We are currently recruiting on behalf of one of the UK’s leading providers of behavioural care and specialist support services for a Deputy Ward Manager / Charge Nurse based within an independent hospital in Cheadle.
The hospital offers a range of comprehensive inpatient mental health services for young people and adults. The focus of our service is to help people to live their best life in a safe and supportive environment.
The acute mental health units for adult male and female patients offer a 24-hour admission service to support local NHS services and PICU wards. The ethos of the acute wards is to provide support in a crisis and offer therapeutic engagement during the in-patient stay. The specialist inpatient acute teams are committed to providing the highest quality of care, supporting patients with a wide range of mental health conditions, such as schizophrenia, personality disorder, depression, bipolar disorder and other diagnoses, in safe and highly therapeutic environments.
The role of the Deputy Ward Manager is to provide senior nursing leadership to the ward nursing team in support of the Ward Manager. The duties of the role include but are not limited to:
1. Assisting the Ward Manager in providing day to day management and supervision of the ward
2. Assisting the Ward manager in providing management and supervision of a team of registered and unregistered staff.
3. Implementing best practice across the ward
4. Sup...