Healthcare Assistant | Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust

This is an exciting opportunity for a Health Care Assistant to join the Chorley Inpatient Mental Health Units at Chorley and South Ribble General Hospital.

A passionate, empathic and resilient personality is essential, along with positive and collaborative teamwork skill to maintain a safe and positive culture that promotes patient recovery.

The successful applicant will be expected to work a pattern of both days and nights to cover this 24 hours a day 7 days a week service.

• Work as an integrated member of the multi-disciplinary team (MDT), working within a rotational shift system to support patients according to their care needs, some of whom may present with problematic or challenging behaviour.
• Contribute to, and participate in the on- going support of patients and their carers. Contribute to the protection of patients, from abuse.
• Contribute to the health, safety and security of patients and their environment. Obtain, transmit and store information relating to the delivery of a care service.

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 Sunday 2 Aug 2026