Charge Nurse

Are you a Registered Mental Health Nurse, with experience in leading teams and looking for a supportive and dynamic place to work at then Rutland Gardens could be the place for you?

At Rutland Gardens, our priority is engagement and positive outcomes for our services users, ensuring that they and their family/friend carers are at the heart of everything that we do. As a Nurse, and a leader, you will be given the opportunity to work in a creative and innovative way; your ideas will always be heard. A strong primary Nursing and carer engagement ethos is essential.

If you share these values, then Rutland Gardens is the place for you.

We work on a foundation of honesty and openness, and use our skills and experience to support our service users through their recovery journey(s) whilst working towards their safe discharge to the community.

Our Team consists of, Staff Nurses and Charge Nurses, Support workers, A Peer support worker, Occupational Therapists, A Housekeeper, Ward Administrator, Consultant Psychiatrist and a ward manager. Each member of our team, along with our service users and family/friend carers is as important as the other, and bring their unique skills and knowledge into all aspects of our work.

Our organisation is expanding and we're looking for people with the right values, skills and/or potential to join us. We need people with energy, expertise, enthusiasm to help us provide the very best possible specialist NHS mental health and learning disability care. This involves helping us achieve our strategy to improve the quality of life for the communities we serve through People, Prevention and Partnerships., An opportunity has arisen at Rutland Gardens specialist Rehab and Recovery in-patient unit, for a highly motivated, hardworking and compassionate Charge Nurse/Deputy ward Manager with a passion for Recovery in mental health nursing., You will need to demonstrate a range of skills including effective leadership, sound clinical skills, compassion and self-reflection, effective Staff supervision and appraisals, Roster management, empathy, self-awareness and an understanding of the Mental Health Act.,

• Professional qualification Diploma in Mental Health Nursing


• Registered Nurse with current registration (mental health / LD/ Adult) appropriate to the job role


• Competion of Mentorship Course/ENB equivalent


• Evidence of continuous professional development, 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


• Experience of partnership working within and across various statutory and non statutory teams and agencies


• Experience of working within the CPA process


• Understanding of clinical governance, You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
  
  You will also be joining a health and care system committed to working together to do the best we can for the communities we serve. Above all, at Sussex Partnership you'll have the chance to make a difference to the lives of the patients, carers and families across our communities.


As a Trust we are committed in making a difference. Your development is important to us, so don't forget to ask us during interview what opportunities we can offer. We can offer fully funded lifelong learning opportunities such as an apprenticeship from GCSE to Masters level.

If you like the sound of that, then come and join our team., Sussex Partnership NHS FT is committed to supporting a diverse workforce that reflects our communities. Our workforce is currently under-represented from Black and Minority, Ethnic and disabled communities and we would welcome applications from these communities.

We regret that we are unable to advise candidates if they have not been shortlisted. If you have not heard from us within three weeks of the closing date please assume that you have been unsuccessful on this occasion.

In the event of an excessive number of applicants the Trust reserves the right to close this vacancy earlier than indicated.

Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust takes its responsibilities for the safeguarding and protection of children and young people and vulnerable adults very seriously and expects this of all its employees and bank workers. The Trust works with adult and children's social care to ensure that the integrated service has systems in place to equip staff and bank workers with the knowledge and skills to recognize abuse, and take action to safeguard and protect vulnerable adults and children and young people. It is expected that all staff and bank workers familiarise themselves with the appropriate structures and policies and with the Sussex child protection and safeguarding procedures and the Sussex multi-agency policy and procedures for safeguarding vulnerable adults and undertake the relevant essential training and further training appropriate to their role.

Successful candidates are normally offered salaries at the bottom of the relevant salary range. However, where previous or equivalent NHS experience in a similar role can be demonstrated and evidenced, this may be taken into consideration when setting the starting salary.