Ward Manager

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Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Have 24 hour responsibility for managing staff and budgets to ensure the standards and quality of care and the environment in which they are delivered are maintained and improved.

Ensure high quality, evidence-based care is offered to patients and, in collaboration with the Matron, identify the common issues which affect the quality of care devising clear action plans to address any shortcomings ensuring agreed action is undertaken. Includes developing, implementing and maintaining patient care policies and procedures, clinical guidelines and protocols where appropriate.

In collaboration with all members of multi-professional team, ensure that the baby and family has a satisfactory experience by evaluating patient processes and redesigning the pathway of care - including external agencies and also other hospitals.

In conjunction with the Appraisal/Individual Performance Review process, undertake training needs analysis for a defined group of staff and share with the Practice Development Nurse for collation annually, to contribute to and inform the Neonatal and Childrens training plan

Person specification

Training & Qualifications

Essential criteria

• 1st Level Registered Nurse
• Current NMC Registration
• Possession of a degree in nursing or healthcare
• Neonatal Critical Care Course
• Current NLS provider
• Evidence of continued professional development
• Possession of a teaching and/or mentoring course
• Successful completion of maths test

Experience

Essential criteria

• Management/leadership in a neonatal intensive care area
• Ability to manage the clinical area or ward efficiently and effectively
• Experience in managing staff and providing feedback
• Experience of risk assessment and management
• Ability to lead change and lead new ways of working
• Supervision of non-registered staff, pre-registration and post basic students
• Evidence of ability to mentor

Communication and relationship skills

Essential criteria

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Able to present and receive complex information with the multidisciplinary team
• Team player who can initiate delegate and complete projects
• Able to develop others
• Demonstrate negotiation and influencing skills
• Assertiveness skills and the ability to deal with conflict
• Demonstrate self-awareness and understanding of personal accountability and advocacy for patients
• Ability to support colleagues, patients and relatives / carers in distressing circumstances

Analytical and Judgement skills

Essential criteria

• Ability to respond to, prioritise and analyse complex problems/situations and ensure effective interventions are put in place.
• Demonstrate an ability to assess, plan, deliver and evaluate patient care
• Demonstrates understanding of the importance of research and evidence based practice to their nursing practice
• Ability to generate and present reports and documents
• Deal effectively with clinical issues within defined procedures/guidelines
• Demonstrate insight in the use of data to influence patient care and services

Planning and organisation skills

Essential criteria

• Can demonstrate formulation of short term and long term objectives
• Excellent organisational skills
• Evidence of continuing professional development
• Demonstrate the personal development of members within a team
• Able to identify own learning needs and limitations
• Evidence of project management skills

Physical skills

Essential criteria

• Physically able to perform the full range of nursing duties
• Dexterity and accuracy in undertaking clinical skills, use of equipment and documentation
• Competent and capable of using medical equipment
• Able to undertake patient manual handling manoeuvres and non-patient manual handling manoeuvres
• Able to perform IT skills using a keyboard and mouse and view visual displays via IT sources available within the Trust.

Come and join our wonderful team at NUH. We are big believers in diversity and welcome new ideas to help develop our team in order to deliver world class healthcare to the vast patient populations we serve. With endless personal development opportunities available, at the NUH we will endeavour to turn your job into a career!

We particularly welcome applications from people who identify as Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic, or Disabled, as we are striving to be better represented at NUH.

Applicants are kindly requested to refrain from using AI at any stage during the recruitment process.

Closing Dates: Please submit your application form as soon as possible to avoid disappointment; we reserve the right to close vacancies prior to the published closing date if we receive a sufficient number of completed application forms.

Communication: All communication related to your application will be via the email address you have provided. Please ensure you check your email account including your junk email regularly.

Easy read application: if you have a disability and find it difficult to complete our online application form, you can apply via our easy read application which you can find on the intranet https://www.nuh.nhs.uk/easy-read-job-application

NUH are now able to offer application completion support and interview preparation support. Please follow the link to book onto our sessions: Support for NUH Job Applications

If you are aged 16 or 17 and applying for a role that is more than 20 hours a week, please be aware that you will be asked to commence an Apprenticeship within the Trust alongside your role, as long as there is a suitable apprenticeship standard available. This is in line with the current guidance in England that whilst young people under the age of 18 can leave school (on the last Friday in June) they must then do one of the following:

• Stay in full-time education, for example at a college
• Start an Apprenticeship
• Spend 20 hours of more a week working or volunteering, while in part-time education or training

For more details visit; School leaving age - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

Salary: The quoted salary will be on a pro rata basis for part time workers.

Disability Confidence: All applicants who have declared a disability and who meet the essential criteria for the post will be shortlisted.

At Risk of redundancy: NHS employees within the East Midlands who are 'at risk' of redundancy will be given a preferential interview where they meet the essential criteria of the person specification.

International Recruitment: If you are applying for a role with us from outside of the UK then please read the guidance on applying for a health or social care job in the UK from abroad.

ID and Right to work checks: NUH authenticate ID and right to work documentation including passports and driving licenses through a system called Trust ID. NUH will scan your ID and right to work documentation in to the Trust ID system at your face to face ID appointment. The system will run a check against the key security features within your documentation. The system will provide us with an outcome of your check which will be stored securely on your personal file along with all other pre-employment check documentation.

Consent:

• Transfer of information: If I have previous NHS service - I consent to the transfer of my Electronic Staff Record (ESR) data between this and other NHS Trusts. I also consent to the Occupational Health Department confidentially accessing my occupational health records from my current or previous employer in order to check the status of my vaccinations, immunisations s and screening tests as relevant to the post. I understand this is an automated process and the information will only be used for these purposes prior to me taking up the position at NUH.
• Disclosure and Barring Service: Your post maybe subject to a DBS check which incur a cost dependent on the level of check required (£42.90 for enhanced and £22.90 for standard). I agree to reimburse Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust the cost of a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check if it is required (by deduction from first month's pay). Should I decide to withdraw from my job offer, I agree to reimburse Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust the cost of the DBS check undertaken by cheque or other agreed method.
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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

• JD Ward Manager (PDF, 792.3KB)
• PS Ward Manager (PDF, 568.3KB)
• Mindful Employer (PDF, 242.5KB)
• Equality and Diversity (PDF, 122.3KB)
• Equal Opportunities (PDF, 57.4KB)
• Disability Confidence Scheme (PDF, 51.0KB)
• Rehabilitation of Ex Offenders (PDF, 106.0KB)