The Deputy Hospital Director role at Barchester Healthcare is a demanding, but incredibly rewarding position. As the clinical leader of the hospital, you will be responsible for ensuring a caring, supportive, and safe environment for both patients and your team. This role requires strong management experience, RMN status, and natural leadership skills to meet the complex care needs of the patients, balance budgets, and develop effective strategies.

Main duties of the job

As the Deputy Hospital Director, your primary focus will be to create a caring, supportive, and safe environment for your patients and team. This role involves providing clinical leadership across the hospital, ensuring compliance with regulations and legislation, and delivering against quality key performance indicators. You will be responsible for meeting each patient\'s complex care needs, balancing budgets, and developing strategies, all while finding time to support and develop your team members. This is a demanding, but incredibly rewarding role that will allow you to make a significant difference in the lives of patients with complex mental health needs.

About us

Barchester Healthcare is a leading provider of healthcare services in the UK, operating a network of care homes and hospitals that offer a range of services, including residential care, nursing care, and specialist mental health care. The organization is committed to delivering high-quality care and supporting the professional development of its staff.

Job responsibilities

ABOUT THE ROLEAs Deputy Hospital Director, creating an environment that\'s caring, supportive and safe for your patients and team will be your number one priority. It\'s a role of leadership that will see you providing clinical leadership across the hospital, making sure we\'re complying with regulations and legislation and delivering against quality key performance indicators.

ABOUT YOUThe Deputy Hospital Director role calls for management experience, RMN status and natural leadership skills. You\'ll be ensuring each patient\'s, sometimes complex, care needs are met by your team. You\'ll also have responsibility for balancing budgets and developing strategies, while always finding time for the people in your care.

This is a demanding, but incredibly rewarding role at Barchester; in addition to occasional weekend, bank holiday and out of hours working, this role may require your participation in an on-call rota. Day to day, you\'ll really make a difference to the lives of patients with complex mental health needs, and to team members who are looking to develop their careers with us.

REWARDS PACKAGE As well as a competitive salary, Barchester offers one of the best rewards packages in the care sector. This includes:

• Free learning and development
• Automatic enrolment into our profit share scheme
• A range of holiday, retail and leisure discounts
• Mentor bonus scheme
• Automatic entry into Excellence Awards and annual bonus scheme

If you have the leadership skills and passion to deliver the type of care you\'d expect for your loved ones, this will be a very rewarding and fulfilling career move

Person Specification

Qualifications

• The Deputy Hospital Director role requires RMN (Registered Mental Nurse) status and management experience. You should also possess strong leadership skills and the ability to meet the complex care needs of patients, balance budgets, and develop effective strategies.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.