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- What you'll bring to the role
Relevant professional qualification and significant experience in a healthcare leadership role.
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Strong understanding of clinical governance, quality, safeguarding and regulatory standards.
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Proven experience leading and developing multidisciplinary teams.
- What you'll bring to the role
Strong communication, decision-making and people management skills.
- What you'll bring to the role
Previous experience within mental health, complex care or a similar healthcare setting.
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Experience working within a regulated healthcare environment, ideally with CQC.
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Experience managing budgets, performance and service improvement.
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Experience of working at senior management or Hospital/Service Director level.
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Priory Hospital Preston £43,014 - £46,314 per annum Full Time - 37.5 hours per weekPriory Hospital Preston has an opportunity for a Deputy Ward Manager to join our team.Based in Bartle, near Preston, Priory Hospital Preston is a 50-bedded mental health hospital, offering an extensive range of services, delivered across four wards. We can support adult males and females with acute mental health needs and eating disorders, and specialise in the management and treatment of these conditions.Priory’s acute services aim to allow more people to be treated closer to home and we support the NHS to repatriate out-of-area patients back to local areas.
What you'll be doing
- Works as Senior Nurse in a Ward or equivalent area ensuring a safe and therapeutic environment for patients, their families and visitors.
- Apply relevant policies and statutory requirements within the ward and hospital framework of governance and communicates requirements to the wider team.
- Ensures that risk is assessed and managed across the immediate and wider working environment and that statutory requirements are met.
- Respects and applies the requirements of diversity and inclusion, promoting and role modelling these across the team.
What we will give you in return
- Free on-site parking
- Birthday Holiday - your birthday as an extra days annual leave
- Enhanced maternity pay
- Contributory pension scheme
- Flexible benefits including reduced rates and access to new schemes including gym membership, IT technology (laptops / tablets / smartphones) and Healthcare Cash Plan (Simply Health Scheme)
- Access to development opportunities
- Sponsorship of professional qualifications through our Individual Professional Development (IPD) panel
- Leadership & management development
- Long service award
- Refer a friend bonuses
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This advert is for Deputy Ward Manager-Acute with Priory Healthcare in Bartle, England. It is listed as a Ward manager role. The advertised salary is £43,014 - £46,314 / year. The contract type is Permanent - Full Time. The application deadline is 17 Sep 2026.
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