Deputy Ward Manager | Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust

Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust; Salford; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading mental health organization is seeking a Band 6 Deputy Ward Manager for its Meadowbrook Unit in Salford, UK. This role involves supporting the unit's clinical leadership, providing sound clinical interventions, and mentoring staff. Benefits include additional pay enhancements, generous annual leave, an excellent pension scheme, and wellbeing programs. Join the team dedicated to high standards of care and supporting service users' mental health needs.

Benefits

Pay enhancements for evenings and weekends

27 days annual leave plus bank holidays

Excellent pension

Cycle to work scheme

Salary sacrifice car scheme

Wellbeing programme

Blue Light Card discounts

Qualifications

• Must adopt Trust values and contribute to high standards of care.
• Ability to support staff through coaching and mentorship.
• Proactive in identifying and resolving risks.

Responsibilities

• Provide clinical interventions and support for ward staff.
• Develop nursing care that meets service user needs.
• Keep charge of shifts and maintain effective communication.
• Ensure professional development for ward staff.
• Deputise for the ward manager when needed.

Skills

Clinical interventions

Team leadership

Communication

Risk management

Job description

Unit Overview

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 role supports the unit's clinical leadership and is part of the clinical team.

Position

Band 6 Deputy Ward Manager – Meadowbrook Unit

Key responsibilities

• 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.
• Work in collaboration with the Ward Manager to develop and transform the nursing care provision, ensuring it supports and reflects service user mental health and physical needs, is culturally appropriate and compliant with professional guidance.
• Take charge of the shifts on a rotational basis, act as a primary nurse to service users and their carers, and establish and maintain effective communication with all relevant personnel who contribute to the care of the service user both internal and external to the Trust.
• 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.
• Deputise for the ward manager as required and promote multi‑disciplinary team working while leading predominantly on nursing issues and leadership.

Staff responsibilities and values

All staff working within our Trust should adopt our values and have a responsibility to contribute to high standards of care. They need to:

• 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 (8 pm 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.

This advert closes on Friday 12 Dec 2025.