Deputy Ward Manager
| Posting date: | 01 July 2025 |
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| Salary: | £38,682.00 to £46,580.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £38682.00 - £46580.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 15 July 2025 |
| Location: | Cramlington, NE23 6NZ |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | C9319-25-0638 |
Summary
To assume responsibility for the devolved management of a ward/department, including the assessment of care needs, the implementation of evidence based programme of care in the absence of the Ward Manager. To supervise, support and educate junior members of the team. To provide senior nurse site management cover. To exercise accountability as set out in the NMC Code of Professional Conduct. To be responsibility for all nursing care standards and to maintain high clinical standards. To act as team leader and co-ordinate the multi-disciplinary care of a group of patients. To role model compassionate and inclusive leadership in order to shape the creation of a collective leadership culture within the trust. This means demonstrating a consistent leadership style which (a) engages, enables and empowers others (b) uses coaching to promote ownership of learning and quality improvement and (c) facilitates team working and collaboration within teams / departments and across organisational boundaries. To provide nursing care to a case load of patients and to provide verbal and written handovers to nursing colleagues and the multi-disciplinary team. Support the Ward Manager in her accountability for the management of staff and budgets. To provide nursing care to an advanced level.