Job overview

Guild Lodge Secure Mental Health Inpatient Services is establishing a newly developed, forward-thinking Safety and Security Team to enhance the quality, consistency and therapeutic focus of our secure environment. This is a rare opportunity to be part of a service at an exciting stage of growth, where your ideas, professionalism and enthusiasm will directly influence a positive, professional culture from the outset. 
Your insight, initiative, and commitment will directly support the evolution of the team and the wider service, ensuring that safety and therapeutic care remain at the heart of everything we do. 

THE POST IS FULL TIME FOLLOWING A SHIFT PATTERN 

Secure Mental Health Care for Lancashire and South Cumbria is provided at Guild Lodge, Whittingham. The service has steadily expanded from it’s inception in 1999 and currently has a range of inpatient and community services including 154 inpatient beds.
Guild Lodge consists of 3 main service lines (14 wards), which include: 

• Men’s service
• Women’s service
• Acquired Brain Injury Servic

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 LSCFT Induction and local induction.

Main duties of the job

Applications are now invited from motivated, innovative and reliable individuals who would like to join a newly developing team which will play a central role in maintaining a safe, structured and supportive environment for service users, staff and visitors within Guild Lodge Hospital. 

Guild Lodge Hospital provides high quality care for men, woman, and also men with acquired brain injuries who experience enduring mental illness with a range of complex cognitive, relational and mental health difficulties and risk-related needs. Our core values include a focus on developing excellent therapeutic relationships with service users and working jointly to understand their rehabilitation needs, ensuring optimal quality of life. We value working in a way which enhances our service users’ sense of empowerment, choice and control and develops their positive sense of self. This post will be suited to someone with experience of understanding, managing challenging and emotionally demanding clinical presentations. The individual will be able to guide, support, supervise and role-model on how to respond to these challenges. We welcome applications from people who are motivated to work in an informed way and who enjoy both the challenges and sense of achievement.

Successful applicants will be able to experience a broad range of clinical specialities and will have access to a comprehensive package of professional coaching, education and clinical support. 

Working for our organisation

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