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Hospital Director

Flintshire, CH7 6FQ
Up to £85,000pa DOE
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About the role

Overview

Flintshire, CH7 6FQ
Full Time
Up to £85,000pa DOE
24 March 2025

We are looking for a passionate, focused and experienced Healthcare leader to join our team.

Joining our team on a full time, 40hr per week basis you will oversee Cygnet Delfryn.

At Cygnet you’ll have the chance to make a real impact on clients and their families. It's a challenging role with excellent career prospects, and you'll reap the rewards of empowering others with your focus on high quality of care. Your focus on enabling patient recovery in a compassionate setting will help us achieve our goals – and yours.

Our perks go way beyond pension schemes and excellent professional development.

You’ll also enjoy shopping, travel and leisure discounts – as well as a range of healthcare and financial benefits – to support you to be happy both in and out of work.

Cygnet Delfryn has a total of 58 beds across 3 services

The Lodge:

The Lodge is our high support inpatient rehabilitation service providing 24 beds for women who have severe and enduring mental illness.

The House:

The House is our high support inpatient rehabilitation service providing 28 beds for men who have severe and enduring mental illness.

Rhyd Alyn:

Rhyd Alyn is a six bed community rehabilitation service for women who have been able to progress through the hospital pathway at the Lodge. We also accept referrals from other high dependency inpatient rehabilitation services as well as directly from the community.

The Opportunity…

Reporting directly to the Operations Director, our Hospital Directors are responsible for providing strong and effective leadership to the onsite teams in order to ensure the key objectives are met;

  • Ensure regulatory compliance with Healthcare Inspectorate Wales
  • Achieve Good or Outstanding Overall ratings with our internal quality team.
  • No service to be rated below Good in any domain by our internal quality team for more than 6 months.
  • Achieve budget EBITDA for each service.
  • Achieve budget occupancy as a minimum.
  • Agency use to be below 9%
  • Off shift hours to be less than 20%
  • Staff turnover to be less than 25%

You will have…

  • Leadership experience in a mental health inpatient service
  • A clinical background and qualification
  • The ability to work as part of a team; lead by example, manage performance effectively and use own initiative
  • Experience of working to regulatory guidelines, and a knowledge of legislation and regulatory standards relevant to Healthcare Inspectorate Wales.
  • An understanding of, and commitment to Restorative Just and Learning Culture, and compassionate leadership.

Why Cygnet? We’ll offer you…

  • Competitive salary up to £85,000 plus bonus and company shares structure
  • Monthly reflective practice, support with revalidation & CPD opportunities
  • Expert clinical supervision & peer support
  • A high quality work environment
  • Free meals on duty
  • Employee referral scheme
  • Employee recognition initiatives
  • Opportunity to undertake further learning with our excellent apprenticeship scheme
  • Company paid Life Assurance scheme
  • Smart Health Toolkit- Providing you with Fitness Programmes, Nutrition consultation and Health check
  • 25 days annual leave plus Bank holidays
  • Fully paid training
  • Paid DBS
  • Free parking
  • Opportunities to progress and develop

Please note: successful candidates will be required to undergo an enhanced DBS check.

Cygnet Health Care have been providing a national network of high quality specialist services for over 30 years. In this role you’ll have the chance to make a real impact on patients, service users & their families.

Click apply now or send your CV to vickylinstead@cygnethealth.co.uk 

Please note: We do reserve the right to close this advertisement early if we receive a high volume of suitable applications.

 

Benefits & Rewards

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Group Pension

We’ll look after you beyond Cygnet by helping you save for your future with a pension scheme. Cygnet provides a monthly contribution into your pot for every month you actively pay in.

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Discounted Gym Membership

Cygnet encourages the culture of wellbeing and improving work-life balance and as a result, we are offering Gym discounts. The discounts are across more than 3,000 gyms across the UK. Ranging from the big chains to the small independents – your nearest gym in the scheme won’t be far away!

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Enhanced Maternity

In addition to statutory pay, Cygnet provides enhanced maternity pay.

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Employee Referral Scheme

Do you know other people who would be well suited to working at Cygnet in a Nurse, Doctor, Occupational Therapist, Psychologist or Care & Support Worker role?

Recommend them for potential cash rewards!

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Cygnet Delfryn

Flintshire
Wales
CH7 6FQ
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Cygnet have been amazing with the supervision and support from my manager. They helped me identify my skill set to work on my strengths and weaknesses.
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Cygnet recognised my study achievements at the Staff Achievement Awards where I was a finalist for learner of the year
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At Cygnet I have been able to develop and grow while learning new skills

88% of staff enjoy working for Cygnet

At Cygnet, you’ll work in incredible, inspiring teams and enjoy satisfying careers with plenty of opportunities to grow

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No matter what your role is, we invest in your learning and development to help you achieve your career aspirations.

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Kim

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Kim as part of a response team from Sherwood House attended a neighbouring Cygnet service for a medical emergency.

I just want to express my massive thanks to all the support given yesterday. The team were a class act and worked so well as a team and just did an amazing job.

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alice

management
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Alice came to Outwood as our new manager & I can’t praise this woman enough, she is absolutely brilliant, everything she does, she does it with pride, this is reflected by the things that she does for the residents, their families & staff, she’s very approachable & down to earth & just a lovely lass, & were all very thankful for you Alice!

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Tichona

support worker
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Tich has been here for a very long time, and knows the residents so well, he is such a lovely man with so much knowledge to give to all, both old and new staff, he doesn’t get enough recognition for what he does in the service, he is amazing!

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olukemi

support worker
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I just wanted to nominate Olukemi for this award because recently I received some bad news, she was so thoughtful and kind with her words of comfort, when we get the chance, we sit and talk to one another about life, mental health, the residents that we care for and what were grateful for. Im grateful for her friendship and empathy, she is amazing

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Jack

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I wish to nominate Jack, I watch him with the residents, hes brilliant with them all, helping them to lead as independently as possible lives by encouraging them to try and do new things, he has worked well with a particular resident, introducing him to new foods, textures and flavours. Jack will go far in what endeavour he chooses.

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Nnamdi

Specialty Doctor
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Dr Nnamdi delivers persistently good care and remains calm under pressure, which is an excellent quality to have

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Akudo

support worker
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Akudo is the life and soul of Outwood, she’s amazing with the residents always pushing them towards to reaching their goal as independently as possible, she cares so much about everyone around her and is often there for staff members too. She is absolutely amazing! She is a great colleague and support worker and loved and respected by many.

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Toluwani

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Valued member of the Team, deals with some very challenging and unwell patients and has often been targeted by patients.He is very resilient in these situations and continues to treat the patients with care, respect and dignity. Great role model to colleagues, displays professionalism in all aspects of his role, regardless of the situation he faces

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Michael

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The festive period had many challenges with a change in senior team, emergency admittance and health issues. The experienced team on nights supported the service and residents consistently. Through their resilience and hard work it was a successful festive period for all and this had not gone unnoticed. Thank you Michael.

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Anne

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The festive period had many challenges with a change in senior team, emergency admittance and health issues. The experienced team on nights supported the service and residents consistently. Through their resilience and hard work it was a successful festive period for all and this had not gone unnoticed. Thank you Anne.

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