Charge Nurse in Great Yarmouth

Main area: Mental Health

Grade Band: 6

Contract: Secondment for 14 months (Full time and part time hours)

Hours: Full time, Flexible working, 37.5 hours per week (day and night shifts across the 24/7 period)

Salary: £39,959 - £48,117 gross per annum (pro rata)

Closing date: 15/11/2026 23:59

Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust provides child and adult mental health services, learning disability, wellbeing, older people's and eating disorder services across Norfolk and Suffolk. We are committed to equality, diversity and inclusion and want to reflect the diversity of our local communities within our teams. We welcome applications from all talented individuals with the relevant qualifications, skills, knowledge and experience.

Please note due to the nature of our roles and patient demographic, you will be required to undertake physical intervention training and remain trained, as required by your role.

Job overview: Gt Yarmouth Acute is an acute admission ward. The team offers assessment, treatment and rehabilitation for male & female service users over the age of 18. We provide care services for the following conditions:

• Anxiety
• Delusions
• Intrusive thoughts
• Personality disorder
• Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
• Significant thoughts of self-harm

The length of stay on GYAS can vary from a few days to a few weeks, including a period of rehabilitation. Our team works with our inpatients to ensure we meet their needs and ensure that their stay is as short as possible. Inpatients receive a review each week or more frequently as required. This can include family members, carers or an advocate. Community nurses are also involved in our inpatients' care while on the ward.

Main duties of the job: You will work supportively and collaboratively with the clinical team leader ensuring the effective management of the ward in all respects, environmental, financial and clinical in so far as this relates to nursing practice. Your duties will also include the planning and delivery of direct patient care with appropriate supervision, ensuring continuity of practice and working within a multi-disciplinary team. As a senior nurse, you will be expected to provide clinical leadership to staff in various areas of practice, adhering to the philosophy and clinical skills base of the unit. You will monitor nursing practice on a day-to-day basis and ensure that nursing complements the practice of other professionals. You will be a crucial part of working collaboratively within our MDT, providing holistic care packages for individuals and families on the ward. You will be required to work shifts across a 24-hour period in order to meet the needs of the service and actively participate in the duty senior nurse roster for the Hellesdon hospital.

Working for our organisation: Here at NSFT, we pride ourselves on being a welcoming, talented, friendly and supportive team who like nothing better than 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.

Why work for us? 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 professional networks coupled with an exceptional leadership team who will ensure you are truly cared for and cared about.

Why Norfolk and Suffolk? The people here are warm and welcoming, you’ll never be far from the beautiful coastline or Broads National Park. We’re an hour and a half away from London and have an international airport in Norwich too. Our villages, towns and cities are packed full of history, independent cafes, shops and theatres. We have excellent shopping, eating out, top ranking schooling and affordable house prices too.

Some of the benefits you can expect:

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

Qualifications:

• Registered Mental Health Nurse
• Signed off as a mentor/supervisor
• Registration with the NMC
• Completion of the preceptorship
• Leadership / Management Training

Experience:

• Relevant post-registration experience in a mental health setting
• Management / leadership of junior staff

Skills:

• Good interpersonal and communication skills
• Ability to display calm, mature response to difficult situations
• Ability to demonstrate effective risk assessment and risk management
• Ability to supervise others

Knowledge:

• Understanding of issues surrounding confidentiality
• Awareness of security and its impact and willingness to expand knowledge on it
• Working knowledge / application of the Mental Health Act 1983

Other:

• Ability to travel
• The ability to undertake Breakaway and Physical Intervention training
• Flexibility of duty and hours over a 24hr 7 day a week period

Your application: We can provide all our job application materials in alternative formats so that these are accessible to everyone. Should you require any documents within this job pack in an alternative format, please do not hesitate to contact us at recruitment@nsft.nhs.uk.

Equal opportunities: Apart from its legal duties in relation to equality and diversity, the Trust recognises and actively promotes the benefits of a diverse workforce and is committed to treating all employees with dignity and respect regardless of race, gender, disability, age, sexual orientation, religion or belief. As a part of the Disability Confident Employer Guaranteed Interview Scheme, we interview all disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria for the job vacancy (outlined in the Person Specification). We encourage you to indicate your eligibility through TRAC jobs when applying.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check: This post may be subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.