Herefordshire and Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust
Do you want to work for a Trust that C.A.R.E.S?
Here at POWCH, we are passionate about delivering outstanding care to our patients and continually strive to provide a seamless transition from a hospital environment back into the community.
We are looking for an experienced, courageous, ambitious, and responsive Registered Nurse to join our team as a Ward Manager.
The wards at POWCH provide care for patients requiring rehabilitation. The ward works with a multidisciplinary team approach to providing excellent patient care, offering support to families, time to talk to your patient, build relationships, and be part of their recovery from admission to discharge.
If you have excellent clinical, communication, and leadership skills and would like a new challenge within a community setting, this would be an ideal post. Full support and induction would be given to the successful candidate.
If you would like to discuss informally if this is the right role for you, get in touch with the Recruiting Manager, which can be found on the top right-hand side of the advert.
Main Duties of the Job
Behave consistently with the values and beliefs of the organization, promoting these at all times.
Act as a role model to colleagues, seeking to maintain the highest standards of professionalism.
Use your initiative and take responsibility for yourself and the quality of your work and the service you provide to patients.
Lead and manage the hospital ward. Responsible for ward budget and overall responsibility for line management of staff within the ward. The role will require a high level of leadership and utilization of motivational, innovation, and change management skills.
Be an experienced clinician/therapist and be responsible for providing expert knowledge and skills to more junior members of the team and the provision of more complex care planning and care provision.
Be an integral member of the ward team, work collaboratively with all services and agencies, to facilitate patients in achieving maximum independence.
Have continuing responsibility for the designated ward.
About Us
At Herefordshire and Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust, we are working together to deliver outstanding care. We run community hospitals and community health services across Worcestershire and provide mental health and learning disability services across both Herefordshire and Worcestershire.
Our people (all 4500+ of them) provide services for people of all ages, experiencing both physical and/or mental health conditions from over 100 sites.
We will support you to thrive; offer flexible working options for a great work-life balance, help you fulfil your ambitions, and empower you to make positive changes within your team or service. We value diversity and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, cultures, and ethnicities.
What We Offer
* 27 days leave plus bank holidays, increasing up to 33 days with long service
* Generous NHS pension and enhanced pay when you work unsocial hours
* Flexible and agile working opportunities
* Great maternity, paternity, and adoption support
* Wide range of supportive staff networks
* Health and wellbeing opportunities
If you would like to know more, please visit our website.
Job Responsibilities
For full details of the duties and criteria for the role, please refer to the job description and person specification attached.
Person Specification
Experience
* Significant acute/community hospital experience at band 6 level
* Management of staff/teams
* Caseload management
* Clinical audit/project work
* Experience of change management
* Broad range of clinical experience
* Ward/Unit management and previous experience at band 7
* Conflict management
* Workforce planning
Other Qualities
* Able to meet the travel requirements of the role
Skills and Abilities
* Ability to challenge poor behaviour
* A positive attitude and able to act on feedback
Qualifications
* Registered Nurse (RN1), Registered Mental Nurse (RMN), Registered Nurse (Mental) (RN(M)), Occupational Therapist or Physiotherapist
* Degree/Diploma and working towards a first-level degree
* Evidence of ongoing continual professional development
* I understand that I will be asked to provide original certificates to verify my qualifications at the point of offer.
* Management and leadership qualification
Knowledge
* Clinical governance
* Understanding of personal contribution to the achievement of organizational objectives within the business plan
* Health improvement
* Good knowledge of community services and care pathways
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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