# Band 6 Charge Nurse - Sandringham ward > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/band-6-charge-nurse-sandringham-ward/b144db1e-595b-4180-abc2-976cc877c4b3 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/band-6-charge-nurse-sandringham-ward/b144db1e-595b-4180-abc2-976cc877c4b3.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust - **Location:** Hellesdon Hospital - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Charge nurse - **Grade:** Band 6 - **Salary:** £39,959 - £48,117 gross per annum (pro rata) - **Contract type:** Fixed term: 12 months (or Secondment) - **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week (37.5 hours per week) - **Closing date:** 2026-10-18T22:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-10-05T10:30:49.333Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Norfolk/Norwich/Norfolk_Suffolk_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Inpatient_Mental_Health/Inpatient_Mental_Health-v8318449 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8318449?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.nsft.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview Blickling Ward is looking for a Charge Nurse - Band 6 to work as part of an exciting, service provision focused and dynamic team that delivers high quality Care for our Older Patients across NSFT. Blickling Ward is located at Becky Wilson House, Julian Hospital and is an Female Older Persons, functional inpatient service, focusing on specialist care for our service users. We work closely with family, carers, service users and external agencies to provide high quality integrated models of care. we have18 beds for individuals with a various mental health related complexities. ### Main duties of the job You will work supportively and collaboratively with the Clinical Team Leader and MDT ensuring the effective management of the ward in all respects, environmental, financial and clinical in so far as this relates to nursing practice. Your duties will also include the planning and delivery of direct patient care with appropriate supervision, ensuring continuity of practice and working within a multi-disciplinary and multi-agency environment. As part of collaborative working amongst Senior Nurses you will be expected to provide a clinical lead to staff in various areas of practice, adhering to the philosophy and clinical skills base of the unit. You will monitor nursing practice on a day to day basis and ensure that nursing compliments the practice of other professionals. You will be a crucial part of working collaboratively within our MDT, providing holistic care packages for individuals and families on the ward. You will work towards implementing reviews and changes in practice at the discretion of the Clinical Team Leader. You will also be required to work shifts across a 24-hour period in order to meet the needs of the service and actively participate in a 24 hour site management rota for Julian Site through our daily Operational Huddle. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities Please find attached our Job Description and Person Specification for more detail on your Key Accountabilities, then if you feel you have what it takes to make a difference in your local communities, click APPLY! Interview dates are yet to be set; you will be contacted via email and invited to book a time. These emails may go to your SPAM, so please keep checking all your emails if applying. Please visit our Facebook and Twitter page @NSFTjobs ### Applicant requirements You must have appropriate UK professional registration. This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service. ## Person Specification ### Other **Essential** - Flexibility of duty and hours over a 24hr 7 day a week period ### Skills **Essential** - Able to demonstrate the ability to process, plan and delegate work **Desirable** - Ability to supervise others ### Knowledge **Essential** - Understanding of issues surrounding confidentiality ### Experience **Essential** - Relevant post registration experience in a mental health setting **Desirable** - Management / Leadership of junior staff. ### Qualifications **Essential** - Registered Mental Health Nurse - Signed off as a mentor/supervisor - Post-graduate diploma or equivalent experience - Completion of the preceptorship **Desirable** - Leadership / Management Training ## Documents - [leadership locality (pdf, 413.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10639752) - [band 6 charge nurse jd 2006 (pdf, 392.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10639751) - [reasonable adjustments - nsft (pdf, 197.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2863) - [values based recruitment – candidates guide (pdf, 360.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1028) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.