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Location

Sussex | United Kingdom

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Job description

Charge Nurse

Sussex / United Kingdom / Code: EPJ02319

Introduction

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Band 6 charge nurse to work in a brand-new health-based place of safety in East Sussex.  

Charge Nurse

Primary speciality: Mental Health

Min salary: £32,306

Max salary: £39,027

Working pattern (hours): Full time

Hours / sessions per week: 37.5 hours per week

Contract type: Permanent

*You must have the right to work in the UK, no VISA sponsorship is available*

Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Band 6 charge nurse to work in a brand-new health-based place of safety, East Sussex.  This is a busy 23-bed Acute unit split into male and female wards and sits alongside the 136 Suite. We are looking for a charge nurse to work in this new facility.

Main duties of the job

You will need to be enthusiastic, motivated, dynamic and forward thinking. Evidence based practice and innovative therapies are encouraged. You need to have a commitment to maintaining and improving service user focused services to the highest standards. 

You will be supported with training and development, and there is a robust supervision and appraisal system in place to assist with this.

Working for our organisation

We encourage flexible working. We know that a positive work/ life balance brings about huge health-related benefits, which has a positive impact on the care we provide. Please speak to us about flexible working, for example, home-working, part time hours, flexible start/ finish times or anything else. If it works for you and works for the role, we'll do our best to make it happen.

To protect the health and safety of our staff/workers, patients, and those attending our sites, we encourage our workforce to get fully vaccinated against COVID.

Detailed and main responsibilities

Your ability to communicate with service users, families and the public must be of the highest standards, and you must have the ability to work as part of a multi- disciplinary team. A genuine interest in working with this client group is essential.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Professional qualification / Diploma in Mental Health Nursing
• Registered Nurse with current registration (mental health / LD/ Adult) appropriate to the job role.
• Completion of Mentorship Course/ENB equivalent
• Evidence of continuous professional development

Knowledge/Experience

Essential criteria

• Significant post qualifying experience relevant to the care group
• Experience of working alongside people with severe mental health problems particularly in their acute phase of illness
• Experience of supervising staff
• Experience of working within a multi-disciplinary team
• Experience of conducting clinical assessments including risk assessments

Skills

Essential criteria

• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Ability to communicate in a clear and unambiguous way
• Excellent negotiation and conflict resolution skills
• Ability to develop effective professional relationships with others
• Ability to develop good therapeutic relationships
• Skills of assessing and interpreting mental health service user conditions, communicating that with others and taking appropriate action.
• Organising and co-ordinating the activities of others within the ward environment
• IT literate and willing to enhance skills
• Ability to carry out PMVA techniques
• Ability to administer IM medication as required.

Abilities

Essential criteria

• Frequent and intense concentration in service user assessment and observation; in the observation of the activities within the ward environment; and in the co-ordination of staff and competing priorities within the ward environment
• Liaison with other agencies in the co-ordination of service user discharge from the in patient setting Ability to work a flexible shift pattern
• Ability to manage exposure to disturbed service users who may be acutely psychotic and exhibiting extremes of behaviour
• Ability to manage exposure to verbal and physical abuse on occasions, all of which can be potentially exhausting and skilled intervention is required to avoid burnout

Approach/Values

Essential criteria

• Demonstrate support for the values and beliefs of the Care Group and those of the Trust
• Demonstrate an understanding of the practices of Human Rights in the delivery of this role
• Team working

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Salary

£32.31k - £39.03k per annum