Charge Nurse (Lotus) | South West London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust

Dyddiad hysbysebu:	13 Hydref 2025
Cyflog:	Heb ei nodi
Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog:	£46,419 - £55,046 per annum inclusive of Inner London HCAs
Oriau:	Llawn Amser
Dyddiad cau:	12 Tachwedd 2025
Lleoliad:	Tooting, SW17 7DJ
Cwmni:	South West London and St Georges Mental Health Trust
Math o swydd:	Parhaol
Cyfeirnod swydd:	7545653/294-AAUC-7545653-PC

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The post holder will work within the Trust’s Psychiatric Decision Unit known as Lotus Assessment Suite. As a staff nurse, you will work within an award-winning, nurse-led service to provide interim mental health care for service users. The role involves undertaking prolonged bio-psychosocial assessments to be able to meet the holistic needs of all service users and empower them to have the optimum level of responsibility for their individual care and treatment by following recovery principles and approaches.

The post will enhance your skills in autonomous clinical decision making, assessment of mental health and physical health needs, risk management, crisis management, development of managerial skills as well as joint working with multiple agencies/services. The post will also allow you to develop skills in providing a broad range of specialist psychosocial treatments for individual patients.

Service specific training and support will be provided to successful candidates as well as access to trust wide training opportunities.

Career Progression pathways and development opportunities:

We are committed to get the very best out of our staff and support staff in their career aspirations. We have career pathways available, where you will be able to develop your skills and build on your experience to progress into other roles across different specialties. For this role, we offer career pathways to roles within the acute and urgent care service line.

As a staff nurse you will conduct assessments, support discharges and support junior staff with decision-making. You will support and promote the fundamentals of mental health and physical health care for our patients, by carrying out needs assessments and working collaboratively with patients to develop crisis and discharge plans.

If you are a forward-thinking nurse looking to develop your assessment and risk management skills this is an exciting opportunity to consider. We are looking for someone who is clinically competent with the appropriate skills to join a diverse and experienced team. The successful candidate will be able to develop a positive team atmosphere through hard work, calmness, tolerance and consistency. They will support and lead on quality improvement initiatives and support a culture of reflection and learning. If you want to be part of a pioneering award winning service this is an opportunity not to be missed.

Agile and flexible working:

As one of the few Trusts in London we are proud to offer flexible working as part of our new ways of working, and we are happy to talk flexible working at the interview stage. In this role you will be able to work a 24/7 shift pattern, Monday to Sunday, and we will aim to give you the very best of good work life balance. Please note this role is not able to be carried out from home.

We are Proud to Belong at South West London and St George’s Mental Health NHS Trust.

We have expert services, a rich history and a clear commitment to providing the best quality care for those with mental ill-health. The Care Quality Commission already rates our services as ‘good’ - we aspire to be ‘outstanding’.

This is a great time to join us. We are transforming the way we care for our communities to support our mission of Making Life Better Together. We have built two brand new mental health facilities at Springfield University Hospital, which are amongst the best in the world. More developments are planned across our sites and services.

We are inclusive and diverse and strive to be actively anti racist. We want to attract people from all backgrounds and experiences to enrich the work we do together. We are proud to co-produce and involve our local communities in all that we do.

We offer flexible working, career development and a variety of benefits to enable a positive, welcoming environment in which our people and their careers can thrive.

About our locations:

Springfield University Hospital, Tooting

Our largest, 19-ward site is in Springfield Village, created following our £150m investment into two new world class mental health facilities. A 32-acre public park, shops and cafes are coming soon. Close to shops, cafes and Tooting Bec on the Northern Line plus Earlsfield and Tooting rail stations and bus routes.

1. Working autonomously within the parameters of the role leading and supporting
junior staff and wider care team to implement the delivery of quality nursing
care, contributing to the physical, psychological, social, recreational and
spiritual care in a recovery-focused way through therapeutic engagement and
activities, and taking steps to address any issues that arise.
2. Leading on and undertaking activities to ensure that the fundamentals of care
are met - nutrition, hydration, hygiene, comfort, emotional and social support:
 Co-ordinating and evaluating collaborative patient centred care; getting
feedback and improving plans with the multi-disciplinary team (MDT).
 Providing accurate information about care in an accessible format to patients
and their relatives / carers.
 Liaising and working positively with members of the multi- disciplinary team
and partner organisations.
 Administering, and monitoring the side-effects of, medication; monitoring
service user compliance.
 Safety; safe custody of medicines, sharps, clinical equipment, report all
incidents following trust policy.
3. Leading and supporting/teaching junior staff on risk assessment and risk
management that involves making decisions based on knowledge of the
research evidence, knowledge of the individual service user and their social
context, knowledge of the service user’s own experience and clinical judgment.
4. Supporting and supervising junior staff to develop the management of care
needs through:
 Initial data collection
 Monitoring of individual service user / patient progress
 Feedback and discussion
 Producing reports and in-care reviews
 Devising a plan of care and interventions in partnership with service user, carer
and MDT
5. Coordinating junior staff and the wider care team in providing hands-on care to
service users and evaluating processes of care delivered. This will include:
 Undertaking 1-1 engagement with service users in an honest, open and nonjudgmental way.
 Recognising and valuing service users as individuals, acknowledging the
importance of maintaining the service user’s respect and dignity at all times
and ensure that the care provided respects equality and diversity.
 Developing care plans that reflect service user needs and relevant patient
care documentation working in partnership with service users, wider MDT and
family/carers.
 Ensuring the monitoring and recording service user clinical observations are
undertaken, such as physical observations and vital signs and treating or
escalating as appropriate any signs or symptoms of deterioration or that does
not fulfill the personal parameters to the relevant professional for treatment.
Promote healthy lifestyles and give health promotion advice and support.
 Implementing the principles of ‘recovery’: encouraging and supporting service
users to engage with healthy lifestyles, facilitating psychosocial activities and
other activities of their interest. Where appropriate contributing to
psychological interventions.
6. Escorting service users, as required, in line with Trust policies.
7. Advocating for service users’ needs and rights within Trust policy. Encouraging
and empowering service users to have an optimum level of responsibility for
their individual programme of care


This advert closes on Monday 20 Oct 2025