Charge Nurse

NHS; Wealden; On-site; GBP 43,000 - 47,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a dedicated Registered Mental Health Nurse to join their team in a beautiful rural setting. This rewarding role involves providing high-quality care to patients while leading a team of nursing staff. You'll be instrumental in fostering a therapeutic environment and supporting the development of junior staff. With competitive salaries, bonuses, and a commitment to professional growth, this opportunity allows you to make a meaningful impact on the lives of individuals facing mental health challenges. Join a supportive organization that values your contributions and offers a fulfilling career path.

Benefits

Welcome Bonus of £7K

Access to 50 acres of grounds

Supportive working environment

Career Pathways programme

Qualifications

• Excellent clinical knowledge and experience in mental health nursing.
• Ability to lead shifts and support junior staff effectively.

Responsibilities

• Provide senior nursing leadership and ensure a therapeutic environment.
• Supervise team members and contribute to their professional development.
• Implement and evaluate therapeutic interventions for patients.

Skills

Clinical Knowledge

Mental Health Act Knowledge

Care Plans and Risk Assessments

Leadership Skills

Support for Junior Staff

Education

Registered Nurse Qualification

Job description

Are Registered Mental Health Nurses Superheroes?

At Priory Group, you don't have to have superhuman powers to be a hero in our eyes. We want the care our nurses provide to our service users to be super. As a mental health nurse at Priory, you'll be part of a company that is supportive and has your welfare and interests at heart. Mental health nursing is a tough but rewarding career and we want to make sure that our relationship with you is a long-term thing, not a flash in the pan.

It takes a genuine desire to help other people, along with a lot of dedication and compassion to be a Mental Health Nurse. In return, we want to make sure you get the reward you deserve which is why we offer market leading salaries as well as bonuses and benefits. You'll get job satisfaction and we'll support you to develop your skills and grow with the company via our Career Pathways programme. You'll get to build therapeutic relationships with the people you care for so you can help them through their difficult time and find ways to take control over their own health. It's a chance to make a real and lasting difference to someone.

Main duties of the job

• Qualified as a Registered nurse and passionate about patient care
• Committed to providing a safe and therapeutic environment for patients
• Ensuring there is a high standard of care for patients in terms of their mental and physical health
• Act as a role model and provide leadership to more Junior staff
• Work effectively as part of a Multi-Disciplinary Team
• Committed to supervision, appraisal and Continuous Professional Development
• Support with recruitment and retention

About us

Ticehurst is set in a stunning, rural location in East Sussex, with The Pantiles, Boutique Hotels, Restaurants and Shopping Mall of Historic Royal Tunbridge Wells only 20 minutes away. Ticehurst offers male/female acute and private facilities on well-maintained wards.

As well as a beautiful and exceptionally friendly working environment with access to 50 acres of grounds, employees who need it can be accommodated on site. The grounds are also used to host summer events such as cream teas and barbeques.

Ticehurst's location means you can have the best of both worlds with the coast only 20 minutes to the south and Central London around an hour away by direct train.

Job responsibilities

The role of the Deputy Ward Manager is to provide senior nursing leadership to the ward nursing team in support of the Ward Manager. They will have clinical experience and leadership that provides expertise and confidence to the nursing team and ward overall. They will have defined delegated responsibilities from the Ward Manager, having 20 percent a week protected time for their management duties and have supervisory responsibilities for an agreed group of staff.

• Works as Senior Nurse in a Ward or equivalent area ensuring a safe and therapeutic environment for patients, their families and visitors. Apply relevant policies and statutory requirements within the ward and hospital framework of governance and communicates requirements to the wider team.
• Ensures that risk is assessed and managed across the immediate and wider working environment and that statutory requirements are met.
• Respects and applies the requirements of diversity and inclusion, promoting and role modelling these across the team.
• Identifies deficits in skill mix and safe staffing levels and acts to address these.
• Supervises a defined group of team members and contributes to their overall CPD, mandatory training and appraisal process recognising the skills required across the team. This will also include addressing any performance issues that are below the expected standard.
• Acts as a role model to promote a culture of learning development, inquiry and a team vision.
• Actively supports Junior Staff and student nurses on placement on the ward.
• Implements, monitors and evaluates therapeutic interventions within an overall care programme, enabling people with mental health and/or learning disability needs to develop coping strategies. Actively supports and contributes to effective Multi-Disciplinary Working.
• Engages in collaborative problem solving, supporting and encouraging clients to take ownership of issues, identify problems and to develop solutions to them based on their own needs and preferences.
• Contributes to the process of collaboratively assessing and acting on risks of harm, danger and abuse.
• Is named nurse for a small group of patients, and Associate nurse when required when on duty, and is a regular shift leader.
• Provides Clinical Supervision to a group of defined nursing staff. Undertakes Lead roles for the ward, as agreed with the Ward manager.
• Deputises for the Ward manager as and when required.
• Adheres to all National, Company and local standards, policies and procedures.
• Participates in recruitment and retention of staff on the ward and hospital when required.

Person Specification

Knowledge, Skills, Qualifications & Abilities

• Excellent clinical knowledge based on evidence based practice
• Experience of Care Plans, Risk Assessments and writing reports
• Knowledge of Mental Health Act Legislation and statutory regulations
• Experience of staffing, skill mix and leading shifts
• Committed to supporting Junior Staff and Students

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.

£43,014 to £46,314 a year DOE Plus £7K Welcome Bonus