Senior Charge Nurse - Young Onset Dementia Service

NHS Scotland; Coatbridge; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

NHS Scotland seeks a Senior Charge Nurse for their Young Onset Dementia Service. This role involves leading a specialized multi-disciplinary team to provide essential care and support for patients under 65 with dementia, alongside management responsibilities. The ideal candidate will bring extensive experience in mental health nursing and strong leadership skills to enhance patient care and service delivery within NHS Lanarkshire.

Benefits

Minimum of 27 days annual leave

Membership of NHS Pension Scheme

Paid sick leave upping with service

Occupational health and counselling services

Work-life balance policies

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse with experience in Mental Health or Learning Disabilities.
• Postgraduate expertise within mental health services.
• Excellent interpersonal skills and team leadership experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead patient care management for young adults with dementia.
• Conduct assessments and develop post-diagnostic support plans.
• Manage junior staff and oversee their development.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Teamwork

Time Management

Education

Registered Nurse with valid NMC Registration

Degree Level Education

Management qualification or equivalent

Job description

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The Role

The Young Onset Dementia Team are a specialist multi-disciplinary team who work in partnership with other agencies to provide assessment, and management for adults under the age of 65 who have been diagnosed as living with dementia, who require secondary care mental health services across NHS Lanarkshire.

Additional Information Specific to the Role

The Senior Charge Nurse will work within a specialist multi-disciplinary team and in partnership with other agencies to provide assessment, care and treatment for people under the age of 65 who have been diagnosed as living with dementia who require secondary care mental health services across NHS Lanarkshire.

The post holder will have a role assessing, collaborating and working with patients and families following their diagnosis. The post holder will be responsible for the planning and implementation of Post Diagnostic Support for patients.

This is a management role and will require the successful candidate to undertake, Quality Improvement activity, line management of junior staff including one to one supervision and appraisal. Identifying Training and development needs for staff members.

To have an active role in service development, to improve service delivery, within a specialist field of Mental Health Nursing.

This is a unique opportunity to use core and specialist Mental Health Nursing skills to plan, deliver and evaluate care which responds to the individual needs of patients.

NHS Lanarkshire

Have you always wanted to work with NHS Lanarkshire? Then this might be the opportunity for you to join Team Lanarkshire!

Here at NHS Lanarkshire, we put the patient at the heart of everything we do. Each colleague within the organisation plays a key role in how we deliver our healthcare services.

We proudly serve a population of 655,000 across rural and urban communities in both North and South Lanarkshire. NHS Lanarkshire is comprised of Acute Services (which currently provide hospital based services over 3 main sites), Corporate & Property & Support Services, North and South Lanarkshire Health and Social Care Partnerships which provide integrated primary healthcare and social care services to local communities and surrounding areas.

What we'll need you to bring

• Registered Nurse with valid NMC Registration - Mental Health/Learning Disability
• Educated to/working towards/operating at Degree Level
• Post graduate expertise within speciality / area of practice that demonstrates the required breadth of knowledge required to lead safety, effectively and efficiently.
• Comprehensive knowledge of clinical guidelines and standards within the speciality / area of practice.
• Specialist knowledge and experience of relevant conditions, pathology, policies and procedures associated with the speciality/area of practice ensuring that the level of expertise can be utilised to deliver leadership within speciality / area of practice.
• Management qualification or equivalent gained through experience and continuous professional development
• Further education/evidence of Continuous Professional Development in area of speciality including study days/courses/post graduate qualification
• The post holder will possess excellent team-working/leadership skills and have the ability to motivate others and work using own initiative
• Excellent listening, communication and interpersonal skills
• Effective time management skills
• Working knowledge of basic information technology
  
  

Please note for all vacancies where a driving licence is required this must be a full UK/EU/EEA licence.

It would be great if you also have

• Evidence of continuous Professional development and Clinical updating
• Previous managerial and leadership experience
• Extensive post registration experience
• Relevant expert practice within the speciality
• Evidence of contribution to professional standards /Guidelines
• Evidence of continued development through leadership training
• Car driver with a full, valid UK/EU/EEA drivers licence
  
  

Contract type

Permanent

Full time

37 hours

Location and Working Pattern

This role will be based in Young Onset Dementia Service within Coathill Hospital

The working pattern for this role is Monday to Friday 9-5pm

Whilst this advertisement may be for a specific post(s) in a particular location, applicants who are shortlisted for interview may be considered for similar vacancies in alternative locations.

Looking to find out more?

If you’re looking to find out more, then we would love to hear from you!

Please contact Alison McPherson, on [e-mail]

For enquiries regarding the application form or recruitment process, please contact Lynn Deas, Recruitment Administrator on lynn [e-mail] (Please remember to include the job title and reference number in your email)

Why NHS Lanarkshire?

Join us and you will discover a supportive environment where you will have the chance to add to your skills and further your career.

Some Of NHS Lanarkshire’s Benefits Include

• A minimum of 27 days annual leave increasing with length of service
• A minimum of 8 days of public holidays
• Membership of NHS Pension Scheme, with life insurance benefits (for more information on the NHS Pension Scheme visit the Scottish Public Pension)
• Paid sick leave increasing with length of service
• Occupational health services
• Employee counselling services
• Work-life Balance policies and procedures
  
  

NHS Lanarkshire have a range of support services on topics that can impact both on your working and personal life including occupational health, spiritual care and independent counselling. This support can be accessed using the links on this page.

Further Information

For more information on the role, please refer to the Job Description. If you’re looking for more information on the recruitment process, organisation or the services we provide, please refer to our information pack, or our recruitment webpage.

Additional Information For Applicants

• Posts close at midnight on the indicated date. However, if there are a high level of interest in this position, we may close the advert once sufficient applications are received. Please complete and submit your application early.
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NHS Lanarkshire is dedicated to building a diverse workforce where everyone can thrive, develop, and succeed based on their skills, knowledge, and talent—regardless of race, disability, gender, sexual orientation, or care experience* or any other dimension that can be used to differentiate people from one another.

• Care experienced applicants include those who have lived with foster parents, kinship carers, or in residential/secure children’s settings.
  
  

Candidates should provide original and authentic responses to all questions within the application form. The use of artificial intelligence (AI), automated tools, or other third-party assistance to generate, draft, or significantly modify responses is strongly discouraged. By submitting your application, you confirm that all answers are your own work, reflect your personal knowledge, skills and experience, and have not been solely produced or altered by AI or similar technologies. Failure to comply with this requirement may result in your application being withdrawn from the application process.

Right to Work within the UK

NHS Lanarkshire has a legal obligation to ensure that it does not employ any worker who has not been granted the relevant permission to work in the UK.

We are required to check the entitlement to work in the UK of all prospective employees, regardless of nationality or job category. UK Visas & Immigration rules are available at www.bia.homeoffice.gov.uk.

Prospective applicants are encouraged to check eligibility in advance of applying for vacancies in NHS Lanarkshire.

Please note that all Band 1 and Band 2 posts are not eligible for sponsorship through the Skilled Worker route.

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