Job summary
Employer heading
Charge Nurse
Band 6
Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust provides child and adult mental health services, learning disability, wellbeing, older people's and eating disorder services across Norfolk and Suffolk.
At any one time, around 23,000 people in Norfolk and Suffolk are receiving care and attention from the Trust. We believe in whole life care - seeing people in the context of their whole lives, understanding the importance of good physical health, friends, family, spirituality, culture, home, work, education and a sense of purpose and achievement to experience good mental health.
Nearly 3,800 full and part-time practitioners care for our service users in hospitals, in the community and in their own homes, whilst an additional 1,400+ staff provide non-clinical support, including cleaning, catering, delivering supplies, ward administration, information technology, human resources and financial services.
We are committed to equality, diversity and inclusion and want to reflect the diversity of our local communities within our teams. We welcome applications from all talented individuals with the relevant qualifications, skills, knowledge and experience.
We are committed to delivering quality driven mental health services. Every individual makes a valuable contribution. We are proud of our staff who have been commended for the care they provide. Do you value working positively, respectfully and together? If so, we’d love you to join us!
We will consider flexible working arrangements for our roles, please indicate in your application if this is something you require
JOB DESCRIPTION/PERSON SPECIFICATION
Please read the job description/person specification carefully and ensure your application reflects the knowledge, skills and experience needed.
YOUR APPLICATION
It is important that you complete a formal application form as CV’s alone will not be accepted.
We can provide all our job application materials in alternative formats so that these are accessible to everyone. Should you require any documents within this job pack in an alternative format, please do not hesitate to contact us at [email protected].
PLEASE NOTE: If you use a hotmail, msn or yahoo e-mail account, you will need to check your "junk" mail regularly as these email providers will divert any communication from this Trust/NHS JOBS straight into your " junk" inbox.
Job overview
Rollesby Ward- the Trusts female PICU unit is looking for a Charge Nurse as we seek to support nurse led care in our Acute Services at Hellesdon Hospital.
This is a very exciting post which will allow you to use your clinical skills and leadership to help develop our nursing team to ensure we are providing excellent and compassionate care to our female service users during a time of intensive crisis.
If you feel you have the skills to help us make a difference and have the ability to offer person-centred care while building trusting relationships to increase engagement with individuals suffering from severe mental illness we would welcome your expression of interest.
The main duties are:
- Assessing patients and delivering care specific to needs
- Monitoring the effectiveness of treatment including medication and activities
- Clinical leadership for the staff within the ward environment
- Help Complex Decision making in the nursing team
- Developing junior staff
- Providing assurance of patient safety
We will provide you with regular clinical and management supervision with an emphasis on reflective practice. We hold a strong belief in team and individual development. We provide a full induction program and have extensive training and career development that can be accessed across our Trust.
To talk further about this application please contact Liz Howlett, Deputy Lead Nurse [email protected]
Main duties of the job
Management
Responsible for the line management of identified members of the service.
Monitor the practice of junior staff and identify any learning and development needs in respect of the clinical skills base.
Maintain own and lead/supervise staff in maintaining professional, therapeutic relationship/boundaries with patients, carers and colleagues.
Provide and ensure provision of regular line management supervision and Appraisals to junior members of staff.
Complete ward rotas as required, ensuring ward is sufficiently and safely staffed at all times.
Clinical
To be accountable for own professional practice.
Support the development and implementation of recovery focused interventions to patients with mental illness.
Provide training and support to other as appropriate, including non-statutory agencies.
Demonstrate effective personal planning and organisation of personal daily work load and that of others.
Work flexibly, managing own working time effectively according to service demands.
Make clinical judgements, identifying alternative courses of action, managing and providing a high quality of care and supporting others to do the same.
Working for our organisation
Here at NSFT we pride ourselves on being a welcoming, talented, friendly and supportive team who like nothing better than sharing experiences and learning from each other. In addition to ongoing training and development opportunities, we are committed to providing an environment in which you can thrive.
Why work for us? We have challenges as a Trust, but we have ambitious aspirations, are pushing ahead with exciting transformation work and we need dedicated individuals to support us on our journey. We have strong, established professional networks coupled with an exceptional leadership team who will ensure you are truly cared for and cared about.
Why Norfolk and Suffolk? The people here are warm and welcoming, you’ll never be far from the beautiful coastline or Broads National Park. We’re an hour and a half away from London and have an international airport in Norwich too. Our villages, towns and cities are packed full of history, independent cafes, shops and theatres. We have excellent shopping, eating out, top ranking schooling and affordable house prices too.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please find attached our Job Description and Person Specification for more detail on your Key Accountability, then if you feel you have what it takes to make a difference in your local communities, click APPLY!
Please visit our Facebook and Twitter page @NSFTjobs
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- RMN
Experience
Essential criteria
- At least 2 years post basic experience, 1 year at Senior Staff Nurse.
Desirable criteria
- Management / Leadership of junior staff.
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Understanding of issues surrounding confidentiality
Desirable criteria
- Awareness of security and its impact and willingness to expand knowledge on it
- Working knowledge / application of the Mental Health Act 1983
Other
Essential criteria
- Fitness to undergo full PMA training and perform full duties of the post
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
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
- Liz Howlett
- Job title
- Deputy Lead Nurse
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01603 421421
List jobs with Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust in Nursing and Midwifery