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Deputy Ward Manager - Opal ward, Aylesbury
Client: Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust
Location:
Aylesbury, United Kingdom
Job Category:
Other
EU work permit required:
Yes
Job Reference:
e0efef65853b
Job Views:
4
Posted:
16.03.2025
Expiry Date:
30.04.2025
Job Description:
Job overview
Are you a Registered Mental Health Nurse, with experience of leading and managing a team or an aspiring leader ready to take on leadership and management responsibilities and motivated by the prospect of working with a supportive and dynamic team?
Opal ward is a 20-bedded ward for those who have enduring mental illnesses, often with co-morbidities, which require rehabilitation, acquisition, and maintenance of everyday life skills to promote recovery and social inclusion.
Within this everyday leadership role, your responsibilities will allow you to plan & coordinate the day, ensure safety, and build team spirit. Providing excellent care and governance is a fundamental part of what we do, and in this role, you will maintain the standards by supporting and nurturing the team.
Main duties of the job
* Engage with clients and families to build positive working relationships, ensuring their needs and wishes are considered in the acute inpatient setting.
* Conduct systematic and comprehensive assessments of client needs, develop care plans within the CPA framework, and facilitate carer support plans.
* Develop and review risk management plans, identifying opportunities for positive risk-taking in collaboration with clients, ward teams, and carers.
* Work with clients and their families on medication management, symptom management, and relapse prevention.
* Coordinate and implement care plans, evaluate their effectiveness, and work closely with community services and multidisciplinary teams to support client recovery.
Working for our organisation
Oxford Health is a great place to work. Please read the “candidate guide to making an application” and ensure your supporting statement is tailored to the role you are applying for and addresses any essential criteria.
As a Trust, we provide physical, mental health, and social care for people of all ages across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath, and Northeast Somerset. Our vision is that no matter who you are or where you are, you will tell us that you receive: “Outstanding care delivered by an outstanding team”
Our values are: “Caring, safe and excellent”
We offer a wide range of benefits designed to support your career and wellbeing. These include:
* Excellent opportunities for career progression
* Access to tailored individual and Trust-wide learning and development
* 27 days annual leave, plus bank holidays, rising to 33 days with continuous service
* NHS Discount across a wide range of shops, restaurants, and retailers
* Lease car scheme
* Cycle to work scheme
* Employee Assistance Programme
* Mental Health First Aiders
* Staff accommodation (please note waiting lists apply)
* Staff networking and support groups hosted by our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion team
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
You will need to use the “supporting statement” element of your application form to demonstrate your suitability for this role and refer to the job description, person specification, and the guidance notes attached to this role to help you tailor your application.
Person specification
Experience
* Registered Mental Health Nurse or Registered Learning Disability Nurse
* Ability to communicate with a high level of effectiveness both verbally and in writing
* Ability to work effectively in acute situations in order to maintain the safety of staff and patients.
* Experience in a leadership and management role
* Previous experience in working as a qualified nurse in a mental health care setting
* Experience of facilitating teaching/learning sessions with junior staff
* Experience of supporting student nurses as a practice supervisor and/or assessor
Knowledge
* Theoretical knowledge of MHA legislation including the Mental Health Act 1983
* Knowledge of safeguarding children and adults policy
* Knowledge of neurodiversity and the impacts experienced by neurodiverse patients when admitted to mental health hospitals
* Understands and works effectively within the principles of and structures for clinical governance
Personal Qualities
* Effective leadership and motivational skills
* Excellent communication and presentational skills
* Able to take direction, instruction, and appropriately delegate tasks to colleagues.
* Able to organise and prioritise own time effectively.
* Works effectively as part of MDT
* All new starters have a thorough induction process, both local and Trust-wide.
* Appointment to this post is subject to the trust receiving satisfactory references covering 3 years of employment or study.
* We’re advocates of flexible working and many of our roles offer a range of employment options.
* Employees are expected to undertake mandatory and statutory training related to their role.
* We are ambitious in our pursuit of excellence, driven by the belief that a fair, just and fully inclusive organisational culture enables our teams to deliver the best quality of care and services possible.
* We welcome applications from all sections of the community, are an Equal Opportunities employer with a number of internal networking groups to support our employees.
* We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults.
* Oxford is a world-renowned centre of excellence for research.
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