Deputy Ward Manager | Northumbria Healthcare - NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 22 January 2026 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £38,682 - £46,580 per annum |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 21 February 2026 |
| Location: | North Shields, NE29 8NH |
| Company: | Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7734645/319-7734645AZ |
Summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the nursing team on the gastroenterology ward based at North Tyneside General Hospital.
We are looking to recruit a dedicated and highly motivated individual who is passionate about providing high quality and compassionate care to our patients. We are looking for a clinical leader who will demonstrate role modelling, empowerment, and support to our clinical team and provide leadership and high quality nursing care.
The successful candidate will be able to demonstrate excellent communication skills, team working skills and will be dedicated to improving the patients' experience. You will need to demonstrate continuing professional development and a strong commitment to develop others and work closely within a multi-disciplinary team. The Deputy Ward Manager will be expected to support the Ward Manager, Matron and the Ward Team to maintain a patient focused positive experience and environment.
The successful post holder must be able to role model compassionate and inclusive leadership in order to shape the creation of a collective leadership culture within the Trust.
We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, in addition to our state-of-the-art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. We also care for people in their homes and provide services from facilities in local communities such as health centres. We give people greater choice and control over their care to help them to live independently at home and avoid hospital admission where appropriate. High quality patient care is at the heart of everything we do and we strive to ensure every single patient and service user has an exceptional experience with us. We have one of the most extensive patient experience programmes of any trust in England.
• 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.
This advert closes on Thursday 5 Feb 2026