Priory Hospital Cardiff

Alongside our service users, we celebrated our wonderful Hospital Director’s birthday yesterday! Lots of cake 🍰, decorations 🎈, gifts 🎁 and kind words were exchanged ☺️. Happy birthday Michelle - you really are fantastic. 🎉🥳

At Priory Hospital Cardiff, we pride ourselves in offering a Bespoke Treatment Package tailored to each individual we support.

To enable us to do this, we provide bespoke training to ensure we teach and continuously upskill our staffing teams, whilst embedding Priory Policies and Values.

Our training events allow our teams to learn and understand an individuals history, their functioning profile and support needs. This feeds into a holistic review of the proposed treatment plan and creates opportunities for team building. Take a look at some photos of a recent (4 day) training event held!

We are so grateful for the compassion and dedication displayed by our team in providing recovery focused care. ✨

Two of our wonderful Healthcare Assistants have recently been successful in obtaining Registered Nurse posts at Priory Hospital Cardiff. You were fantastic Healthcare Assistants and we are sure you will be fabulous nurses! 🥳🥂🎉

Congratulations Sam & Ruth - we are so proud of you. 👏🏥

Happy Psychologist Appreciation Day! 📚🥳

Today is a day to celebrate our amazing psychology team! We are so grateful for our Registered Forensic Psychologist, Cath and our Psychology Assistant, Ashleigh. You are key in delivering bespoke interventions to our service users and supporting our nursing teams to become the best version of themselves.

You bring us structure, stability, creativity and compassion. Thank you for everything you do - we really appreciate you. 💗

HAPPY FIRST BIRTHDAY PRIORY HOSPITAL CARDIFF! 🥳🎉🎈

On 7th June, it was one whole year since we opened our doors to our first service user! In typical Priory Hospital Cardiff style, there had to be a huge celebration!

The day consisted of party bags and affirmation cards for our wonderful team 🎁, a smashing party and barbecue with our service users 🍗, party games 🎳🧩, decorations 🎈🎉, speeches 🎤🗯️, a Photo Booth 📸 and the biggest cake ever made!! 🍰

We also used the party as an opportunity to thank our wonderful service users and our incredible staffing team. We handed over a garden that has been revitalised, putting some plants and new garden furniture in place. This garden will be used by our staff to rest and recharge on their breaks (especially during the summer months!!). ☀️

This truly was a wonderful day and we are very proud of the positive impact we have had on our service users lives. 💖

We are recruiting a Night Charge Nurse to join our skilled Charge Nurse team at Priory Hospital Cardiff!👩🏾‍⚕️👨‍⚕️

💵 Excellent salary.
🚘Free on-site parking.
🌮Supplemented Meals on duty.
🌎25 Days annual leave plus bank holidays.
🎂Birthday Holiday - Your Birthday as an extra day annual leave.
🫄Enhanced maternity pay.
💰Contributory pension scheme.
💻Flexible benefits including reduced rates and access to new schemes including gym membership, IT technology (Laptops / Tablets / Smartphones) and private healthcare.
💫Access to development opportunities.
📚Sponsorship of professional qualifications through our individual Professional Development (IPD) panel.
🙇‍♂️Leadership and Management development.
🎖️Long service award.
💷Refer a friend bonuses.
🏡 Relocation support (including payment for accommodation or moving costs) up to £3000 (Terms Apply)

If you would like an informal discussion about this post, please contact:

Hospital Director, Michelle Mason on [email protected] or BTP Manager, Christie Reames on [email protected] ✨

Alternatively, apply below! 👇

https://apply.priorygroup.com/vacancies/91794/charge_nurse/

Happy International Nurses Day to our wonderful colleagues at Priory Hospital Cardiff and all around the world!

We are so grateful for the difference you make to our service users lives. 👩🏾‍⚕️👨‍⚕️

We would like to wish all of our staff and their families a Happy Eid Mubarak!

Last month, our valued leaders at site had the opportunity to practise the leadership behaviour of “Pause and Think,” by coming together to share experiences and learn some new skills.

We are also welcoming another member of our Charge Nurse team, Sam, who will be an asset to our service!

What a successful day and exciting time for Priory Hospital Cardiff! ✏️📘🗒️

Happy Easter to all, from everyone at Priory Hospital Cardiff! 🐣🐰🐥

Happy Wellbeing Wednesday!

Last weeks exercise encouraged our whole team to reflect on our day or week and think about three good things which happened, or we felt grateful for.
These could have been big things or small everyday occurrences which made us smile.

We could write these down, just sit and think about them, or share them with someone else.

Here are some examples of what makes Priory Hospital Cardiff happy! ☺️

At Priory Hospital Cardiff, we are on the look out for a skilled leader to join our amazing Charge Nurse team!

The successful candidate will:
* Have clinical and leadership experience that provides the expertise and confidence required to support the wider nursing team.
* Be able to respond flexibly to change and the developing needs of the service.
* Be responsible for deputising in the absence of the BTP manager if necessary and therefore must demonstrate a willingness to develop and expand on their existing roles and responsibilities
* Be role models for their peers and demonstrate core priory values at all times - the expectations of this will need to be clearly set out.

In return, the following benefits are available:
* Excellent salary
* Free on-site parking
* Supplemented meals on duty
* 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
* Birthday Holiday - Your Birthday as an extra days annual leave
* Enhanced maternity pay
* Contributory pension scheme
* Flexible benefits including reduced rates and access to new schemes including gym membership, IT technology (laptops / tablets / smartphones) and private healthcare
* Access to development opportunities
* Sponsorship of professional qualifications through our Individual Professional Development (IPD) panel
* Leadership & management development
* Long service award
* Refer a friend bonuses
* Relocation support (including payment for accommodation or moving costs) up to £3000 (Terms apply)

If you wish to discuss the above please contact a member of our recruitment team on [email protected]

Or;

APPLY TODAY!!

https://apply.priorygroup.com/vacancies/88838/charge_nurse/

On Wednesday, some of the team took time together to engage in wellbeing activities, team building tasks and to have some space to reflect on our work experiences.

We also recognised the skills, strength and compassion that enables our team to support our clients. We are very grateful to have such hard working and dedicated staff. 🤩

Thank you to our amazing Registered Psychologist, Cath and Psychology Assistant, Ashleigh for preparing and delivering this day for us all. We are so appreciative of everything you do to support our service. 😊✨

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Happy Birthday to our amazing BTP Manager Christie! We hope you've had a lovely day. Thank you for your dedication and for being a core member of our team!

Due to our wonderful Receptionist moving on, we have a new opportunity for a Receptionist position at Priory Hospital Cardiff.

Full-Time Position
Shifts are 7am - 7pm with a 1.15 hour break (4 days/ 3 days fortnightly shift pattern) with every other weekend off.
Annual Salary of £21,840.

Apply below:-
https://apply.priorygroup.com/vacancies/87364/general_administrator/

Alongside our service user festivities, this month we will be celebrating Christmas by hosting our ‘12 Days of Christmas Wellbeing.’ In collaboration with our MDT, we have created 12 wellbeing initiatives to encourage staff to take time for themselves this festive season and to thank them for the difference they make, each and every day.

Day 1 - “Candy Cane Kindness.” Our two little elves (Ashleigh and Lana) have been out delivering some sweet treats with personalised messages to all staff.

Stay tuned for our next event! 🧑🏾‍🎄🎄🎅🏻

Happy Safeguarding Week!

✨Meet Diane, our Registered Learning Disabilities nurse. Diane has been nominated as a “Safeguarding Hero” for the work she completes in raising and escalating concerns and raising awareness of safeguarding across site. Well done Diane!✨

💡Safeguarding adults means protecting a persons right to live in safety, free from abuse and neglect💡.

At Priory Hospital Cardiff, we strive to provide informed choices to empower our service users to plan for their future. In regards to safeguarding, we base our beliefs on prevention - we strive to ensure our service users and staff are aware and responsive to raising concerns.

During Safeguarding Week, we asked our staffing team 3 questions:
- What makes me feel safe?
- How can we improve safeguarding at Priory Hospital Cardiff?
- Who do I report safeguarding concerns to?

Responses have been placed on our safeguarding board for all staff to view 🤩

Today, we shone a light on our fantastic Healthcare Assistants at Priory Hospital Cardiff. 💡

Two of our wonderful HCA’s, Shaun & Kurtis model some of the goodies delivered to the units today!

Thank you for everything that you do for our service users and each other. We are so appreciative of each and every one of you. ☀️

Today, we supported Children in Need at Priory Hospital Cardiff! We wore pyjamas/something yellow and our service users have spent the week preparing baked food to enter into our ‘Bake Off’ competition. We got to know/learned more about one another, played pool, karaoke, painted faces and had such an amazing time raising money for a special cause! 🐻🤩👨‍👩‍👧‍👦☀️

“When you go home, tell them of us and say, for their tomorrow we gave our today.”

Happy Occupational Therapy Week! 🎨🎲👩🏾👨👨‍👩‍👧

A HUGE shout out to our amazing Occupational Therapist, Hannah and our absolutely fabulous Occupational Therapy Assistant, Abby. We are so appreciative of everything you both do, so thank you from us all at Priory Hospital Cardiff ✨

Occupations are anything and everything we DO as individuals, when we have trouble completing important and essential occupations for a variety of reasons, Occupational Therapists and Occupational Therapy Assistants step in!

Occupational Therapy within Forensic Mental Health looks different everyday, but at Priory Hospital Cardiff we believe recovery happens through activity. From scrapbooking, to writing raps, to making jelly, to gardening, to morning Zumba .. we do it all - if it matters to patients, it matters to Occupational Therapists. Magic happens when we DO occupations, and that’s why it’s important we maintain and strengthen them whilst in hospital.

This OT week we’ve been developing our patients understanding of occupations, and even got the chance to get our MDT stuck into a gardening session! 👨‍🌾🌾

Today we had an MDT day on ‘Embedding and Personalising Recovery Orientated Practice’ at Priory Hospital Cardiff.

Lots of new ideas to bring to our developing service, which will benefit our service users and staffing teams! ✨👏

This was certainly a productive Monday! 😊

On 20/10/2023, Priory Hospital Cardiff wore red to support 'Show racism the red card' day. Staff had red goodies and our fabulous OT team supported 'red' activities at site.

https://www.theredcard.org/wear-red-day/

Congratulations to Georgia, who was successful in obtaining a Charge Nurse position at Priory Hospital Cardiff!
Georgia has been a Registered Nurse for many years and her experience, dedication and compassion is invaluable to our service.
We are certain that she will be a wonderful asset to our Charge Nurse team.
Well done Georgia! ✨

Nursing team wellbeing treats hand delivered to our units on Friday.
Thanks for being simply amazing Priory Hospital Cardiff! ✨

Happy Birthday to our amazing Hospital Director, Michelle. We hope you have the best day!

We are currently recruiting a CHARGE NURSE to join our fantastic team at Priory Hospital Cardiff ✨!

Salary: Up to £44,648 💷

We are looking for the following candidates:

- Have clinical and leadership experience that provides the expertise and confidence required to support the wider nursing team.

- Be able to respond flexibly to change and the developing needs of the service.

- Be responsible for deputising in the absence of the BTP Manager if necessary and therefore must demonstrate a willingness to develop and expand on their existing roles and responsibilities.

- Be role models for their peers and demonstrate core priory values at all times therefore the expectations of this will need to be clearly set out.

Apply online today!

Senior Occupational Therapist
Permanent - Full Time, Permanent - Part Time
Salary - £36,000
Hours - Full Time & Part Time available

Ready for the recognition and rewards you deserve?

We don’t just talk about putting employees first. We know that Priory wouldn’t exist without their combined energy, expertise and effort. So we invest heavily in training, provide first-class support, promote collaborative teamwork and give everyone on our team the opportunities and resources to achieve their full potential.

Priory Hospital Cardiff is a modern mental health treatment unit. The unit includes a variety of facilities, such as three secure gardens, a gym, patient practice kitchens, sensory area, patient social area, art rooms and dedicated support service areas.

The service provides Bespoke Treatment Packages across three wards for a variety of patients with complex mental health needs. The unit provides a modern, homely environment promoting independence, whilst employing an experienced multi-disciplinary team to oversee and support patient progress.

We are looking for a Senior Occupational Therapist to join the team. The role of the Senior OT is to work closely with the Therapy Assistants and the Multi-Disciplinary Team to deliver group and one to one occupational, therapeutic and recreational activities and interventions. The work will take place on the wards, in the hospital grounds and in the community. It is such an exciting opportunity to be able to invest more time in fewer patients to provide the very best service and help them recover and progress.

The candidate should have good leadership and communication skills. The role will be to provide a high quality service that meets the needs of the individual patients.

The role of the Senior Occupational Therapist will include managing members of the therapy team, overseeing service provision in a variety of areas and providing supervision to junior staff. The role will also involve delivering a range of innovative interventions that motivate and engage individuals to improve their occupational skills and mental wellbeing.

There will be opportunities for assessing, intervening and evaluating progress in line with MDT care plans. The post requires someone who is willing to find new and creative ways to work with clients with a range of presenting difficulties.

Responsibilities will also include being involved in reducing restrictive interventions, good clinical note taking, planning skills, good time management and engagement in department meetings and supervision.

Qualification - Degree or Diploma in Occupational Therapy and registration with the HCPC.

Experience - experience of working in a healthcare setting and/or working with clients with mental health diagnosis or challenging behaviours for at least 2 years would be desirable. Additionally a qualification in Sensory Integration Training would also be desirable. However, there will be training and learning opportunities. Supervision will be provided by a qualified clinician.

For an informal discussion about this post please contact Karen Redding, Head of Therapy on 01873841285/ [email protected]