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Providing quality, inspiring innovation and delivering value is what we set out to achieve at Priory Healthcare. Enabling our patients with mental health difficulties to receive a truly integrated and holistic approach to their treatment, regardless of complexity or severity, thanks to the knowledge and expertise of our multidisciplinary clinical teams.
Burton Park provides specialist neurobehavioural rehabilitation for people with an acquired brain injury, including traumatic brain injury and stroke or a progressive neurological condition to reduce challenging behaviour and optimise functional skills. Burton Park is a 50 bedded inpatient rehabilitation service, across three units and patients are supported to maximise their level of independence. A variety of care pathways can be offered, including intensive or slower stream neurobehavioural rehabilitation which can optimize patients living in the least restrictive setting. As part of the intensive neurorehabilitation provided on-site at Burton Park, there is a large emphasis placed upon community rehabilitation in order to prepare the patient to move back to their local area as independently as is possible. Burton Park is situated in the historic town of Melton Mowbray, a thriving market town. Here patients can access local amenities such as a leisure centre, cinema, shops, restaurants and cafés to support their full rehabilitation programme. The TDT includes full time Neuropsychologists, Psychiatrists. Occupational Therapists, Physiotherapist, Speech and Language Therapists, Social Work along with Qualified Nurses and Rehabilitation Assistants. Outcome measures are routinely collected and individual`s progress tracked.
Burton Park boasts a range of facilities utilised by the TDT and patients as they work through their specialist individual rehabilitation plan.
The role
Burton Park is looking for a Ward Manager to provide visible leadership and effective management of a high quality evidenced based nursing care as part of a trans-disciplinary team within a neuro psychiatry environment.
Our Ward Manager role involves:
- Providing high profile, visible clinical leadership to the ward nursing team
- Being responsible for, promote and safeguard the well-being and interests of all patients, employees and visitors
- Ensuring that standards of patient care are maintained at all times within the parameters of operational policies and governing legislation
- Acting as a positive role model and reflection of the service at all times for patients, employees and visitors
- Supporting the delivery of learning and development for the transdisciplinary team
- Implementing CPA processes and ensuring completion all required assessments and care plans within the required timescales
- Undertaking the role of CPA Coordinator and/or Primary Nurse, ensuring they are the key contact for families and significant others, and providing necessary reports within both the CPA and legal framework
- Ensuring the nursing team are informed of and comply with all relevant hospital policies, particularly those relating to health and safety, fire, security and confidentiality
- Undertaking preadmission assessment of referrals in a timely manner
- Being responsible for managing effective rotas for each unit, and ensuring sufficient staff are in situ at all times
- Being responsible for maintaining nurse recruitment according to business requirements
- Liaising with the Lead Nurse and Hospital Director to ensure effective resource management in line with the budget for the unit
- Ensuring the unit meets all clinical performance indicators through effective line management of staff
- Undertaking any serious untoward incident investigations or relevant HR investigations
- Being responsible for the day to day administration of annual leave and sickness pertaining to the nursing team
- Being responsible for the provision of regular supervision sessions and ensuring that annual appraisals are completed for all nursing staff as allocated in accordance with hospital policy
- Identifying the training needs of nursing staff within their immediate line management, with a view to enhancing opportunities for individual professional development within the department
- Ensure any performance issues of allocated staff are addressed fairly and consistently, developing performance plans when required
- Taking part in an on-call rota and effectively managing site resources to meet the needs of the service as a whole while responding proactively to the out-of-hours needs of the site
- Supporting
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