Deputy Ward Manager | Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 10 April 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £35,392 - £42,618 per annum, pro rata |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 10 May 2024 |
| Location: | Peterborough, PE3 6DB |
| Company: | Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6146823/310-MOPAC-6146823 |
Summary
We are currently looking for a proactive Deputy Ward Manager, who will join our team at the Intermediate Care Unit. If you are looking for a dynamic role where you are able to showcase your high level of patient care and staff management, as well as your strong team work ethic, this is a fantastic opportunity to demonstrate added value in a challenging environment.
You will need to have strong role modelling behaviours and organisational skills; promoting growth and development and to provide positive and compassionate leadership to support our team in providing high quality care to our patients.
You would need to demonstrate highly developed clinical nursing skills, acting as a role model and providing professional leadership, being a clinical advisor and educator to team members. To be able to assist the team in making clinical decisions and when planning and prioritising patient care and delegation to team members.
Ensuring appropriate multidisciplinary assessments of patients needs and those of their carers are completed in a timely manner.
Directing the staff in working in partnership with the patient and carer to agree patient focused multidisciplinary rehabilitation/care goals; treatment plans and estimated discharge dates.
Responding appropriately to the changing patients needs, escalating problems to Medical or specialist staff, and/or the Ward Manager, In-patient Business Manager or On Call Manager if the situation cannot be resolved at ward level.
You will be able to recognise potential and actual situations of conflict between staff, patients, relatives and carers and using negotiation and counselling skills to achieve compromise and defuse possible unpredictable situations to achieve the best outcome.
You will be able to maintain accurate record keeping in line with both trust policy and professional guidelines.
Cambridgeshire & Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust is a health & social care organisation dedicated to providing high quality care with compassion to improve the health & wellbeing of the people we care for, as well as supporting & empowering them to lead a fulfilling life.
Our clinical teams deliver many NHS services not only via inpatient and primary care setting but also with the community. These services include Children, Adult & Older Peoples mental & physical health, Forensic & Specialist mental health, Learning Disabilities, Primary Care & Liaison psychiatry, Substance misuse, Social care, Research & Development.
To achieve our goal, we look to recruit high calibre candidates that share our vision & values. As an equal opportunities employer, we encourage applications from all sectors of the community, particularly from under-represented groups including disabled people & members of our ethnic minorities & LGBTQ+ communities.
Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities
• Lead the nursing team in clinical practice to provide safe, quality, patient focused care to clients.
• Ensure an interdisciplinary focus within health care provision for patients.
• Lead the timely assessment of patient needs, the development, implementation and evaluation of programmes of care and treatment.
• Ensure all staff are aware of and adhere to Trust and Hospital policies, standards for better health and Essence of Care standards and Registered nurses practice in accordance with the NMC Code of Conduct and Guidelines for Good Practice.
• Maintain accurate record keeping in line with both trust policy and professional guidelines.
• To communicate sensitive, condition/prognosis related information to patients and their carers/relatives effectively, taking account of possible barriers to understanding (e.g. dementia/deafness/blindness).
This advert closes on Wednesday 24 Apr 2024