Job overview
Are you looking to take a step up into leadership or move into a adult focused mental health setting?
We are looking for a highly motivated and innovative nurse with a real passion for in-patient nursing to be our next Ward Manager .
You should have a positive attitude and exceptional skills to work with patients with enduring mental illness and within a multi-disciplinary team. The team are a positive, friendly and supportive with a strong commitment to providing high quality, evidence-based patient care in an acute setting.
Sapphire Ward provides a care environment for 20 male patients who require support in an acute phase of illness. Sapphire ward aims to provide the highest standard of care in a safe, caring and excellent way, ensuring that care provision is collaborative, holistic and individualised.
This role is eligible for an incentive scheme of £3,500 paid at intervals over an 18-month period. All payments are pro-rata, non-pensionable and subject to a clawback clause. Please note that only employees external to Oxford Health NHS are eligible for this scheme.
Main duties of the job
1. Oversee the ward as part of the acute inpatient pathway, ensuring 24-hour managerial responsibility and maintaining high standards of nursing care.
2. Ensure the ward meets safety, security, quality, and governance standards in line with Oxford Health, QNWA, CQC, and HEALTHWATCH standards and procedures.
3. Develop multidisciplinary relationships, engage with patients and their families, demonstrate clinical expertise, and maintain accurate records.
4. Articulate a clear vision for inpatient service development, act as a role model, and lead clinical responses to incidents.
5. Manage care effectively with the Multidisciplinary Team with you being responsible for time management, recruitment, appraisals, and ensure infection control policies are applied to all staff in your team.
Please refer to the job description attached for a comprehensive list of duties.
The ability to travel independently between sites within the Trust is essential for this role.
Working for our organisation
Oxford Health is a great place to work and to be able to showcase the best of yourself when making an application 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 services are delivered at community bases, hospitals, clinics and people’s homes, delivering care as close to home as possible. 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
• Competitive pension scheme
• 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
Please refer to the job description and guidance notes attached for further information on this role accurate.
Person specification
Experience
Essential criteria
6. Experience of nursing within an acute setting
Desirable criteria
7. Ward management experience
8. Leadership experience
Qualifications
Essential criteria
9. Professionally registered nurse
Desirable criteria
10. Shows keenness to learn and develop
Knowledge/Skills
Essential criteria
11. Can demonstrate clear evidence of continued professional development.
12. Sound skills in clinical risk assessment and management.
13. Knowledge of the Mental Health Act 1983.
14. Demonstrates skills in leading and managing staff.
Personal Management
Essential criteria
15. Able to organise/prioritise time effectively
16. Demonstrates initiative.
17. Excellent communication/interpersonal skills
18. All new starters have a thorough induction process, both local and Trust wide, which aims to create a positive supportive working environment allowing new employees to learn key elements of their role over a reasonable timescale.
19. Appointment to this post is subject to the trust receiving satisfactory references covering 3 years of employment or study. Please ask your referees to respond promptly to reference requests.
20. Employees are expected to undertake mandatory and statutory training related to their role.
21. 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 and we work hard to ensure that our diverse workforce reflects the communities that we serve.
22. 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 and where possible will always look to make reasonable adjustments in order that you can fulfil the role to recognise your full potential. All our employees are committed to demonstrating through their behaviour our core values – safe, caring and excellent.
23. Oxford Health is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults, we expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
24. Oxford is a world-renowned centre of excellence for research. Oxford Health works closely with the University of Oxford department of Psychiatry and the Department of Primary care, has a Biomedical Research Centre dedicated to improving mental health and the NIHR Clinical Research Facility at the Warneford site. The Trust also hosts the NIHR Applied Research Collaboration (ARC) which carries out applied research that directly impacts patient health and wellbeing