Ward Manager | Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust

Lancashire Care Foundation Trust; Preston; In loco; GBP 43.000 - 52.000; Tempo pieno

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Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Ward Manager to lead and develop inpatient nursing teams within a defined clinical area, ensuring high-quality, patient-centred care.

The post holder will manage clinical and financial performance, sickness and absence, and investigations, while supporting staff wellbeing and professional development in a recovery-focused environment.

Competenze

• Experienced qualified nurses with leadership qualities and aspirations.
• Experience in line management and supervision of nurses.
• Ability to manage sickness, absence, leave, disciplinary investigations, complaints and post-incident reviews.
• Interest in Acquired Brain Injury, Personality Disorder, Challenging Behaviours or gender sensitive service.
• Ability to guide, support, supervise and role-model responses to challenging clinical presentations.

Mansioni

• Line manage and supervise a team of nurses.
• Be directly responsible for clinical and financial performance of a defined clinical area.
• Manage sickness and absence, leave allocation, disciplinary investigations, complaints and local post-incident reviews.
• Provide leadership coaching, education and clinical support.

Conoscenze

Leadership qualities

Nurse experience

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Ward Manager | Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust

Inpatient wards / units are designed to meet the acute holistic needs of service users/patients and carers, in a recovery focussed environment. This working environment is conducive to staff development and wellbeing.

The post holder is responsible for line managing and supervising a team of nurses and is directly responsible for the clinical and financial performance of a defined clinical area. The post holder is also required to ensure the effective management of sickness and absence, leave allocation, disciplinary investigations, complaints and local post incident reviews.

Applications are invited from experienced qualified nurses with leadership qualities and aspirations.

Successful applicants will be able to experience a broad range of clinical specialities and have access to a comprehensive package of leadership coaching, education and clinical support.

We are particularly keen to receive applications from nurses with an interest in working with: Acquired Brain Injury, Personality Disorder or Challenging Behaviours and/or a gender sensitive service.

This post will be suited to someone with experience of understanding, managing challenging and emotionally demanding clinical presentations. The individual will be able to guide, support, supervise and role-model on how to respond to these challenges.

LSCFT values diversity and inclusion, recognising that talent from varied backgrounds creates a flexible, creative, and effective workforce. We actively challenge discrimination and welcome applications from all, regardless of age, disability (including those with experience of accessing or caring for someone who has accessed mental health or learning disability services), ethnicity, gender, religion, belief, or sexual orientation.

Our aim is to reflect the communities we serve, so we particularly encourage applications from under-represented groups. If you’d like to discuss your application, please ask.

We also welcome individuals with lived experience relevant to the role or service area, as your insight brings authenticity to our services.

LSCFT support flexible working, we believe that a positive work/life balance benefits NHS employees through improved health and wellbeing. We would consider working patterns such as term time, part time, compressed hours and flexi-time.

The wellbeing of our people is at the heart of everything we do. We offer a wide range of resources, tools and support to help you thrive both in and out of work.

Explore our full wellbeing offer here:Keeping our workforce well

Guild Lodge hospital site is situated in beautiful rural area, yet close to motorway links from all directions of travel.

The hospital site offers:

Our staff receive:

• Preceptorship and support for those new to the services
• Access to salary sacrifice schemes for cars, electronics etc.
• Excellent support and Wellbeing services
• Superb external training and development opportunities
• Opportunities to develop leadership skills across differing care environments

Please see attached the job description and person specification for more information about this role please contact Tinashe Ncube, Matron on 01772 215018 or [e-mail]

This advert closes on Thursday 12 Nov 2026