SCBU Ward Manager | Isle of Wight NHS Trust

Isle of Wight NHS; Newport; On-site; GBP 49,000 - 57,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Onsite day nursery

Cycle-to-work scheme

Discounts at local businesses and gyms

Opportunity to hire Trust's beach hut

Flexible working arrangements

Job summary

The Isle of Wight NHS Trust is seeking an SCBU Ward Manager to lead the nursing team on a 37.5 hour week. The role concentrates on continuous professional clinical and managerial leadership, ensuring safe, compassionate and high-quality care within our SCBU unit.

You will role-model expert clinical practice, promote evidence-based nursing, and drive the ward's philosophy and models of care while embedding our values and improving patient experience across the service.

Responsibilities

• Lead and coordinate the nursing team with 24-hour management of the clinical area.
• Ensure a safe, effective, responsive, caring service with a positive patient experience.
• Provide strong professional clinical and managerial leadership to nursing staff.
• Act as a professional role model with expert clinical knowledge.
• Promote high standards of nursing care and embed trust values.
• Develop and evaluate programmes of care and assess care needs.
• Maintain a high visible presence and accessibility to staff and patients.
• Lead development of ward philosophy and models of care aligned with policies.

Skills

Ward leadership

Nursing leadership

Clinical governance

Patient safety

Professional role modelling

Job description

SCBU Ward Manager | Isle of Wight NHS Trust

NHS Band 7 Salary:£49,387 - £56,515 per annum

Hours per Week: full time 37.5

Contract Type: Permanent

We are recruiting for a Ward Manager for SCBU who wishes to join #TeamIOWNHS. You should share our passion and drive to ensure that our patients receive quality and compassionate care and work with us to ensure the Trust continues its journey towards "working together, improving together".

• Lead and coordinate the nursing team, taking continuing responsibility on a 24-hour basis for the management and organisation of the clinical area.
• Through effective leadership ensure the clinical team deliver a safe, effective, responsive, caring and well led service where compassion is embedded, and a positive patient experience is achieved.
• Provide strong professional clinical and managerial leadership to nursing and act as a professional role model.
• A highly skilled clinical expert with specialised knowledge in caring for patients and their carers.
• Promote and set high standards of professional nursing care and maintain the delivery of quality care within the trust policies, protocols, and guidelines. Implement the trust 'vision and values' ensuring they are embedded into everyday practice and evaluate their impact on the patient's experience.
• Provide strong professional nursing leadership to staff within sphere of clinical responsibility. Lead and motivate staff by giving clear direction and setting achievable objectives.
• Continuing responsibility for the assessment of care needs, the development, implementation, and evaluation of programmes of care.
• Maintain a high visible presence within the clinical area ensuring that patients, visitors, healthcare staff and the multidisciplinary team, always have access to senior staff. Act as an effective professional role model and expert clinician.
• Develop the ward/department philosophy and models of care to ensure that all policies and procedures are implemented and to lead on the development of nursing practice. Ensure that all staff understand the significance of the philosophy to practice, monitoring its impact on patient experience.

We are passionate about providing excellent CARE, which is why our values are Compassion, Accountable, Respect and Everyone counts. Our mission is to make sure that our community is at the heart of everything we do and that we hold our values across all our services.

• onsite day nursery
• cycle-to-work scheme
• discounts at local businesses and gyms
• opportunity to hire Trust's beach hut in Ryde
• We offer many flexible working opportunities, speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement for you and if it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.

The Isle of Wight is a unique and stunning gem located off the South Coast of England, a short ferry journey from Portsmouth and Southampton, with journey times taking from as little as 10 minutes. London can be reached in 90 minutes by rail from Southampton or Portsmouth. The island offers an amazing coastline with beautiful countryside, year-round events, festivals and award-winning attractions.

Attached you will find the person specification document which provides more detail about the essential and desirable skills and experience needed for this role. We highly recommend you review this document and use it when completing your application as these criteria are used by hiring managers as guidance during shortlisting.

For an overview of the main duties of the role please see the 'Job Description and Main Responsibilities' section below. To understand the day-to-day responsibilities in more detail please read the full job description document attached.

This advert closes on Tuesday 27 Oct 2026

AFC band 7 scale pay point dependent on experience

AFC band 7 scale pay point dependent on experience