Charge Nurse - Whitlingham ward

NHS; Norwich; On-site; GBP 38,000 - 47,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare provider in Norwich is seeking a Charge Nurse to lead nursing practice in a dynamic environment focused on mental health care. You will play a key role in supporting junior staff and ensuring high standards of care. This permanent position offers an annual salary between £38,682 and £46,580, with opportunities for professional development and a supportive work environment.

Qualifications

• RMN registration with the NMC.
• Mental health Inpatient experience at Staff nurse level.
• Experience leading teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead and coordinate nursing care on the ward.
• Support physical health initiatives and promote health literacy.
• Mentor and support junior staff.

Skills

Line management of staff experience

Mental health Inpatient experience

Training in quality improvement initiatives

Good understanding of Relational security model

Experience leading teams

Experience working with adult females in a mental health inpatient setting

Experience working in the secure and forensic sector

Education

RMN registration with the NMC

Completion of Registered nurse preceptorship programme or equivalent

Job description

Whitlingham Ward is part of NSFT's Secure Services, providing specialist care for women with complex mental health needs. We are committed to reducing health inequalities and delivering holistic, trauma-informed care that empowers our service users. Our team is innovative, compassionate, and driven by a shared mission to improve outcomes for those with severe and enduring mental illness.

We are seeking a dynamic and experienced Charge Nurse to join our multidisciplinary team. You will play a key role in leading nursing practice, supporting junior staff, and ensuring high standards of physical and mental health care. This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to a forward-thinking service that values innovation, education, and person-centred care.

Main duties of the job

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and coordinate nursing care on the ward, ensuring safety, dignity, and therapeutic engagement.
• Support physical health initiatives to improve health inequalities for women in forensic inpatient settings.
• Promote health literacy through ward-based activities such as the women's group, awareness weeks, and targeted education.
• Collaborate with the ward multi-disciplinary team to deliver onsite health interventions.
• Champion trauma-informed care and contribute to service development and improvement projects.
• Mentor and support junior staff and students, fostering a culture of learning and excellence.
• Promote and reinforce good quality governance processes, inline with NSFT governance model.
• Champion platforms for service user, carers and staff collaboration and feedback in the future development of Whitlingham wards processes and environment.
• Provide line management for junior staff and support their accountability to good quality patient care.

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 professional 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're an hour and a half away from 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.

Job responsibilities

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

Expected and desired criteria

• RMN registration with the NMC
• Mental health Inpatient experience at Staff nurse level
• Line management of staff experience
• Completion of Registered nurse preceptorship programme or equivalent
• Training or experience in delivering or supporting quality improvement initiatives.

Other

• A good understanding of 'see, think, act' Relational security model
• Physically fit (occupational health approved) to provide care via NSFT prevention and management of aggression (PMA) training
• Experience leading teams.
• Experience working with adult females in a mental health inpatient setting
• Experience working with in the secure and forensic sector

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.

Whitlingham ward - Justin Gardener House

£38,682 to £46,580 a yeargross per annum

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Reference number

246-GYW7589227

Job locations

Whitlingham ward - Justin Gardener House