Charge Nurse

Job summary

Rollesby Ward- the Trusts female PICU unit is looking for a Charge Nurse as we seek to support nurse led care in our Acute Services at Hellesdon Hospital.

This is a very exciting post which will allow you to use your clinical skills and leadership to help develop our nursing team to ensure we are providing excellent and compassionate care to our female service users during a time of intensive crisis.

If you feel you have the skills to help us make a difference and have the ability to offer person-centred care while building trusting relationships to increase engagement with individuals suffering from severe mental illness we would welcome your expression of interest.

The main duties are:

• Assessing patients and delivering care specific to needs

• Monitoring the effectiveness of treatment including medication and activities

• Clinical leadership for the staff within the ward environment
• Help Complex Decision making in the nursing team
• Developing junior staff
• Providing assurance of patient safety

We will provide you with regular clinical and management supervision with an emphasis on reflective practice. We hold a strong belief in team and individual development. We provide a full induction program and have extensive training and career development that can be accessed across our Trust.

To talk further about this application please contact Liz Howlett, Deputy Lead Nurse elizabeth.howlett@nft.nhs.uk

Main duties of the job

Management

Responsible for the line management of identified members of the service.Monitor the practice of junior staff and identify any learning and development needs in respect of the clinical skills base.Maintain own and lead/supervise staff in maintaining professional, therapeutic relationship/boundaries with patients, carers and colleagues.Provide and ensure provision of regular line management supervision and Appraisals to junior members of staff.Complete ward rotas as required, ensuring ward is sufficiently and safely staffed at all times.

Clinical

To be accountable for own professional practice.Support the development and implementation of recovery focused interventions to patients with mental illness.Provide training and support to other as appropriate, including non-statutory agencies.Demonstrate effective personal planning and organisation of personal daily work load and that of others.Work flexibly, managing own working time effectively according to service demands.Make clinical judgements, identifying alternative courses of action, managing and providing a high quality of care and supporting others to do the same.

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.

Employer details

Employer name

Norfolk & Suffolk Foundation NHS Trust

Address

Hellesdon Hospital

Drayton High Road

Norwich

NR6 5BE

Employer's website

https://www.nsft.nhs.uk/Pages/Home.aspx (Opens in a new tab)

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Employer details

Employer name

Norfolk & Suffolk Foundation NHS Trust

Address

Hellesdon Hospital

Drayton High Road

Norwich

NR6 5BE

Employer's website

https://www.nsft.nhs.uk/Pages/Home.aspx (Opens in a new tab)

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