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Salary: Up to £52,591 per annum

Contract Type: Permanent

Location: York

Hours: 35 hours per week (rota-based)

This organisation is a charity dedicated to improving the lives of people living with brain injuries across the UK. Its assessment centres, rehabilitation units, and hospitals deliver expert neurorehabilitation, supporting individuals to regain lost skills and achieve their personal goals. The service supports people with brain injuries resulting from trauma, illness, substance misuse, and other causes.

Employees are passionate about the work they do, with a strong team ethos and a supportive culture where colleagues consistently work together and look out for one another.

Located in York, the service accommodates up to 40 people across two floors and benefits from an attractive setting with open views. It is an innovative, purpose-built independent hospital providing specialist neurobehavioural assessment and post-acute rehabilitation for adults with non-progressive acquired brain injuries.

What You Will Be Doing

Providing daily clinical and operational leadership, ensuring exceptional standards of care at all times
Acting as a positive clinical role model, delivering and promoting evidence-based practice
Ensuring effective admission and discharge planning in collaboration with the People We Support care team
Establishing systems and processes to ensure effective communication and continuity of care, working closely with multidisciplinary teams
Empowering and enabling staff to deliver high-quality, person-centred care
Promoting a learning culture within the ward and encouraging reflective practice across the team
Maintaining the highest standards of care, ensuring robust risk management strategies are in place
Ensuring all staff recognise, report, and respond appropriately to signs of harm, abuse, neglect, or poor practice, in line with safeguarding responsibilities
Taking an active role in staff management, including recruitment, retention, training, professional development, rota management, sickness, and annual leave to ensure safe staffing levels
About You

Demonstrable experience and strong working knowledge of the Mental Health Act
RMN or RNLD qualification
Proven experience managing a ward or large staff team effectively
Strong leadership skills with the ability to motivate, manage, and inspire others
Experience managing complex and diverse care or rehabilitation services
Mentorship in Practice (MIP) qualification or willingness to undertake this
Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to communicate at all levels
What's on Offer

Competitive salary up to £52,591 per annum
38 days annual leave (including bank holidays, pro rata)
Option to buy or sell up to 5 days annual leave
Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)
Group life assurance, eye care vouchers, and free parking
Company pension scheme
Long service and staff recognition awards
Health cash plan
A supportive, inclusive culture that prioritises wellbeing and career developmentSearch is an equal opportunities recruiter and we welcome applications from all suitably skilled or qualified applicants, regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/beliefs, sexual orientation or age