We're looking for aspiring leaders and clinically credible nurses to join our dedicated team in Norfolk as a Charge Nurse on Reed Ward!
This role is a great opportunity for you to develop your leadership skills and progress your nursing career.
Reed ward is a 13 bedded female organic admission ward that provides care for those with an organic mental health presentation.
We are looking for a registered nurse with great clinical expertise who is ready to move from staff nurse to charge nurse!
While experience in working with acute later life adults would make you perfectly suited to this role, we are open to welcoming people from clinical backgrounds who have experience in other areas of mental health. We seek individuals who are well motivated, possess good interpersonal skills, personal resilience, and enthusiasm for working with acutely unwell adults and their families during difficult times.
We also offer great training opportunities to support staff development.
Main duties of the job
We will support you to develop your skills in a variety of ways, including through leadership courses, mentorship, and formal recognised qualifications.
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, sees 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 in people's lives, then we would love to hear from you.
This post requires full PMA fitness (full training will be given) and the ability to work shifts, including nights and weekends, over a 7-day period with 12.5 hr long shifts.
About us
Here at NSFT, we pride ourselves on being a welcoming, talented, friendly, and supportive team who enjoy 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 and are pushing ahead with exciting transformation work. 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, dining options, top-ranking schools, and affordable house prices.
We can accommodate some flexible working in line with service needs.
Benefits included with this role
* a comprehensive in-house & external training programme
* career progression
* starting annual leave of 27 days per annum, increasing to 33 days 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, including environmental, financial, and clinical.
Please find attached our Job Description and Person Specification for more detail on your Key Accountabilities. If you feel you have what it takes to make a difference in your local communities, click APPLY!
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Nursing degree or equivalent
Experience
* At least two years post-basic experience, one year at Senior Staff Nurse
* Management/Leadership of junior staff
Skills
* Ability to display calm, mature responses to difficult situations
* Ability to work regularly unsupervised
* Good verbal and written skills
* Good observation and reporting skills
* Ability to use own initiative
* Ability to display common sense
* Ability to motivate others
* Able to demonstrate the ability to process, plan, and delegate work
* Ability to demonstrate effective risk assessment and risk management
* Ability to effectively prioritise and delegate workload as required
* Basic computer skills including use of email and internet
* Ability to travel
* Ability to supervise others
Knowledge
* Understanding of issues surrounding confidentiality
* Awareness of security and its impact and willingness to expand knowledge on it
* Working knowledge/application of the Mental Health Act 1983
Other
* Flexibility and adaptability
* Fitness to undergo full PMA training and perform full duties of the post.
* Enthusiastic and well-motivated
* Able to work as part of a close team
* Awareness and understanding of equality and diversity issues
* Flexibility of duty and hours over a 24hr 7 day a week period
* Generally interested and motivated to work in a care environment
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.
£37,338 to £44,962 a year gross per annum.
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