Ward Manager

University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust; Coventry; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading NHS Trust in Coventry is seeking a Ward Manager for its Surgical Enhanced Care Unit. The role requires strong leadership skills to maintain service quality and manage a clinical team. Responsibilities include ensuring adherence to healthcare standards, training staff, and managing patient care. The ideal candidate must have excellent communication and clinical governance knowledge. This position offers a chance to be part of a passionate healthcare team dedicated to high-quality patient care and continuous improvement.

Benefits

Access to learning and development opportunities

Responsibilities

• Accountable for own actions in accordance with Code of Professional Conduct.
• Highly developed communication skills enabling maintenance of high quality service.
• A knowledgeable team leader and resource for staff, advising on national and local policy.
• Responsible for identifying and assessing complex clinical and non-clinical issues.
• Responsible for interdepartmental activities including HR and patient flow.

Job description

Overview

Ward Manager (Band 7) for an 18 bedded Surgical Enhanced Care Unit (ECU). The ECU supports Transplant Surgery, elective theatre cases, emergency theatre cases, emergency pathway patients and patients transferred from General Critical Care. This leadership role is essential to maintain KPI's and to provide a pivotal leadership role.

Closing date: 07 January 2026

Interviews are scheduled for 22 January 2026.

Successful applicants will be required to provide an immunisation and vaccination report, from either their current UK occupational health provider or their UK GP.

Main duties of the job

The role is essential to provide this ward area with a high profile, accessible and responsive leader, accountable for clinical staff, service, governance, standards, safety and quality.

• Accountable for own actions in accordance with Code of Professional Conduct. Will contribute towards corporate objectives, acting within local, Trust and statutory guidelines and policies at all times.
• Highly developed communication skills enabling maintenance of high quality service and ensuring timely management and resolution of unexpected events and situations. Undertake bleep-holder responsibilities for the area on a regular basis.
• A knowledgeable team leader and resource for staff, advising on national, local and Trust policy and procedures/guidelines, ensuring that clinical governance is embedded in practice. Will support staff and users in service and policy development within a defined area/specialty.
• Responsible for identifying and assessing complex clinical and non-clinical issues, implementing resolutions and monitoring/auditing outcomes.

About us

University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust, rated as good by the Care Quality Commission, is one of the largest teaching Trusts in the UK.

We are extremely proud of our employees across our hospital sites, with high quality patient care at the heart of everything we do.

Boasting some of the most modern facilities in Western Europe, the Trust is renowned for being at the forefront of research and innovation as part of its blossoming reputation as a worldwide leader in healthcare.

We are proud to be recognised as a Pathway to Excellence designated organisation - please click the link for further details about this prestigious award. Pathway To Excellence - University Hospitals Coventry & Warwickshire (uhcw.nhs.uk)

By joining our exciting journey, you will form part of a passionate, talented team and will be able to access a wide range of learning and development opportunities. There has never been a better time to join our team.

The Trust is committed to building an organisation that makes full use of the talents, skills, experience, and different perspectives available in our diverse society. We want everyone to feel they are respected, valued, can achieve their potential and receive the most appropriate and relevant care. We will create an environment where the equality and human rights principles of fairness, respect, equality, dignity and autonomy are promoted and are part of the organisation's core values.

Job responsibilities

The role is essential to provide this ward area with a high profile, accessible and responsive leader, accountable for clinical staff, service, governance, standards, safety and quality.

• Responsible for interdepartmental/organisational activities including HR; complaints; appraisal; hospital bleep-holder responsibilities on a regular basis and patient flow.
• Undertake highly specialised technical and/or practical skills to ensure optimum patient management including; complex patient monitoring; equipment management and administration of invasive tests/procedures.
• Responsible for education and training provision of identified staff groups, patients and carers within defined areas.
• Utilise and ensure others utilise information and IT systems to secure accurate and timely patient, workforce and resource data available.
• Regularly manage expected and unexpected clinical events requiring high but unpredictable levels of physical effort according to patient dependency/clinical need.
• Regularly support patients, carers and staff during difficult situations arising in the clinical area, e.g., breaking bad news or following an unexpected event.
• Promote and monitor adherence to Health and Safety and Trust policy designed to protect healthcare staff and service users from known hazards.

For further details of the role please see the attached job description.

Person Specification

Qualifications

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Experience

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Knowledge

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Skills

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Commitment to Trust Values and Behaviours

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Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

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