Nursing Associate Practitioner | Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 23 January 2026 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £27,485 - £30,162 Per Annum (subject to confirmation) |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 22 February 2026 |
| Location: | Blackpool, FY4 4FE |
| Company: | Lancashire Care Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7725657/351-FYL661-TG |
Summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen on Churchill ward at the Harbour for highly motivated and professional band 4 Registered Nursing Associate (RNA) to join the team. In coming into this role, the successful candidate will join an established nursing team, and will have opportunity to further develop their skills in a supportive environment.
The successful candidate will bring excellent role modelling skills, a passion for supporting and developing junior colleagues, including student nurses 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. You may be newly qualified as an RNA, in which instance we will support you on your preceptorship journey, or perhaps you have been an RNA for some time and are looking to develop your skills further in a new environment.
The successful candidate will be expected to work across a shift pattern, being part of a team that provides 24/7 care and treatment to male and female service users with acute mental health needs. There will be occasions when you may need to support other wards, including our 136 suite, PICUs and older adult wards.
Responsibilities will include providing meaningful clinical and managerial supervision to staff within the team; supporting and developing learners in practice; engaging with patients to support recovery, including leading on dialog+ assessments; ensuring that the clinical environments meet high infection control and cleaning standards; representing the ward at meetings which may involve preparing and presenting reports; administering medication and monitoring for side effects; completing physical health checks on patients and escalating concerns as and where required.
You will be a Nursing Associate working within a multidisciplinary team and carry out a diverse range of duties.
As a Band 4 Nursing Associate within the team’ you will be regularly supported and supervised by a nominated Band 5 Nurse and you will be encouraged to take personal responsibility for clinical supervision and your continued professional development plan.
You will be required to undertake the administration of medications; however, these will not include medications deemed as high risk.
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.
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.
You will provide support to the 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 Health Care Support Workers as part of your role within the team. You may be required to take on tasks that require you to operate electronic staffing record systems such as PDR/supervision.
You will maintain a positive and open attitude towards organisational change and service development.
You will work flexibly by working a rotational shift pattern including weekend and night duty to meet the needs of the ward and the wider network.
To move clinical areas at either short notice or no notice in order to meet the changing needs of the service.
To participate in the process of internal rotation as and when required.
To be compliant with all mandatory training.
• You will be required to liaise with other agencies and health professionals and provide specialist guidance/advice when appropriate.
• You will have excellent communication skills and an ability to engage with, form therapeutic relationships with your patients, and utilise skills to motivate acutely unwell service users to engage in agreed plans of care.
• You will be required to help overcome barriers to understanding, e.g. patients who have physical impairment, mental health condition or learning disabilities.
• You will be required to exchange information with patients using persuasion, reassurance, tact and empathy.
• To maintain confidentiality at all times.
• To understand the need to escalate any patient, staff or environment concerns.
• The ability to make judgements on problems requiring investigation, analysis, e.g. assessment of condition
• To undertake a short course in violence reduction techniques, utilising these techniques in practice in a safe, skilled and effective manner.
• Under the guidance of a Registered Mental Health Nurse (RMN), to implement a least restrictive practice approach considering the safety of service users and staff and consider implementing care in alternate areas such as Extra Care Area and Seclusion where appropriate.
• To report any incidents, accidents or untoward occurrences and to ensure that Datix is completed as per policy.
• To countersign Health Care Support worker and Student PAD documents.
For more details on this vacancy please review the attached job description and person specification.
This advert closes on Friday 6 Feb 2026