Charge Nurse

Job summary

Catton Ward at Northside House is a medium secure mental health unit for males over the age of 18 years. It provides admission, assessment and treatment within a secure environment for individuals with severe mental health problems who require a supervised and supported approach to their treatment. Northside House provides a high level of rehabilitation activities to address the individual needs and to support progression along service user treatment pathways. Achievement of rehabilitation goals will allow the patient to function in conditions of lesser security, maximize their independence and autonomy to attain a sense of personal fulfilment, whilst maintaining adequate support for patient and public safety.

It's an exciting time within Secure and Forensic Services, with a focus on quality improvements for our service users as well as wider organisational changes.

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

Northside House

St Andrew's Business Park

Norwich

NR7 0HT

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

Northside House

St Andrew's Business Park

Norwich

NR7 0HT

Employer's website

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

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