Ward Manager Mental Health

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust; Runcorn; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in the UK is seeking a registered healthcare professional to lead nursing staff on Bridge Ward, a dynamic mental health unit. Candidates should have a minimum of 3 years post-registration experience and demonstrate excellent interpersonal and clinical skills. This challenging role involves motivating colleagues, ensuring high standards of care, and engaging with service users and outside agencies. The successful applicant will receive regular supervision to enhance their practice and career prospects.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 3 years post registration experience within mental health services.
• Experience at Band 6 level or above.
• Evidence of post registration study and continuing professional development.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage a service to deliver high standards of care.
• Engage with carers and outside agencies.
• Ensure high clinical assessment skills are demonstrated.

Skills

Excellent interpersonal skills

Good clinical assessment skills

Experience in mental health services

Ability to lead and motivate staff

Education

Registered healthcare professional

Post registration experience

Job description

Equal Opportunities

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust celebrates diversity and promotes equal opportunities; we are committed to challenging and eliminating racism and other forms of discrimination and advancing and promoting equality of opportunity in the provision of services and creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We believe that everyone has the right to be treated with dignity and respect. We take positive action to support disadvantaged groups and also particularly encourage applications from ethnically diverse, disabled and LGBTQIA+ people that are under-represented in our workforce. Furthermore we welcome applications from reservists and ex-armed forces personnel as we recognise the benefits of the values, skills, training and experience that they bring to their work with us. We encourage all applicants to share their equality information with us.

Disability Confident Employer

As a Disability Confident Employer, we offer a guaranteed interview scheme for applicants who consider themselves to be disabled who meet the minimum (essential) criteria for the role in the person specification. If you would like your application to be considered under the Trust's guaranteed interview scheme you can indicate this in the personal information section of your online application form.

Support & Flexibility

Should you require a reasonable adjustment to our recruitment process please email [email protected] to ensure that measures can be put in place to support you. Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles. We reserve the right to close any vacancies from further applications when we have received a minimum number of applications from which to make a shortlist. Please ensure you apply without delay if you wish to be considered for this role. Please note: new entrants to the NHS will commence on the first pay point of the relevant band.

Security & DBS

The Trust expects all post holders who require an enhanced DBS for their role and work in Children's & Young People services 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. Trans applicants who require a DBS check and do not want to reveal details of their previous identity can contact the DBS Sensitive Applications Team (01516761452 or email [email protected]) with their application number once they have completed their DBS application form. The team can prevent any previous identity showing on the DBS Certificate, unless the applicant has a conviction under their previous details in which case this will need to be disclosed.

Sponsorship

Applicants requiring sponsorship may wish to determine the likelihood of obtaining sponsorship for this position by assessing themselves against the criteria on the gov.uk website - https://www.gov.uk/check-uk-visa.

Artificial Intelligence

Please be advised that the use of Artificial Intelligence on applications is monitored and if you choose to use this, you must declare this on your application form.

Role Overview

The range of skills you can learn and develop while working on Bridge Ward is wide and varied, working in this environment can encourage you to become a dynamic, creative and strong leader as well provide you with the ability to think on your feet, problem solve and manage a challenging setting. This opportunity will be both challenging and rewarding, and the successful candidate will receive regular supervision and developmental appraisal, thus enhancing current practice and future career prospects. This post will suit a pro‑active practitioner who wants to make a difference for service users who have complex needs and will be able to lead and motivate nursing staff in the provision of high quality patient focused care.

Key Responsibilities

You will need to have excellent interpersonal skills that will enable you to challenge, motivate, influence and inspire your colleagues at all levels, and have an understanding of leading and managing a service. You will be expected to demonstrate good clinical assessment skills and to ensure a high standard of care is delivered on the ward. It is imperative that you can engage with carers and outside agencies as one of our main objectives is to support our service users to be able to participate confidently in the community with a variety of services.

Qualifications & Experience

Applicants should be a registered healthcare professional with experience at Band 6 level or above and have inpatient/post registration experience, together with evidence of post registration study and continuing professional development. Minimum of 3 years post registration experience within mental health services.

About Bridge Ward

Bridge Ward is a dynamic and challenging environment, with a hard-working and dedicated family of staff who strive to provide consistent, high standards of care to the diverse client base that we care for.

About Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust

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.