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Job overview

Do you have life experience?

Have you got transferable skills and like working with people?

Are you caring, compassionate, flexible and have excellent communication skills?

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Band 6 Deputy Ward Manager to work on Dee ward , an all female acute ward in Clock View Hospital. 

Dee Ward is a dynamic and challenging environment, with a hard-working and dedicated family of staff who strive to provide consistent, high standards of care to the diverse client base that we care for.

The range of skills you can learn and develop while working on Dee Ward is wide and varied, working in this environment can encourage you to become a dynamic, creative and strong leader as well provide you with the ability to think on your feet, problem solve and manage a challenging setting.

Future aims for Dee Ward include therapeutic and psychological input for clients, this will be driven and provided by the staffing team so staff coming into this role will eventually be provided with additional training that you would not experience working in any of the other local division inpatient wards.

If you think you have what it takes to become part of the Dee Ward team then we would love to hear from you!

Main duties of the job

Can you demonstrate the values of our Trust, Continuous Improvement,  Accountability, Respect and Enthusiasm?

If so look at the opportunity below……

We are looking to recruit a Deputy Ward Manager to join the busy and multi-disciplinary team on Dee Ward.

Successful applicants will be able to support the Ward Manager in  ensuring the environment is managed safely and effectively over a 24-hour period. 

Ensuring the delivery of high standard of care to Service Users,  providing support, supervision and education for colleagues, other professionals and students. 

You will be required to provide clinical advice, expertise and leadership to Ward Staff. You will be required to liaise with other professionals and support the Ward Manager in developing the team and acting up as required.

Working for our organisation

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.