Acting Ward Manager

at  Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust

Are you interested in leading a team? Do you have excellent communication skills? Do you have a commitment to our Values and Striving for Perfect Care?
An exciting opportunity has arisen within the Local Service Division to manage Pine Ward, Hartley Hospital- mixed acute ward. Candidates need to have excellent leadership and interpersonal skills that will enable them to challenge, motivate, influence and inspire their colleagues at all levels, and have an understanding of leading and managing an acute inpatient ward.
Applicants need to be RN (MH) qualified/have a professional qualification with demonstrable post qualification experience at Band 6 level or above with inpatient/post registration experience.
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, positive use de-escalation techniques particularly whilst being able to listen in order to respond to service users need.
Continuous improvement, delivering care that makes a positive difference to the lives of our service users, their families and carers. We work in partnership with our service users/carers, so if you are successfully appointed you will work with our service users/carers to enable them to achieve their recovery goals and live their lives to the full.
Accountability and professionalism is fundamental part of our nurses role and as a mental health nurse within our services, we expect and will support you to feel safe and confident in the high standard of care that you deliver to our service users during their recovery.
Respect is what we expect, so that our service users, carers, their families and colleagues are in an environment that makes them feel listened to and heard as individuals.
We want our staff to demonstrate Enthusiasm in their attitude, commitment and behaviour towards our service users, carers and colleagues.
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.
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

Please refer the Job description for details