Cygnet Hospital Stevenage

“We are incredibly proud of the result of our inspection by the Care Quality Commission. Inspectors recognised our safe and effective care, but also the compassion and dedication of our staff which enable a person-centred culture to thrive at the hospital. All of our service users receive personalised care which help them to learn how to manage their mental health and reinforce their daily living skills, helping to prepare for independent life.”

Alice Zimba, Cygnet Hospital Stevenage Manager

The regulator’s report praised our service for delivering ‘person-centred care’ and highlighted the compassion and kindness shown by staff: ‘The service worked with people to understand what being safe means to them as well as with partners on the best way to achieve this. The service concentrated on improving people’s lives while protecting their right to live in safety, free from bullying, harassment, abuse, discrimination, avoidable harm and neglect.’

Therapies and programmes provided by Cygnet Hospital Stevenage

All 6 wards at Cygnet Hospital Stevenage work together to provide a secure care pathway for men and women.

You will work closely with NHS case managers and commissioners. Alongside your colleagues, you will provide solutions for service users requiring step-down service options across Cygnet’s UK network of rehabilitation and specialist mental healthcare services.

Our psychological assessment and therapy programmes include:

● Specialist diagnostic assessments for Autism Spectrum Disorder (ADOS) and Personality Disorders (IPDE and PCL-R)

● Substance Misuse Programme

● Fire Setting Intervention Programme for Mentally Disordered Offenders (FIP-MO)

● Sex Offender Treatment Programme for Mentally disordered Offenders (SOTP-MO)

● Cognitive Behavioural and Cognitive Analytical Therapy

● Schema focused and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy

● Cognitive Analytic Therapy (CAT)

● Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)

● Compassion Focused Therapy (CFT)

● Radically Open Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (RO-DBT)

● Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) informed skills training

● Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT)

● Prolonged Exposure Therapy for PTSD (PET)

● Eye Movement Desensitization & Reprocessing (EMDR)

● Substance Misuse Programme

Service user profile of patients at Cygnet Hospital Stevenage

● Men, aged 18+

● Women, aged 18+

● Detained under the Mental Health Act

● Experiencing difficulties that present a risk to the well-being of themselves or others that cannot be treated in an open environment

● Acute mental illness

● Acute depressive illness

● Psychosis

● Schizophrenia

● Bi-polar disorder

● Personality disorder

● Dual diagnosis

● May present with co-morbid presentations

Our team at Cygnet Hospital Stevenage

Alice Zimba, our Hospital Manager, qualified as a nurse in 2005 and has experience of working in the NHS and the private sector. She has experience and higher qualifications in forensic mental health. Alice joined Cygnet in 2015.

Dr Ahmad is our medical director and has worked as a consultant psychiatrist and clinical director and has helped establish a new PICU unit for NHS North East London Trust.

Eve Kaklamanos is our clinical manager and has worked in RMN jobs since 2008, joining Cygnet in 2014.

Cygnet’s jobs in Stevenage, Hertfordshire

If you apply for our jobs here at Stevenage you can rest-assured that you’ll be onboarded and then supported in post by a team of registered mental health nurses, healthcare assistants and other health and mental healthcare professionals who are committed to delivering the best in care, and who have experience in both the NHS and private mental healthcare sector.

Our multidisciplinary team are comprised of:

● Responsible clinician

● Specialty doctor

● Hospital manager

● Clinical manager

● Ward managers

● Occupational therapists

● Psychologist

● Assistant psychologist

● Nurses

● Social worker

● Support workers

● Mental Health Act administrator

Nursing jobs in Cygnet Hospital Stevenage

We employ registered mental health nurses (RMNs) and learning disability nurses (RNLDs). If there are currently no roles at this facility, be sure to check jobs at our other facilities.

Registered Mental Health Nurse (RMN) jobs in Stevenage

Are you interested in a challenging and rewarding career in mental health nursing? We are always looking for compassionate and professional nurses to join our team and tend to the needs of service users with a variety of diagnoses. As a registered mental health nurse at Cygnet, you will be part of a dynamic multidisciplinary team with the opportunity to make a positive impact on service users and their families.

You will be responsible for maintaining care plans, administering medications, and working closely with the management team to improve on quality of care. Additionally, you will monitor, manage, and reduce risk while focusing on the recovery of your patients. Excellent written communication skills are essential, as you will be required to produce reports based on your nursing assessments and observations.

Registered Learning Disability Nurse (RNLD) jobs in Stevenage

Our team of registered learning disability nurses help service users lead more fulfilling lives. They use a range of skills to provide patient-centred care that is both rewarding and valuable. As a nurse in this role, you will be able to focus on providing high-quality care that empowers and supports our service users.

You will help them improve their physical and mental health, reduce barriers to independent living, and lead them towards enjoying better quality lives. Your daily responsibilities include; maintaining care plans, writing reports based on your assessments, administering medications, and working closely with the management team to continually improve the quality of care.

Cygnet’s Nursing Jobs in Stevenage, Hertfordshire - Pay & Salary Guide

Pay rates quoted below are based on pay details in advertisements on Nurses.co.uk in 2024. They are presented to give an illustration of Cygnet’s nursing pay and salaries at Stevenage. Please refer to Cygnet’s job advertisements on this site for specific details.

A Bank Mental Health Nurse job for Cygnet in Stevenage in August 2024 will be paid £20.60 per hour.

A Bank Mental Health Nurse job for Cygnet in Stevenage in January 2024 will be paid £20 per hour.

Other care, clinical and AHP jobs at our Stevenage hospital

Here in Stevenage we have opportunities for occupational therapist jobs, psychologist jobs, social worker jobs, support worker jobs.

Across Cygnet generally our job roles are clearly defined. Here’s an outline of our senior clinical positions. Many of our staff develop their careers into these roles.

Clinical Team Leader jobs in Stevenage

Join us as a Clinical Team Leader within Cygnet and your main responsibility will be to supervise and provide clinical expertise to ensure that our services run smoothly. You will motivate and support your nursing team while delivering excellent care. You should have a keen interest in leadership, research, and risk assessment, as well as a passion for providing outstanding care.

You will be a role model to your colleagues and actively participate in training and developing staff. Your daily duties will include maintaining care plans, producing high-quality nursing assessment reports, administering medication, and working closely with the management team to continually improve the quality of our services.

Ward Manager jobs in Stevenage

Our Ward Managers enjoy taking on challenges and leading their teams. As a Ward Manager, you will be responsible for overseeing a nursing team and ensuring that they provide high-quality and evidence-based care to patients. You will need to be organised, committed, and dynamic to motivate and inspire your team.

Your role will involve coordinating with other healthcare professionals to provide excellent care to patients. As well as someone who can cost-effectively use operational resources, ward management at Cygnet does require passionate and experienced leadership in a mental healthcare setting.

Clinical Manager jobs in Stevenage

If you possess qualities such as compassion, vision, and strong leadership skills, then this is an excellent opportunity for you to put those skills to use in a very rewarding role. As a Clinical Manager at Cygnet, you are responsible for being a role model to your colleagues, providing leadership, direction, and supervision to all clinical and support staff.

Your focus should be to motivate your team and ensure the delivery of the best care possible. You will also be responsible for overseeing the admission and discharge of all service users, implementing, and evaluating agreed systems of clinical and operational support, and working closely with the management team to continually improve the quality of care provided.

Hospital Manager jobs in Stevenage

Our Hospital Managers are exceptional leaders who bring together compassion, clinical excellence, and a strategic outlook to improve people's lives. They are organised, driven, and adept at managing people, and they are responsible for ensuring the overall delivery of care in their hospitals.

As the Hospital Manager, it is your responsibility to provide excellent leadership and support across all departments to ensure that the care provided is effective. You lead teams of clinical and non-clinical staff and ensure that everyone delivers outstanding patient care while maintaining compliance with all standards, including CQC and Health & safety.

Browse all of our jobs at Cygnet here on Nurses.co.uk

Nursing career development at Cygnet Hospital Stevenage

Our Nursing Team is at the forefront of our exceptional health services. We care for our staff as much as we do for our service users. You’ll be surrounded by helpful, like-minded nurses and you’ll have the freedom to suggest ideas and embrace new challenges.

Our nurses have ongoing mentoring and training to develop skills and progress in their careers. As part of a committed team, you can help change lives through outstanding care. Together, we reap the rewards of making a difference to others.

Our nursing colleagues are extraordinary people who come with a range of diverse skills, expertise, and knowledge. Every single one of them helps us improve people’s lives for the better.

Why you should choose a career working for Cygnet in Stevenage

Career development with Cygnet

You will be joining an experienced senior leadership team and you will be supported from day one. At Cygnet, you’ll have strong career progression opportunities. To help improve your skills, we provide monthly reflective practice, clinical supervision, and continuing professional development.

Cygnet is an equal opportunities employer

We celebrate being a truly diverse and inclusive organisation, where our passionate nurses are eager to support others and share experience and advice with colleagues and service users.

Cygnet celebrates diversity, inclusion, and equality, by welcoming everyone from all backgrounds and experiences. Our purpose and our inspiring outcomes motivate people to come and work with us from different backgrounds and experiences, from all corners of the country, and indeed, from across the world. We listen to, are interested in, and care for our colleagues and those who entrust us with their care.

Our values

We expect everyone to live our values of; care, respect, empowerment, trust, and integrity - and in doing so, to appreciate and learn from each other, whether that is from our teams, the wider Cygnet group, or the people we care for.

Great benefits working at Cygnet

We offer employee discount savings, a cycle-to-work scheme, and competitive pension plans. We also contribute payments for RCNi membership, revalidation, and NMC registration renewals too.

You can enjoy our onsite perks such as free meals on shift and free parking. Plus, you will get discounts from household retail brands.

Discover more about our dedication to inclusion, our benefits and our values on our Cygnet careers page here on Nurses.co.uk

Practical information about working in Stevenage, Hertfordshire

Cygnet Hospital Stevenage is in Hertfordshire, 10 minutes drive from Stevenage town centre. We are located just off the A1 (M) junction 8. If you don’t live in Stevenage then you can travel to work from elsewhere - trains run to Stevenage from Kings Cross station, with a short taxi to our hospital.

If you are looking to move to Stevenage to work for us, know that London is just 30 minutes train travel away, with great local amenities you will need: schools, sports centres, golf clubs, supermarkets, a Cineworld, one of the area's best swimming centres, parks and more.