Deputy Ward Manager

Transformation Unit; Liverpool; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 48,000; Part time

Job summary

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Band 6 Staff Nurse to join a 26-bed surgical ward. The post involves clinical leadership, coordinating patient care, supervising juniors, and contributing to service development in a fast-paced surgical environment.

Applicants should have at least two years post-qualification experience in an acute surgical setting and must be registered with the NMC. The role supports development and leadership across shifts.

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse with current NMC registration.
• Teaching and assessing qualification or equivalent.
• Experience in management and leading teams in acute surgical settings.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate patient care on a 26-bed surgical ward.
• Supervise junior staff and support service development.
• Liaise with bed management and senior surgical team for timely reviews.
• Provide leadership and maintain effective communication across shifts.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Team leadership

Clinical care

Change management

Education

Registered Nurse, current NMC registration

Teaching and assessing qualification

Tools

IT skills

Job description

Main area Surgical Grade Band 6 Contract Permanent Hours Part time - 34.5 hours per week (24/7 cover rotating day and night shift) Job ref 287-ASUR-144-26

Employer Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Aintree Hospital Town Liverpool Salary £39,959 - £48,117 pro rata Salary period Yearly Closing 07/10/2026 23:59

Deputy Ward Manager

Band 6

Job overview

We are seeking an experienced and motivated Band 6 Staff Nurse to join our 26 bedded Surgical Ward. This is an excellent opportunity for a nurse with strong clinical leadership skills who is passionate about delivering high-quality care to patients. The successful candidate will support the coordination of patient care, supervise junior staff, and contribute to service development within a fast‑paced surgical environment.

Applicants must have a minimum of two years’ post-qualification experience within an acute surgical setting.

Main duties of the job

Liaise with the Senior Surgical Team to ensure timely review of any acutely unwell patients in accordance with departmental standards.

Work closely with junior nursing staff to support them, facilitate discharges.

Liaise with the Bed Management team via Bleep system or to ascertain the bed availability on the wards.

Have clear overview of all patients and monitor compliance with departmental standards.

Maintain communication with all members of the team throughout the shift. Provide leadership and support as required

Complete or delegate various quality checks within the department on a daily basis: Including Resus trolley and CD Cupboard.

Attend bed meetings, advising senior team of bed capacity, potential and active discharges, transfers by speciality/gender and any staffing issues

Working for our organisation

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust comprises Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital & Royal Liverpool University Hospital.

We are part of NHS University Hospitals of Liverpool Group, formed on 1 Nov 2024 from the coming together of LUHFT and Liverpool Women’s NHS Foundation Trust. The Group was born from a shared aim to improve the care we provide our patients.

UHLG is one of the largest employers in the region, with over 16,800 colleagues dedicated to caring for our communities - from birth and beyond.

For the 630,000 people across Merseyside, we are their local NHS. We provide general and emergency hospital care, alongside highly specialised regional services for more than two million people in the North West.

Aintree University Hospital is the single receiving site for adult major trauma patients in Cheshire and Merseyside and hosts a number of regional services including an award-winning stroke facility. Broadgreen Hospital is home to elective surgical, diagnostic and treatment services, together with specialist patient rehabilitation. Liverpool Women’s Hospital specialises in the health of women and babies, delivering over 7,200 babies in the UK’s largest single site maternity hospital each year. The Royal Liverpool University Hospital is the largest hospital in the country to provide inpatients with 100% single bedrooms and focuses on complex planned care and specialist services.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

We are looking for an enthusiastic, forward thinking senior nurse with a passion for quality and safety and the drive and commitment to aim to get it right for every patient every time.

You should be a Registered Nurse with demonstrable acute ward experience You should have a keen interest in providing high quality; harm free, patient centred care in a busy, fast paced, ever changing and often challenging environment.

For this role you will need to demonstrate excellent communication skills and possess the ability to lead the team effectively. As a band 6 you must display a positive and professional manner, have a non-judgmental attitude, and be open to change.

In return you will receive support to develop personally and professionally and gain invaluable leadership and management experience.

PROFESSIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES

• Act at all times in a manner that upholds the reputation of the Trust and safeguards the well being and dignity of patients and their relatives.
• Act always in accordance with the NMC Code of Conduct and Guidance documents and maintain active status on NMC Register.
• Take every reasonable opportunity to sustain and improve knowledge.
• Identify objectives within a PDP that support the delivery of high standards of clinical care.

Please see Job Description for further details.

Person specification

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse, current NMC registration
• Teaching and assessing qualification or equivalent

Experience

• Evidence of management experience
• Evidence of change management
• Application of evidence based practice
• Evidence of developing high standards of patient care
• Lead role in education of staff and patients

Knowledge

• Application of current nursing issues and healthcare governance

Skills

• Ability to work in changing environments
• Basic IT skills, including e-mail and word processing

Other

• Supportive of colleagues
• High level of personal and professional credibility
• Well motivated

Candidatesapplying for the role of Healthcare Assistant on the staff bank should note that due to the nature of the role, workers must be aged 18 or above when commencing in post. Applicants are therefore welcome from those aged over 18 or within 3 months’ of their 18 th birthday.

The Trust is committed to promoting a healthy work-life balance and achieve fair, equitable and consistent practice. We welcome flexible working requests and will consider a variety of flexible working arrangements from day one of your employment. Not all roles are suitable for every flexible working opportunity all of the time. Flexible working options may include reduced hours, compressed hours, fixed shifts, time back in lieu and home working.

The Trust is committed to promoting equality and diversity; we value the contribution of individual talent, skills, knowledge and experience and aim for a workforce demography representative of the local community. We encourage applicants from the following groups that are currently under-represented in our workforce black, Asian and minority ethnic, lesbian, gay, bisexual and Transgender (LGBTQ+), disabled, male and age 16-24.

Trust policy requires that the cost of submitting & processing the successful applicant/s DBS application be recovered via salary deduction following start in post. The amount of £26.50 (standard disclosure) or £54.50 (enhanced disclosure) will be deducted from salary, in manageable monthly instalments for up to 3 months following commencement of employment. Bank posts require upfront payment.

From April 2017, Skilled visa applicants and their adult dependant(s) will be required to provide a criminal record certificate from each country they have lived in consecutively for 12 months or more in the past ten years.

Applicants requiring sponsorship may wish to determine the likelihood of obtaining sponsorship for this position by assessing themselves against the criteria on the gov.uk website - https://www.gov.uk/check-uk-visa.

This organisation has a zero-tolerance approach to the abuse of children, young people and vulnerable adults. All staff must ensure they adhere to the organisations safeguarding children and adults’ policy and comply with the Local Safeguarding Children and Adult Board procedures.

Staff should be mindful of their responsibility to safeguard children and adults in any activity performed on behalf of the organisation in line with the requirements of statutory guidance and legislation.

All employees (and volunteers)are expected maintain their safeguarding knowledge and skills by completing mandatory safeguarding training which includes understanding and recognising the signs of abuse and neglect and taking appropriate action.

As an organisation, we have adopted the Merseyside Domestic abuse workplace scheme which supports our staff who are experiencing Domestic Abuse /any forms of sexual violence.

If you have any personal requirements that will enable you to participate in our recruitment process please contact a member of the Recruitment Services by phone on 0151 706 4666 at the earliest opportunity to ensure that measures can be put in place to enable your application for this post.

Please note: new entrants to the NHS will commence on the first pay point of the relevant band.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.