Deputy Ward Manager UHL surgery

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Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust, (LGT), is a community-focused provider of local and acute care, delivering high-quality services to over one million people living across the London boroughs of Lewisham, Greenwich, and Bexley. We provide whole-life care and are here to support our communities to live healthier lives as well as taking care of them when they need us the most.

Employing almost 7,500 colleagues, affectionately known as Team LGT, we provide services at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Woolwich, University Hospital Lewisham, and at over a dozen community settings in Lewisham. We also provide some services at Queen Mary's Hospital in Sidcup.

We have recently launched our new vision and values to mark the LGT10 - the tenth anniversary of our Trust forming in 2013. Our trust vision is to be exceptional. In the quality of our patient care; our support for colleagues; and in the difference we make through our partnerships and in our communities.

To achieve this we value Respect, Compassion, and Inclusion; Being accountable over staying comfortable; Listening over always knowing best; and Succeeding together over achieving alone. You can read more about our visions and values here

Our hospitals and community sites provide a wide range of inpatient and outpatient services, as well as emergency and planned care. The Trust is rated as "good" or "outstanding" in over three-quarters of the services inspected by the Care Quality Commission.

Every year our work includes performing 10,000 procedures in our theatres; bringing seven and a half thousand new lives into the world; carrying out 570,000 visits to patients in their homes or communities and providing emergency care for more than 300,000 patients arriving in our busy Urgent and Emergency Departments.

LGT is a centre for the education and training of medical students enrolled with King's College London's GKT School of Medical Education. We are a training centre for nurses, midwives and allied health professionals. We are pioneering new roles that will support the changing needs of our patients and are one of the largest employers of physician associates in the country.

We are committed to working with our partners to deliver the best outcomes for our local communities. This means playing an active role in the South East London Integrated Care System (ICS), and in formal partnerships including the South East London Acute Provider Collaborative, provider partnerships with our local mental health trusts and borough-based boards of the ICS in Bexley, Greenwich and Lewisham.

Job overview

Looking for a candidate :

To provide leadership, guidance and support to all nursing staff within the clinical area, and continuous quality care to a specified group of patients.

To take responsibility for the management and co-ordination of the clinical area in conjunction with and in the absence of the Ward Manager.

To provide support and expertise in the assessment, planning and
evaluation of all patient care within the surgical and orthopaedic setting.

To assist in the budgetary management, training and development of staff to provide high quality care which is evidence-based.

The Deputy Ward Manager will undertake the management of the ward on a day-to-day basis in the absence of or in conjunction with the Ward Manager. To provide clinical leadership and support colleagues to plan, monitor and evaluate skilled and appropriate care for surgical inpatient and ensure the provision of evidence based care. The post holder must act as a role model in providing specialist knowledge in various surgical specialities. We are looking for senior nurses to work in our division. Our Surgical division includes General Surgery, Gynaecology, ENT, Orthopedic/Trauma and elective surgery. You will work as part of a team supporting and developing colleagues by mentoring and assessing their skills.

Main duties of the job

1. Assist the Ward Manager in providing advice, guidance, support and
professional leadership for all nursing staff in the clinical area.
2. Continually assess, plan, implement and evaluate evidence-based
programmes of care in order to ensure the provision of a high standard of
care.
3. Personally deliver a high standard of care to a group of patients, acting as a team leader / named nurse and clinical role model at all times.
4. Assist in developing the ward philosophy and framework of care in line with unit / organisational, beliefs / values and changes in surgical .
5. Ensure the provision of advice, support and health information to patients and their carers in order to promote a health-based service.
6. Ensure workload of nursing staff and colleagues does not jeopardise safe
standards of practice and initiate action if necessary.

Interested?

If you would like to apply for this opportunity, please complete our online application form and ensure to answer all pre-application questions. You can also get in touch for informal visit with the Ward Manager Corrine Stewart: 02083333000 ext: 43897

Working for our organisation

Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust is a community focused provider of local and acute care, providing high quality services to over one million people living across the London boroughs of Lewisham, Greenwich and Bexley. With a turnover of around £700 million, we provide services at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Woolwich, University Hospital Lewisham and a range of community settings in Lewisham. We also provide some services at Queen Mary's Hospital in Sidcup.

As an organisation, we've made significant improvements for patients and staff in the last two and-a-half years. This is reflected in our most recent Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspection (from February 2020), which found improvements across the organisation and gave us an improved rating of "Good" in the Well-Led and Effective domains, in addition to the rating of "Good" that we had already achieved in the Caring domain. Our staff culture change programme has been key to the Trust's improvement journey, as we've stabilised our workforce by reducing vacancy rates and improving staff retention. We've also significantly increased the representation of minority ethnic leaders across our clinical and corporate teams.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To provide leadership, support and guidance to staff in monitoring the planning delivery and evaluation of individualised care.

Responsible for monitoring the workload/patient acuity within the ward/unit on a daily basis to ensure that nursing manpower is adequate to provide a safe standard of nursing care.

Liaise with other wards within the Directorate regarding staffing issues, offering support if necessary.

Support division by covering the surgical bleep as flow lead

Exercise leadership to motivate members of staff, achieve high morale and promote effective communication within the ward.

Investigate all incidents and complaints as delegated by the Ward Manager or Matron.

Act up or deputise for the Ward Manager when required taking charge of the ward as required.

Encourage new ideas and facilitate their implementation following discussion with the clinical leader.

In conjunction with Ward Manager and Matron facilitate the process of change within the ward and undertaking QI projects.

In conjunction with Ward Manager performs appraisals and facilitates in the development of Professional Development Plans for staff within team.

Support the Ward Manager in any disciplinary, performance or sickness issues as appropriate and in accordance with Trust procedures.

Support the Ward Manager with creation and maintenance of Health roster.

Person specification

Qualifications and Training

Essential criteria

• 1st level registration NMC
• ENB 998 / Adult mentorship course or working towards.

Desirable criteria

• Diploma / Degree level study in a clinically relevant course E.G.
• Nursing, advanced assessment skills.

Experience

Essential criteria

• To have worked as a Band 5 staff nurse in a surgical setting for at least 18 months.
• To demonstrate knowledge of being up to date within the speciality
• Broad based nursing experience.

Desirable criteria

• Experience as a Clinical Supervisor

We reserve the right to close the post before the stated closing date, please apply early. We do not contact applicants with the outcome of the shortlisting. If you have been shortlisted, you will receive an invite to an assessment day or interview.

As a local employer and anchor institution we work closely with our community to recruit locally and we welcome applications from the widest variety of people to ensure our workforce are reflective of the local communities which we serve. We encourage all suitable candidates to apply including if you are Black, Asian or other ethnic minorities, live with a disability (visible or not) or are LGBT+. We have a number of active staff networks including Disability, LGBT+, Multicultural Inclusion and Women's staff networks to bring staff together and celebrate diversity across our whole workforce.

Please note, not all roles will meet the criteria for a skilled worker visa.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Application numbers

To ensure fairness and manageable shortlisting processes, some vacancies may have an application cap. This means the vacancy will close once a set number of applications have been received even if this happens before the advertised closing date.

We recommend applying as early as possible to avoid missing out. All applications received before the cap is reached will be considered equally and assessed against the person specification.
Documents to download

• candidate information pack (PDF, 352.4KB)
• Working at LGT (PDF, 4.2MB)
• Visa and Certificate of Sponsorship Information for Applicants (PDF, 3.8MB)
• Candidate Guidance on the use of AI (PDF, 3.8MB)