Main area: Orthopaedics
Grade: Band 6
Contract: Secondment: 10 months
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week (nights and days)
Job ref: 287-ASUR-7-25
Employer: Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Ward 4
Town: Liverpool
Salary: £35,392 - £42,618 per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 12/02/2025 23:59
Deputy Ward Manager
Job overview
This is an exciting opportunity for a Deputy Ward Manager to join the team on this busy 27 bedded Trauma and Orthopaedics ward.
We are looking for a dynamic, highly motivated and enthusiastic person to join our Multi-disciplinary team, providing high-quality nursing care within this busy ward.
The successful candidate will demonstrate excellent communication skills, team working skills, and a dedication to improving the patient experience.
You will need to demonstrate continuing professional development and a strong commitment to developing others while working closely within a Multidisciplinary team.
Applicants must be able to evidence experience of working as a Band 5 or previous experience as a Band 6 within Trauma and Orthopaedics.
Main duties of the job
You will support the ward manager to lead, provide, and supervise a very high standard of compassionate care to our patients. You will support the safety and quality agenda of patient care and staff management, ensuring that the values and objectives of the Trust are met while improving patient outcomes.
You will support the journey of the patient from admission to discharge, identify risk, and formulate actions to reduce this risk, ensuring effective patient throughput.
You will display excellent leadership and effective communication skills, demonstrating a proactive, collaborative, and innovative approach to the clinical environment and a passion for excellence in patient care.
Person specification
Qualifications
* Registered Nurse, current NMC registration
* Teaching and assessing qualification or equivalent
Experience
* Evidence of management experience
* Evidence of change management
* Application of evidence-based practice
* Evidence of developing high standards of patient care
* Lead role in education of staff and patients
Knowledge
* Application of current nursing issues and healthcare governance
Skills
* Ability to work in changing environments
* Basic IT skills, including e-mail and word processing
Other
* Supportive of colleagues
* High level of personal and professional credibility
* Well motivated
Please ensure you check the email account (including junk/spam boxes) from which you apply regularly as we will use this to contact you regarding your application.
Posts advertised to ‘internal staff’ are open to employees of hospitals within University Hospitals of Liverpool Group, and you should confirm your employment within your application form.
Only those applicants who demonstrate clearly how they meet our person specification will be shortlisted for interview.
We reserve the right to close any vacancies from further applications when we have received a minimum number of applications from which to make a shortlist. Please ensure you apply without delay if you wish to be considered for this role.
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