# Charge Nurse

**Company**: Elysium Healthcare
**Location**: Chigwell
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: Permanent
**Salary**: £43000.00
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

As a Charge Nurse at Lakefields Neurological Centre in Chigwell, you will be responsible for motivating, supporting, and managing a team of nurses. You will ensure the day-to-day running of the department is smooth and positive. The centre provides specialist 24-hour nursing and therapy services for people with complex long-term neurological conditions.

**Key Responsibilities:**

- Delegate nursing tasks to Nurses working in the unit and coordinate with other teams

- Monitor service users' conditions and respond to changes

- Supervise other members within the team's unit and provide guidance and support

- Make critical decisions regarding service user assignments, staff scheduling, and resource allocation

- Be liaison between nursing staff and other healthcare professionals, with effective communication and collaboration

**Requirements:**

- A relevant nursing qualification

- NMC registration

- Strong Neuro experience at Charge Nurse/Ward sister level

- Tracheostomy, ventilator, PEG, catheter care competent practitioner

- Experience in leading a team within the complex Neurological/Respiratory care environment

- A positive attitude and be naturally caring and compassionate

- A commitment to high-quality care and to values and evidence-based practice

**Benefits:**

- Annual base salary of £43,000

- The equivalent of 33 days annual leave (including bank holidays) – plus your birthday off and the option to buy additional annual leave

- Career development and training to help you achieve your professional goals

- Access to our Rewards & Benefits platform Ely-Vate

- Wellbeing support and activities to help you maintain a healthy work-life balance

- Access to Blue Light Card

- Life Assurance

- Stream – instant access to earned wages when you need it

- 24/7 GP service and second medical opinion

- Enhanced Maternity Package

- Pension contribution

- Free/subsidised meals and onsite/local free parking

## Skills

### Required
- Nursing qualification
- NMC registration
- Neuro experience
- Leadership skills
- Communication skills

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