Job Description

Location: Northampton

Salary: \xc2\xa348,550 - \xc2\xa354,000 dependent on experience

Medium Secure Division

Are you ready for your next career step or looking for a new challenge?

If you are passionate about patient care and looking for your next position in management that will also provide you with personal development opportunities, working within a strong and established leadership team, then this is for you. You will either be a qualified nurse or hold a clinical professional qualification within a multi-disciplinary profession and will lead a team of nursing and MDT staff to ensure clinical excellence and outstanding care are delivered at all times.

This is a male medium secure ward that will provide care and treatment for working age males with mental illnesses. You will work closely with the other male wards and clinical teams to ensure the pathways between the wards/services are maximised and meet patients\' needs as they progress through treatment and recovery.

You can achieve more at St Andrew\'s Healthcare

You will lead by example and inspire those around you to provide exceptional care and operational and clinical excellence on the ward. As part of the management team, you will work with colleagues and senior leaders to lead your team and achieve CQC outstanding.

The role of the Nurse Manager/Ward Manager

You will have managerial and operational responsibility for your ward and all aspects of performance. Your effective day-to-day nursing leadership and operational management will be key to maintaining excellence across all areas of nursing and care. There is also plenty of scope for innovation as we\'ll expect you to lead processes to improve the quality and operational management of your wards even further.

What you will need for this role

You will have management experience ideally in a deputy manager, manager, or senior leader position, and will be a strong communicator who can lead by example, implement new procedures and embed existing practices with a team. A positive outlook, strong leadership skills and excellent communication skills are vital. We want our Managers to inspire teams and set a clear and compelling vision, so you\'ll need to be able to influence and support everyone around you and be enthusiastic and positive about change.

Why St Andrew\'s Healthcare?

A top 20 UK charity, St Andrew\'s is a unique provider of specialist care in mental healthcare. We aspire to deliver world class, holistic services within our outstanding, modern facilities. Our independence means we can always put patients\' interests at the heart of decision making, while re-investing surpluses in frontline services.

The Northampton site also has other services such as Low Secure, PICU, Learning Disability, Autism, Medium Secure, Forensics, and CAMHS as well as our academic and research centre so great opportunities to broaden and develop your skills in the future too. It also has facilities such as a caf\xc3\xa9, garden centre, charity shop, woodwork & ceramics workshop all staffed by patients and service users along with other facilities such as gym\'s and swimming pools for patients and staff to use and all based in over 150 acres of beautiful woodland grounds.

Northamptonshire is also a great place to live due to having great schools, very reasonable house prices and a good mix of facilities within the town as well as really nice villages and countryside too. Based in the midlands you have great access to the M1 and M6 and will be based under an hour\'s drive / train from London and Birmingham too.

Our patients and your colleagues will expect you to live the St Andrew\'s CARE values of Compassion, Accountability, Respect and Excellence every single day.

And in return?

Benefits are good, with additional hours available if required, a pension, life cover, excellent training, 38 days holiday, car lease scheme, cycle to work scheme and many more.

You will also be part of our expert Clinical and MDT team, giving you plenty of exposure to teaching, mentoring, coaching, and extensive opportunities for continuing professional development, training, and career progression.

Interested? Send us your application here.

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