Ward Manager

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Job overview

**CAMHS Inpatients Ward Manager**

An exciting opportunity has become available for the position of Ward Manager on The Hope Unit - inpatient CAMHS.

The post is for a permanent post

CAMHS experience is desirable but not essential as transferrable skills would be beneficial to the role.

Hope ward is a 12 bedded CAMHS General Adolescent Unit located at Pennine House on the Fairfield General Hospital Site.

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.

They would provide leadership and support to the inpatient nursing team, and to have responsibility for the management and co-ordination of the ward.

They would deliver a high standard of care to inpatient services users.

They would ensure the optimum level of safe and effective care within the allocated resources.

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

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#PennineCarePeopleand do everything we can to make sure we're a great place to work.

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.

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.
• 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.
• Experience of leading of discharge pathways
• 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.

Sponsorship - We are an approved sponsoring organisation. Applications will be considered from applicants requiring sponsorship alongside all other applications. Please be aware, not all roles are eligible for sponsorship. You can review the list of eligible role and requirements on the government website.

What happens after your application has been received?

You will be informed about the progress of your application following shortlisting via email. Only applicants who clearly demonstrate the criteria listed in the person specification will be shortlisted for interview. Interview invites will be sent out via email.

What happens if I am offered the position after interview?

The hiring manager will make contact with you to verbally offer you the position. The hiring manager will then inform Recruitment of the decision and provide relevant paperwork. You will be sent a formal conditional offer via email.

What pre-employment checks will I need to complete?

By conducting pre-employment checks, the recruitment team will verify that you meet the pre-conditions of the role you have been offered. Pre-employment checks will be carried out according to NHS Employment Check Standards. The checks are:

• Identity verification
• Right to work check
• Disclosure and barring service (DBS)/Criminal record check (dependent on role)
• Professional registration and/or qualification check
• Occupational health assessment
• Employment history and reference validation

All applicants external to NHS will be required to provide HMRC employment history to cover the most recent three years. This information will used to validate employment history and references as part of pre-employment checks.

If you are offer a position with is and you require sponsorship to support your right to work, we will review your eligibility in line with government guidance. If the role you have been offer is not eligible for sponsorship, and you are not able to evidence your right to work, your conditional offer could be withdrawn.

What happens when pre-employment checks are complete?

Recruitment will liaise with you and the hiring manager to arrange a start date for your new position. You will then be booked on to a Trust Welcome Session and be sent your Pennine Care NHS Terms and Conditions.

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.
• 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.
• 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 hiring managers directly.

We reserve the right to close a vacancy earlier than the advertised closing date if a sufficient number of applications have been received. To ensure you application is considered, please submit at the earliest opportunity.

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 (PDF, 107.5KB)
• Person Specification (PDF, 160.9KB)
• Policy Statement on Recruitment of Ex-Offenders (PDF, 117.0KB)
• Applicant Information pack (PDF, 505.6KB)
• Hints and tips for your application (PDF, 128.7KB)