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Job overview

**We offer a relocation package of up to £8,000**

The relocation package is for anyone who would need to relocate in order to take up employment with Cheshire and Wirral Partnership. Terms and conditions apply.

We are excited to announce a vacancy for a mental health nurse leadership post within the Specialist Mental Health (SMH) Care Group at Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS Foundation Trust. We are looking for an innovative, passionate, and highly skilled mental health nurse who is an
exceptional leader, motivated to promote and capable to enable, high quality nursing care at all levels. Bringing about the best outcomes for our
services users, carers, and communities that we serve and best experiences for our nurses who provide care. The post holder will act as the
Professional Lead for Nursing in the SMH Care Group, working closely with both the Strategic Clinical Director and Associate Director of
Operations of the SMH Care Group and the Associate Director of Nursing and Therapies; Mental Health and Learning Disabilities.

Main duties of the job

To provide a professional voice for nursing across the SMH Care Group and to further develop the vision of the nursing contribution, to the
overarching ambitions of the SMH Care Group. Through effective networking and matrix working with peers, operational and professional leads,

and experts by experience across the SMH Care Group, this post will play a key role in identifying the nursing workforce’s transformative potential,
supporting innovation and new ways of working to meet current and future needs of the people of Cheshire and Wirral. A key priority will be
engaging, supporting, and maximising the potential of the senior nurse leaders to be at their best and to provide exceptional nurse leadership in
their own areas of practice and teams, including with Consultant Nurses, Modern Matrons and Advanced Clinical Practitioners. To participate in
the out of hour’s tier 2 on call rota.

As the Professional Lead for Nursing you will be a core member of the SMH Care Group Senior Leadership Team - the nurse professional
leadership contribution will be centred around:
• Care quality, improvement and research, patient safety and experience, clinical effectiveness, safer staffing, and service transformation.
• Clinical practice – working at an advanced clinical level in their own nursing practice, supporting, enabling, and advising on best nursing
practice and standards.
• Education – continuing professional development, workforce development, preceptorship, and student education.

Working for our organisation

CWP provides health and care services for local people, including mental health, learning disability, community physical health and all-age disability care – including the provision of three GP surgeries.

Our aim is to help people to be the best they can be, adopting a compassionate, person-centred approach to everything we do. We were recently rated as Outstanding for Caring by the Care Quality Commission with a Good rating overall.

We offer a variety of roles at all levels, so whether you are just starting out in your career or looking to use your skills and experience in a new role, CWP is the right employer for you. 

CWP are committed to making our recruitment practices as inclusive as possible for everyone.  We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and developing a culture that values differences. 

To support this, we offer up to three weeks induction, dependent on role, with our Prepare to Care programme for all new starters. This aims to give you all the knowledge and guidance to help you grow and flourish with CWP.

We welcome applications from people who have direct experience of accessing our services.