Ward Manager

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Thank you for your interest in the North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT). This is an exciting time to join us and be part of our journey to improve mental health care across North London and deliver excellent services to our local people. We will achieve this through the North London Way, as we:

• Collaborate at every level by living our values to create the right conditions for us all to work together.
• Develop our new Trust culture, to help make our new Trust a great place to work and to receive great care.
• Empower our teams to lead the planned improvements in our services, by skilling them and giving them the tools to make the changes.
• Focus on delivering excellence at every level to improve our performance and ensure consistently high-quality care across all our services.
• Ensure that research, quality improvement, and technology lead the way and are embedded in our services.
• Take a trauma informed approach to everything we do

We proactively welcome diversity in our workforce and pride ourselves on being an inclusive employer. We aim to recruit from our local communities and provide opportunities to all including apprenticeships, veterans, care leavers and more.

The North London Way to deliver: Better Mental Health, Better Lives, Better Communities.

Our trust website is: https://www.northlondonmentalhealth.nhs.uk/

Job overview

We are looking for a Ward Manager for one of our 4 female 17 bedded acute wards within the Highgate Campus in Highgate.

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the Ward leadership team on one of our female acute wards, based at Highgate Mental Health Centre. The successful candidate will be provided with a clear development and support plan to ensure you maximise your learning within the role and offer you exposure to senior leadership learning opportunities. As manager of a Female Ward, the post holder will be committed to working with trauma informed care models/approaches that specialise in the needs of Females. The successful candidate must have a genuine interest in female care within mental services, and be willing to specialise in understanding the challenges women with mental health issues face.

We are seeking a strong leader who has the capacity and drive to take the ward through essential change process, be open to continuous improvement plans, and embrace change and create a positive environment for staff and for patients.

If you want to discuss the advert in more detail, then please contact Head of Service katharine.maciver2@nhs.net

E-Mail: Katharine.Maciver2@nhs.net

Main duties of the job

North London Foundation Trust invites skilled and conscientious leaders to apply for the post of Ward Manager of a busy acute treatment ward at Highgate Mental health centre.

The role is open to skilled applicants registered with professional bodies of the following disciplines; Nurse, OT and Social Worker.

The role will require focused attention to maintaining throughput and working closely with bed management to ensure the treatment pathway is followed. We welcome applicants that will be creative and enthusiastic in their approach to developing high quality mental health care for service users in the Boroughs of Camden, Islington, Barnet, Haringey and Enfield. In North London Foundation Trust inpatient acute wards provide multi-disciplinary assessment & treatment for people with mental health problems who are in an acute phase of their illness.

We are looking for:

• Caring and creative individuals who have a positive approach to work and a strong multi-disciplinary team-working ethic.
• Candidates that are able to use data and QI methodology to influence change
• Candidates who are experienced in the provision of safe and professional care; have a good awareness of risk management and an in-depth knowledge of the Mental Health Act.
• Candidates with excellent communication skills and attention to detail in clinical documentation and all correspondence.
• Caring and compassionate leaders who are able to influence positive a positive caring environment for staff and patients.

Working for our organisation

North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT) is committed to improving mental health care across North London to deliver excellent services to our local people.

Our Five-Year Strategy:

1. We will provide consistently high-quality care closer to home.

2. With our partners in North London and each borough we will ensure equity of outcome for all

3. We will offer great places to work, providing staff with supportive environment to deliver outstanding care.

4. We will be more effective as an organisation by pioneering research, quality improvement and technology.

In order to meet the needs of the Trust you may be required from time to time to work at different locations to your normal place of work. This may mean that you are required to work at any location that fall under Barnet, Camden, Enfield, Haringey or Islington. The Trust reserves the right to require staff to work at such other places or locations as it considers reasonable and necessary on a temporary or permanent basis.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The post holder, will lead and manage a multi-disciplinary, multi-professional Mental Health Team, is responsible for ensuring that the team understands and operates to the requirements of the service line operational policy and service line strategy and that safe, evidence based, effective, culturally competent care is delivered in a timely manner to service users. The post holder is committed to working within Trauma informed approaches and models.

In carrying out this role the post holder will make best use of the resources available to them in the monitoring of team and individual performance; ensuring that at all times best use is made of health and social care resources to assist recovery and re- enablement.

The post holder will lead on governance and audit within the team, ensuring that service delivery focuses on the quality agenda and that dignity, privacy and respect is afforded at all times to service users.

Team members are to be supported and developed to their potential and that new team members are to be comprehensively inducted and successfully integrated into the team.

The job-holder will be expected to carry out other duties assigned by the Matron, which are appropriate to the Band. Please see job description for full details.

Person specification

Education

Essential criteria

• Diploma or degree leading to professional Registered qualification in Mental Health
• Evidence of recent and or ongoing post registration academic study relevant to practice

Desirable criteria

• Masters Degree in related field
• Non-Medical Prescribing Qualification OR AMHP Qualification

Experience

Essential criteria

• Evidence of recent and or ongoing post registration academic study relevant to practice
• Experience of supporting staff through change and fostering a culture of continuous service improvement
• Evidence of effective workforce development and of using systems to ensure effective staff management (supervision, appraisal and ongoing performance management Undertake audits and support research Previous supervision experience

Skills

Essential criteria

• Demonstrate well developed leadership skills with the ability to enthuse, motivate and involve team members
• Demonstrate sound budgetary management skills

Experience

Essential criteria

• Be able to demonstrate compassion through leadership and previous experience

Experience

Essential criteria

• Ability to Influence change and use data to make positive changes

Experience

Essential criteria

• Experience working with females with mental illness, or special interest and knowledge of female needs related to Trauma and the impact of mental illness

References will be required to cover your last 3 years of employment/training. One has to be from your current or most recent employer and the others from your previous employer. The references should be from persons with management responsibility or HR.

If you have been unemployed for a period of four years or more, please give the details of your last employer and one character referee of your choice (not members of your family). If more applicable, references will be requested from your teacher or head of faculty. Please ensure you provide full contact details.

Vacancies that are advertised as Fixed Term Contracts will also be available as secondment opportunities for substantive internal staff.

Please be aware that your documents eg. Passport/NI Card, will be electronically scanned using Home Office accredited Verification System.

Due to the high number of applications that are received for some posts, we will close vacancies before the stated closing date once the first 50 applications are received. Therefore, please apply as soon as possible.

All non-medical posts with the Trust are subject to a probationary period of six months, during which time you will be required to demonstrate to the Trust's satisfaction, your suitability for the position in which you will be employed.

Should you not hear from us within three working weeks of the closing date for this post, then regretfully in this instance, you have not been shortlisted.

By applying for this role, you accept in the event you are successful that your personal data may be transferred from the Trust to another NHS organisation where your employment transfers within the NHS. This is in accordance with the streamlining programme which is aimed at improving efficiencies within the NHS both to make costs savings for NHS organisations but also to save you time when your employment transfers.

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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 and Person Specification (PDF, 424.4KB)
• Functional Requirements (PDF, 304.6KB)
• A comprehensive guide for candidates (PDF, 875.7KB)