Ward Manager

Job summary

About Priory Barnt Green

Priory Hospital Barnt Green is located in the stunning Lickey Hills Country Park, 10 miles south of Birmingham City Centre. We have thirty-three beds across three wards including ten NHS Psychiatric Intensive Care beds for women, thirteen NHS acute beds for men and women and ten private beds for men and women. In addition to providing inpatient services, the hospital has a large Outpatient department and regional conference facilities.

The successful candidate will have the opportunity to play a leading role in opening this new ward, leading a new staff team and extending Priorys established reputation for delivering the highest standards of care to a new site and broadening Priorys provision of services in the Birmingham area, alongside its well established services at Woodbourne Priory Hospital and the Birmingham Wellbeing Centre.

We are currently looking for a Ward Manager on our 10 bedded adult PICU. A nursing qualification and an active NMC registration is a requirement as well at least 2 years of management experience. Experience on a PICU is desirable.

If you are looking for an employer thats passionate about supporting your career progression, where you can shape and lead a committed, diverse and values-driven site team, and you share our passion for delivering outstanding care to make a real and lasting difference to patients lives, then this role presents an excellent opportunity for you.

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Main duties of the job

We are proud to offer:

• Excellent salary
• £5000 welcome/retention bonus
• Many benefits in line with the NHS
• Working with a dedicated multidisciplinary team
• Free on-site parking
• Enhanced maternity pay
• Flexible benefits including reduced rates and access to new schemes including gym membership, IT technology (laptops / tablets / smartphones) and private healthcare
• Access to development opportunities including:
• Sponsorship of professional qualifications through our Individual Professional Development (IPD) panel
• Improved CPD application & panel process
• £250 Contribution towards CPD
• Leadership & management development
• Support with your Revalidation
• NMC Payment in full
• Long service award

About us

About us

As one of the UKs leading providers of behavioural care and specialist support services to adults and young people, Priory Group promise a challenging and fulfilling career with the support of a world class organisation willing to invest in your development.

Across our network of hospitals, residential care homes, education facilities and supported living services, we are making a real and lasting difference to the lives of the people we support.

Priory maintains that vaccination remains our very best line of defence against COVID-19 and believes that our colleagues working with vulnerable individuals have a professional duty to be vaccinated. As part of our wider infection control efforts, and to meet our commissioner and customer requirements, we continue to record vaccination status for all colleagues and we therefore request that you disclose this information as part of your application. Your vaccination statuswill not affect any offer of employmentand will be held in line with GDPR requirements. We thank you for your understanding.

All roles will be subject to a successful disclosure at an appropriate level from the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS), Access NI or Disclosure Scotland.We are an equal opportunities employer.Priory Group will cover the cost of a DBS check.