Charge Nurse- Southgate Ward

Job Overview

We’re looking for aspiring leaders and clinically credible nurses to join our dedicated team in Suffolk as a Charge Nurse on Southgate Ward.

This role is a great opportunity for you to develop your leadership skills and progress your nursing career.

We are looking for a registered mental health nurse with great clinical expertise who is ready to move from staff nurse to charge nurse, or who already has experience to share in this field.

While experience in working in inpatients would make you perfectly suited to this role, we are open to welcoming people from clinical backgrounds who have experience in other areas of mental health. We would like individuals to be well motivated, have good interpersonal skills, personal resilience, and enthusiasm for working with acutely unwell adults and their families during a difficult and stressful period in their lives, in terms of their mental health and well‑being.

We also offer great training opportunities to support staff development and will look to support you to develop your skills through leadership courses, mentorship as well as formal recognised qualifications.

It can be a challenging environment at times, so we need clinicians with a positive attitude, compassion, resilience, and a hands‑on approach. It is vital that the clinician is reflective around issues of power and difference, sees the importance of working across systems, and can do that effectively.

If you have the drive to provide excellent care, can demonstrate high quality clinical skills and are willing to go the extra mile to help make a difference to people’s lives, we would love to hear from you.

This post requires full PMA fitness (full training will be given) and the ability to work shifts including nights and weekends over a 7‑day period.

Here at NSFT we pride ourselves on being a welcoming, talented, friendly, and supportive team who enjoy sharing experiences and learning from each other. In addition to ongoing training and development opportunities, we are committed to providing an environment in which you can thrive.

We can accommodate some flexible working in line with the service need.

We have challenges as a Trust, but we have ambitious aspirations, are pushing ahead with exciting transformation work and we need dedicated individuals to support us on our journey. We have strong, established nursing networks coupled with an exceptional leadership team who will ensure you are truly cared for and cared about.

The people here are warm and welcoming, you’ll never be far from the beautiful coastline or Broads National Park. We are close to London and have an international airport in Norwich. Our villages, towns and cities are packed full of history, independent cafés, shops, and theatres. We have excellent shopping, eating out, top‑ranking schooling and affordable house prices.

• NHS pension
• A comprehensive in‑house & external training programmes
• Career progression
• Starting annual leave of 27 days per annum increasing to 33 days per annum based on length of service (plus paid bank holidays)
• Staff physiotherapy service
• Gym membership
• NHS discounts and many more

For further details / informal visits contact:
Name:
Jack Matthews,

Job title:

Ward Manager, Email address: