Ward Manager

Medium Secure - Fairbairn

Lead by example and inspire those around you to provide exceptional care and operational excellence on our wards. Work for a charity that re-invests its profits into new services and new facilities and help transform mental healthcare. You will either be a qualified nurse or hold a clinical professional qualification within a multi-disciplinary profession.

Why St Andrew’s Healthcare?

A top 20 UK charity, St Andrew’s is a unique provider of specialist care in mental health and learning disability. We aspire to deliver truly 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. We are currently transforming the Charity and have introduced Integrated Practice Units (IPUs) as the vehicle to deliver ‘Value Based Healthcare’. This will ensure our patients consistently get the best possible outcomes and local teams gain more control and responsibility.

The ward

The largest UK medium secure service for deaf men aged between 18 and 65 years old.

Fairbairn is a 15 bed ward in purpose-built medium secure service which manages deaf or hearing impaired (profound, severe, partial or hard of hearing) patients’ with complex mental illness in a culturally sensitive environment.

The ward accepts patients with a wide range of diagnosis including mental illness, learning disability, brain injury, autism spectrum disorder or personality disorder.

You will work as part of the Medium Secure Division and therefore will be required to support other wards and work on other wards within this role too.

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 support and operational leadership will be key to maintaining operational excellence and high levels of nursing and care. There’s 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 experience in a management position and will be skilled in British Sign Language (BSL) as a preference. A positive outlook, strong leadership skills and excellent communication skills are vital. We want our Managers to inspire our teams and set 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.

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

Interested?

Please get in touch with Faith Hukin on or hit the “apply now” button!

Closing Date: Thursday 29th August

Interview Date: Tuesday 10th September