Ward Manager | Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 05 April 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £43,742 - £50,056 pro rata per annum |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 05 May 2024 |
| Location: | Peterborough, PE3 9GZ |
| Company: | Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6061097/310-MOPAC-6061097 |
Summary
We are looking for a Ward Manager to join the Older peoples Mental Health Inpatient service in Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust (CPFT).
Maple ward is a busy ward with dedicated and supportive clinical teams who are committed to excellence in patient care. Maple ward is separated into two wards: Maple 1 is an assessment and treatment ward for patients who have a primary diagnosis of dementia and behaviours that challenge and Maple 2 assessment and treatment ward for patients who have a functional mental health need.
The role will require strong operational and clinical skills and the ability to respond quickly to changing priorities. You will be a motivated and supportive leader who is able to build strong relationships and inspire team working.
In return we will support you to develop as a leader and offer supervision, mentorship and training to enable this. You will be joining the directorate at an exciting time as we review our services and continue our journey towards excellence.
We are a supportive and cohesive directorate and work together for the benefit of our patients and staff group. This philosophy ensures we are developing our just and learning culture and united in collaboration to achieve our shared goals.
Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust is a health and social care organisation dedicated to providing high-quality care with compassion to improve the health and wellbeing of the people we care for, as well as supporting and empowering them to lead a fulfilling life.
Our clinical teams deliver many NHS services, not only via inpatient and primary care settings, but also within the community. These services include children's, adult and older people's mental health, forensic and specialist mental health, learning disabilities, primary care and liaison psychiatry, substance misuse, social care, research and development.
To achieve our goal, we look to recruit high-calibre candidates who share our vision and values. As an equal opportunities employer, we encourage applications from all sectors of the community, particularly from under-represented groups including disabled people and members of our ethnic minority and LGBTQ+ communities.
• To undertake a range of management responsibilities, including but not limited to; recruitment and selection processes, performance management, appraisal, sickness/ absence management and staff development.
• To work in partnership with the consultant and dementia clinical lead in CRHTTOP and ensure that expert leadership is demonstrated which meets the holistic health needs of older adults within an acute mental health division.
• To provide high visibility leadership, driving forward team developments by demonstrating an exemplar of expert practice, thereby energising and motivating staff to continually deliver person centred care of the highest quality.
• To ensure that the voice of patients and their families / carers is listened to and suggestions for changes to practice are respected and where necessary, escalated to senior decision makers within the organisation. Thereby embedding a `you said, we did, ethos within the team.
• To provide expert nursing and clinical care in the delivery of holistic person-centred care for people living with mental health needs.
• Work closely with the Clinical Lead in sustaining and improving high levels/standards of patient care and experience.
• To promote and sustain the development of fully collaborative care planning relationships with patients, their families / carers (as appropriate) and the multi-disciplinary team.
• To maintain an overview of standard as well as complex discharges which require detailed planning and at times may conflict with the opinion of other agencies, families and carers.
This advert closes on Sunday 21 Apr 2024