Ward Manager - Ward 1A

Merseywestlancs; Knowsley; A distancia; GBP 42.000 - 54.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust is seeking a Ward Manager to provide clinical leadership, manage a designated ward team and deliver high-quality, patient-centred care in a busy acute setting. The post requires strong leadership skills, effective communication, and the ability to work with the multidisciplinary team to drive service improvements and staff development.

You will take on 24-hour responsibility with some out-of-hours support, and contribute to budgets and

Formación

• Registered Nurse with current NMC Registration.
• Evidence of continuous professional development.
• Leadership training (Level 4 ILM) or equivalent.

Responsabilidades

• Provide leadership, management and team development to designated staff.
• Provide specialist advice, leadership and support to the wider MDT ensuring the patient is at the centre of all decision making.
• Ensure high quality care throughout the service by ensuring assessment planning, implementation and evaluation of care delivery.
• Maintain staff and patient records in compliance with Trust policy.
• Liaising with internal departments and external agencies in order to provide evidence-based care and contribute to policy and practice changes.
• Ensure delegated budget is managed in line with Trust’s standing financial instructions.
• To uphold the standards of professional practice, promoting and maintaining high quality patient care.
• Overall responsibility for the management of the department and will be accountable for the quality of care within that environment in line with Trust policy and professional codes and standards.
• Lead and provide a highly visible presence being responsive and accessible to patients, carers and staff.

Conocimientos

Leadership

Team management

Communication skills

Clinical skills

Budget management

Educación

Registered nurse qualification

NMC Registration

CPD evidence

ILM Level 4 or equivalent

Herramientas

Electronic patient record

Descripción del empleo

We want talented and enthusiastic people from all backgrounds to join #TeamMWL, with us you can learn, grow and develop yourself and your career, realising your true ambitions and aspirations.

Whatever you’re looking for in your career, you’ll find it here at MWL.

The Ward Manager role is a pivotal nursing position in the delivery of excellent standards of care through effective leadership and management and so we are looking for an experienced Registered Nurse with a high level of clinical competency in the acute setting, high quality leadership skills and proven management experience to take on the challenge.

The applicant should be a dynamic and highly motivated individual, who will work closely and collaboratively with the established Multi-disciplinary team to deliver high quality, compassionate care to our patients.

The successful candidate will be highly visible to staff, patients and relatives in their role, and deliver direct patient care whilst managing, leading, and co-ordinating the ward. You will provide decisive and effective clinical input and demonstrate leadership qualities, effective communication skills, a flexible approach and have the ability to work under pressure.

You must be confident, hardworking and reliable, and have excellent communication skills. You will be a proactive role model, providing inspirational clinical and developmental supervision to all staff on the ward. As a ward manager, you will be expected to work some clinical shifts.

The role will also require you to be able to identify service development needs, contribute to the operational planning, development and evaluation of the service.

The role of ward manager carries 24-hour continuing responsibility for the Unit, and the postholder will primarily work Monday to Friday office hours but will participate in out of hours working to support service delivery

Working for our organisation

Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust serves a population of over 600,000 with a workforce of over 10,500 dedicated and skilled staff across 21 sites.

Our services:

Acute Care

Providing emergency and maternity services at Whiston, Southport and Ormskirk hospitals, and medical and surgical specialties across all our sites.

Primary Care

Providing primary care services at Marshalls Cross Medical Centre situated in St Helens Hospital.

Community Services

Providing adult community services for St Helens and a wheelchair service in Chorley, South Ribble, and West Lancashire. Our inpatient unit at Newton Community Hospital is where patients needing acute hospital beds can continue rehabilitation. We also provide urgent care at our Urgent Treatment Centre located in St Helens town centre.

Specialist Regional Services

We provide the Mersey Regional Burns & Plastic Surgery Unit at Whiston Hospital and the Spinal Injuries Unit at Southport Hospital to more than 4 million people across the whole of Merseyside, West Lancashire, Cheshire, Isle of Man and North Wales.

Achievements:

• Rated Outstanding by CQC Inspection August 2018
• Top 100 places to work in the NHS (NHS Employers & Health Service Journal)
• National Preceptorship Accreditation (2023) for Nursing & AHP Preceptorship Programme.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• Provide leadership, management and team development to designated staff group, acting in a consultative capacity, ensuring safe and effective service delivery.
• Provide specialist advice, leadership and support to the wider MDT ensuring the patient is at the centre of all decision making.
• Ensure high quality care throughout the service by ensuring assessment planning, implementation and evaluation of care delivery
• Maintain staff and patient records in compliance with Trust policy
• Liaising with internal departments and external agencies in order to provide evidence-based care and contribute to policy and practice changes.
• Ensure delegated budget is managed in line with Trust’s standing financial instructions
• To uphold the standards of professional practice, promoting and maintaining high quality patient care.
• Overall responsibility for the management of the department and will be accountable for the quality of care within that environment in line with Trust policy and professional codes and standards
• Lead and provide a highly visible presence being responsive and accessible to patients, carers and staff.

Our Values

• We are Kind
• We are Open
• We are Inclusive

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse or Registered health professional Diploma / Degree level qualification
• Current NMC Registration
• Evidence of continuous professional development
• Leadership training or qualification (minimum Level 4 ILM or equivalent) or equivalent experience

Knowledge and Experience

• Able to demonstrate knowledge of NMC professional standards for practice contained within the code
• Experience of managing teams
• Experience of service development, such as clinical pathway management
• Substantial experience of working in a clinical environment
• Understanding of budget management within the NHS at departmental level
• Experience of involvement in relevant research/audit to underpin evidence-based practice
• Understand key features of clinical governance and risk

Skills

• Current up to date and relevant clinical skills
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Excellent organisational and management skills
• Able to act as a leader, effectively managing staff in the department
• Accountable for own professional actions
• Ability to network and build relationships at all levels act as a change agent
• Computer literacy eg experience of electronic patient record

Other

• Frequent sitting or standing in a restricted position; occasional moderate effort for several short period.
• Walks, stands most of shift; occasionally moves, occasional manoeuvres patients.
• Frequent concentration, work pattern unpredictable Concentration for patient clinical work
• Dealing with frequent interruptions and competing demands
• Occasional highly distressing or emotional circumstances. Deals with patient complaints, conveys unwelcome news, management of complaints/concerns arising from incidents, communicating to patients and relatives
• Working in ward environment providing direct clinical care

Given sometimes we receive a high volume of applications to work for us, please be aware, that we may close a vacancy earlier than stated should a sufficient number of applications be received from which a shortlist can be confirmed. Therefore, you are advised to apply at your earliest convenience.

The Trust may contact you during the recruitment process for your feedback on your experience. We always aim for continuous improvement in our practice.

Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion

We actively cultivate a professional environment of fairness, equality, dignity, and respect for all individuals. We welcome individuals from all backgrounds and value the unique skills, perspective and experience you bring. We are grounded in the belief that diversity enhances our collective strength, fostering innovation and excellence within our workforce. We welcome all applications irrespective of people’s race, disability, gender, sexual orientation, religion/belief, age, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy/maternity and in particular those from under- represented groups.

Disability Confident Leader

The Trust operates anonymous shortlisting where no personal information about you, including your name or personal details are shared with the recruiting manager. No equality information is shared at any time during the recruitment process with the recruiting manager or other people involved in the decision-making process.

The equality monitoring information you provide is used in the following situations: to review our recruitment practices; where a job is limited to a specific person to verify their eligibility to apply; and to offer disability reasonable adjustments to the recruitment process.
Certificate of Sponsorship

eVisa Update
For successful candidates on selected work and study visa routes, who have completed and paid for their applications will no longer receive a visa vignette in passport as evidence of their permission to enter the UK.
Instead, you will be issued with an eVisa only, which is accessed by creating a UKVI account.
Before travelling to the UK, we advise applicants to:

• Understand how to generate an eVisa share code

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

If this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 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.

Please note if applicable, applicants will be required to pay for their DBS check. Costs are deducted from salary following appointment.

If you have not already done so, you are therefore encouraged to enrol for the DBS Update Service to which a small annual fee of £13 per year applies.

Flexible Working

We actively support flexible working patterns throughout MWL. Changes made to the NHS Terms and Conditions of Service Handbook mean that:

• All employees have the right to request flexible working from day one of employment.
• There is no limit on the number of requests they can make.
• Employees have the right to make requests, have them considered, regardless of the reason.

At Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, we will consider requests for flexible working. We would also encourage you to also discuss flexible working options at interview stage.

Working for Team MWL

Staff recognition is especially important to us; as well as performance reviews and appraisals, we recognise staff through Employee of the month. Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals we offer a generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments (where applicable), 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata) and access to a range of NHS discounts. Our Staff Health and Wellbeing programme offer a variety of services.

The Trust is a non-smoking across all our sites. Failure to follow this rule could lead to disciplinary action. For more information, see the Smoke Free NHS website.

You will be expected to undertake the Trusts' commitment to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults.

You must ensure that your application, including personal statements and behaviour examples, are truthful and factually accurate. Please note plagiarism can include presenting the ideas and experience of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own.

The Trust will not accept applications which are found to be AI generated and will check all applications against AI detection software.

Additional Information

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.