Deputy Ward Manager

North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare NHS Trust; Stoke-on-Trent; On-site; GBP 33,000 - 42,000; Full time

Job summary

North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare NHS Trust is seeking a Band 6 Deputy Ward Manager for Summers View, a 10-bed mental health rehabilitation unit in Stoke-on-Trent. The role is full-time and permanent, with responsibilities to lead the ward team and support the Ward Manager in delivering high-quality care.

The successful candidate will have registered professional status, experience with enduring mental health issues, and will present on how to engage the team to strive for excellence.

Qualifications

• Experience in mental health settings preferred.
• Ability to lead a multidisciplinary team.

Responsibilities

• Lead the team and deputise for the Ward Manager to ensure effective service delivery.
• Focus on patient-centred quality care and safeguarding.
• Prepare and deliver a 10-minute presentation on engaging the team to strive for excellence.

Job description

We have a great opportunity for you to join our Rehab Pathway.

We have an exciting opportunity for a Band 6 Deputy Ward Manager at Summers View (full-time Permanent).

We are looking to appoint a Band 6 Deputy Ward Manager and if you are an enthusiastic, caring and compassionate registered professional, who is ready for the next stage in their career within a challenging and complex environment then we want to hear from you.

Summersview is a 10-bed mental health rehabilitation unit. The team specialises in supporting people with enduring psychosis through their recovery journey, helping them to reach their optimum & their goals.

The unit has a strong MDT focus consisting of a consultant psychiatrist, RNs, ANP, HCSW's, Occupational therapist, STR worker & Psychologists.

Candidates should have experience in working with clients with enduring mental health problems.

The successful candidate will be expected to lead the team, working closely with the Ward Manager ensuring there is a clear focus on patient centred quality care.

Candidates will be asked to prepare a 10-minute presentation on: How would you engage the team to strive for excellence?

This post will provide an opportunity to work within a Trust that is ambitious to perform well and has been told by the Care Quality Commission that it is the fastest improving Mental Health Trust in the country.

The role of the deputy ward manager is to provide support and assistance to the ward manager in ensuring the effective management and running of the service. This will include having specific responsibilities as delegated by the ward manager and will require the post holder to deputise for the ward manager as and when appropriate/required.

As a Trust we remain bold and ambitious with plans for both service and system collaborative transformation over the coming years to improve the health and wellbeing of our local people through high quality care.

We pride ourselves on ensuring our team has their wellbeing put first and as such provide a range of wellness opportunities including flexible working.

We are committed to the Greener NHS national ambition to becoming the world's first 'carbon net zero' national health system by 2045 (Greener NHS (england.nhs.uk). As part of this, sustainability is embedded in our strategy as one of our four key enablers. In order to deliver on this commitment, we recognise that we need a workforce that is as passionate as we are on achieving these goals, for the benefit of our service users, workforce, local communities and the planet alike.

The Trust is committed to ensuring that a diverse workforce is representative and inclusive at all levels. We would very much welcome applications from all under-represented groups including women, people with disabilities, people from global majority backgrounds, and those from the lesbian, gay, bi and trans communities.

The Trust is committed to the Step into Health scheme and actively encourages applicants from the Armed Forces Communities to apply.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Matilda Nortu Job title: Ward Manager Email address: [e-mail] Telephone number: 0300 123 1535