Ward Manager

Job summary

Do you want to progress in your nursing career? Or do you want a new challenge? An exciting opportunity has arisen on Endcliffe Ward, a 10 bedded mixed gender Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit in Sheffield. We are looking for a motived leader to be a part of our team as a Band 7 Clinical Ward Manager.

Endcliffe Ward is a warm welcoming and inclusive environment, we have a vision that is shared across our team to support one another to create a safe, therapeutic, and purposeful environment together for everyone. With an established leadership team the successful candidate will be responsible for both clinical and operational leadership of the ward. The successful candidate will also receive regular supervision and support around your continued professional development. A Clinical ward manager on our inpatient wards in SHSC will work closely alongside a Senior Nurse Practitioner, Ward Consultant and the wider leadership team whilst maintaining a relationship with front facing staff.

Main duties of the job

• Provide effective leadership and management/Role model
• Develop team performance
• Manage the ward/department environment
• Deliver a safe and effective service within allocated resources ensuring the resources are used to maximum effect
• To ensure safe and effective practice/Professional, ethical and legal
• Act as a change agent, developing clinically effective practice through the effective utilisation and integration of evidence
• Maintain a safe and clean environment for staff, patients/clients and visitors by ensuring compliance with legislation, policies and protocols including health and safety, healthcare associated infection, risk management and critical incident reporting

About us

Endcliffe Ward is an integral part of the acute inpatient services in SHSC and is responsible for intensively caring for individuals experiencing moderate to severe mental health crisis. Within the acute inpatient services Endcliffe interfaces with internal services and external agencies. In early 2020 a goal of reducing our length of stay was highlighted within our governance data and feedback from both service users and staff, therefore the PICU pathway was created. The PICU pathway highlights inclusion exclusion criteria for admissions and details pathways from inpatient and community settings into PICU. This collaborative piece of work has shaped our service and significantly improved out length of stay data to align with NAPICU standards of no longer then 56 days. SHSC have allocated departments that support our inpatient wards to reduce restrictive practices in which Endcliffe play a key part in as we will be the only inpatient services to have seclusion facilities in Sheffield. We are also part of a National Research program for reducing restrictive practice which involved opportunities for networking across the country and with other similar services to improve our service and systems.