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Ward Manager | Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 04 December 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £51,883 - £58,544 pa inc HCAS (pro rata if P/T) |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 03 January 2025 |
| Location: | London, HA1 3UJ |
| Company: | CNWL NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6847233/333-J-HA-0617 |
Summary
We have an exciting opportunity for a highly professional, motivated and enthusiastic candidate to manage Eastlake Ward, based at Northwick Park Hospital. The ward offers care and treatment to both male and female patients who are acutely unwell, together with care planning, discharge planning, clinical risk assessments and providing a safe and therapeutic environment for all.
We are looking for a compassionate and highly motivated Ward Manager to lead our dedicated clinical team.
You will be able to demonstrate progressive skills in leadership, advanced clinical practice, and service development. We are seeking a nurse who is looking to further their career. You will be joining a multi-disciplinary team that is committed to the provision of high quality and patient-centred care, continuous service and staff development, and strong collaborative working with other agencies.
The successful applicant will work with the Matron to promote a culture that fosters staff involvement and a progressive attitude to service improvement, along with taking operational and clinical day to day management responsibility at team level using performance management systems. You will also work collaboratively and co-operatively with others to meet the needs of patients and their families.
The successful applicant may have contact with patients or service users. As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings.
Key Responsibilities
• Management of Nursing Care and Practice
• Management of Financial and Material Resources
• Management of Clinical Standards
• Management of Human Resources
• Management of Information and Communication
• Management of the Environment
• Personal Development and Freedom to Act
Values
Central and North West London NHS Trust expects all Band 7 ward managers to act in a way which shows you understand our core values and are willing to put them into practice with service users, their friends family and carers and also other staff members.
As a Band 7 Ward Manager we expect you to show COMPASSION, contribute to a caring and kind environment and recognise that what you do and say helps can make the lives of others better
We expect you to RESPECT everyone and acknowledge and welcome people’s differences rather than ignore them or see them as problematic.
We expect you to EMPOWER others and continually try to provide information, resources and support to help others make their own decisions and meet their own needs.
We expect you to work in PARTNERSHIP and behave in a way that shows that you recognise that commissioners and users of our services are the people who generate and pay for our work.
Other Responsibilities
The post-holder will also be responsible for:
• Deputising for the Clinical Service Lead as required.
• Undertaking site wide co-ordination roles as required, eg. DSN.
• Establishing and building on excellent working relationships between other services within and external to the Directorate.
• Ensuring that systems are in place which invite service users and their carers to comment on the quality of services they receive.
• Implementation of the complaints procedure including investigation, response, and resolution.
• Ensuring that their line manager is kept informed of all developments and changes within the ward environment.
• The safe storage and administration of medications.
• The creation and maintenance of an environment which is conducive to learning and which meets the educational standards required by Educational Institutions whose students are placed on the ward. The post-holder will be expected to facilitate actively the ward’s involvement in the training and education of staff from a variety of disciplines.
• Participating in projects within the Unit and Trust as required by the senior management of the Directorate.
This advert closes on Wednesday 18 Dec 2024
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