Ward Manager/Team Leader | Homerton Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 24 April 2026 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £58,133 - £65,261 p.a. incl. |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 24 May 2026 |
| Location: | London, E9 6SR |
| Company: | Homerton University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7924876/293-SWNS-0587 |
Summary
In this role, you will lead the daily operational management of the DSU Stepdown area, ensuring the service runs safely, smoothly, and efficiently. As the senior clinical leader, you will provide visible leadership, expert clinical oversight, and professional guidance to nursing and support staff. Working closely with theatres, anaesthetics, surgical teams, recovery, and bed management, you will help maintain seamless patient flow and uphold high standards of post‑operative care.
You will coordinate the Stepdown team, supporting staff to deliver safe, high‑quality care. This includes overseeing patient assessment, monitoring, and discharge, ensuring protocols are followed and concerns escalated appropriately. You will promote strong clinical governance through incident management, shared learning, and continuous quality improvement.
Your responsibilities include managing staffing rotas, maintaining safe skill mix, and supporting staff development through supervision, mentorship, and performance management. You will foster effective multidisciplinary collaboration to optimise patient experience and operational efficiency. You will uphold infection control, safeguarding, and Trust safety standards, acting as a role model for best practice.
**Please note: This vacancy may close earlier than the advertised closing date if a high volume of applications is received.**
• Provide visible clinical leadership within the DSU Stepdown area, ensuring safe, high‑quality post‑operative care.
• Coordinate daily operations, managing patient flow from theatres to discharge.
• Oversee staffing, including rota management, allocation, supervision, and supporting staff development.
• Act as the senior clinical decision‑maker, supporting escalation and ensuring adherence to clinical standards.
• Lead on incident reporting, governance, audits, and quality improvement initiatives.
• Ensure compliance with infection control, medicines management, safeguarding, and Trust policies.
• Maintain effective communication with theatres, recovery, anaesthetics, surgical teams, and bed management.
• Support service development, contributing to pathway improvements and operational efficiency.
Homerton Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is a high performing and flourishing organisation serving the population of Hackney, East London, The City and beyond.
We are extremely proud of the fact that Homerton Hospital has recently attained the highest possible rating of "Outstanding" from the Care Quality Commission (CQC).
Our integrated Trust provides comprehensive hospital and community health services for its local population and a range of specialist services for a wider group of patients. In addition, the Trust manages services out of St Leonard's Hospital and the Mary Seacole Nursing Home.
Homerton aims to ensure equality and value diversity, and we are committed to inclusion for all of our staff. This is reflected in our policies, procedures and People Plan. All of our staff are expected to embody our Trust values at all times.
We are also committed, through our Fair Recruitment Standards, to ensuring all applicants are treated fairly.
Homerton has a proud tradition of supporting and developing its staff, including its well-regarded and valued nursing community, and all staff are able to take advantage of a great range of benefits.
Homerton is proud to have been included on the HSJ & Nursing Times Best Places to Work list.
The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. For both documents, please view the attachment/s on this page.
The person specification below is not the full person specification but outlines the criteria against which your application form will be assessed.
This advert closes on Monday 4 May 2026
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