Deputy Ward Manager

at  Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Deputy Ward Manager Modular Ward
Working Hours: 37.5 hours per week
Various shifts - Days, Nights and Weekends
An opportunity has arisen for a Deputy Ward Manager to join our team. Modular Ward is a 20 bed bedded Care of the Elderly ward. We provide care to patients over 65 and treat a wide variety of medical conditions. We also have a responsibility to ensure the safety of our patients after discharge by arranging a safe discharge destination. It is especially important when caring for elderly patients that our team assess the person holistically, taking into account their medical, social, emotional and spiritual needs. We work closely with the wider multidisciplinary team to ensure these needs are met.
The Deputy Ward Manager will work clinically, providing leadership and support to colleagues and role modelling behaviors and attitudes in line with the Trust’s behavioral standards. They will also support the Ward Manager in some administration duties, audits and quality improvement initiatives.
As an experienced nurse you will work both clinically as a member of the nursing team providing clinical advice, expertise and leadership to all staff and in partnership with the ward managers. You will be called upon to deputize in the ward manager’s absence to ensure a positive patient experience through the delivery of high standards of care at all times.
The Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust provides services to West Cheshire and to Welsh patients covered by Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board. The Trust works collaboratively within the wider Cheshire and Merseyside Health and Care Partnership. Its services are provided from three locations:
The Countess of Chester Hospital: providing 438 general and acute beds
Ellesmere Port Hospital: providing 56 beds as a rehabilitation, intermediate and outpatient facility
Tarporley War Memorial Hospital: a base for community services which serve the local rural population.
The Trust employs over 6258 staff (headcount) which includes temporary bank staff and provides acute emergency and elective services, primary care direct access services and obstetric services to a population of approximately 407,000. This includes 357,000 residents in Chester and West Cheshire which includes Ellesmere Port and Neston as well as the Deeside area of Flintshire which has a population of approximately 50,000.
The Trust is a busy district general hospital and in 2022/2023, there were more than 503,342 patient attendances (inpatient, outpatient and diagnostic) ranging from a simple outpatient appointment to major cancer surgery. This is an increase of nearly 10,000 compared to the previous year when there were 494,387 patient attendances.
See Job Description for further details.
Recruitment selection processes are based on competence (see Person specification) and values.
Please note applicants will be required to pay for their DBS check. Costs are deducted from salary following appointment. The cost of the DBS application is £27.50 (standard) or £55.50 (enhanced), this cost will be deducted from your salary over the first three months of employment.
You are encouraged to enrol for the DBS Update Service. A small annual fee of £16 per year applies.
New entrants to the NHS will commence on the minimum of the scale stated above.
Applicants are advised to apply early as if a large number of applications are received for this post, we reserve the right to close the vacancy prior to the advertised date.
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