Deputy Ward Manager
| Posting date: | 26 April 2024 |
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| Salary: | £35,392.00 to £42,618.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £35392.00 - £42618.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 08 May 2024 |
| Location: | Ilford, IG3 8XJ |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | C9395-24-0963 |
Summary
The post holder will; Build effective relationships with service users and carers. Ensure that relatives and carers of service users, where appropriate, have a good understanding of the condition of the service user and feel able to communicate effectively with the clinical area to answer any queries or concerns. Provide an effective alternative to hospital admission. Provide effective liaison between Services. To respect other disciplines viewpoints and communication with service users, carers, relatives, GPs, other professionals and agencies as appropriate. To work in partnership with referring agency to develop joint care plans. To be responsible for communicating complex clinical information to a variety of recipients (e.g. families and other professionals), both verbally and in writing. To work jointly and collaboratively with NELFT colleagues in order to enhance and develop services to service users and their families. This will include participation in team case discussions. To ensure communication channels are consistent and understandable and that information provided is relevant and informed. To maintain effective consumer confidentiality, ensuring adherence to NELFT and own Service policies, the Data Protection legislation and the Freedom of Information Act. Our Trust provides a wide range of mental health inpatient services including older adult, adult acute, Learning Disabilities, Psychiatric Intensive Care, Low secure services and young people. NELFT have a commitment to supporting our staff to provide the highest quality of care and have implemented a number of initiatives including: -Comprehensive training opportunities including physical health programme, working with personality disorder. varied and multifaceted Equalities & Diversity course as well as a wide range of Safeguarding Adult and Children courses.- We are currently developing the role of Assistant Psychologists within our adult acute wards.- NELFT is recognised both nationally and internationally for a number of key clinical innovations including the acute care pathway and Open Dialogue.-NELFT has gained further national recognition for the implementation of the BME Network. The inpatient teams are continually developing clinical care standards and are currently working on initiatives including Safe wards, Relational Security See Think Act.In return for your hard work, NELFT is committed to promoting continued professional development and providing high quality supervision. NELFT is also committed to providing quality psychosocial interventions within acute and crisis services. For those with an interest in psychological interventions, opportunities will be available to staff in providing low intensity psychological interventions and to receive supervision from the psychology team. Mentoring and coaching including shadowing opportunities are available within the services as well as a range of courses in partnership with the local universities. Please see the attached job description and person specification for more information about this role and working at North East London NHS Foundation Trust. We encourage you to refer closely to this when completing your application. We welcome your application even if you do not meet all the criteria listed in the person specification. Any development needs to help you succeed in the role, can be discussed at the interview stage.