Ward Manager

Elysium Healthcare; Peterborough; On-site; GBP 44,000 - 54,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

33 days annual leave including bankhol

Career development and training

Rewards & Ely-Vate platform

Wellbeing support

Blue Light Card

Life Assurance

Pension contribution

Subsidised meals

Onsite parking

Job summary

Elysium Healthcare is recruiting a Ward Manager for The Farndon Unit in Newark to lead the nursing team and drive high-quality care. You will support on-call duties, oversee ward operations, and promote teamwork within a safety-focused, recovery-oriented environment.

You should have a relevant nursing qualification with NMC registration, plus proven leadership skills and experience in similar settings. The role offers a base salary and strong benefits package.

Qualifications

• Proven leadership experience in similar ward environments.
• Experience in NHS or private care.
• NMC registration and nursing qualification required.

Responsibilities

• Lead the nursing team to provide high-quality care for ward patients.
• Deliver supervision and empower recovery across the ward.
• Manage on-call service and ward budgets while modelling leadership.

Skills

Leadership

Nursing

Teamwork

Education

Nursing qualification

Job description

Being a Ward Manager is more than just managing a team. It's being a leader, an expert, being the driving force behind a positive culture, providing guidance, nurturing talent, and most importantly, looking after everyone within your ward. If you agree, then you're the Ward Manager we're looking for.

Whether you're a senior nurse looking for the next step in your career, or a seasoned Ward Manager looking for a new ward to make your own, if caring for others and being able to successfully lead a team to effectively run a ward comes naturally to you. Your career within Elysium will be enjoyable, rewarding and fulfilling as you develop specialist skills and make a real difference for some of the most vulnerable people in society.

It’s a career that you can take pride in and enjoy. It’s what delivering great healthcare should feel like.

What you will be doing:

With experience from the NHS or private care, you will lead the nursing team provide high-quality care and support for people, while also supporting your colleagues and promoting good teamwork.

As a Ward Manager, you will empower recovery and deliver supervision to staff across the ward to deliver great healthcare. You will work alongside the senior Nurse to manage the on-call service and manage the ward budgets, and lead by example, acting as a role model to all members of the nursing team, leading care teams and creating a positive learning environment that makes a difference and changes lives for the better.

Other duties include:

• Providing Clinical Leadership and expertise
  
• Providing leadership and guidance to support a unified service and engaged workforce
  
• Ensuring that high standards are in place, followed and improved in accordance within the Clinical Governance framework
  
• Utilising and supervising all nursing staff effectively
  
• Being an expert resource on Nursing care of service users within the specialism and hold a key role in the multidisciplinary team
  
• Maintaining a positive and collaborative environment to allow ward members to reach their potential and maximum their ability to provide high-quality care, staff welfare and staff training
  
• Designated to take charge of the ward
  

Things that you will have:

• A relevant nursing qualification
• NMC registration
• A positive attitude and be naturally caring and compassionate
• A commitment to high-quality care and to values and evidence-based practice
• Relevant experience in a similar environment
• Proven track record of leadership skills

Where you will be working:

Location: The Farndon Unit, Farndon Road, Newark, Nottinghamshire, NG24 4SW

You will be working at the Farndon Unit, a purpose-built low secure hospital that offers personalised assessment and recovery-based treatment pathways, including a trauma-specific pathway, for women with complex care needs.

You will join the multidisciplinary team in providing specialist care for people with a diagnosis of severe and enduring mental illness and/or personality disorder and/or mild learning disability.

The combination of general low secure wards and a recovery ward area (also within the low secure perimeter) provide a seamless internal care pathway supporting and empowering recovery and rehabilitation.

What You’ll Get:

At Elysium Healthcare, we believe in taking care of the people who care for others, you’ll enjoy a comprehensive benefits package designed to support your wellbeing, growth, and future:

• Annual base salary of £48,945
• The equivalent of 33 days annual leave (including bank holidays) – plus your birthday off and the option to buy additional annual leave, in our annual selection window.
• Career development and training to help you achieve your professional goals
• Access to our Rewards & Benefits platform Ely-Vate; Your one-stop destination for everyday savings, exclusive benefits, and wellbeing hub!
• Wellbeing support and activities to help you maintain a healthy work-life balance
• Access to Blue Light Card, which provides a range of exclusive offers and discounts
• Life Assurance, for added peace of mind
• Stream – instant access to earned wages when you need it, plus access to save, directly from your wages, alongside financial wellbeing support.
• 24/7 GP service and second medical opinion, to ensure you are the best you can be
• Enhanced Maternity Package, so you can truly enjoy this special time
• Pension contribution, to help secure your future
• Subsidised meals and onsite free parking

About your next employer:

Elysium Health care has over 8,000 employees and a unique approach to the delivery of care. With a network of over 80 services across England and Wales covering Mental Health, Neurological, Learning Disabilities & Autism, Children & Education, there is opportunity for you to grow and move.

Elysium Healthcare is part of Ramsay Health Care with a global network that extends across 10 countries and employs over 86,000 people globally.

Elysium Healthcare follows safer recruitment of staff for all appointments and is a Disability Confident employer, committed to inclusive and accessible recruitment. All candidates will be subject to a DBS disclosure.