Job summary
- Main area
- Treatment Room
- Grade
- Band 3
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 30 hours per week
- Job ref
- 351-CEN2419-LW
- Employer
- Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Brookfield Clinic
- Town
- Preston
- Salary
- £24,937 - £26,598 pro rata per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 09/02/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Healthcare Assistant
Band 3
Our Vision is to provide the best mental health, learning disability, autism, community, and physical health services for the populations we serve.
As an integrated Trust, Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust (LSCFT) delivers a comprehensive range of services, including:
- Primary and secondary mental health care for children and adults, including specialist inpatient child and adolescent mental health provision, perinatal mental health, and forensic services with low and medium secure care.
- Specialist mental health inpatient care for individuals with learning disabilities, alongside specialist community support for children and adults with learning disabilities and autism, including intensive support.
- Extensive community physical health and well-being services for children and adults, covering prevention, treatment, rehabilitation, and long-term condition management.
The Trust was first established in 2002 and employs approximately 7,500 staff who provide care from more than 400 sites. The organisation offers opportunities for medics, mental health, general nurses, children’s nurses, allied health professionals, psychology, administration and clerical staff, apprentices and volunteers, as well as those specialising in learning disabilities and community physical health services.
For more information visit our website via Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS FT.
Job overview
This is an exciting opportunity to join the Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust Treatment Room service in the Greater Preston and Chorley South Ribble areas. If you are able to work autonomously, you are motivated, hardworking and enthusiastic then come and join our team of dedicated treatment room nurses.
The Treatment Room service currently operates from Monday to Friday excluding weekends and bank holidays. We are an appointment only service between the hours of 08.30 and 16.30 however we do hold 2 late evening clinics (up to 8pm) and one early clinic (8am start) once a week. Applicants must be willing to work flexibly over 5 days, be able to work well within a team and on their own initiative.
Main duties of the job
• Provide a high standard of clinical and nursing care within the treatment room setting, including nurse-led services.
• Assess, plan, implement and evaluate programmes of care; undertake extended roles appropriate to treatment room services.
• Provide care for patients with acute and chronic wounds, perform post-operative wound care, remove sutures and clips, assist with lower limb assessments, compression bandaging and ear irrigation.
• Participate in a range of clinical and service audits within treatment room and comply with all policies and protocols relating to treatment room.
• Assist in delivering objectives set out within the Lancashire Care NHS Foundation Trust business plan.
Qualifications and Skills
• Committed, compassionate and patient-centered approach with the patient at the heart of everything you do.
• Ability to work flexibly over 5 days and to work well within a team and on own initiative.
• Experience in treating patients through wound care and related treatment room procedures is desirable.
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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see attached the job description and person specification for more information about this role.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- NVQ Level II Direct Care or equivalent
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Demonstrates good command of written and spoken English
- Awareness of requirements of confidentiality
- I.T skills including Microsoft packages, e.g. word, excel.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of working with a multi-disciplinary team.
- Previous experience of working within a care setting
Skills
Essential criteria
- Ability to work without direct supervision
- Ability to work effectively as part of a team.
- Ability to communicate in a courteous, helpful manner, demonstrating empathy and sensitivity in a variety of situations
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Roxanne Marsden
- Job title
- Team Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
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