Ward Manager

Merseycare; Liverpool; On-site; GBP 46,000 - 53,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking an enthusiastic Registered Nurse to join their dynamic team as Ward Manager at Longmoor House. This role involves leading a 20-bedded ward that focuses on patient assessment, reablement, and discharge planning. The successful candidate will work within a multidisciplinary team to ensure excellent patient care, providing leadership and management while fostering a supportive environment. With a commitment to diversity and equality, this organization values the contributions of all employees and encourages applications from underrepresented groups. If you're ready for a new challenge in a community setting, this is the perfect opportunity for you.

Qualifications

• Experience in clinical leadership and management is essential.
• Demonstrable post-registration experience required.

Responsibilities

• Provide clinical leadership and management to the clinical team.
• Ensure high-quality service delivery to patients/clients.

Skills

Communication Skills

Leadership Skills

Organizational Skills

IT Literacy

Ability to Work Under Pressure

Education

Degree or equivalent qualification

Registration with relevant professional body

Job description

Main area: Adult Physical Health Community

Grade Band: 7

Contract: Permanent

Hours: 37.5 hours per week (Full Time - 37.5 Hours Per Week over 7 days unit operates over 24 hours.)

Job ref: 350-CC6969896

Site: Longmoor House

Town: Liverpool

Salary: £46,148 - £52,809 per annum

Salary period: Yearly

Closing: 06/02/2025 23:59

Interview date: 12/02/2025

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust celebrates diversity and promotes equal opportunities; we are committed to challenging and eliminating racism and other forms of discrimination and advancing and promoting equality of opportunity in the provision of services and creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We believe that everyone has the right to be treated with dignity and respect.

We take positive action to support disadvantaged groups and particularly encourage applications from ethnic minorities, disabled, and LGBTQIA+ people that are under-represented in our workforce. We also welcome applications from reservists and ex-armed forces personnel as we recognise the benefits of the values, skills, training, and experience that they bring to their work with us.

Job overview

Longmoor House is looking for an enthusiastic Registered Nurse to join our dynamic team as Ward Manager. Green ward 1 is a 20 bedded Ward that provides care for patients requiring assessment, reablement, and discharge planning.

The ward works with a Multidisciplinary team approach to providing excellent patient care for patients who are medically optimised for discharge from Hospital to prepare them for home. The team also cares for patients referred directly from the community who do not require admission to the acute hospital but may need further investigations or reablement.

If you have excellent communication and leadership skills and would like a new challenge to develop within a community setting, this would be an ideal post. Full support and induction would be given to the successful candidate. The candidate will be expected to work flexible shifts over a 24-hour period over 7 days to provide leadership to the unit.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will have responsibility for the delivery of the clinical service on the ward. The post holder will be required to provide team leadership and management to the team. The primary function of the role is to provide leadership, management, and communication to and for the team, ensuring the delivery of efficient, effective, co-ordinated, and responsive high-quality care to patients/clients.

Working for our organisation

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 and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.

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.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

1. Provide clinical leadership and management to the clinical team.
2. Be responsible for the delivery of the service within the area.
3. Work in partnership with other services/stakeholders etc., to enable patients/clients to be treated in the appropriate setting.
4. Ensure that the team provides a high-quality service to its clients by providing caseload and clinical supervision.
5. Have full line management responsibility for the team ensuring appropriate delegation and delivery of patients/client care.
6. Ensure that teams work proactively in order to deliver anticipatory and maintenance care, providing a responsive service to patients/clients with both planned and unplanned care needs.
7. Maintain clinical credibility by providing clinical care and supporting members of the team within the clinical environment.
8. Participate in the development of caseload management across the local health economy.
9. Provide leadership and mentoring to those staff developing into a caseload management role.
10. Act as an advocate and champion for patients/clients in various forums and professional groups and challenge attitudes and behaviour.
11. Implement plans for the team including rotas and schedules/working patterns to ensure business continuity.
12. Practice autonomously and demonstrate evidence-based clinical decision-making.
13. Provide clinical expertise and knowledge to the team when managing complex and highly complex situations.
14. Assess patient/client conditions and consider a range of options when delivering complex and highly complex clinical care.
15. Work in collaboration with other stakeholders to deliver services to patients/clients.
16. Following holistic assessment of health needs, develop individualised care plans to fulfil those needs, with the involvement of patients/clients and carers.
17. Implement and evaluate care delivery for patients/clients with identified needs.
18. Ensure that all clinical activity provided by the team directly reflects the core objectives of health promotion, supported self-care, disease-specific management, management of long-term conditions and end of life/palliative care.
19. Set objectives by which performance will be monitored.
20. Work with the service lead to deliver local based services, by participating in meetings and communicating the outcomes to staff.
21. Provide reports to the service lead on staff and patient activity as requested.

Person specification

Skills

• Evidence of influencing, motivating and negotiating with others to achieve change in relation to care.
• Awareness of current national and local agenda in NHS and Social Care.
• Evidence of being able to communicate complex, sensitive information and advice on healthcare to patients/clients, carers and colleagues.
• Understanding how other agencies work.
• IT literate.
• Awareness of factors that contribute to good health and the importance of promoting these in line with organisational public health policy.
• Ability to work under pressure and manage a diverse workload.
• Excellent communication, organisational and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to understand and analyse complex data.
• Ability to network with multidisciplinary colleagues.
• Self-management and motivation skills.
• Report writing skills.
• Confidence to challenge poor practice and ability to address difficult issues.
• Ability to travel to work across boundaries.

Experience

• Demonstrable post registration/qualification experience.
• Experience of management and clinical leadership.
• Experience of successful multi-agency working.

Qualifications

• Degree or equivalent qualification.
• Appropriate prescriber – if required within the role.
• Evidence of CPD/Short courses.
• Registration with relevant professional body.

Values

• Accountability
• Support
• Responsive to service users
• Engaging leadership style
• Transparency and honesty
• Discreet

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Only those applicants who demonstrate clearly how they meet our person specification will be shortlisted for interview.

As a Disability Confident Employer, we offer a guaranteed interview scheme for applicants who consider themselves to be disabled who meet the minimum (essential) criteria for the role in the person specification.

Should you require a reasonable adjustment to our recruitment process please email [e-mail] to ensure that measures can be put in place to support you.

We reserve the right to close any vacancy earlier than advertised in exceptional circumstances once we have received a high volume of applications.

The Trust expects all post holders who require an enhanced DBS for their role subscribe to the DBS Update Service. You will be required to enrol for this service for a fee of £16 per year and maintain registration.

Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.