Charge Nurse - Mental Health

Job summary

We are looking for experienced Mental Health Nurses with sound leadership skills to join our inpatient services to ensure the effective management on our adult acute and PICU and wards at St James' Hospital in Portsmouth.

Working in Portsmouth offers a diverse inner-city client base where your role will be working collaboratively with the multidisciplinary team, advocating for patients, and supporting colleagues in providing high standards of care and safety.

You will possess skills in leadership, an ability to role model, coach and mentor junior colleagues and students, providing supervision and engagement. You will relish the role of a Charge Nurse, leading by example and supporting colleagues and teams in overcoming challenges and problem solving any complex clinical issues.

Main duties of the job

• Work to the organisational Values of Honesty, Everyone Counts, Accountability, Respect and Teamwork (HEART), show in your behaviour that you value people and the care you give to them.
• Work as part of a multi-disciplinary team in a residential setting using role modelling and clinical leadership to ensure the delivery of holistic, recovery care to all service users, through the supervision of staff at lower grades and in the implementation of the Care Programme Approach.
• Adopt a flexible approach to hours of duty in order to meet the needs of the service over the twenty-four-hour period.

About us

Make a difference with us

If you are looking for somewhere you can make a real difference and are passionate about keeping people safe, well and out of hospital, a career with us may be just what you're looking for. At Solent NHS Trust, we strive to make a difference to the health and wellbeing of our communities.

We are proud to be an organisation which is focused on our people and we welcome people who share our values to come and work with us.

To deliver great care that is safe, simple and easy to access

To be a caring, flexible and supportive place to work

To deliver the best value for money

Our shared values support the development of a strong working culture. They breathe life into our organisation -- guiding and inspiring all of our actions and decisions. They enable us to be better at what we do and create a great place for our staff to work, whilst ensuring we provide the highest quality of care to our patients.

In creating our values, we spent time listening to our employees and members. Based on what people told us, we created our HEART values to reflect the deep belief that we are caring organisation at the centre of our community: Honesty, Everyone counts, Accountable, Respectful, Teamwork.

We are an accredited Real Living Wage employer.

We encourage and support our staff to be vaccinated as this remains the best line of defence against Covid-19.