Charge Nurse
Job Description
Job summary
Are Registered Mental Health Nurses Superheroes?
At Priory Group, you don't have to have superhuman powers to be a hero in our eyes. We want the care our nurses provide to our service users to be super. As a mental health nurse at Priory youll be part of a company that is supportive and has your welfare and interests at heart. Mental health nursing is a tough but rewarding career and we want to make sure that our relationship with you is a long-term thing, not a flash in the pan.
It takes a genuine desire to help other people, along with a lot of dedication and compassion to be a Mental Health Nurse. In return, we want to make sure you get the reward you deserve which is why we offer market leading salaries as well as bonuses and benefits, you'll get job satisfaction and well support you to develop your skills and grow with the company via our Career Pathways programme. You'll get to build therapeutic relationships with the people you care for so you can help them through their difficult time and find ways to take control over their own health. Its a chance to make a real and lasting difference to someone.
Main duties of the job
Job Profile
- Qualified as a Registered nurse and passionate about patient care
- Committed to providing a safe and therapeutic environment for patients
- Ensuring there is a high standard of care for patients in terms of their mental and physical health
- Act as a role model and provide leadership to more Junior staff
- Work effectively as part of a Multi-Disciplinary Team
- Committed to supervision, appraisal and Continuous Professional Development
- Support with recruitment and retention
About us
About Ticehurst :
Ticehurst is set in a stunning, rural location in East Sussex, with The Pantiles, Boutique Hotels, Restaurants and Shopping Mall of Historic Royal Tunbridge Wells only 20 minutes away, Ticehurst offers male/female acute and private facilities on well-maintained wards.
As well as a beautiful and exceptionally friendly working environment with access to 50 acres of grounds, employees who need it can be accommodated on site. The grounds are also used to host summer events such as cream teas and barbeques.
Ticehursts location means you can have the best of both worlds with the coast only 20 minutes to the south and Central London around an hour away by direct train.
Job responsibilities
The role of the Deputy Ward Manager is to provide senior nursing leadership to the ward nursing team in support of the Ward Manager. They will have clinical experience and leadership that provides expertise and confidence to the nursing team and ward overall. They will have defined delegated responsibilities from the Ward Manager; having 20 percent a week protected time for their management duties and have supervisory responsibilities for an agreed group of staff.
Responsibilities
- Works as Senior Nurse in a Ward or equivalent area ensuring a safe and therapeutic environment for patients, their families and visitors. Apply relevant policies and statutory requirements within the ward and hospital framework of governance and communicates requirements to the wider team.
- Ensures that risk is assessed and managed across the immediate and wider working environment and that statutory requirements are met.
- Respects and applies the requirements of diversity and inclusion, promoting and role modelling these across the team.
- Identifies deficits in skill mix and safe staffing levels and acts to address these.
- Supervises a defined group of team members and contributes to their overall CPD, mandatory training and appraisal process recognising the skills required across the team. This will also include addressing any performance issues that are below the expected standard.
- Acts as a role model to promote a culture of learning development, inquiry and a team vision.
- Actively supports Junior Staff and student nurses on placement on the ward
- Implements, monitors and evaluates therapeutic interventions within an overall care programme, enabling people with mental health and or learning disability needs to develop coping strategies. Actively supports and contributes to effective Multi-Disciplinary Working.
- Engages in collaborative problem solving, supporting and encouraging clients to take ownership of issues, identify problems and to develop solutions to them based on their own needs and preferences.
- Contributes to the process of collaboratively assessing and acting on risks of harm, danger and abuse.
- Is named nurse for a small group of patients, and Associate nurse when required when on duty, and is a regular shift leader.
- Provides Clinical Supervision to a group of defined nursing staff. Undertakes Lead roles for the ward, as agreed with the Ward manager.
- Deputises for the Ward manager as and when required.
- Adheres to all National, Company and local standards, policies and procedures.
- Participates in recruitment and retention of staff on the ward and hospital when required
Person Specification
Knowledge, Skills, Qualifications & Abilities
Essential
- Excellent clinical knowledge based on evidence based practice
- Experience of Care Plans ,Risk Assessments and writing reports
- Knowledge of Mental Health Act Legislation and statutory regulations
- Experience of staffing, skill mix and leading shifts
- Committed to supporting Junior Staff and Students
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Employer details
Employer name
Priory Healthcare
Address
The Priory Hospital Ticehurst
Ticehurst
Wadhurst
East Sussex
TN5 7HU
Employer's website
https://jobs.priorygroup.com/why-join-us/ (Opens in a new tab)
