About this role
Job summary This is a senior leadership role within Barchester Healthcare, a leading provider of high-quality care homes and healthcare services across the UK. As the Deputy Hospital Director, you will be responsible for providing clinical leadership, ensuring compliance with regulations, and delivering quality care to patients with complex mental health needs. The role offers a competitive salary, excellent benefits, and the opportunity to make a meaningful impact on the lives of your patients and team.
Main duties of the job As the Deputy Hospital Director, you will be responsible for creating a caring, supportive, and safe environment for both patients and your team. This will involve providing clinical leadership, ensuring compliance with regulations and legislation, and delivering against quality key performance indicators. You will also be responsible for balancing budgets, developing strategies, and finding time to support the people in your care. This is a demanding but rewarding role that requires management experience, RMN status, and strong leadership skills.
About us Barchester Healthcare is a leading provider of high-quality care homes and healthcare services across the UK. With a commitment to delivering personalized, compassionate care, Barchester has established a reputation for excellence in the industry. The company offers a range of benefits and opportunities for professional development, making it an attractive employer for healthcare professionals.
Job description 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 Essential
The Deputy Hospital Director role requires RMN status and previous management experience. Candidates should also possess strong leadership skills and a passion for delivering high-quality, patient-centered care.
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details Employer name Barchester Healthcare
Address Barchester Healthcare
Mansfield
NG18 4XX
Employer's website https://www.barchester.com/ (Opens in a new tab)