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Service Lead in Mental Health - £3k Welcome Bonus
| Posting date: | 04 November 2025 |
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| Salary: | £53,000.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £53000.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 01 January 2026 |
| Location: | Baldock, SG7 6ND |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | L0012-25-0024 |
Summary
Key Responsibilities: Assuming 24-hour continuous responsibility for the unit, effectively managing resources within allocated parameters. Implementing organisational personnel policies and providing requested statistical data, including sickness and annual leave reports. Coordinating annual leave, maintaining safe staffing levels, and optimizing skill mixes through efficient rota management. Offering decisive leadership by setting clear objectives, delineating staff roles, and fostering a collaborative work environment. Overseeing nursing team activities, delegating tasks equitably, and ensuring adherence to NMC Code of Conduct. Participating in service planning, commissioning, and formal evaluation processes, and promptly addressing accidents, incidents, and complaints. The successful candidate will maintain continuous responsibility for the unit and conduct ongoing care assessments, initiating necessary interventions as needed. Be responsible for managing a ward budget as agreed by the senior management team/finance director Achieving the most cost effective planning of rotas. Approving agreed expenditure within guidelines. Monitoring delegated budgets and expenditure.