Ward Sister/ Charge Nurse - Adult Acute
Posted 2 days 22 hours ago by NHS
The closing date is 19 September 2025
You will be joining our Adult Mental Health Ward at The Redwoods Centre, Shrewsbury. Birch Ward is a 16 bedded mixed gender adult acute ward caring for patients of working age.
The post is a full time permanent position (37.5 hours per week) and you will be required to work both day and night shifts on a roster basis.
Your career with us will be enjoyable and rewarding as you develop specialist skills and make a real difference for some of the most vulnerable people in society.
Check out the videos below showcasing why you should grow your career here with MPFT:
Why Work for Mental Health Services at MPFT - YouTube
Development and Progression Within Mental Health Services at MPFT - YouTube
What is it like to be an Inpatient Mental Health Nurse at MPFT? - YouTube
Main duties of the jobWhat you will be doing
- Working on an identified adult mental health ward, with the flexibility of working across wards, dependent on skill and service need.
- Delivering high quality clinical service-to-service users and their families.
- Be responsible for the management and care delivery of patients referred to the Ward, by liaising with statutory and non-statutory agencies where appropriate and developing a network of support to patients and their carers to ensure a high standard of therapeutic care is delivered.
- To be responsible for managerial and clinical supervision of other team members where identified.
- Delivering therapeutic interventions, in accordance with an agreed care plan, to an identified group of people experiencing mental health related difficulties.
- To be responsible for the management of the clinical area in the absence of the ward manager and quality lead.
- To implement agreed monitoring of effectiveness of care implementing the essence of care guidance.
Things that you will have:
- Registered professional (NMC)
- Post registration course/s at degree or diploma level
- Registered student practice supervisor and assessor
- A high level of self-motivation and a flexible approach
By joining Team MPFT, you will be helping your communities and in return for this, we will support you by;
- Supporting your career development and progression
- Generous maternity, paternity and adoption leave
- Options for flexible working
- Up to 27 days annual leave (increasing with service up to 33 days)
- Extensive Health and Wellbeing support and resources
- If you work in our community teams, we pay for your time travelling between patients
- Lease car if you complete more than 500 business miles per annum, fully insured and maintained (including tyres), mileage paid at lease car rate
- Salary sacrifice car - fully insured and maintained (including tyres), your gross pay is reduced by the cost of the vehicle before tax, NI and pension deductions are calculated, mileage paid at business rates
- Salary sacrifice bikes up to £2k
- Free car parking at all trust sites
- Free flu vaccinations every year
- Citizens Advice support linked with a Hardship Fund for one off additional support up to £250 (if the criteria is met)
We are proud to be a diverse and inclusive organisation and there is a choice of staff networks that help you meet like-minded people.
Please be aware that the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in completing application forms will be monitored to ensure fairness and transparency. If you have used AI you must state this in your application.
Please note, we may be required to close this vacancy early if we receive a high volume of applications
Job responsibilitiesBefore applying for this exciting opportunity, we encourage you to view the full job description and person specification.
Person Specification Qualifications- Registered mental health professional (NMC)
- Evidence of extensive post registration experience
- student practice assessor
This post is 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.
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