Cygnet Hospital Stevenage

Our goal is to help people learn how to manage their mental health and reinforce their daily living skills and help them to prepare for independent life.

Our hospital has been rated as ‘Good’ in all five key areas of enquiry – Safe, Caring, Responsive, Well Led and Effective – following the most recent inspection by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) in 2024.

“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 ManagerThe 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.’

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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

• 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.

Jobs at Cygnet Hospital Stevenage

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
• Mental Health Act administrator

Registered Mental Health Nurse (RMN) jobs

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

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.

Clinical Team Leader jobs

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

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

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

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.

Career development

Our 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 colleagues and you’ll have the freedom to suggest ideas and embrace new challenges.

Our staff 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 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.

“I qualified as a nurse in 2005 and joined Cygnet ten years later, in 2015. I became a nurse because I wanted to help people and make a difference. I have progressed a lot in my career as a nurse in general, but mostly in my time at Cygnet. I joined Cygnet Hospital Stevenage as an Agency Nurse in 2015, progressed to Clinical Team Leader at the end of that year, was a Ward Manager from 2016 until 2018, Clinical Manager in 2019, and then Registered Manager in 2020. I currently hold both roles.”

Alice Zimba, Clinical Manager and Registered Manager at Cygnet Hospital Stevenage

Why you should choose a career working for Cygnet in Stevenage

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.

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.