Charge Nurse Band 6

Hampshire And Isle Of Wight Healthcare Nhs Foundation Trust; Winchester; Presencial; GBP 42.000 - 54.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust seeks an experienced Charge Nurse (RMN) to join the Rosemary Ward team at Melbury Lodge, Winchester. You will lead shifts, supervise staff, and deliver high quality mental health care within a busy multi-disciplinary environment.

You will assess, plan, implement and evaluate care, support service users and families in recovery, and contribute to audits and education for staff and carers.

Formación

• Experienced RMN with ability to lead and deliver high quality patient care.
• Ability to work within a busy multi-disciplinary team.
• Strong leadership to cover Duty Senior Nurse allocations when required.

Responsabilidades

• Provide high standards of mental health care by assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating care.
• Lead shifts and supervise team to ensure delivery of high quality care.
• Support service users and families in recovery and staff development and supervision.
• Promote best clinical practice and patient safety within Rosemary Ward.
• Participate in audits and QI projects on the ward.
• Support students on placement as practice assessor and mentor.

Descripción del empleo

We have an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic and motivated Charge Nurse to join our lively and busy multi-disciplinary team at Rosemary Ward in Melbury Lodge., We are looking to appoint an experienced RMN who is committed to leading and delivering high quality patient care. The successful applicant will be committed to supporting service users, their families with their recovery and staff members and will be based on Rosemary Ward., The main responsibilities of the role are

Main responsibilities

• To provide high standards of mental health care for patients by assessing, planning, implementing, and evaluating care.
• To work closely with all members of the multi professional team to ensure that patient mental health care needs are identified and managed appropriately.
• To cover the Duty Senior Nurse allocation within the unit.
• To lead shifts when required and direct the team to support them in providing high quality care.
• To provide mental health education to patients and their carers.
• To take a lead role on the role and promote good clinical practice and patient care.
• Provide supervision and support staff appraisals of their allocated team members.
• To complete and participate in all audits and QI projects on the ward and support team members in this.
• To work collaboratively alongside patient carers and work within the triangle of care model.
• Support students who rotate through the ward on placement as practice assessor to aid in learning and role modelling.
• To have an extensive and well-developed knowledge of risk assessment and management and be able to implement this within the acute ward setting.
• To have an in-depth, well-rounded knowledge of medication and be able to administer medication safely.
• To deputise for the ward manager when required and understand the underpinning working processes and procedures for the ward.

The successful candidate must be able to work shifts.

Melbury Lodge has two adult acute wards- Rosemary Ward offering care for up to 13 female patients and Sherwood Ward offering care for up to 13 male patients. It also houses Snowdrop Ward (Older Person Mental Health Ward) and Clover Ward (Mother and Baby Ward). Melbury Lodge is based in Winchester and provides cares for the needs of service users across Hampshire. We provide care and treatment to service users who are experiencing an acute mental health crisis and require a period of hospital care to support their recovery., Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides joined-up mental and physical healthcare for around two million people across our communities. With over 13,000 staff working in the community and local hospitals, we deliver care at every stage of life, helping people live their best and healthiest lives.

Our mental health services include community-based support and early intervention in psychosis (EIP) for both adults and young people, alongside a network of specialist inpatient wards covering forensic, learning disability, eating disorder and older person's care.

We deliver extensive physical health services too, from urgent community response teams helping frail and older patients remain safely at home, to hospitals at home teams providing acute-level care in familiar surroundings. Our neurological services offer rehabilitation and treatment for conditions including Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson's Disease, Motor Neurone Disease, Head Injury, Cerebral Palsy and Stroke. Across Hampshire, our community hospitals provide inpatient rehabilitation as a step down from acute care, and our dedicated teams also staff Treetops Sexual Assault Referral Centre in Portsmouth, offering expert, compassionate support.

Everything we do is underpinned by our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect and excellence