The Priory Group of Companies is the leading provider of behavioural care in the UK. Our purpose is: To make a real and lasting difference for everyone we support.
To achieve this, we organise ourselves into four divisions - healthcare, education and children`s services, adult care, and older people`s care - which together support the needs of more than 30,000 people each year.
The Group currently treats more than 70 different conditions through a nationwide network of over 400 facilities that support service user`s health, care, education and specialised needs and include:
Priory staff from across the UK have chosen the behaviours that we aspire to. They are what we expect from each other and what you can expect from Priory as an employer. The behaviours we aspire to are:
The Priory Group can trace its history back to 1872 when Priory Roehampton was converted into a hospital. Over the following decades, the Group acquired more hospitals and diversified its services. In 1993 the Priory Group moved into specialist education services with the purchase of Jacques Hall Foundation, then an adolescent therapeutic community, in Manningtree, Essex
Our older peoples division, Amore Care, was established in 2009. In 2011, the Priory Group gained Craegmoor, which specialises in autism and learning disability services. In 2014 we opened the first Wellbeing Centre in Fenchurch, London, and acquired the Castlecare Group, one of the UK`s leading providers of local authority funded children`s services. Castlecare, part of our Education and Children`s Services division, delivers high quality services across children`s homes and specialist schools. In September 2015 we acquired Life Works, one of the leading clinics for behavioural care in the UK. Life Works joins Priory Healthcare to continue supporting people with mental illnesses. In December 2015 we acquired Progress Care, a leading provider of specialist education and care in Lancashire. Progress` service for young adults became part of Craegmoor, and its children`s service joined our Education and Children`s Services division.
In mid-February 2016, the Priory Group formally became part of Acadia Healthcare, one of the leading providers of behavioural care in the world.
On 30 November 2016, Priory merged with Partnerships in Care, another UK based healthcare company owned by Acadia. This saw 66 sites, with a total of 1,890 beds, join three of Priory`s divisions: 41 hospitals joined Priory Healthcare, 23 learning disabilities services joined Craegmoor, and 2 sites became part of our Education and Children`s Services division.
Priory Hospital Bristol is part of the Healthcare Division of Priory Group and is a 73 Bed Hospital with 7 various Wards varying from Addictions, Eating Disorders, Acute Mental Health, Acquired Brain Injury, Huntington`s and Dementia.
We are currently expanding our service with the addition to a newly built 12 Bed Psychiatric intensive care unit (PICU) due to open in October 2017.
We are looking to recruit personable, flexible and motivated Nurses (RMN / RNLD & RGN) to deliver first class care to our patients. You will be involved in the personal care and meeting the psychological needs of a diverse group of service users with varying degrees of mental and physical issues.
You will be caring and attentive with the skills to build strong and trusting relationships with people. It is also important that you work well in a team, and are keen to work in fast paced environment.