Charge Nurse

Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust; Norwich; On-site; GBP 37,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a dedicated team in Norfolk as a Charge Nurse on Glaven Ward, where you will lead and support a skilled care team. This role offers a unique opportunity to enhance your leadership abilities while providing compassionate care to acutely unwell adults. You will be part of a supportive environment that values diversity and inclusion, with a commitment to professional development and training. Embrace the chance to make a real difference in the lives of individuals during challenging times, all while enjoying the beautiful surroundings of Norfolk. If you are motivated and passionate about mental health, this is the perfect opportunity for you.

Benefits

Comprehensive training programs

Career progression

27 days annual leave (increasing to 33)

Staff physiotherapy service

NHS discounts

Qualifications

• Registered nurse with at least 2 years post-basic experience.
• Experience in leadership and management of junior staff.

Responsibilities

• Support care team and ensure effective ward management.
• Develop skills through leadership courses and mentorship.

Skills

Clinical expertise

Interpersonal skills

Leadership

Risk assessment

Observation and reporting

Flexibility and adaptability

Basic computer skills

Education

Nursing degree or equivalent

Job description

Main area: Mental Health

Grade Band: 6

Contract: 6 months (1 fixed term for 6 months)

Hours:

• Full time
• Flexible working

37.5 hours per week (required to cover day and night shifts - day shifts 7am to 7.30pm - night shifts 7pm to 7.30am)

Job ref: 246-CNN6834416

Site: Glaven Ward

Town: Norwich

Salary: £37,338 - £44,962 gross per annum

Salary period: Yearly

Closing: 05/01/2025 23:59

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 overview

We’re looking for aspiring leaders and clinically credible nurses to join our dedicated team in Norfolk as a Charge Nurse on Glaven Ward.

This role is a great opportunity for you to develop your leadership skills and progress your nursing career.

We are looking for a registered nurse with great clinical expertise and ready to move from staff nurse to charge nurse!

We are open to welcoming people from clinical backgrounds who have experience in other areas of mental health. But we would like individuals to be well motivated, have good interpersonal skills, personal resilience, and an enthusiasm for working with acutely unwell adults and their families whilst they are going through a difficult and stressful period in their lives, in terms of their mental health and well-being.

We also offer great training opportunities to support staff development.

Main duties of the job

We will look to support you to develop your skills in a variety of ways, including through leadership courses, mentorship as well as formal recognised qualifications too.

It can be a challenging environment at times, so we need clinicians with a positive attitude, compassion, resilience, and a hands-on approach. It is vital that the clinician is reflective around issues of power and difference, see the importance of working across systems, and can do that effectively.

If you have the drive to provide excellent care, can demonstrate high quality clinical skills and are willing to go the extra mile to help make a difference to people’s lives, then we would love to hear from you.

This post does require full PMA fitness (full training will be given) and to be able to work shifts including nights and weekends over a 7 day period.

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 nursing 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 are close to 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.

We can accommodate some flexible working in line with the service need.

Benefits included with this role are:

• a comprehensive in house & external training programmes
• career progression
• starting annual leave of 27 days per annum increasing to 33 days pa based on length of service (plus paid bank holidays)
• staff physiotherapy service
• NHS discounts and many more

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

As Charge Nurse, you will be expected to take responsibility for supporting your care team, working within governance processes to support the implementation of individualised and responsive care.

You will work supportively and collaboratively with the Clinical Team Leader and Clinical Nurse Specialist in ensuring the effective management of the ward in all respects, environmental, financial, and clinical.

Please find attached our Job Description and Person Specification for more detail on your Key Accountabilities, then if you feel you have what it takes to make a difference in your local communities, click APPLY!

Person specification

Qualifications

• Nursing degree or equivalent

Experience

• At least two years post basic experience, one year at Senior Staff Nurse
• Management/Leadership of junior staff

Skills

• Ability to display calm, mature responses to difficult situations
• Ability to work regularly unsupervised
• Good verbal and written skills
• Good observation and reporting skills
• Ability to use own initiative
• Ability to display common sense
• Ability to display calm, mature responses to difficult situations
• Be self-aware and have the ability to learn
• Ability to motivate others
• Able to demonstrate the ability to process, plan and delegate work
• Ability to demonstrate effective risk assessment and risk management
• Ability to effectively prioritise and delegate workload as required
• Basic computer skills including use of email and internet
• Ability to travel
• Ability to supervise others

Knowledge

• Understanding of issues surrounding confidentiality
• Awareness of security and its impact and willingness to expand knowledge on it
• Working knowledge / application of the Mental Health Act 1983

Other

• Flexibility and adaptability
• Fitness to undergo full PMA training and perform full duties of the post.
• Enthusiastic and well-motivated
• Able to work as part of a close team
• Awareness and understanding of equality and diversity issues
• Flexibility of duty and hours over a 24hr 7 day a week period
• Generally interested and motivated to work in a care environment

EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES
Apart from its legal duties in relation to equality and diversity, the Trust recognises and actively promotes the benefits of a diverse workforce and is committed to treating all employees with dignity and respect regardless of race, gender, disability, age, sexual orientation, religion or belief.

As a part of the Disability Confident Employer Guaranteed Interview Scheme we interview all disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria for the job vacancy (outlined in the Person Specification). We encourage you to indicate your eligibility through TRAC jobs when applying.

DISCLOSURE AND BARRING SERVICE CHECK (formerly CRB)
FOR POSTS WITH DIRECT SERVICE USER CONTACT - Please be advised that due to recent changes in the DBS Service, organisations no longer receive copies of DBS Disclosures – these are sent directly to candidates only. Therefore, it will be your responsibility, if successful, to ensure that this is taken to the appointing officer as soon as you receive it.

The Trust has now introduced a DBS Update Service which is a contractual requirement. You need to subscribe when you have applied for your DBS clearance and there is a time limit to subscribe of 19 days after receipt of your DBS disclosure. Please ensure that this is completed within the set time scale.

This update service is an annual subscription at a cost of £13 to you. This will enable the Trust to have instant online access to your DBS record, with your consent, and so will remove the need for you to have to apply for this repeat check again.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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.