Charge Nurse - Incentives Apply

Job overview
We are currently seeking a motivated mental health nurse to join the team as a Charge Nurse at the Chichester Low Secure Forensic Service.
The Chichester Centre is a modern unit providing low secure services for men and women. The service is configured around two male wards and one female ward, with approximately 16 service users on each of the wards. Each ward has a well-established MDT led by a ward manager. The MDTs include nursing, OT, social work, psychiatry and psychology. There is an in-reach pharmacy, SALT and GP service. We have a working together group (WTG) which meets fortnightly and includes service user representatives from each ward as well as staff. The WTG take a lead on service improvement across the unit.
We are a centrally located service with good commuting links to Bognor Regis, Portsmouth and Worthing.
As a Charge Nurse you will possess excellent communication skills, leadership skills and evidenced based clinical skills, providing high quality holistic, research based, non-judgmental patient centred care at all times.
This post offers the Trust's £4,000 Incentive for band 5-7 Nurses & Practitioners, as well as a relocation package up to a maximum of £8,000 (subject to terms and conditions).
Main duties of the job
In this role you will be clinically responsible for providing nursing assessments, when appropriate, of referred patients to determine the suitability for forensic mental health nursing intervention. Additionally, you will be responsible for the immediate management and clinical supervision of all junior staff throughout each span of duty. You will work collaboratively with medical staff and other health professionals to support the delivery of patient care. Ultimately, you will provide effective leadership and management to staff to promote high performance standards, both individually and as a team, in order to achieve the Trust's objectives and priorities.
The post holder will assess, plan and implement care, and provide specialist nursing advice and carry out specialist nursing procedures in the agreed care group. They will provide clinical and managerial leadership to junior staff, providing supervision to junior staff and students.
They will assist the Ward Manager in ensuring the effective running of the ward.
Working for our organisation
Forensic mental health is a unique and fascinating field which provides both challenge and opportunity in abundance.
Being curious, creative, self-aware and assertive are important skills that you will build on, as you are often required to think 'outside the box'.
We play a crucial part in supporting and advocating service users towards recovery, while maintaining the legal requirements within the MHA and of public protection.
Our Trust:
We provide mental health and learning disability care for all ages across Sussex and for children and young people in Hampshire.
We'd love you to join our organisation, rated 'good' overall and 'outstanding' for caring by the CQC. Our staff agree, with 82% recognising patient care as our top priority in our staff survey.
Other key survey results include:

• 79% reporting feeling able to make suggestions to improve the work within their team.
• 77% identifying the opportunities to show initiative in their roles.

Detailed job description and main 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.
• To regularly take charge of the clinical environment over a span of duty.

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
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria

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

Clinical Knowledge/Eperience
Essential criteria

• Experience of working alongside people with severe mental health problems
• Experience of supervising staff
• Experience of conducting clinical assessments including risk assessments
• Experience of working within the CPA process
• Understanding of clinical governance

Communication/Relationship 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 good therapeutic relationships
• Promote people's equality, diversity and human rights

Planning & Organisational Skills
Essential criteria

• Organising and co-ordinating the activities of others within the ward environment
• Planning off duty rotas

IT Skills
Essential criteria

• IT literate and willing to enhance skills
• Ability to use clinical information systems

Emotional Effort
Essential criteria

• 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
• The ability to manage distressed relatives

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.
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Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.