Ward Manager

Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust; Chelmsford; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Ward Manager for the Children's Burns Ward at Broomfield Hospital in Chelmsford. This full-time secondment offers an exciting leadership role within a world-renowned Burns and Plastic Surgery regional centre.

The post involves maintaining a safe and healthy environment for staff and patients, coordinating and leading shifts, mentoring junior colleagues and students, and delivering clinical duties on the ward.

Responsibilities

• Maintaining a safe and healthy environment for staff and patients.
• Co-ordinating and leading shift and staff; mentoring junior colleagues and students.
• Providing patient- and family-centred care in line with best practice for children's hospital services.
• Providing clear feedback to team members to improve performance and service delivery.
• Embedding Clinical Governance with Matron, Deputy Director of Nursing and clinicians.

Job description

An exciting secondment opportunity has arisen for the position of a full time Ward Manager within the Children's Burns Ward at Broomfield Hospital.

St Andrew's Regional centre for Burns and Plastic Surgery is a world renownedservice, promoting an excellent standard of care and professionalism within this speciality.

The duties involves maintaining a safe and healthy environment for staff and patients and ensuring a family friendly setting is maintained. Co-ordinating and being in charge of shift and staff, mentoring junior colleagues and students and clinical duties in the ward.

Empowering patients, provide and promote health education and advise on the prevention of ill health., Provide excellent patient care to children and their families ensuring that it is evidence bases and compliant with best practice recommendations for children's hospital services.Provide clear feedback to team members in a way that is conducive to maintaining and improving performance, Promote interdisciplinary working, with outcomes aimed at the best interests of patients and cohesive service delivery.

Work closely with Matron, Deputy Director of Nursing and Clinicians in embedding the principles of Clinical Governance in order to maintain / improve and develop high standards of patient care.

Demonstrate specialist expertise and professional knowledge acquired through post registration academic study, clinical, leadership and management development.

Work and act as a role model for professional practice and leadership.

Manage people within allocated budget/s to ensure effective operation of the Ward/ Department Team

Our ambition is to deliver excellent local and specialist services, to improve the health and well being of our patients, and provide a vibrant place for staff to develop, innovate and build careers.

We aim to make the most of our skills and experiences so we can become the best we can be. As one organisation we will recruit the finest and retain more specialist staff due to more employment opportunities across our Trust.