Ward Manager

North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare Trust

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Job summary

Ward Manager, Ward 3, Harplands Hospital:

Do you want to be part of an innovative and collaborative Senior Mental Health Leadership Team? The Acute & Urgent Care Directorate within NSCHT are looking for applicants for the Ward Manager post. This is a great opportunity for Senior Nurses/Deputy Ward Manager to develop their leadership skills and drive some exciting developments within a complex and fast-paced adult mental health environment. You will be supported by the wider Leadership Team to ensure we continue to maintain high quality, patient focused services in line with our national and locally agreed targets.

We are welcoming applicants from Registered Mental Health Nursing [RMN] and Registered General Nursing [RGN].

Ward 3 is a dynamic, fast paced ward specialising in complex female mental health assessment. The right candidate will be able to demonstrate our Proud To Care Values.

Main duties of the job

Provide management and clinical leadership to the multi-disciplinary team to ensure care is delivered which is person centred and meets standards for Quality and Safety, in partnership with service users and carers.

About us

Our Trust is on an incredible journey of innovation and we'd like you to be part of it.

Our vision is 'To be Outstanding in all we do and how we do it.' Our teams pride themselves on compassion, team work and resilience. The Trust supports you by offering a flexible shift system including twilight shifts and compressed hours to support working families and our staff parking is free on all our main sites.

As an employee and representative of the Trust, you are required to demonstrate and uphold the Trust's Values. These are:

Proud to CARE:

Compassionate

Caring with compassion, it's about how we listen, what we say, what we do.

Approachable

Friendly, welcoming, sharing ideas and being open

Responsible

Taking personal and collective responsibility, being accountable for our actions

Excellent

Striving for the best, for high-quality safe care and continually improving

In return we offer;

This post attracts our Recruitment and Retention Pay Premia

A competitive progressive salary

We cover the cost of your DBS Check (£44)

Competitive staff benefits such as weekly offers and discounts

Individual Personal Development Plan and Career Progression

Excellent pension scheme available

27- 33 days annual leave, plus statutory bank holidays (pro rata

Date posted

20 September 2022

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 7

Salary

£41,659 to £47,672 a year per annum

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

232-AUC-4360164-B

Job locations

Harplands Hospital

Stoke on Trent

ST4 6TH

Job description

Job responsibilities

Key Duties/Responsibilities:

Management and clinical responsibility for the ward through ensuring processes are in place for the delivery of safe, compassionate care in accordance with Trust policies and procedures.
To provide strong clinical leadership as well as work as a member of the multi-disciplinary team.
Lead a multi-disciplinary team of staff in the delivery of high quality evidence based practice, ensuring that regular supervision and appraisal takes place.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Key Duties/Responsibilities:

Management and clinical responsibility for the ward through ensuring processes are in place for the delivery of safe, compassionate care in accordance with Trust policies and procedures.
To provide strong clinical leadership as well as work as a member of the multi-disciplinary team.
Lead a multi-disciplinary team of staff in the delivery of high quality evidence based practice, ensuring that regular supervision and appraisal takes place.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

A Registered Mental Health Practitioner/Registered General Nurse with a degree in nursing, social work or occupational therapy or equivalent experience

Experience

Essential

Experience of manging clinical practice at band 6.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

A Registered Mental Health Practitioner/Registered General Nurse with a degree in nursing, social work or occupational therapy or equivalent experience

Experience

Essential

Experience of manging clinical practice at band 6.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).