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Full-time

Senior Nursery Nurse

Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation TrustChorley£32,073 - £39,043Closes 25/09/2026

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Band
Band 5
Contract
Permanent
Pattern
Full-time
Posted
11/09/2026
Closes
25/09/2026

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Role summary

This is a permanent Senior Nursery Nurse position within the Perinatal Mother and Baby Unit in Chorley. The role involves supporting mothers and families in caring for their babies and promoting bonding. Key responsibilities include ensuring PQN and BFI standards are met, delivering appropriate audit and training, and providing leadership within the nursery nurse team. The successful candidate will receive specialist perinatal training.

Key responsibilities

  • Support mums and their families to look after their babies/promote bonding.
  • Ensure that PQN and BFI standards are met.
  • Deliver appropriate audit and training.
  • Provide leadership within the nursery nurse team.

Essential criteria

  • One of the following qualifications: Degree in Childcare and Education or Playwork Degree level in Early Years and Education, Degree Level qualification in Children's Care, Learning and Development
  • Evidence of Continued Professional Development that supports clinical practice
  • 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 working within a multi-disciplinary team structure.
  • Experience of assessing, planning, implementing and reviewing care needs.
  • Excellent communication, listening, decision making and problem solving skills.
  • Can demonstrate the ability to change and have an awareness of the NHS Plan
  • An Ability to understand how research and audits effect and benefit nursing practice

Useful to know

Band 5 pay context

Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 5 at £29,970 – £36,483 a year, across England.

This advert: £32,073 – £39,043 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.

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Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust

Senior Nursery Nurse

The closing date is 25 September 2026

Job summary

Perinatal Senior Nursery Nurse permanent post working on Ribblemere Mother and baby Unit ChorleyAn exciting opportunity for an experienced Nursery Nurse to become part of our dedicated perinatal team .

Main duties of the job

The successful candidates will receive appropriate specialist perinatal training. The shift pattern in the Mother and Baby Unit is three long days three weeks a month and one four long day week. All staff are expected to rotate onto night shift also. Your role will be to support mums and their families to look after their babies/promote bonding. In particular the senior nursery nurse will ensure that PQN and BFI standards are met and appropriate audit and training is delivered. This is a new role to provide leadership within the nursery nurse team supported by the wider MDT.

About us

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.

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