Deputy Ward Manager | Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust; Knowsley; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 39,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in the UK is seeking a Band 6 Deputy Ward Manager for Coniston ward. The role involves supporting clinical leadership by providing clinical and managerial support, ensuring excellent patient care, and working with multi-disciplinary teams. You will also be responsible for coaching, supervision, and maintaining trust standards. Applicants must be subject to an enhanced DBS check. Flexible working requests are considered. The closing date for applications is 11 Nov 2025.

Qualifications

• Subject to an enhanced DBS check with the adults barred list disclosure and barring service.

Responsibilities

• Provide sound clinical and managerial support to team members.
• Ensure record keeping is in accordance with professional and trust standards.
• Participate in regular clinical supervision as per trust policy.
• Ensure the clinical environment promotes service users’ health and well-being.

Skills

Resilience

Problem-solving

Interpersonal skills

Coaching

Leadership

Multi-disciplinary teamwork

Job description

Overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen on Coniston ward for a Band 6 Deputy Ward Manager to support the Clinical Team Manager and Clinical Leadership Team to deliver high quality safe and effective care.

Responsibilities

• Show resilience, excellent problem‑solving and interpersonal skills and provide sound clinical and managerial support to team members.
• Demonstrate a passion for coaching and a leadership style that promotes quality improvement and respects service user choice, working alongside them and their carers to keep them at the centre of care planning.
• Assist the Clinical Team Manager in continuing professional and managerial responsibility for the ward.
• Operate as part of an integrated multi‑disciplinary team, undertaking a balance of managerial and clinical activity and ensuring continuity of care for service users throughout the acute service journey.
• Implement case‑load supervision to monitor standards of service user care and ensure record keeping is in accordance with professional and trust standards.
• Participate in regular clinical supervision as per trust policy.
• Assiste in the development and implementation of integrated care pathways, including appropriate service user assessments/referrals and models of care.
• Provide information, education and support for family members, carers and other relevant professionals.
• Give/receive regular managerial/clinical supervision as per trust policy.
• Ensure the clinical environment is conducive to promoting service users’ health, safety and well‑being, thereby preserving and respecting each service user’s personal dignity, privacy, religious and cultural beliefs.
• Ensure record keeping is in accordance with professional and trust standards.
• Ensure the safe management of medicines and adhere to safe practice principles of administration in accordance with the NMC code of professional conduct and trust medicines code.
• Work in a professional and collaborative manner with the multi‑disciplinary team.
• Participate and promote positive intra‑agency working.
• Participate and assist in setting standards of service user care based on sound research findings.

Requirements

• Subject to an enhanced DBS check with the adults barred list disclosure and barring service.

About the Trust

Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region. We are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.

We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high‑secure mental health facilities.

At the heart of all we do is our commitment to ‘perfect care’ – care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We are currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce costs as we do so.

Other Information

Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.

This advert closes on Tuesday 11 Nov 2025