Senior Nurse Manager - Adult Mental Health Inpatient Services

Job overview

• We are seeking a highly motivated, successful professional nurse to join our Adult Mental Health Directorate team in the role of Inpatient Senior Nurse Manager.

You will have significant post registration experience with a proven track record of excellent leadership and managerial skills and embody the Cardiff and Vale UHB’s Health board values.

In return we offer you the opportunity to develop and enhance your career / skill set with a team of like-minded Senior Managers committed to improving patient care in this pivotal role to the service.

Main duties of the job

• We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced, motivated and creative nurse to help shape and advance the direction for nursing at a senior level in the fields of Inpatient Adult Mental Health care. You will provide professional leadership to the mental health nurses in Adult Acute and Psychiatric Intensive Care settings. You will contribute to the Mental Health Services for Adult Directorate in terms of the shaping the clinical nursing strategy, and shaping the service as a whole. You will play a significant role in developing our inpatient services, and you will be part of the Directorate’s drive to improve and maintain clinical governance, quality and safety and service delivery. As the successful applicant you will have experience at Sister / Charge Nurse level (or equivalent) and will demonstrate a familiarity with managing service change and communicating service objectives to your teams in an effective and successful way. You will exemplify the characteristics of enthusiasm, positivity and resilience. The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; Welsh and/or English speakers are equally welcome to apply.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

You will be able to find a full Job description and Person Specification attached within the supporting documents or please click "Apply now" to view in Trac

The successful applicant will be responsible for:

Providing clinical leadership to the nursing establishments with Adult Inpatient Services

Provide day to day line management of ward nurses, resources and financial management.

Operationally line manage all nurses within the Adult Inpatient Service including Acute, Intensive Care and Site Co-Ordinator teams.

Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification.