Ward Manager

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 are service users to be able to participate confidently in the community with a variety of services.

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.

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.

Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.

Qualifications

Essential: - Registered mental Health Nurse or appropriate professional qualification.

Experience

Essential: - Minimum of 3 years post registration experience within mental health services; - Evidence of post registration study / continuing professional development

Desirable: - Evidence of working within inpatient setting

Knowledge

Essential: - Proven experience of leadership and management of clinical care

Skills

Desirable: - Able to use systems that include computer literate; - Ability to lead the process of standard setting and audit