Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust are proud award winners of the HSJ Provider of the Year 2019.
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Band 7 Ward Manager to join our team in the Assessment and Treatment in-patient unit at Townend Court.
As an enthusiastic and motivated Band 7 Ward Manager, you will work collaboratively with the wider team and senior leadership team to ensure we provide excellent care to our patients.
Learning Disability services have been changing and continue to evolve to meet the clinical demands of a modern inpatient facility, and we are looking for the right candidates to join this team. If you are excited by service change and improvement, this could be the opportunity you are looking for.
Our service is enrolled in the National NHSE Culture of Care Programme, which challenges us to support cultural change and a new bold, reimagined model of care for the future across all NHS-funded mental health, learning disability, and autism inpatient settings. The new clinical leads will be integral in leading this team and have the exciting opportunity to shape our services through co-production with our service users and staff teams.
Main duties of the job
As an enthusiastic and motivated ward manager, you will provide effective leadership and management to staff to promote high performance standards both individually and as a team, in order to achieve the Trust’s objectives and priorities.
You will work closely with the clinical leads and wider MDT to ensure that evidence-based, high-quality care is delivered at all times and staff have the appropriate skills and support to be able to achieve this.
You will receive support from the service manager, modern matron, and the wider senior leadership team, and will work to operationally lead and develop the service at a ward level, providing assurance to senior leadership around quality improvement and patient safety.
Working for our organisation
We are an award-winning and CQC rated good health and social care Trust delivering integrated services across Hull, East and North Yorkshire. We are a forward-thinking and dynamic Trust with a real commitment to staff development. We value our colleagues and invest in them to ensure they have the right skills to deliver outstanding care.
We are proud to score above or equal to the average for all NHS People Promise theme areas, demonstrating our commitment to improve the experience of working in the NHS for everyone. Wherever you work, we know you will receive a warm welcome and all the support you’ll need to get you started.
We recognise the positive value of diversity and promote equality whilst challenging discrimination. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds.
Work-life balance is about having influence and flexibility over when, where, and how you work. If the work pattern for this role does not meet your needs, we welcome an application and are happy to discuss working arrangements that differ from those advertised.
We offer a unique range of benefits that go above and beyond other NHS Trusts, including an enhanced leave package and health and wellbeing support.
Minimum Requirements
* RNLD or RNMH with live NMC registration, or HCPC Registered Professional
* Full understanding of relevant policy, legislation, drivers, and their application to clinical and service area
* An accredited leadership qualification or the ability to demonstrate advanced leadership and management skills; motivation, team building, developing positive interpersonal relationships, negotiation, conflict resolution, problem-solving, managing change, being creative
* Prepared to undertake or hold an accredited leadership qualification
* A breadth of clinical and professional practice, including clinically specializing in the field where the post is held
Experience
* Evidence of sound post-registration professional practice
* Leadership/management experience which has had a positive impact and created change within the service delivery/practice
* Effective interpersonal skills and experience in supervising, mentoring, and teaching
* Work within the culture of improving working lives and working time directive
* Proven leadership/management experience, able to demonstrate examples of positive impact/change within service delivery/practice
* A breadth of clinical practice including clinically specializing in the field where the post is held
* Able to demonstrate effective communication skills at all levels i.e., locally and strategically
Skills and Requirements
* Demonstrable examples of the ability to lead/motivate staff to embrace change
* Effective interpersonal skills and experience in supervising and mentoring/teaching
* Ability to commute to the geographical location in a timely manner
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020, and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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