Ward Manager | Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 03 June 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £51,883 - £58,544 Per annum |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 04 July 2025 |
| Location: | Isleworth, TW7 6AF |
| Company: | Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7226396/289-EI-22 |
Summary
We are looking for an enthusiastic and innovative leader to come and join our team on Syon 1 Ward.
Due to a recent vacancy this exciting opportunity has arisen for a talented individual with multiple skills and an appetite for delivering a first class nursing service to join the team on the West Middlesex site, Twickenham Rd, in one of the UKs most successful and progressive NHS Foundation Trusts.
Syon 1/CCU is a 30 bedded ward specialising in Cardiology and Heart Failure. It has 6 level 2 beds and can support patients requiring non-invasive ventilation and /or inotropes.
Working as one of the Ward Managers for Emergency and Integrated Care alongside your colleagues, the matron’s, the Divisional Director of Nursing and senior management teams you will continue to improve care and experience for patients and families. The successful applicant will take a management role to deliver an innovative service for Syon 1 Ward. In this role, you will lead a team of nurses and healthcare assistants to deliver the service, support the Senior Nursing and Midwifery Team priorities and the wider Trust agenda. You will work collaboratively with the clinical leads while developing partnerships with the other divisions and our specialist nurses.
• In collaboration with the Modern Matron, service manager & clinicians, the Senior Sister is responsible for the effective delivery of care given to patients within the clinical area.
• To provide professional leadership within the clinical area.
• To have 24-hr responsibility for his/her clinical area.
• The post holder will provide expert advice and take a lead in the development and implementation of shared practice protocols in line with national recommendations and standards where these are available.
• To reduce length of stay for patients ensuring pathways to support highest standard of care are in place.
• To achieve financial balance.
About the Trust
Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust provide services from two main hospitals, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital and West Middlesex University Hospital, and a number of clinics across London and the South-East.
We have nearly 7,000 members of staff that are PROUD to Care for nearly one million people. Both hospitals provide full clinical services, including full maternity, emergency and children’s, in addition to a range of community-based services across London, such as award-winning sexual health and HIV clinics.
We’re one of the best performing Trusts in the country. We’re also one of the top trusts to work for – our staff says they’re engaged, motivated, and would recommend us as a place to work and receive treatment. Our Trust has been rated by the Care Quality Commission as ‘Good’ in all five of the main domains of safe, effective, caring, responsive and well-led, giving an us overall rating of ‘Good’. We’ve also been awarded an ‘Outstanding’ rating for ‘use of resources’ by an NHS Improvement inspection.
Our facilities are some of the best in the country. We have been investing significant Capital year on year in our estate. We have recently completed a £30m expansion of our adult and neonatal critical care facilities at Chelsea and Westminster and are planning an ambitious £60m development of an Ambulatory Diagnostics Centre at West Middlesex.
Professional Leadership/Management
• Provide 24 hour responsibility for clinical areas
• Provide leadership that promotes patients and service users as partners in care and treatment.
• Ensure the service continually improves to meet the needs of patients.
• Develop nursing staff to improve patient access by enhancing assessment and technical skills, and actively promoting advanced clinical skills and competencies.
• Provide leadership that promotes effective discharge planning that incorporates the patient & carers’ view.
• Provide leadership that promotes an effective multi-disciplinary contribution to the provision of patient care.
• Provide expert advice on all aspects of patient care, through others where appropriate.
• Monitor standards of cleanliness and the patient environment within the clinical area.
• Ensure health and safety of staff and patients by complying with appropriate standards. These include radiological protection, decontamination, COSHH, Medical Devices, Infection Control and the safe administration of medicines standards.
• Ensure rotas incorporate effective use of resources, managing within the financial envelope.
• To achieve length of stay reductions through implementation of enhanced recovery programmes and effective discharge planning using our digital technology
• Act-up as Modern Matron in their absence.
Clinical Practice
• Have excellent knowledge in caring for patients who are acutely unwell or who have cardiology conditions.
• Develop and maintain competence in agreed basic and advanced clinical skills
• Be an effective role model for junior staff.
• Work with Specialist Nurses to develop & maintain competencies in the clinical area
• Provide effective communication channels with senior & junior staff
• Work with Modern Matron to implement, maintain & monitor Essence of Care
• Ensure Care Pathways are followed
Clinical Governance
• Lead the development of evidence-based multi-professional & inter-agency practice guidelines that support the implementation of good practice
• Work with Senior Nurse to establish effective audit processes to monitor adherence to these guidelines and take appropriate action to influence/change practice where necessary
• Lead the development of an educational strategy and programme that promotes a quality clinical service
• Ensure annual appraisal review for all staff directly line-managed and identify individual development plans for each member of staff
• Ensure Clinical Supervision is provided for all nursing staff.
• Develop and improve own competence in structured ways, including participating in peer review and clinical supervision.
• Lead on Risk Management & incident reporting and foster a culture of “no-blame”
• Obtain patient & public feedback to ensure standards are continuously monitored.
• To ensure mandatory and statutory training is carried out as required.
• To ensure compliance with infection control guidelines
Communication
• Ensure all communication, which may be complex, contentious or sensitive, is undertaken in a responsive and inclusive manner, focusing on improvement and ways to move forward.
• Ensure all communication is presented appropriately to the different recipients, according to levels of understanding, type of communication being imparted and possible barriers such as language, culture, understanding or physical or mental health conditions.
This advert closes on Tuesday 24 Jun 2025