Practitioner /Lead Nurse works as a key worker to the patients providing information, enabling communication and in coordinating care.

We have 10,000 fantastic people working hard to deliver quality services to our patients. Whatever your role, you help look after 370,000 people in our local area & give specialist care to 1.5 million people across Lancashire & Cumbria.

Working with us gives you the knowledge and sense of pride that every activity you do genuinely does make a difference to support our patients & staff, ensuring we keep thriving & delivering outstanding healthcare right across our local towns.

You’ll have access to varied development opportunities, learn new skills, meet fab people & do things you’d never have done. You’ll learn about working in a hospital, interacting with people from all different roles to build skills & enhance your career path.

You’ll make an impact, be challenged to think differently, be bold & help innovate to keep improving things. Everything we do centres around patient care which means your role is pivotal and something really to be proud of

Duties to included but not be limited to:
• Responsible for the undertaking of Nurse/BMS-led clinics
providing assessment and treatment of patients
• Monitoring and documenting their progress and modifying
drug treatment in accordance with British Committee for
Standards in Haematology (BCSH)
• Take responsibility for the planning and organisation of the
anti-coagulant clinics within the Trust
• Provide an in-patient pre-discharge service in order to
assess new patients, identify their psychological,
physiological and emotional needs in relation to their
condition and proposed anticoagulant therapy
• Assesses people’s information needs and provides
relevant information to meet those needs at defined points
in the patient pathway
• To provide specialist clinical knowledge to patients,
families and carers following referral to the anti-coagulant service



For more information please see the job description!


This advert closes on Sunday 26 May 2024

The specialist Breast Care Nursing team is dynamic, tight-knit, evolving team which aims to provide excellent standards of nursing care to our patient group.

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Cancer Support Worker to join the Breast Cancer Clinical Nurse Specialist team at Lancashire Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. The role will be based at Chorley hospital at the Central Lancashire breast unit.

This is provided directly by assessing the complex needs of our patients in a holistic way and providing reassurance, support and information. We aim to care for patients at the time of their diagnosis, through treatment and living beyond their diagnosis.

This role is pivotal to the patient led follow up programme, and will involve monitoring the patient pathway, co-ordinating follow up mammograms and the personalised stratified follow up pathway. You will lead the patient health and well-being workshops with the guidance and support of the breast care nurses. We already have a structured framework for the workshops but we welcome your unique input and are excited to develop the service offering further.

The role will involve talking to patients and answering patient queries, sign posting to other services, resources or breast care nurses. Good inter-personal skills and IT skills are essential for the role.

We have 10000 fantastic people working hard to deliver quality services to our patients. Whatever your role, you help look after 370,000 people in our local area & give specialist care to 1.5 million people across Lancashire & Cumbria.

Working with us gives you the knowledge and sense of pride that every activity you do genuinely does make a difference to support our patients & staff, ensuring we keep thriving & delivering outstanding healthcare right across our local towns.

You’ll have access to varied development opportunities, learn new skills, meet fab people & do things you’d never have done. You’ll learn about working in a hospital, interacting with people from all different roles to build skills & enhance your career path.

You’ll make an impact, be challenged to think differently, be bold & help innovate to keep improving things. Everything we do centres around patient care and enhancing their experience which means your role is pivotal and something really to be proud of.



Duties include, but are not limited to:
• Develop and maintain effective working relationships with clinicians, managers and others within department and Trust wide service users.
• Be the point of contact for all non-routine enquires facilitating communication and information flows, initiating and responding to correspondence and resolving enquires.
• Develop and provide holistic needs assessments service for cancer patients
• Coordinate access to information and education resources to support people in decision making
• Liaise with CNS’s other health professionals and cancer services as appropriate.
• Liaise with patients and other consultants’ secretaries.
• Triage incoming calls, using a risk assessment framework and initiate appropriate response according to protocols and individual pathways, using good communication skills, and appropriate tools and procedures, liaising as appropriate with the CNS when non routine and refer complex decisions to the team for assessment and review.
• Provide basic telephone advice and refer on or sign-post to other sources of support
• Coordinate/act independently to make OPD appointments for those with abnormal results, fast track patients back into the system if required, and to respond appropriately when faced with a sudden deterioration or an emergency situation by alerting other members of the team.
• Take an active part in Team Meetings and audits as required.
• Coordinate patient questionnaires.
• Prioritise own workload.
• Provide clinical support to the Cancer Specialist Nurses within a clinic environment. Duties to include, support for patient’s and relatives, co-ordination of diagnostic tests and clinical follow-up.
• Participate in the cancer MDT meetings to support the CNS and wider MDT.

• Assist in the Peer review process




This advert closes on Friday 24 May 2024

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a highly motivated and energetic band 5 nurse, to work on a busy, but rewarding,female acute inpatient ward at Chorley and South Ribble Hospital. Duxbury ward is a 15 bedded femal acute ward, that provides support and care to acutely unwell female servie users.

The positons available will be suitable for both experienced and newly qualified nurses from either a mental health or learning disability background.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 are looking for highly motivated staff nurses who possess excellent clinical expertise and interpersonal qualities that are able to deliver compassionate recovery focused care and treatment. The successful candidate must be a committed to effective teamwork and be able to work collaboratively as part of a wider multi-disciplinary team that delivers high quality person centred care. We are looking for innovative nurses who are able to engage effectively with service users, carers and other key stakeholders to enhance the inpatient experience which is a key priority for our team.

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

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


This advert closes on Friday 17 May 2024

As part of our services across Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care System (ICS), we are excited to be able to implement Mental Health Practitioner roles across the Primary Care Networks to support GPs with ‘on the day’ Mental Health assessment and support for patients.

These are new roles designated under the Additional Roles Reimbursement Scheme for Primary Care (ARRS). The roles will provide an opportunity for better joint working across primary care and adult secondary care mental health systems and will make it easier for patients to obtain the help they need.

This is an exciting role for someone who is proactive and passionate about innovation and providing a high-quality holistic approach to the care of people who have been identified as in need of mental health support in a primary care setting.

We are really excited to be developing our integrated community services and look forward to welcoming you to a hardworking and dedicated teams.

We have roles within all our integrated care partnerships (ICP) in the following areas:
• Furness
• South Lakes
• Grange

For more details please contact us on the details provided

The Primary Care Mental Health Practitioner role supports the delivery of primary care mental health services within a Lancashire and South Cumbria Primary Care Network (PCN). Line managed by Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust, the practitioner will be fully embedded as part of the PCN MDT working supporting the delivery of mental health care, they will also part of the Community Mental Health MDT PCN practices.

The key elements of this role are:
• Working effectively as a member of the clinical team in General Practice and local CMHT MDT.
• Improving the management of mental health conditions in Primary Care through working closely with General Practitioners and the practice team.
• Focus will generally be on patients whose needs cannot be met by IAPT services but whose presentation is below the threshold for secondary care.
• Co-working with the clinical team to assess patients and provide advice, support and interventions to patients; referring on to secondary care-based services or third sector services integrated within the mental health pathway, where appropriate.
• Be able to provide a “full package” approach (within scope of competencies) and consistency of care to patients within primary care

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

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


This advert closes on Thursday 2 May 2024