Clinical Deputy Manager Eden Ward | Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust

Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust; Marston Green; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare provider in Marston Green seeks a Deputy Clinical Lead for Eden Ward, a low-secure unit for women with complex trauma. Responsibilities include coordinating patient assessments, supervising junior staff, and ensuring high standards of care. The role offers extensive development opportunities and a supportive environment focused on improving lives. This is a rewarding position with an emphasis on leadership and quality patient care. Apply before January 6, 2026!

Benefits

Generous annual leave

Learning and development opportunities

Salary-sacrifice schemes

Employee assistance programme

Qualifications

• Communication skills to lead and motivate junior staff.
• Experience with holistic patient assessments.
• Ability to manage safety and quality issues effectively.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate holistic assessment and treatment of patients.
• Manage shifts as Nurse in Charge.
• Supervise junior staff and ensure competency sign-off.
• Develop professional relationships with multidisciplinary teams.
• Lead quality improvement initiatives.

Skills

Inpatient care experience

Clinical leadership

Risk management

Supervisory skills

Job description

At Brooklands Hospital we are committed to providing the best standard of care and experience for individuals whilst in an inpatient setting, supporting them to gain skills to reach their potential and maintain a good quality of life.

This post is required to support clinical leadership on the ward, with a focus on the safety and quality aspects of patient care. The role is critical to the timely management of incidents, supporting the MDT and driving the patients input to co‑produced services. It ensures that the ward team benefits from visible clinical support/direction and enables a firm career structure for succession planning.

We are looking for a dynamic and enthusiastic Deputy Clinical Lead for Eden Ward, a low‑secure unit for up to 13 women with forensic and complex trauma histories. This is interesting, at times challenging, but very rewarding work.

This is an exciting time to join the team. The secure services have been rated "Good" by the CQC and Eden Ward is enrolled in the national Culture of Care programme. We are also working to explore how women’s secure care can be transformed and improved.

Qualifications

Previous experience in inpatient care and/or secure services is essential.

Key Responsibilities

• Formulate and coordinate holistic assessment and treatment of mental and physical needs of patients.
• Take periods of the role as Nurse in Charge (NIC) and role‑model effective shift management.
• Supervise and develop junior staff members, with responsibility for ensuring junior staff, students and trainees have specific role competency sign‑off.
• Ensure a robust process for care plan formulation, review, evaluation and treatment and safety plans, and report back to the multidisciplinary team.
• Develop and maintain professional working relationships with the multidisciplinary team.
• Support the Clinical Lead in the maintenance and development of the social and physical therapeutic environment.
• Support in areas of risk management within the ward, including patient risk, positive risk‑taking, and environmental risk assessment, ensuring that trust processes around risk are adhered to and recorded.
• Lead and maintain high standards of clinical care and maintain service delivery based on evidence, clinical and professional judgement.
• Identify needs to facilitate safe discharge.
• Lead and coordinate the adherence to and reporting of safety & quality issues. Report any concerns immediately and actively carry out clinical audits on the AMAT platform and follow up on actions identified.
• Have a detailed working knowledge of key partnership services and organisations (e.g. voluntary sector, social services, housing), including their eligibility criteria and access procedures.
• Lead and maintain a learning environment, provide supervision and guidance to identified junior staff and students, and undertake the role of practice assessor.
• Lead on Quality Improvement and liaise with the Quality Improvement team to support areas of practice development and coordinate staff training in improvement approaches.
• Support staff training and development in all areas appropriate to inpatient care.

Benefits

• Generous annual leave entitlement which increases during your time with us.
• Excellent learning and development opportunities, including apprenticeship frameworks, distance learning, internal training, coaching and mentoring, and much more.
• Salary‑sacrifice schemes for lease car/vehicle, Cycle to Work, home and electronics, gym membership, and more.
• Discounts with a range of retailers, restaurants and entertainment venues through our Employee Assistance Programme and NHS discount schemes.
• Wellbeing support, including an in‑house counselling service, external helpline and more.
• Staff networks and support group.

We put ‘people at our heart’; this ethos is at the centre of everything we do and how we do it. We care for our staff and colleagues as much as they care for others and offer a wide range of benefits and development opportunities.

We’re always on the lookout for people who share our passion for improving the lives and wellbeing of people in our community, as well as our values of compassion, collaboration, excellence, integrity and respect.

This advert closes on Tuesday 6 Jan 2026.