Charge Nurse

NHS Scotland is committed to encouraging equality and diversity among our workforce and eliminating unlawful discrimination. The aim is for our workforce to be truly representative and for each employee to feel respected and able to give their best. To this end, NHS Scotland welcomes applications from all sections of society.

Applications are invited from individuals who wish to join our multidisciplinary Adult Community Mental Health Team. There is 1.0 WTE full time (36hrs) post.

As the successful applicant, you will have extensive experience of working with people with a wide range of mental health problems; have specialist clinical knowledge of best practice in Mental Health Nursing and will be an excellent example to your colleagues in the delivery of holistic person centred care. As a Charge Nurse, you will exhibit strong leadership and management skills, will influence and develop practice and will take forward new initiatives within a busy multi-disciplinary team.

The individual we are looking to recruit will be educated to degree level or will be able to evidence comparable experience. Clinically you will work in partnership with people to provide psychosocial and psychological interventions, facilitating, enabling and supporting them within their homes and communities. Within Your Charge Nurse role, you will be responsible for leading and managing day to day work of the Nursing Team and will support Team Leader to ensure the delivery of safe, effective, person-centred services for people with severe and/or enduring mental health problems.

There will be a requirement to provide a supervisory role to members of staff within the nursing team, and to fulfil the CMHS Duty Worker role. Working as part of a collaborative multidisciplinary team you will demonstrate effective communication and interpersonal skills as a core component of your role.

If you have these skills, display strengths based and social inclusive approaches to working, can lead and manage change and are committed to improving the lives of people with mental health problems then we would like to hear from you.

You must be registered on Sub-Part 1:

RN3 or RNMH of the UK NMC Register

Hours of work are: 36 hours, currently Monday to Friday.

If you are a current member of staff, please ensure you update your Jobtrain profile to reflect that you are employed by NHS Tayside