Charge Nurse- Abbeygate (3k Welcome Bonus*)

NHS; Bury St Edmunds; On-site; GBP 3,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare organization in the UK is looking for a Charge Nurse to join their dedicated team in Bury St Edmunds. This role offers a chance to develop leadership skills while providing high-quality care in a mental health setting. Candidates must be registered nurses with experience and possess strong interpersonal skills to support acutely unwell adults. A competitive starting annual leave package and training opportunities are included as benefits.

Benefits

Comprehensive training programmes

Career progression

Starting annual leave of 27 days, increasing to 33

NHS discounts

Qualifications

• Registered Mental Health Nurse qualifications required.
• Experience in mental health settings preferred.
• Ability to manage and support a care team effectively.

Responsibilities

• Support care team and manage the ward effectively.
• Implement individualised care and governance processes.
• Engage collaboratively with the clinical leadership team.

Skills

Risk assessment and management

Supervision skills

Interpersonal skills

Compassion and resilience

Education

Registered Mental Health Nurse

Leadership / Management Training

Job description

Charge Nurse- Abbeygate (3k Welcome Bonus*)

We're looking for aspiring leaders and clinically credible nurses to join our dedicated team in Suffolk as a Charge Nurse on Abbeygate Ward!

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

Abbeygate ward is a 17 bedded admission ward with which provides assessment and treatment for people with either an organic or functional mental health presentation.

We are looking for a registered nurse with great clinical expertise in the treatment of Older people who is ready to move from staff nurse to charge nurse, or who already has experience to share in this field.

Whilst experience in working with acute later life adults would make you perfectly suited to this role, we are really 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.

About us

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

Job 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!

Some of the benefits you can expect:

• 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)
• NHS discounts and many more.

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* Previous applicants need not apply *

**This post attracts a recruitment premium of £3,000 (pro-rata for part time roles). This is a one off payment with half paid on appointment and half paid after the completion of a satisfactory probation period (6 months). The premium is taxable. Please note that should you leave employment, or choose to move to an alternative post within the Trust that does not attract this recruitment premium, you will be required to reimburse all or some it, as follows: 100% of the value of the premium in the first 12 months; 50% of the value of the premium in the period 12 months to 2 years following appointment. Please note this recruitment premium is for external applicants only. Not applicable to newly qualified applicants **

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Registered Mental Health Nurse
• Leadership / Management Training

Experience

• Relevant post registration experience in a mental health setting

Skills

• Ability to demonstrate effective risk assessment and risk management
• Ability to supervise others

Knowledge

• Understanding of issues surrounding confidentiality
• Working knowledge / application of the Mental Health Act 1983

Other

• Ability to travel

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.