Charge Nurse

Job summary

This role is a great opportunity for your professional development and will expose you to a very distinctive yet rewarding environment with a close knit team supporting you all the way.

As a Charge Nurse you will be fully supported and encouraged to develop your clinical skills; you will be offered unparalleled training and development opportunities alongside CPD and you will have the ambition and drive to promote high performance standards both individually and as a team, in order to achieve Trust's objectives.

We would welcome applications from an RMN/RNLD who would like to experience working with multi-disciplinary teams. The person we are looking for should possess excellent team working skills, be patient focused and embracing of the Trust values. You will have in-depth post qualification experience at Band 5 working in Mental Health and will possess demonstrable leadership skills; you will be ready to take the next step in your career and will have evidence of CPD.

Southfield provides specialist care and treatment for people with serious mental illness in a secure environment who are detained under the Mental Health Act. Service users are aged between 18 -- 65 years old, male and female, and may have either committed a criminal offence, or have challenging behaviour. The main purpose of the unit is to assist Service Users to understand and manage their own mental health, so that where possible, they can be reintegrated back into the community.

Main duties of the job

As a Charge Nurse you will take charge of a ward regularly and accept duties as delegated by the clinical ward manager. You will support the management of a ward including the deployment, supervision, teaching of staff/students and resources.

You will be responsible for assessing individual care needs and develop, implement and evaluate programmes of care as well as setting standards of care and you will take responsibility for the management, deployment and supervision of junior staff in the unit throughout the span of duty when on night duty.

About us

Are you committed to providing remarkable care and service?

Are you passionate about helping people and want to make a difference every day?

We want to meet you!

Southern Health is one of the largest Foundation Trusts in the UK, specialising in mental health, adult and child community health and learning disabilities. We are committed to promoting the welfare and safeguarding of children, young people and adults at risk of abuse and neglect through our 6,500 strong workforce.

Southern Health has over 300 sites across the county and we serve 1.5 million people throughout all stages of their lives. Our aim is to work alongside the people we support (and our health and care partners) to deliver the best possible care and constantly improve.

Here at SHFT we have so much to be proud of:

• Working as a team and supporting each other, we put patients and our staff at the heart of everything we do.
• We have a skilled and diverse workforce and are committed to our staff development, offering bespoke training packages, leadership pathways and career opportunities.
• We offer a variety of benefits such as an amazing pension scheme, generous annual leave, Childcare Choices scheme, many discounts (Blue Light card, The Company Shop, NHS Staff Discounts, cycle to work scheme) and much more.

Come to work with us, together we will provide outstanding treatment and care to improve lives.

Employer details

Employer name

Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Southfield

Tatchbury Mount, Calmore

Southampton

Hampshire

SO40 2RZ

Employer's website

https://www.southernhealth.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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Employer details

Employer name

Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Southfield

Tatchbury Mount, Calmore

Southampton

Hampshire

SO40 2RZ

Employer's website

https://www.southernhealth.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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