Overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen within the Local Service Division to manage Dee Ward, a female adult acute inpatient ward.
Ward Environment
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.
Professional Development
The range of skills you can learn and develop while working on Bridge Ward is wide and varied. Working in this environment can encourage you to become a dynamic, creative, and strong leader, and provide you with the ability to think on your feet, problem solve, and manage a challenging setting.
Role & Responsibilities
This opportunity will be both challenging and rewarding. The successful candidate will receive regular supervision and developmental appraisal, enhancing current practice and future career prospects.
You will need to have excellent interpersonal skills that will enable you to challenge, motivate, influence and inspire colleagues at all levels. You will be expected to demonstrate good clinical assessment skills and to ensure a high standard of care is delivered on the ward. It is imperative that you can engage with carers and outside agencies as one of our main objectives is to support service users to be able to participate confidently in the community with a variety of services.
About Mersey Care
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.
Conditions
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
Qualifications
Applicants should be a registered healthcare professional with experience at Band 6 level or above and have inpatient/post registration experience, together with evidence of post registration study and continuing professional development.
* Minimum of 3 years post registration experience within mental health services.
Closure
This advert closes on Sunday 10 May 2026.
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