Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust

Health and Wellbeing Worker

The closing date is 10 November 2025

Job summary

An exciting opportunity have arisen on Shakespeare inpatient ward at the Harbour, for the role of Health and Wellbeing worker.

This role is perfect for outgoing, highly motivated and creative individuals, who want to enhance service users inpatient experience through activity.

The right candidates will be able to work with a degree of autonomy, whilst under the guidance of the occupational therapy team and the ward leadership teams, to delivery high quality activities that meet the needs of the service users.

Interests in fitness and knowledge around healthy lifestyles are essential, as are a willingness to role model to peers in the clinical environments around positive engagement on the ward in relation to alleviating boredom, providing meaningful activity and building therapeutic relationships

Main duties of the job

The successful candidate will be expected to provide healthy lifestyle interventions with service users, and will be expected to lead on delivering high quality meaningful activities.

As such a motivated individual with a creative streak is required. You will be expected to be part of a health and wellbeing team that provides 7 day activity provision, and as such will be required to work weekends on a shift pattern. You will also be required to be available to work between the hours of 08:00 and 20:00, dependent on service need.

These posts are full time, with no current opportunity for part time hours.

You will be a role model to peers, with excellent interpersonal skills, and able to build relationships with service users who are going through challenging times in their lives.

There will be an expectation that the successful candidate will be part of ward meetings, will feed into ward governance meetings, and will be confident in documenting on electronic records.

About us

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

Date posted

27 October 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 3

Salary

£24,937 to £26,598 a year per annum

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

351-FYL631-JD

Job locations

The Harbour

Windmill Rise

Blackpool

FY4 4FE

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see attached the job description and person specification for more information about this role.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see attached the job description and person specification for more information about this role.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

NVQ Level III or Higher in Health and Social Care or QCF Diploma in Health and Social Care
Or an Interest in completing the above training or can demonstrate the equivalent skills and knowledge gained through work (paid/unpaid)

Knowledge

Essential

Demonstrates an understanding of the issues surrounding mental illness.
Understands their duties and responsibilities under the Data Protection Act with regard to service user confidentiality.

Desirable

Can demonstrate basic IT skills

Experience

Essential

Working in a caring environment. For example, nursing home, care home, hospital ward, home carer etc.
Up to date or working knowledge of de-escalation techniques, Control and restraint and Management of Violence and Aggression (MOVA)
Working as part of a team

Desirable

Experience of caring for people with mental health conditions.
Experience of updating electronic records

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

NVQ Level III or Higher in Health and Social Care or QCF Diploma in Health and Social Care
Or an Interest in completing the above training or can demonstrate the equivalent skills and knowledge gained through work (paid/unpaid)

Knowledge

Essential

Demonstrates an understanding of the issues surrounding mental illness.
Understands their duties and responsibilities under the Data Protection Act with regard to service user confidentiality.

Desirable

Can demonstrate basic IT skills

Experience

Essential

Working in a caring environment. For example, nursing home, care home, hospital ward, home carer etc.
Up to date or working knowledge of de-escalation techniques, Control and restraint and Management of Violence and Aggression (MOVA)
Working as part of a team

Desirable

Experience of caring for people with mental health conditions.
Experience of updating electronic records

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

Additional information

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

Certificate of Sponsorship

Employer details

Employer name

Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust

Address

The Harbour

Windmill Rise

Blackpool

FY4 4FE

Employer's website

https://www.lscft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details

Employer name

Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust

Address

The Harbour

Windmill Rise

Blackpool

FY4 4FE

Employer's website

https://www.lscft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)