Charge Nurse

Job overview

Coral Ward is looking for a motivated and passionate leader for our Charge Nurse position.

Coral Ward is a 19 bed mixed gender acute mental health ward, working with service users with a variety of mental health needs. We have a strong multi professional team on the ward with positive working relationships between colleagues across Langley Green Hospital, Including our acute wards, older adults ward, PICU, Home Treatment Team, Haven, Acute Day Service and in house Occupational Therapy and Psychology.

We are looking for a Charge Nurse who is a strong leader and has a passion for innovation and change in our dynamic nursing team. As a Charge Nurse you will work closely with the Ward manager and Matron to lead on change projects to promote the workplace as a learning environment. You will develop the nursing team to ensure that they are enabled to provide the best possible care to our patients.

Our focus is to provide the highest quality patient care, and are committed to promoting our Trust Values in everything we do:

People first: People are at the heart of everything we do

Future focused: We are optimistic, we learn and we always try to improve

Embracing change: We are bold, innovative and disciplined about making use of our resources to continuously improve

Working together: We provide services in partnership with patients, families and others

Everyone counts: We value, appreciate and respect each other

Main duties of the job

We go above and beyond to strive to deliver the highest quality care for our service users and are always open to new ideas to improve our service.

Shifts whilst working on the ward, follow a 12 hour shift pattern and we can offer a flexibility with both day and night shifts.

You will be expected to split your duties between supporting your team and ward clinically as well as supporting your ward manager with delegated managerial tasks and regular management days.

You will be expected to complete supervisions and appraisals, managerial audits, attend leadership and managerial meetings and lead as an example to more junior staff within the Coral Ward Team.

This post offers the Trust's £2,000 Golden Hello or Relocation Incentive for Band 6 Nurses & Practitioners, (pro rata and subject to terms and conditions; please see attached Protocol Document for full details).

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Job responsibilities

The post holder will work as part of a multi-disciplinary team acting as care co-ordinator for a defined number of service users. They will:

• Undertake assessments of individuals with complex mental health presentations, including those service users presenting with higher levels of risk. To develop in collaboration with the service user their care plan and their recovery plan.
• Offer specialist nursing assessment and advice where required.
• Provide clinical and managerial leadership on the ward.
• Assess and manage on going risks as identified during the assessment, ensuring that this is done in collaboration with the service user and carers. To regularly review risk factors and make changes to the management of them as necessary.
• Provide supervision of junior staff and trainees where appropriate.
• Regularly take charge of the clinical environment over a span of duty.