Deputy Ward Manager | Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 18 June 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £37,338 - £44,962 Per annum, pro rata |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 18 July 2025 |
| Location: | Cambridge, CB20QQ |
| Company: | Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7250910/310-MASMH-7250910 |
Summary
This post is a great development opportunity for a Band 6 Deputy Ward Manager looking to gain experience and insight into working with adults with a primary diagnosis of an eating disorder. The successful candidate will have the opportunity to practice a full range of specialist nursing skills in mental and physical health while developing managerial skills to support the ward manager.
It is an exciting time to join our services, to assist in leading and developing our excellent staff team to continue to provide excellent quality care. We are looking for someone to share our commitment and enthusiasm to come and join our leadership team.
As a Deputy Ward Manager, you will be supported to develop your leadership skills, participate in, and deliver high quality group and individual treatments and be a core part of the MDT. There are also opportunities to develop your skills in psychological therapies and sensory approaches.
You will work with the MDT to develop your generic and specialist skills in line with professional and regulatory standards (NICE) The service will provide you with an in-house education program, facilitated reflective practice sessions, supervision, and skill-enhancing workshops. There are opportunities to participate in clinical research and innovative practice. In addition, we offer a 5-day induction on commencement in post.
We are keen to support and develop you through a clear career pathway with CPD options and encourage promotional opportunities within the service and the wider Trust. Professional leadership programs for band 6 nurses are also available through the NHS Academy.
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 people with long term conditions and members of our ethnic minority and LGBTQ+ communities.
Please be advised we reserve the right to close adverts earlier than the closing date should we receive sufficient applications.
Regrettably, we cannot offer sponsorship for all our job roles. If you apply for a role that we cannot offer sponsorship for, unfortunately, your application form will be rejected from the process.
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Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities
To be responsible for supervising the role of the named nurses in relation to care planning within the clinical area.
To be responsible for the assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of the evidence based care required, including health promotion for a named service user/group ensuring it meets Trust timescales.
To participate in the setting of quality standards, including the monitoring and reviewing in line with current clinical guidance practice and policy. Utilising the data available such as learning from incidences and complaints.
To assist in the management of safer staffing.
To ensure the post holder understands and meets their professional role and responsibilities under the Care Programme Approach.
To ensure that the requirements of the Mental Health Act 2007 are observed, adhered to and implemented.
To be responsible for the promotion of carer and service user involvement within the service and for its provision. To encourage recovery, discovery and independence, taking into account risk assessment and management.
This advert closes on Wednesday 2 Jul 2025