<div><h3>Overview</h3><p>We are looking for a number of Acting Charge Nurses who can demonstrate strong leadership, compassion and empathy to our patients, improving the quality of care and service delivery within a Secure Mental Health and Learning Disability inpatient environment.</p><h3>Role Overview</h3><p><b>This vacancy is for a Charge Nurse and within the Secure Care Division, you may be expected to work at any of our sites across the division. Allocations will be determined by the service, R&R will reflect the amount for that clinical area.</b></p><p>Secure Care Division is responsible for specialised secure mental health and learning disability services, in low, medium and high secure settings.</p><p>Working across the Secure Care Division as part of a multi-disciplinary team, you will contribute to the delivery of high standards of care and treatment to a challenging group of service users.</p><h3>Responsibilities</h3><ul><li>Along with your registered nurse qualification, you will need to have demonstrable experience post preceptorship and demonstrate enthusiasm in your attitude, willingness to work as a team by being flexible and supportive of the wider service.</li><li>Charge nurses will model the Trust values of Continuous Improvement, Accountability, Respect, Enthusiasm and Support in progressing the Trust ambition to achieve perfect care for our patient group.</li><li>As a charge nurse you will operate as the clinical focus for day to day planning of treatment, risk assessment and management of the quality of care delivered to the patient group by a team of nurses, carrying continuous responsibility for care and safety issues during hours of duty.</li><li>Maintain an overview of all cases allocated to internal care coordinators, case managers and care workers.</li><li>Organise and supervise on a day to day basis the work of the nursing staff ensuring that professional standards are maintained.</li></ul><h3>Qualifications and Experience</h3><ul><li>Registered nurse qualification.</li><li>Demonstrable experience post preceptorship.</li><li>Enthusiastic attitude and willingness to work flexibly as part of a team.</li></ul><h3>Working Hours & Shifts</h3><p>Shifts will be rostered in advance as per working practices in your base area. Working hours may include working unsocial shifts such as night duty, weekends, school holidays, Christmas and bank holidays.</p><h3>Organization</h3><p>Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands. We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities. At the heart of all we do is our commitment to “perfect care” – care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We’re currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.</p><h3>Flexible Working</h3><p>Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.</p></div>