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Charge Nurse

Charge Nurse

Greater Manchester Mental HealthWythenshawe / Manchester, GB
14 days ago
Job type
  • Full-time
Job description

Job overview

Why Join Our Team?

Our Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) is at the forefront of a Trust-wide transformation, shaped by national experts and driven by a commitment to excellence. We're building a service that sets the standard for high-quality, trauma-informed psychiatric care across the UK.

Join us and become part of a skilled, compassionate multidisciplinary team working in a modernised, safe, and therapeutic environment — where innovation meets impact.

You’re someone who :

  • Brings a genuine passion for supporting individuals with complex mental health needs
  • Can remain calm, focused, and safe in high-pressure or challenging situations
  • Values continuous learning and thrives in a collaborative team setting
  • Demonstrates empathy, respect, and emotional resilience
  • Ideally has experience in health, social care, or acute / PICU environments

You will assist the Ward Manager in providing Leadership and Operational Management to the Ward ensuring the provision of quality nursing care to all service users on the ward / department. The post holder will assess, plan and implement care, and provide specialist nursing advice and carry out specialist nursing procedures in the agreed care group. You will provide clinical and managerial leadership to junior staff, providing supervision to junior staff and students.

Ready to make a meaningful difference? We’d love to hear from you.

Main duties of the job

  • Support the Ward Manager in the clinical and operational running of the ward
  • Support and supervise junior staff and students
  • Implement change on the ward to improve the quality of patient care and staff wellbeing
  • Provide preceptorship for newly qualified staff
  • To act as a role model within the team continually promoting a high

    • standard of care for all patients admitted to the ward, which is

    effective and responsive to the needs of service users.

  • Act as bleep holder for the unit as required.

    • Working for our organisation

    Greater Manchester Mental Health (GMMH) Foundation Trust employs over 7000 members of staff, who deliver services from more than 122 locations.

    We provide inpatient and community-based mental health care for people living in Bolton, the city of Manchester, Salford, Trafford and the borough of Wigan, and a wide range of specialist mental health and substance misuse services across Greater Manchester, the north west of England and beyond.

    Greater Manchester is one of the world's most innovative, original and exciting places to live and work. From the beauty of the surrounding countryside to the heart of the vibrant inner city with great shopping, entertainment and dining options.

    Wherever you go you will experience a great northern welcome with people famed for their warmth, humour and generosity.

    Our people enjoy their work, have opportunities to learn and develop their skills and are encouraged to generate new ideas that improve care for our service users.

    Detailed job description and main responsibilities

    Education and Experience

    Essential Criteria

  • NMC Registration
  • Evidence of Continuous Professional Development
  • Completion of preceptorship
  • Experience of working alongside people with severe mental health problems particularly in their acute phase of illness
  • Experience of supervising staff
  • Experience of working within a multi-disciplinary team
  • Experience of conducting clinical assessments including risk assessments

    • Desirable Criteria

  • Experience of working within an Inpatient environment / PICU

    • Knowledge, Skills and Experience

    Essential Criteria

  • Knowledge of relevant legislation, Mental Heath Act (1983).
  • Awareness of research methods and clinical audit cycle
  • Ability to utilize evidence-based clinical assessments and therapeutic interventions relevant to the client group.
  • Excellent written and oral communication skills
  • Ability to communicate in a clear and unambiguous way
  • Excellent negotiation and conflict resolution skills
  • Ability to develop effective professional relationships with others
  • Ability to develop good therapeutic relationships
  • Establish and maintain communication with individuals and groups about difficult or complex matters overcoming any differences in communication
  • Develop own skills and knowledge and provide information to others to help their development
  • Participate in partnership working with individuals, groups, communities and agencies
  • Organising and co-ordinating the activities of others within the ward

    • environment

  • Co-ordinating ward meetings

    • Desirable Criteria

  • Demonstrate knowledge of the carers agenda.
  • Demonstrate a knowledge of gender specific issues within inpatient services.
  • Planning off-duty rotas
  • Implementation of quality improvements

    • Other Essential Criteria

  • Work an internal rotation across 24 hours, 7 days a week, including

    • bank holidays.

  • Ability to carry out PMVA Training
  • Ability to administer medication as required.
  • Ability to use manual handling techniques.
  • There is an occasional requirement to travel across the wide footprint of the Trust to attend meetings and events relevant to the role

    • Please see attached job description and person specification

    Staff benefits

  • Pay Enhancements :

    • Band

    Saturday (midnight to midnight) and any week day after 8pm and before 6am

    All time on Sundays and Public Holidays (midnight to midnight)

    Time plus 47%

    Time plus 94%

    Time plus 41%

    Time plus 83%

    Time plus 35%

    Time plus 69%

    4 – 9

    Time plus 30%

    Time plus 60%

  • 27 days annual leave plus bank holidays rising to 29 after 5 years and 33 days after 10 years
  • Excellent pension
  • Cycle to work scheme
  • Salary sacrifice car scheme
  • Wellbeing programme
  • fuelGenie Fuel Cards (for applicable roles)

    • Person specification

    Education and Experience

    Essential criteria

  • NMC Registered
  • Post-preceptorship
  • Evidence of supervising students

    • Desirable criteria

  • Experience working in PICU or acute mental health settings
  • Supervision of junior staff

    • Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

    Essential criteria

  • Good knowledge of the Mental Health Act
  • Delegation, Leadership skills
  • Participation in Quality Improvements

    • Desirable criteria

  • Planning off-duty
  • Audit experience
  • ILS Trained

    • The Trust mandates all post holders who require a DBS for their role to subscribe to the DBS Update Service. You will be required to enrol for this service for a fee of £16 per year and maintain registration throughout your employment with GMMH.

    Applicants are encouraged to apply for posts at Greater Manchester Mental Health who have direct experience of mental health, learning disability or drug and alcohol services either as a service user or a carer.

    The Trust is also committed to safeguarding children, young people and vulnerable adults and requires all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

    We are aspiring to ensure our workforce is representative of the diverse communities that we serve, and we are strongly committed to removing barriers to employment for candidates from under-represented groups, for example BAME, Disabled and LGBT+ communities. If you would like to have an informal chat about the recruitment process for this role or would value some additional support, we’d love to hear from you.

    Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) when writing job applications

    A candidate may utilise the help of AI when writing job application. The assessment of an application is made on its entirety and most times AI-generated content does not fully grasp the context and requirements of the job one applies for thus producing inaccurate and misleading information, especially in the supporting statement section of an application that can lack real life examples of one’s achievements, success and challenges.

    We have added a disclaimer to our application process advising that the use of AI is monitored. GMMH reserves the right to follow up with a candidate at the interview on specific responses and those examples used in the supporting statement to explore it further.

    Sponsorship

    We are proud to be an approved sponsor for the Skilled Worker visa. Applications from individuals who require sponsorship will be considered alongside all other applications. Please be aware that not all roles are eligible for sponsorship. You can review the list of eligible roles and salary requirements on the UK Government’s website – click .

    If you are offered a role with us and you require sponsorship, we will check your eligibility in line with the information on the above website. Your offer of employment could be withdrawn if the role is not eligible for sponsorship, and you are not otherwise able to evidence your right to work in the UK.

    The Home Office introduces new changes from 22 / 07 / 2025 that impact the health and care sector, you may wish to familiarise with it .

    Do you have experience outside the NHS?

    We want to attract and retain people with diverse skills and experience, to deliver inclusive healthcare services to our communities.

    We will consider relevant experience outside the NHS to calculate your salary on appointment.

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