Senior Nursery Nurse | Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust


Company:	Lancashire Care Foundation Trust
Salary:	£32,073 - £39,043 Per Annum
Hours:	Full-time
Location:	Chorley, PR7 1PP
Job type:	Permanent
Posting date:	11 Sept 2026
Closing date:	11 Oct 2026

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Summary

Perinatal Senior Nursery Nurse permanent post working on Ribblemere Mother and baby Unit Chorley

An exciting opportunity for an experienced Nursery Nurse to become part of our dedicated perinatal team .

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.

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.

Explore our full wellbeing offer here:Keeping our workforce well

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

This advert closes on Friday 25 Sep 2026

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