Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
About
Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust comprises Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital and Royal Liverpool University Hospital.
We are part of NHS University Hospitals of Liverpool Group, formed on 1 November 2024 from the coming together of LUHFT and Liverpool Women’s NHS Foundation Trust. The Group was born from a shared aim to improve the care we provide our patients.
UHLG is one of the largest employers in the region, with over 16,800 colleagues who are dedicated to caring for our communities - from birth and beyond.
For the 630,000 people across Merseyside, we are their local NHS. We provide general and emergency hospital care, alongside highly specialised regional services for more than two million people in the North West.
Aintree University Hospital is the single receiving site for adult major trauma patients in Cheshire and Merseyside and hosts a number of regional services including an award-winning stroke facility. Broadgreen Hospital is home to elective surgical, diagnostic and treatment services, together with specialist patient rehabilitation. Liverpool Women’s Hospital specialises in the health of women and babies, delivering over 7,200 babies in the UK’s largest single site maternity hospital each year. The Royal Liverpool University Hospital is the largest hospital in the country to provide inpatients with 100% single bedrooms and focuses on complex planned care and specialist services.
Key details
Location
Site: Royal Liverpool Hospital
Address: Mount Vernon Street
Town: Liverpool
Postcode: L7 8YE
Major / Minor Region: Merseyside
Contract type & working pattern
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week (24/7 cover)
Salary
Salary: £46,148 - £52,809 per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Grade: Band 7
Specialty
Main area: Acute and Emergency Medicine
Job overview
Ward Manager - RLH AMU
Band 7
Permanent
37.5 hours per week
The Royal Liverpool Hospital Acute Medical Unit is a 62 acute bedded unit with a 4 bedded high care area, split into a 33 bedded unit, a 17 bedded unit, and a 16 bedded unit, with staff dedicated to work within these areas.
We are an admissions unit that cares for a wide range of patients from various specialties.
If you strive to provide the highest standards of care and have a passion for improvement and education, then we want to hear from you.
The successful candidate will report directly to the Matron and will be an integral part of the Ward Manager team in the Care Group. You will be encouraged and empowered to lead your team and have ownership of the ward area with the support of the senior nursing team and wider MDT.
If you are an experienced Ward Manager looking for a change or a Band 6 with leadership experience, we would welcome your application. Knowledge of Acute medicine, with an understanding of the complexities of the patient group, would be an advantage but not essential, along with a passion for quality and transformational change.
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The post holder will have management responsibility for the ward/department over the 24 hr period, ensuring a high standard of nursing care. Key responsibilities will include the development, implementation, and evaluation of programmes of care, effective leadership, and staff management/development. The post holder will always work within the NMC's Code of Professional Conduct.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Clinical Responsibilities
* Coordination of an area ward on a day-to-day basis including planning, allocation, and evaluation of work carried out by teams or individuals and self.
* Provide specialist knowledge to all Nursing staff on the ward.
* Promote a critical, analytical approach to the delivery of nursing care, ensuring that the ward environment is responsive to current issues.
* Ensure that all existing procedures and protocols relating to the care of patients are reviewed and updated as required.
* Develop methods for identifying, maintaining, and improving the quality of patient care through facilitation of best practice and clinical benchmarking.
* Ensure due regard is given to the customs, values, and spiritual beliefs of patients/clients.
Management/Leadership Responsibilities
* Exercise strong and effective leadership, acting as an exemplary role model for the ward/department team.
* Maintain adequate staff cover and skill mix on the ward through effective use of staffing rotas.
* Ensure staff compliance with mandatory training and maintain current records.
* Ensure effective communication with patients and their carers.
* Liaise with nursing, medical and allied health professional colleagues to ensure that all facets of the patients' care are covered.
* Ensure effective communication with relatives, community nursing staff, other hospitals, and local agencies to facilitate the smooth transfer and after-care of patients/clients.
* Lead ward team meetings to ensure appropriate information is communicated to all team members.
* Ensure that the ward participates in maintaining standards relating to clinical governance.
* Responsible for the implementation of risk management policies within the ward/department, including the development, implementation, and monitoring of action plans to address identified risks.
* Respond within appropriate timeframes to patient complaints and concerns and ensure outcomes and action plans are implemented and monitored.
* Responsible for ensuring compliance with Trust policies and procedures.
* In collaboration with the matron, implement the Trust grievance/disciplinary policy with the aim of ensuring early identification of performance issues.
* Monitor and manage staff sickness/absence following the Trust guidelines, and liaise with the Matron as necessary.
* Participate in recruitment and selection of staff within the nursing team ensuring appropriate policies are adhered to.
* Support the implementation of the Trust's Human Resources Strategy, including the principles of Improving Working Lives and Investors in People.
* Monitor performance of staff ensuring that learning needs are identified through personal development plans, appraisal systems, and supervised practice.
* Contribute to planning, monitoring, and control of resources.
* Contribute to nursing developments across the organisation via appropriate forums as required.
* Support the implementation of the Trust's Strategy for Nursing at ward/department level.
* Participate in Senior Nurse Directorate cover as necessary.
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.
The Trust is committed to promoting a healthy work-life balance and achieve fair, equitable and consistent practice. We welcome flexible working requests and will consider a variety of flexible working arrangements from day one of your employment. Not all roles are suitable for every flexible working opportunity all of the time. Flexible working options may include reduced hours, compressed hours, fixed shifts, time back in lieu, and home working.
The Trust is committed to promoting equality and diversity; we value the contribution of individual talent, skills, knowledge, and experience and aim for a workforce demography representative of the local community. We encourage applicants from under-represented groups including black, Asian and minority ethnic, lesbian, gay, bisexual and Transgender (LGBTQ+), disabled, male, and age 16-24.
The Trust policy requires that the cost of submitting & processing the successful applicant/s DBS application be recovered via salary deduction following start in post. The amount of £23 (standard disclosure) or £43 (enhanced disclosure) will be deducted from salary, in manageable monthly instalments for up to 3 months following commencement of employment.
This organisation has a zero-tolerance approach to the abuse of children, young people, and vulnerable adults. All staff must ensure they adhere to the organisations safeguarding children and adults’ policy and comply with the Local Safeguarding Children and Adult Board procedures.
Staff should be mindful of their responsibility to safeguard children and adults in any activity performed on behalf of the organisation in line with the requirements of statutory guidance and legislation.
All employees (and volunteers) are expected to maintain their safeguarding knowledge and skills by completing mandatory safeguarding training which includes understanding and recognising the signs of abuse and neglect and taking appropriate action.
If you have any personal requirements that will enable you to participate in our recruitment process please contact a member of the Recruitment Services by phone on 0151 706 4666 at the earliest opportunity to ensure that measures can be put in place to enable your application for this post.
Please note: new entrants to the NHS will commence on the first pay point of the relevant band.
Applicant requirements
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.
Person specification
Knowledge
Essential criteria
* Understanding and application of clinical governance
Skills
Essential criteria
* Excellent communication skills
* Basic IT skills, including email and word processing
Other
Essential criteria
* High level of personal and professional credibility
* Supportive of colleagues
* Committed to delivering high standards of patient care
Qualifications
Essential criteria
* Registered nurse, current NMC registration
* Teaching and assessing qualification
* Post registration qualification in specialty
Desirable criteria
* 1st level degree or studying towards
Experience
Essential criteria
* Demonstrate experience at Band 6 level
* Evidence of effective ward management and leadership skills
* Evidence of staff development, including pre and post registration students
* Evidence of application of current nursing issues and developments
* Evidence of managing a change
* Evidence of developing standards of nursing care through clinical benchmarking
Further details / informal visits contact
Name: Mark Myers
Job title: Matron
Email address: [email protected]
Telephone number: 0151 706 2302
Additional information: Informal visits welcome.
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