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About the Trust

We are proud to provide high quality mental health and learning disability services, both inpatient and in the community across five boroughs of Greater Manchester - Bury, Oldham, Rochdale, Stockport and Tameside and Glossop.

Our vision is for a happier and more hopeful life for everyone in our communities and our staff work hard to deliver the very best care for the people who use our services. We're really proud of our #PennineCarePeople and do everything we can to make sure we're a great place to work.

Our ambition is to maximise people's potential and we aim to promote an inclusive environment and improve the diversity of our workforce so our people truly represent the communities we serve.

All individuals regardless of race, age, disability, ethnicity, nationality, gender, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage and civil partnership are encouraged to apply for this post. We would also encourage applications from individuals with a lived experience of mental illness, either individually or as a carer.

If you come and work for us we will offer a range of benefits and opportunities, including:

Generous annual leave entitlement for Agenda for Change and Medical and Dental staff.
Flexible working opportunities to support your work/life balance
Access to Continued Professional Development
Involvement in improvement and research activities
Health and Wellbeing activities and access to an excellent staff wellbeing service
Access to staff discounts across retail, leisure and travel

If you are Kind, Fair, Ingenious and Determined then we want you to come and join our #PennineCarePeople

https://www.penninecare.nhs.uk/values

Job overview

An exciting opportunity has become available for the position of Ward Manager on Saffron Ward.

Saffron Ward is 23 bedded ward for patients to be stepped down from the general hospital or stepped up from the community when suffering with a delirium who require a further period of assessment. Saffron Ward is for patients over the age of 65.

Saffron Ward aims to optimise older peoples health, wellbeing and independence through medical, nursing and therapy interventions.

The successful post holder will have excellent leadership and management skills and be committed to providing an inclusive environment where staff and patients are encouraged to thrive and reach their maximum potential.

Main duties of the job

Management of the clinical team: ensuring that the team are working effectively both as individuals and as a team. This includes: recruitment, retention, development, and support and performance management of their staff.
Management of the Service User Experience: acting as the clinical lead for the unit, leading the multidisciplinary team, ensuring that their team are responsive to service user needs and that the clinical documentation is robust.
Management of local Governance Processes: auditing and evaluating the services as required by the Trust and Directorate policies. To monitor standards, ensuring quality and consistency and to take action when required, reporting to the Clinical Services Manager.

Working for our organisation

Our vision is for a happier and more hopeful life for everyone in our communities and our staff work hard to deliver the very best care for the people who use our services. We're really proud of our#PennineCarePeopleand do everything we can to make sure we're a great place to work.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The provision of effective clinical leadership to and management of ward staff.
To maintain personal contact with patients, their relatives and carers. Being sensitive to their needs for respect, privacy and dignity and to act as the senior point of contact on the ward.
To lead on the formulation of staff rotas to ensure the most effective use of manpower and resources in relation to service user need and ward activity.
To lead on the monitoring of all staff sickness, in accordance with Trust policies.
To ensure that all staff follow the guidelines identified in the Trust and National policies.
To participate in the investigation of patient complaints, as per Trust Complaints procedure, aiming to settle complaints with local resolutions at ward level. When unable to do so, to communicate without delay to the Service Manager.
The post holder will be responsible for maintaining their own personal development and will take a lead on achieving the training and educational objectives of junior staff, including learners, in an environment which is conducive to learning.
To take responsibility for own clinical and managerial development in support of the Service Manager.
To participate in the annual individual performance review of all ward staff and to assist in the formulation of personal development plans which reflect the individuals potential in meeting the ward aims.
To ensure that all staff receive education and training in accordance to the requirements and scope of their Professional Practice.
To ensure that all newly qualified staff receive ongoing support, through preceptorship, for at least six months.
To ensure that all learner nurses have access to their identified assessor.
To act as a mentor for learner nurse.

Recruitment and Selection Responsibilities

The post holder will coordinate and participate in the recruitment and selection of staff as required.
To participate in employment interviews for staff vacancies, Bands 1 to 6.
To ensure that all newly appointed staff are introduced to the ward environment and receive a period of orientation and support to meet their individual needs.

General Duties of all post holders

To undertake any other reasonable duty, which is appropriate to the band, when requested by Senior Staff.
To be familiar with and comply with all Trust and departmental policies, procedures, protocols and guidelines.
To be aware of and work towards the Trusts strategic goals.

This job description is not exhaustive, but is intended to give an overall picture of the role. Other duties within the general scope of the post may be required from time to time. The duties of the post and job description can be reviewed through the agreed process.

Person specification

Education/Qualifications

Essential criteria

Registered Nurse with current registration or equivalent professional qualification.
Evidence of post graduate training and / or continuing professional development.

Desirable criteria

Leadership Course
Mentorship Course
Clinical Supervision Training.

Experience

Essential criteria

Experience at Band 6
Supervising and professionally developing junior staff.
Working within a Governance framework.
Clinical Leadership.
Working with high-level policies, procedures and guidelines.
Problem solving and complex decision making.
Working with HR issues and serious incident reviews

Desirable criteria

Teaching Experience.
Experience of implementing effective change management.
Experience of working directly with NHS England, contract reporting and engaging and delivering on KPI targets.

Knowledge

Essential criteria

To be a resource for knowledge in this specialist area of mental health nursing for staff, service users and their families.
Knowledge and experience of the Mental Health Act, including Part III
Awareness of current standards and good practice guidance for for Step-down rehabilitation units.Clinical governance and the importance of this at a local level.
Knowledge and experience of working with external agencies including MAPPA, SOMU. Experience of working with service users who have complex needs and significant index offences.

Desirable criteria

Implementation of local Clinical Governance objectives and evidence of improvements in practice due to audit findings.

Skills/Abilities

Essential criteria

Ability to lead a staff team through effective change, engaging and involving he nursing and wider multidisciplinary team
Ensuring effective line management is achieved and your staff follow management processes
Highly developed communication and interpersonal skills.
Good organisational skills.
Ability to work autonomously
The application of the NMC code of conduct
The ability to engage staff in individual and group supervision

Desirable criteria

Evidence of an effective change management programme with your leadership skills.

A hints and tips document is attached below for guidance on completing your application form.

Disclosure Barring Certificate check

All of our new starters, who are appointed to a post which requires a Disclosure Barring Certificate check (DBS), will be recharged for the full cost of the check (DBS checks for volunteers are free of charge).

An enhanced DBS check costs £38 and a standard check costs £18 (plus an administration charge of £3.50). If you are a substantive member of staff, the full amount will be taken from your first month's salary.

If you are a member of staff on our bank, you will need to repay the full amount from your first salary.

We encourage you to register with the DBS update service at an annual cost of £13 (this is mandatory for bank staff).

Other important information

We are committed to equality, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) and recognise the importance of ensuring our diverse service user population is reflected within our workforce. Unfortunately, we know that, at present, there is underrepresentation of our communities in our workforce. We welcome applications from people from diverse communities to help us grow, learn, be better and consider brilliant innovation diverse people bring.
Priority will be given to applications from existing NHS employees who have an at risk status
This post is on our terms and conditions (T&Cs). If you are an existing employee currently on transferred terms and conditions (i.e. you transferred from another employer and retained their T&Cs) and you are voluntarily applying for this post; if you are successful, you will be employed on our T&Cs
You will be informed about the progress of your application following shortlisting. Only applicants who clearly demonstrate the criteria listed in the person specification will be shortlisted for interview
We will notify you by email if you have been shortlisted or not. Computer access is available at your local job centre or library. Please make sure you check your spam filter/junk folder. If any mail goes to your junk folder please mark it as safe
If you would like to be considered under the disability confident scheme, you will be guaranteed an interview if you meet the essential criteria on the person specification for the post
If you require reasonable adjustments to our recruitment process please phone us on 0161 716 3181 at the earliest opportunity. We will support you to complete your application
We reserve the right to close a vacancy earlier than the advertised closing date if a sufficient number of applications have been received
Unfortunately we are not able to guarantee the transfer of lease cars, or cover the costs of early termination charges. We have a strict policy on unsolicited contact from recruitment agencies. Please do not contact our recruiting managers directly.

Vaccination

COVID-19 vaccination remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course our patients from the virus when working in our healthcare settings. Whilst COVID-19 vaccination is not a condition of employment at this time, we do encourage our staff to get vaccinated. We will be checking the vaccination status of all new starters so that we can manage individual and environmental risks, and so that we can support those who may be undecided about vaccination. If you are unvaccinated there is helpful advice and information at https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/ where you can also find out more about how to access vaccination. There is a current Government consultation underway which will determine whether some new starters may need to be vaccinated.

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.

Documents to download

Job Description (DOCX, 46.1KB)
Person Specification (PDF, 125.1KB)
Policy Statement on Recruitment of Ex-Offenders (PDF, 117.0KB)
Applicant Information pack (PDF, 505.6KB)
Equality, Diversity and Inclusion pack (PDF, 588.9KB)
Hints and tips for your application (PDF, 128.7KB)

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