Deputy Ward Manager

Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust; Salford; On-site; GBP 34,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A mental health organization is seeking a Band 6 Deputy Ward Manager for Keats Ward in Salford, United Kingdom. This role emphasizes high-quality patient-centered care and requires strong clinical leadership skills. The post holder will work collaboratively with the Ward Manager and lead a team, ensuring comprehensive care for service users while also focusing on staff development. Competitive pay enhancements, generous leave, and additional benefits are offered.

Benefits

Pay Enhancements

27 days annual leave

Excellent pension

Cycle to work scheme

Wellbeing programme

Qualifications

• Registered nurse with a current NMC PIN.
• Experience in mental health nursing preferred.
• Ability to lead and motivate a team.

Responsibilities

• Support the Ward Manager in clinical tasks.
• Oversee and mentor nursing staff.
• Ensure high quality of patient care.

Skills

Patient centered care

Clinical leadership

Communication skills

Risk management

Education

Nursing qualification

Job description

Meadowbrook unit provides mental health support for adults of working age. The unit has 2 male acute wards (Eagleton 19 beds and Maccoll 18 beds), one female acute ward (Keats 18 beds) and one male PICU 8 beds (Psychiatric intensive care unit).

This current vacancy is for a Band 6 Deputy Ward Manager on Keats Ward. This post places particular emphasis on patient centered care and therapeutic engagement, ensuring all aspects of direct patient care are delivered at the highest quality.

A key element of this post will be to support and provide sound clinical interventions to service users and clinical leadership on a day-to-day, shift-to-shift basis for a group of staff on a designated clinical area. The post holder will work in collaboration with the Ward Manager to develop and transform the nursing care provision, ensuring that it supports and reflects service user mental health and physical needs, is culturally appropriate, and compliant with professional guidance.

The post holder will take charge of the shifts on a rotational basis, act as a primary nurse to service users and their carers, as well as being responsible for the establishment and maintenance of effective communication with all relevant personnel who contribute to the care of the service user both internal and external to the Trust.

The post holder will, in collaboration with the ward manager, ensure continuous clinical and professional development for ward staff through on the job coaching, mentoring, audit, regular supervision, and ward based training of less experienced staff.

The post holder will deputise for the ward manager as required and promote multi-disciplinary team working whilst leading predominantly on nursing issues and leadership.

Responsibilities

• Be a quality inspector, never knowingly passing on a defect, error or risk to a colleague or patient, putting things right where you can, and reporting everything, especially where you need help to put it right.
• Take a pro-active role in identifying risks and acting on the results to resolve problems at source wherever possible bearing in mind resources and priorities and liaising with Line Manager.
• Take part in risk management practices, both clinical and non-clinical in line with the Trust Risk Management Strategy to help reduce risks to the safety of patients.

Benefits

• Pay Enhancements - 30% additional for Evenings (8pm onwards) and Saturdays and 60% additional for Sundays and Bank holidays.
• 27 days annual leave plus bank holidays rising to 29 after 5 years and 33 days after 10 years.
• Excellent pension.
• Cycle to work scheme.
• Salary sacrifice car scheme.
• Wellbeing programme.
• Blue Light Card Discounts.

We are aspiring to ensure our workforce is representative of the diverse communities that we serve, and we are strongly committed to removing barriers to employment for candidates from under-represented groups, for example BAME, Disabled and LGBT+ communities.

The Trust is also committed to safeguarding children, young people and vulnerable adults and requires all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.