Job summary

Clinical Charge Nurse, Band 6 Permanent – Full Time – 37.5 hours per week

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a substantive post of a Clinical Charge Nurse (Band 6) in our acute and crisis directorate.

Shrewsbury ward is a single sex male ward who are looking for a dynamic, compassionate, and self-reflective individuals with good clinical skills. You will support your ward manager in the delivery of high-quality care to patients, in which nursing therapeutic and relational skills support our patients to feel safe, listened to, valued, engaged and empowered. You will role model to colleagues how empathy and being curious about patients’ traumas, adversity, mental states and behaviours support patients to change.

Through good communication you will support the ward manager to lead the management of clinical and risk issues on the ward, emphasising relational security within the physically secure setting, such as providing patient choice, when possible, collaboration and transparency.

You will be supported to ensure appropriate evidence-based practices are used, and this includes Trauma Informed Care.

Your clinical and managerial leadership will recognise the impacts of adverse and traumatic experiences on patients and staff, and you will be motivated to enable all staff, service users and carers from diverse backgrounds to flourish by working to create a psychologically safe environment.

Main duties of the job

You will be joining a supportive senior nursing team responsible for the 24-hour operational management of the service and be charged with supporting with the clinical and managerial leadership of the ward. You will be supported to provide leadership to nurses, ensure effective governance and high-performance standards are in place and are able to support a deliverable vision for the ward.

Most importantly you will be supported by your Clinical Team Leader to ensure that care is delivered in a proactive working environment and that a positive patient experience is achieved. You must also be able to provide supervision, mentorship and leadership for staff at Band 2 to 5.

The Forensic directorate supports a yearly rotation of staff to other wards to acquire new skills, avoid burnouts, and gain the full benefits and experience from working in the Forensic Directorate. The post holder may hence be rotated to another ward to meet service needs when required.

The Forensic Directorate is part of the South London Partnership (with South London and Maudsley NHS foundation Trust and Southwest London and St Georges NHS Trusts) with a lot of opportunities for individual development.

About us

Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children’s centres, schools and people’s homes. We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary’s Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people. Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:

  • We’re Kind
  • We’re Fair
  • We Listen
  • We Care

    • Date posted

    15 November 2022

    Pay scheme

    Agenda for change

    Band

    Band 6

    Salary

    £38,762 to £45,765 a year pa inc

    Contract

    Permanent

    Working pattern

    Full-time

    Reference number

    277-4715350-AAC

    Job locations

    Oxleas House

    London

    SE18 4QH

    Job description

    Job responsibilities

  • Leading and supporting junior staff to deliver person centred care.
  • Formulating and documenting a plan of nursing care where possible in partnership with Service Users, carers, family, and friends including personal choices/likes/dislikes/wishes.
  • Evaluating and documenting the outcomes of nursing interventions. Personal care (bathing, dressing, and grooming).
  • Nutrition and hydration (monitor and ensure adequate intake)
  • Emotional and social support.
  • Rest and sleep
  • Pressure care
  • Leading and supporting junior staff to promote recovery
  • Promoting independence
  • Community access/social inclusion (escorts)
  • Engaging with activities of their interest
  • Engaging service users in group activities
  • Leading and supporting junior staff to risk assess and risk manage
  • Undertaking individual risk assessments as per Trust policy
  • Engaging in 1-1 sessions, listening, responding, and reporting
  • Prevention and management of aggression and violence including providing
  • hands on care to prevent injury to self and others using approved techniques
  • such as PSTS/PMVA after undertaking appropriate training, assessment and
  • deemed competent.
  • Reducing Self-harm and promoting suicide prevention
  • Recognising service user health deterioration and taking action – monitoring
  • physical health, checking vital signs such as blood pressure, pulse,
  • respiration, temperature, saturation, blood glucose, glasgow coma scale.
  • Knowledge of the Early Warning Signs (MEWS/NEWS)
  • Reporting incidents as per Trust policy
  • Safe use of medical devices
  • Implementing safe and therapeutic observations policy levels
  • Safe transfer of individuals
  • Resuscitation procedure: ABLS/ILS after undertaking appropriate training,
  • assessment and deemed competent
  • Fire warden
  • Coordinate junior staff and oversee the admission and discharge of service
  • users, ensuring needs of the patient and service including relevant legislative or
  • required documentation are completed.
  • Leading on safeguarding and duty of candor procedures/

  • Ensuring that own practice and that of junior staff remains within legal, ethical, and professional parameters and is open to scrutiny from peers.

    • Job description

    Job responsibilities

  • Leading and supporting junior staff to deliver person centred care.
  • Formulating and documenting a plan of nursing care where possible in partnership with Service Users, carers, family, and friends including personal choices/likes/dislikes/wishes.
  • Evaluating and documenting the outcomes of nursing interventions. Personal care (bathing, dressing, and grooming).
  • Nutrition and hydration (monitor and ensure adequate intake)
  • Emotional and social support.
  • Rest and sleep
  • Pressure care
  • Leading and supporting junior staff to promote recovery
  • Promoting independence
  • Community access/social inclusion (escorts)
  • Engaging with activities of their interest
  • Engaging service users in group activities
  • Leading and supporting junior staff to risk assess and risk manage
  • Undertaking individual risk assessments as per Trust policy
  • Engaging in 1-1 sessions, listening, responding, and reporting
  • Prevention and management of aggression and violence including providing
  • hands on care to prevent injury to self and others using approved techniques
  • such as PSTS/PMVA after undertaking appropriate training, assessment and
  • deemed competent.
  • Reducing Self-harm and promoting suicide prevention
  • Recognising service user health deterioration and taking action – monitoring
  • physical health, checking vital signs such as blood pressure, pulse,
  • respiration, temperature, saturation, blood glucose, glasgow coma scale.
  • Knowledge of the Early Warning Signs (MEWS/NEWS)
  • Reporting incidents as per Trust policy
  • Safe use of medical devices
  • Implementing safe and therapeutic observations policy levels
  • Safe transfer of individuals
  • Resuscitation procedure: ABLS/ILS after undertaking appropriate training,
  • assessment and deemed competent
  • Fire warden
  • Coordinate junior staff and oversee the admission and discharge of service
  • users, ensuring needs of the patient and service including relevant legislative or
  • required documentation are completed.
  • Leading on safeguarding and duty of candor procedures/

  • Ensuring that own practice and that of junior staff remains within legal, ethical, and professional parameters and is open to scrutiny from peers.

    • Person Specification

    Skills

    Essential

  • Excellent communication skills
  • Excellent written skills and clear documentation
  • Understanding and being able to identify the deteriorating patient in a compassionate and professional way
  • Be willing to undertake group activities with patients to support a therapeutic and patient focused recovery

    • Desirable

  • Lead on physical health
  • Lead on emergencies

    • Education

    Essential

  • Dip/MH Nursing or Equivalent level of professional qualification
  • Mentorship Training or practice assessor

    • Desirable

  • Leadership Training

    • Experience

    Essential

  • Experience in working within a mental health setting with adults or children with cute mental illness
  • Experience of medication managment
  • Experience of being in charge of a ward environment
  • Experience of supervising junior staff and student nurses

    • Desirable

  • Experience of implementing quality Improvement projects and sound knowledge of QI methodology
  • Experience of patient flow systems
  • Experience of training junior staff and training other professionals

    • Person Specification

    Skills

    Essential

  • Excellent communication skills
  • Excellent written skills and clear documentation
  • Understanding and being able to identify the deteriorating patient in a compassionate and professional way
  • Be willing to undertake group activities with patients to support a therapeutic and patient focused recovery

    • Desirable

  • Lead on physical health
  • Lead on emergencies

    • Education

    Essential

  • Dip/MH Nursing or Equivalent level of professional qualification
  • Mentorship Training or practice assessor

    • Desirable

  • Leadership Training

    • Experience

    Essential

  • Experience in working within a mental health setting with adults or children with cute mental illness
  • Experience of medication managment
  • Experience of being in charge of a ward environment
  • Experience of supervising junior staff and student nurses

    • Desirable

  • Experience of implementing quality Improvement projects and sound knowledge of QI methodology
  • Experience of patient flow systems
  • Experience of training junior staff and training other professionals

    • 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.

    Certificate of Sponsorship

    Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

    From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

    UK Registration

    Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

    Additional information

    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.

    Certificate of Sponsorship

    Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

    From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

    UK Registration

    Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).