Charge Nurse

NHS; Crawley; On-site; GBP 34,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider is seeking a passionate and motivated Charge Nurse for the Coral Ward. This role involves leading a dedicated nursing team, conducting assessments, and promoting innovative practices to improve patient care. Successful candidates will contribute to a dynamic environment, focusing on high-quality mental health support. With flexible working patterns and additional benefits, this position paves the way for career development in a supportive setting.

Benefits

£2,000 Golden Hello

Relocation Incentive

Support for CPD courses

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse with current registration (mental health / LD/ Adult).
• Significant post qualifying experience relevant to mental health care.
• Evidence of continuous professional development.

Responsibilities

• Lead clinical and managerial activities on the ward.
• Conduct assessments and develop care plans with service users.
• Provide supervision and support to junior staff.

Skills

Leadership

Clinical Assessment

Mentorship

Education

Diploma in Mental Health Nursing

Registered Nurse

Completion of Mentorship Course/ENB equivalent

Job description

Coral Ward is looking for a motivated and passionate leader for our Charge Nurse position.

Coral Ward is a 19 bed mixed gender acute mental health ward, working with service users with a variety of mental health needs. We have a strong multi professional team on the ward with positive working relationships between colleagues across Langley Green Hospital, Including our acute wards, older adults ward, PICU, Home Treatment Team, Haven, Acute Day Service and in house Occupational Therapy and Psychology.

We are looking for a Charge Nurse who is a strong leader and has a passion for innovation and change in our dynamic nursing team. As a Charge Nurse you will work closely with the Ward manager and Matron to lead on change projects to promote the workplace as a learning environment. You will develop the nursing team to ensure that they are enabled to provide the best possible care to our patients.

Our focus is to provide the highest quality patient care, and are committed to promoting our Trust Values in everything we do:

People first:People are at the heart of everything we do

Future focused:We are optimistic, we learn and we always try to improve

Embracing change:We are bold, innovative and disciplined about making use of our resources to continuously improve

Working together:We provide services in partnership with patients, families and others

Everyone counts:We value, appreciate and respect each other

Main duties of the job

We go above and beyond to strive to deliver the highest quality care for our service users and are always open to new ideas to improve our service.

Shifts whilst working on the ward, follow a 12 hour shift pattern and we can offer a flexibility with both day and night shifts.

You will be expected to split your duties between supporting your team and ward clinically as well as supporting your ward manager with delegated managerial tasks and regular management days.

You will be expected to complete supervisions and appraisals, managerial audits, attend leadership and managerial meetings and lead as an example to more junior staff within the Coral Ward Team.

This post offers the Trust's £2,000 Golden Hello or Relocation Incentive for Band 6 Nurses & Practitioners, (pro rata and subject to terms and conditions; please see attached Protocol Document for full details).

About us

You would be supported to complete CPD courses, encouraged to seek development opportunities and training, alongside regular supervision, as well as providing senior nurse input on the ward . We are also very keen to embrace further quality improvement projects and have projects running already, but we are keen for further ideas to be explored and for nurses to lead on these. We will also support staff to complete nurse prescribing and attain Associate clinician status.

We encourage flexible working. We know that a positive work/ life balance brings about huge health-related benefits, which has a positive impact on the care we provide. Please speak to us about flexible working, for example, home-working, part time hours, flexible start/ finish times or anything else. If it works for you and works for the role, we'll do our best to make it happen.

Job responsibilities

Job responsibilities

The post holder will work as part of a multi-disciplinary team acting as care co-ordinator for a defined number of service users. They will:

• Undertake assessments of individuals with complex mental health presentations, including those service users presenting with higher levels of risk. To develop in collaboration with the service user their care plan and their recovery plan.
• Offer specialist nursing assessment and advice where required.
• Provide clinical and managerial leadership on the ward.
• Assess and manage on going risks as identified during the assessment, ensuring that this is done in collaboration with the service user and carers. To regularly review risk factors and make changes to the management of them as necessary.
• Provide supervision of junior staff and trainees where appropriate.
• Regularly take charge of the clinical environment over a span of duty.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Diploma in Mental Health Nursing
• Registered Nurse with current registration (mental health / LD/ Adult) appropriate to the job role.
• Completion of Mentorship Course/ENB equivalent
• Evidence of continuous professional development

Knowledge/Experience

• Significant post qualifying experience relevant to the care group
• Experience of working alongside people with severe mental health problems particularly in their acute phase of illness
• Experience of supervising staff
• Experience of working within a multi-disciplinary team
• Experience of conducting clinical assessments including risk assessments
• Experience of partnership working within and across various statutory and non statutory teams and agencies
• Experience of working within the CPA process
• Understanding of clinical governance

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.