Perinatal Deputy Ward Manager

Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust; Manchester; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A regional mental health organization in Manchester is hiring a deputy ward manager for its inpatient service, focusing on supporting mothers and their babies within a multidisciplinary team. The candidate should be an experienced RMN interested in perinatal mental health, with strong leadership skills. Join a dynamic region that values professional development and a supportive work culture.

Qualifications

• Experienced RMN with an interest in perinatal mental illness.
• Keen interest in infant development and women’s mental health.
• Strong leadership, teaching, supervision and interprofessional collaboration skills.
• Motivated with a commitment to personal development through managerial and clinical supervision and training opportunities.

Responsibilities

• Assess, plan and implement care while role modeling to the staff team.
• Provide specialist perinatal nursing advice to professionals.
• Provide clinical and managerial leadership to junior staff and students.
• Support mothers and develop relationships with their babies.
• Assist the Ward Manager in providing leadership and management to Andersen Ward.
• Work within a large multidisciplinary team and maintain excellent communication.

Job description

Overview

The Manchester Inpatient Perinatal Service, situated at Laureate House at Wythenshawe Hospital, offers an exciting opportunity to join our management team. We are recruiting a deputy ward manager to work within our inpatient service and to support and manage across the wider inpatient unit. The successful applicant will be an experienced RMN with an interest in perinatal mental health. Andersen Ward specialises in the treatment and care of women who develop serious mental illness or relapse during the antenatal and postnatal period. A core part of the role requires you to support mothers and to develop/maintain a relationship with their babies. Family and carer involvement is a significant part of the ward culture, and we promote and support their involvement. The post holder will assist the Ward Manager in providing leadership and operational management to Andersen Ward.

Greater Manchester Mental Health (GMMH) Foundation Trust employs over 7,000 staff, delivering services from more than 160 locations. We provide inpatient and community-based mental health care for people living in Bolton, the city of Manchester, Salford, Trafford and the borough of Wigan, and a wide range of specialist mental health and substance misuse services across Greater Manchester, the north west of England and beyond.

Responsibilities

• The post holder will assess, plan and implement care whilst role modelling to the staff team and the wider unit.
• Provide specialist perinatal nursing advice to other professionals across the service and to professionals from external services.
• Provide clinical and managerial leadership and supervision to junior staff and students. Lead, teach, supervise and support junior colleagues.
• Support mothers and develop/maintain a relationship with their babies; promote and facilitate family and carer involvement within the ward culture.
• Assist the Ward Manager in providing Leadership and Operational Management to Andersen Ward.
• Work within a large multidisciplinary team; maintain excellent communication with midwives, health visitors, social care and children services across the Northwest.

Qualifications and attributes

• Experienced RMN with an interest in perinatal mental illness.
• Keen interest in infant development and women’s mental health.
• Strong leadership, teaching, supervision and interprofessional collaboration skills.
• Motivated with a commitment to personal development through managerial and clinical supervision and training opportunities.

About the Trust and location

Greater Manchester Mental Health (GMMH) Foundation Trust employs over 7,000 staff, delivering services from more than 160 locations. We provide inpatient and community-based mental health care across Greater Manchester, the north west of England and beyond. Greater Manchester is a dynamic region with opportunities for professional development and a welcoming, supportive work culture.