Band 6 Charge Nurse - Sandringham ward

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., 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.

Benefits included with this role are:-

• NHS pension
• a comprehensive in house & external training programmes
• career progression
• starting annual leave of 27 days per annum increasing to 33 days pa based on length of service (plus paid bank holidays)
• staff physio service
• NHS discounts and many more
For internal applicants we can offer fixed term roles as secondments with your current managers approval. Please advise your recruitment officer if you would like to be considered for this role on a secondment basis