Charge Nurse - Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services

NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde is one of the largest healthcare systems in the UK employing around 40,000 staff in a wide range of clinical and non-clinical professions and job roles. We deliver acute hospital, primary, community and mental health care services to a population of over 1.15 million and a wider population of 2.2 million when our regional and national services are included.

The shift pattern for this position is 24/7. 

An exciting opportunity to join the National Childrens Inpatient Psychiatric Unit within the Royal Hospital for Children (Ward 4) as Charge Nurse has arisen. You would be providing care coordination for complex cases and working with families and carers to support them during inpatient care for their young person. You should bring to this role a motivation to support young people and their families and a desire to ensure that care is co-produced and developed in line with a young persons views. You should have knowledge of the Mental Health Act. Your approach to this role should ensure you maintain your professionalism at all times whilst communicating complex and highly sensitive information.

You should demonstrate a collaborative approach to working with:

• a range of professional groups
• teams 
• and agencies.

You should be able to demonstrate highly reflective skills and ensure you can maintain objectivity and hold compassion at the core of the care you plan and coordinate. Ward 4 inpatient psychiatric unit is National serving the full of Scotland Board areas. You will have opportunity to work with a range of teams across these areas. Central to this this role so is the responsibility to develop and be the key contact for families and work to support families comprehensively reflecting on all the needs of families whilst their family member remains in inpatient care.

You will work in multi-disciplinary teams whose aim is to provide high quality support, assessment and interventions in line with evidence based practice and national policies/ agendas. You will have knowledge and experience of working in teams where care is coordinated and you will fully understand the impact of integrated care and services. You will be nurse registered and have relevant experience in planning and providing person centred and outcome based care. A strong culture of support, development, CPD, reflective practice and supervision exists to maximise our patients experience, safety and outcomes and your career progression. We are ambitious in our visioning for the future and are clear about the need to further develop integrated services that ensure that children, young people and families receive the right support, at the right time and in a way that best meets their needs.

As such, you will be required to be:

• person centred
• innovative in your thinking and practice
• with excellent ability to communicate effectively and compassionately with children, young people, their families, health and partner agencies.

We are committed to providing person centred care, trauma informed care and compassionate care in order to help young people on the road to recovery. We are looking for a motivated and compassionate leader to join our team. The Charge Nurse (Mental Health) role requires the applicant to work as member of MDT team, undertaking duties without direct supervision, supporting and supervising work undertaken by registered and unregistered nursing staff as well as taking charge in the absence of the Senior Charge Nurse. This is inclusive of but not exclusive to: leading on the formulation of nursing care plans for clinical cases, supporting triage of patients into the inpatient service reviewing and leading on change to achieve clinical best practice. The Charge Nurse will lead in empowering junior staff to be caring, compassionate, and professional and have behaviours that foster trust and confidence in the service for young people and their families/careers in their care. Another core component of the role is to take on workforce management from planning the effective running of safe staffing levels to balancing skill mix to meet service delivery needs as well as support with the recruitment, training and auditing processes. We would welcome a conversation with you in relation to this role if you have any further questions so please contact us for discussion.

Informal contact: Diane Sutherland, Senior Charge Nurse, , Diane.sutherland@ggc.scot.nhs.uk

Details on how to contact the Recruitment Service can be found within the Candidate Information Packs.

NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde encourages applications from all sections of the community. We promote a culture of inclusion across the organisation and are proud of the diverse workforce we have.

By signing the Armed Forces Covenant, NHSGGC has pledged its commitment to being a Forces Friendly Employer. We support applications from across the Armed Forces Community, recognising military skills, experience and qualifications during the recruitment and selection process.

NHS Scotland is reducing their full time working week from 37.5 to 37 hours per week from 1 April 2024 but with no change in pay.  This reduction will also be applied pro rata for part time staff.  This advert and any subsequent offer/contract of employment therefore reflects the new working hours.  However, as not all service areas will be able to adopt the 37 hour working week immediately from 1 April 2024, you may be required to work up to an additional 30 minutes per week for a temporary period for which you would be paid until the service you are working in changes rosters or working patterns to accommodate the new reduced working week.  If you have any questions or concerns please contact the Recruiting Board.

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