Ward Manager - Three Months Secondment

at  Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust

We have an exciting opportunity for a highly professional, motivated and enthusiastic candidate to manage Carlton Ward, based at Kingswood Centre. The ward offers assessment, care and treatment to female and male patients diagnosed with Learning Disabilities who are acutely unwell, together with care planning, discharge planning, clinical risk assessments and providing a safe and therapeutic environment for all.
We are looking for a compassionate and highly motivated Ward Manager to lead our dedicated clinical team.
You will be able to demonstrate progressive skills in leadership, advanced clinical practice, and service development with a working knowledge of Positive Behaviour Support (PBS). We are seeking a nurse who is looking to further their career. You will be joining a multi-disciplinary team that is committed to the provision of high quality and patient-centred care, continuous service and staff development, and strong collaborative working with other agencies.
The successful applicant will work with the Matron to promote a culture that fosters staff involvement and a progressive attitude to service improvement, along with taking operational and clinical day to day management responsibility at team level using performance management systems. You will also work collaboratively and co-operatively with others to meet the needs of patients and their families.
Key Responsibilities
Management of Nursing Care and Practice
Management of Financial and Material Resources
Management of Clinical Standards
Management of Human Resources
Management of Information and Communication
Management of the Environment
Personal Development and Freedom to Act
The successful applicant may have contact with patients or service users. As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings.
Values
Central and North West London NHS Trust expects all Band 7 ward managers to act in a way which shows you understand our core values and are willing to put them into practice with service users, their friends family and carers and also other staff members.
As a Band 7 Ward Manager we expect you to show COMPASSION, contribute to a caring and kind environment and recognise that what you do and say helps can make the lives of others better
We expect you to RESPECT everyone and acknowledge and welcome people’s differences rather than ignore them or see them as problematic.
We expect you to EMPOWER others and continually try to provide information, resources and support to help others make their own decisions and meet their own needs.
We expect you to work in PARTNERSHIP and behave in a way that shows that you recognise that commissioners and users of our services are the people who generate and pay for our work.
Please see job description and personal specifications attached.
Please make contact if required with Modern Matron.
Key Responsibilities’

Management of Nursing Care and Practice

• Ensure that all nursing practice is developed using up to date evidence based practice, ensuring that all nursing staff have the appropriate skill base and supporting mechanisms to access training to work with the service user group.
• Oversee a service user’s care pathway, utilising available resources and Patient Journey framework and lead the team in its implementation.
• Ensure systems are in place to support user and carer-centred involvement in the everyday activities on the ward.
• Ensure that nursing staff receive regular supervision and appraisal, and are offered essential and developmental training in accordance with their personal development plans, and the needs of the service.
• Ensure that all service users are made aware of, encouraged, and assisted to use all services available to them, in particular, those in the community.
• Ensure that the requirements of all mental health legislation are met with particular regard to the Mental Health Act 1983 (including amendments and Code of Practice) and Community Care Legislation (eg. CPA, Supervision Registers and Supervised Discharge etc), NSF, Child Protection and NHS Plan and ensuring that all practices are within the guidelines set by the NMC and are in accordance with Trust policy.

Please refer the Job description for details