Assistant Ward Manager

Bradford District Care NHS Foundation Trust

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Job summary

We have an exciting opportunity within Acute Inpatient Mental Health Services for an Interim Assistant Ward Manager on Ashbrook Ward (Female Acutes) at Lynfield Mount Hospital.

We are looking for someone who is creative, committed to improving patient and family carer experience, and who will support the ward manager to motivate the team to strive for continuous improvement through the development of pathways with across Mental Health Services and with partner organisations in the acute, voluntary and community sectors.

Areas of focus will include supporting the ward manager to create a safe and caring culture, quality and safety agendas, safer staffing, meeting key performance indicators, roster management, lessons learnt and enabling development of the team.

Closing Date: 22nd March 2023

Shortlisting Date: 23rd March 2023

Interview Date: TBC

Main duties of the job

To provide and coordinate a high standard of care to the patients within the Adult Mental Health Acute Care Service (AMHAC).
Act as a lead practitioner to ensure that the care of patients is of the highest quality.
The post holder is responsible for co-ordinating and administeringassessments of care needs, the development of treatment programmes and the implementation and evaluation of these programmes within a multidisciplinary team.
Support the Team Manager in the management of staff, meeting quality standards, implementing policy, managing change and delivering innovation.
Delegate work to staff and be the responsible clinician that ensures care requirements are implemented satisfactorily.
Distribute medication in line with Trust policy and NMC guidelines.
Maintain administration information systems as required.
To comply with the correct implementation of the Mental Health Act.

About us

Everything we do is underpinned by our core values: -

We Care - We act with respect and empathy, and always value difference

We Listen - We understand people's views and respond to their individual needs

We Deliver - We develop and provide excellent services and support our partners

We will consider a variety of flexible working arrangements to enable staff to balance their work and home lives and support staff by offering a fantastic range of benefits including :

Additional cost of living payments for bands 1 - 7

Increase mileage rates for > 3500

A wide range of health and wellbeing support packages

A range of internal and external development and learning opportunities

Plus many more.

We are also proud to pledge our support to the Armed Forces and hold a Bronze Award in the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme.

BDCFT is dedicated to environmental and social sustainability by delivering on the commitments within our Green Plan. All staff are actively encouraged and supported to participate in training and to identify and implement sustainable quality improvement across all service areas and activities.

Date posted

08 March 2023

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 6

Salary

£33,706 to £40,588 a year per annum pro rata

Contract

Fixed term

Duration

12 months

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

453-23-5109829

Job locations

Ashbrook Ward, Lynfield Mount Hospital

Heights Lane

Bradford

BD9 6DP

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please read the attached Job description and person specification for further details about this role.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please read the attached Job description and person specification for further details about this role.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

NMC Qualification

Experience

Essential

Clinical experience including experience of risk assessment, assessing patients and creating/implementing and evaluating care plans etc
Experience of working within a ward environment, taking charge

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

NMC Qualification

Experience

Essential

Clinical experience including experience of risk assessment, assessing patients and creating/implementing and evaluating care plans etc
Experience of working within a ward environment, taking charge

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).