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Based in the historic city of York, Stockton Hall Hospital is looking for a Charge Nurse for our 112 bedded Forensic medium secure psychiatric hospital, which cares for both mental illness and learning disability patients, which includes an Autistic Spectrum Disorder service and a female service.

The values of Stockton Hall Hospital are what we believe in and what you can count on:

Highest level of Quality
Caring Safely
Integrity
Working together
Valuing people

Stockton Hall Hospital has a reputation for providing high standards of care and treatment to all patients.

Job Role:

To manage and be responsible for the operation of the Hospital including Estates and Facilities.
Directly Line Manage Admin, Medical Secretaries, Maintenance, Reception & Catering and be part of the Hospital Senior Management Team.

Responsibilities:

To manage and develop Support Services, ensuring that the highest quality services are provided within budget.

Manages the maintenance of all the hospital's assets, including the building, within the Capital Expenditure Budget.

Alongside Hospital Director and Regional Finance Manager, identifies budgetary needs (both operational and capital) and puts together proposals to be sent to MD.

Ensures that functional spends are correctly managed within agreed budgets, as well as identifying and flagging any potential overspends on a weekly basis.

Build and maintain effective relationships with external suppliers.

Be highly visible within site to both service users and colleagues.

Seeks advice and guidance from Estates professionals to ensure that all improvements to assets are carried out to Priory minimum standards, as well as meeting any regulatory requirements.

Project manages local capital expenditure, if required, meeting with contractors and ensuring best value.

Lead on site for any building improvements or projects including new builds.

Manage the activities of any contractors on site to ensure all jobs are completed in a timely manner and within budget.

Carry out regular building checks to ensure meets quality and compliance standards.

Responsible for all people issues within support services including leading, developing, recruiting and motivating all team members.

Keeps abreast of the latest developments in the hospitality, catering and maintenance industries, ensuring that best practice are adopted where appropriate.

Provide out of hours support for emergency situations with site attendance if necessary

Ensures team awareness of Priory Customer Satisfaction Surveys, implementing changes as appropriate.

Communicates and implements Priory policies and procedures, ensuring that all regulatory, health & safety and operational standards are adhered to.

Maintain health and safety documentation as delegated within their role, requesting assistance from external contractors as appropriate, together with carrying out local safety checks in line with Priory Group Health and Safety policies

Ensure appropriate external contractors are used to undertake repairs and not to make any repairs or alterations that would affect the safety of the workplace

Report regularly to site manager on health and safety and fire issues

Co-ordinates Health & Safety for the hospital reporting directly to the Hospital Director and feeds back to SMT, Clinical Governance and Health & Safety meetings

Form part of the Senior Management on call rota

You will be expected to provide cover and support to the wider team and site as and when needed

Knowledge / Education / Skills

Excellent communication and negotiation skills
Line Management experience
Experience in project management, ideally with a qualification
Good organisation and time management
Comfortable working within tight deadlines
Ability to handle ambiguity
First class customer service skills

Experience:

The post holder will ideally have experience in a similar role within Hospitality or Healthcare, a track record of direct Line Management responsibility/Senior Management history, a H&S qualification such as IOSH or NEBOSH and experience of Budget Management.

In return for your expertise and hard work, we offer a wide range of benefits including:

Competitive benefits package and time off, including enhanced maternity leave
Extra service annual leave awards
Career development opportunities
An employee assistance programme
Supplemented meals/refreshments when on duty
Free car parking
Relocation support
Payment into the pension scheme
CPD top up
Donation to a charity of your choice

If you are successful, you will be expected to complete a full two weeks induction upon starting with us at Priory and these occur on the first two weeks of every month. If you have to work a notice with your current employer, we recommend you do not hand your notice in until we are able to provide a start date to ensure a smooth transition between companies.

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About us

From education to hospitals, care homes and secure facilities, the Priory Group of Companies offers individually tailored, multidisciplinary treatment programmes for those with complex educational needs or requiring acute, long-term and respite mental healthcare.

The integrated strength of each service provides a seamless transition for the individual as they progress between higher and lower dependency care and across services. This unique approach ensures that every individual has the opportunity to achieve the best possible outcomes and quality of life with the Priory Group.

As 85% of our services are publicly funded and delivered in partnership with commissioners, our teams work with commissioning bodies across the country to provide transparent pricing models and evidence-based care programmes.

Disclosure

All roles will be subject to a successful disclosure at an appropriate level from the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS), Access NI or Disclosure Scotland. We are an equal opportunities employer.

No agencies please

If you forward any CV's to the Priory Group and you are not on the Priory Group PSL and have not been asked to work on the above role we will accept the CV as a gift.

Job Description

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Closing Date

30/09/2024

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