Secure Mental Health Care for Lancashire and South Cumbria is provided at Guild Lodge, Whittingham. The service has steadily expanded from its inception in 1999 and currently has a range of inpatient and community services including 164 beds.
Guild Lodge consists of 3 main service lines (14 wards), which include:
• Men’s service
• Women’s service
• Acquired Brain Injury Service
Caring for adults within Medium and Low Security, and Step Down environments
Each of the services has their own model of care and provides bespoke training in addition to the comprehensive Trust Induction.
The Senior Nurse for Safety and Security role provides specialist advice and operational management of matters of safety and security across Guild Lodge. The role oversees, monitors and ensures systems are in in place to strengthen and maintain physical, relational and procedural security in relation to service users, staff and environments. The post holder will also be responsible for ensuring staff working within the forensic inpatient service have the appropriate skills and knowledge in matters relating to security.
The post holder will report to the Senior Nurse Manager with clinical oversight from the RRP consultant nurse and have a degree of autonomy within the role for duties performed.
There is also a requirement to facilitate regular security meetings, develop and share with the Senior Leadership team reports, feedback, and learning. The post holder is also responsible for managing a small team of Safety & Security supervisors and will provide oversight of the security functions undertaken by the control room operators.
The post holder will work predominantly within core working hours. There is also an expectation that the post holder will work out of hours.
Please note: This post is subject to an Enhanced DBS Clearance
Guild Lodge hospital site is situated in beautiful rural area, yet close to motorway links from all directions of travel.
The hospital site offers:
• Free staff parking
• Onsite restaurant facilities
Our staff receive:
• Preceptorship and support for those new to the services
• Access to salary sacrifice schemes for cars, electronics etc.
• Excellent support and Wellbeing services
• Superb external training and development opportunities
• Opportunities to develop leadership skills across differing care environments
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.
For more details on this vacancy please review the attached job description and person specification.
This advert closes on Thursday 6 Mar 2025