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/

As a values-driven Trust, we recruit through our values. Our selection processes focus on behaviours, attitudes, and examples that reflect our organisational values and commitment to compassionate, high-quality care.

Artificial intelligence (AI) is a set of technology that can perform various tasks that typically required human intelligence. Your application is your opportunity to demonstrate to us how you meet the requirements of the role. We recognise that AI tools can support accessibility, equity and confidence for applicants. However, it's important that examples and responses genuinely reflect your own experience and abilities, as these will be explored further during the selection process. AI must not be used to provide misleading or false information during any stage of the application journey. Further guidance can be found in the NLPSS Applicant Toolkit https://royalfree.pagetiger.com/cuuomnr/1.

Job overview
• Have 24-hour managerial accountability for the delivery of nursing care to patients on the ward and overall responsibility for safe running of the ward

Main duties of the job
• Ensure that the ward environment is maintained to a high standard in with CQC standards and outcomes
• Assume line management and budgetary responsibility for nurses working on the ward
• Be responsible for effective clinical and managerial communication systems to, from and within the ward
• Provide expert clinical leadership to ensure a high standard of patient care
• Work closely and alongside community services to ensure best use of resources and management of in-patient beds

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

Why NLFT?

• We develop and retain our staff through leadership behaviours and managers programme and many more opportunities.
• We promote flexible working and support staff with a range of health and wellbeing initiatives.
• NHS Discounts, generous annual leave and NHS pension scheme
• Excellent internal staff network

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
1. Key Responsibilities
• Have 24-hour managerial accountability for the delivery of nursing care to patients on the ward.
• Ensure that the ward environment is maintained to a high standard.
• Assume line management and budgetary responsibility for nurses working on the ward.
• Be responsible for effective clinical and managerial communication systems to, from and within the ward.
• Provide expert clinical leadership to ensure a high standard of patient care.
• Work closely and alongside community services to ensure best use of resources and management of inpatient beds.
• Ensure the efficient use of nursing resources to meet identified needs and manage this within agreed annual budget. Participate in budget setting with Service Manager.
• Participate in line management supervision relating to business and performance with the Service Lead
• Report to the Modern Matron for all issues relating to Quality and Safety for the ward

Person specification

Qualifications/Experience

Essential criteria

• NMC Registered Mental Health Nurse
• Evidence of ongoing continuing professional development
• Significant experience of working in Acute Inpatient Ward

Desirable criteria

• Masters or equivalent

Skills

Essential criteria

• Skills in developing and changing clinical practice and delivering clinical supervision
• Ability to manage effectively a revenue budget
• Ability to delegate and manage own time effectively and to produce pieces of work on time and to a high standard
• Ability to work with and lead MDT in clinical decision making.
• Ability to communicate effectively both verbally and in writing

Experience/ Knowledge

Essential criteria

• Working knowledge of all relevant legislation associated with acute mental health inpatient care, including MHA, CPA procedures, Human Rights Act, , Child Protection
• Knowledge of contemporary issues in acute mental health care
• Management of violence and aggression/challenging behaviour
• Understanding of Acute Care pathway underpinned by theory and experience

Personal Qualities

Essential criteria

• Understand Equal Opportunities and Valuing Diversity policies and able to implement these
• A keenness to make a positive contribution to improving the quality of life for people with mental health problems
• Able to manage with integrity, openness and honesty

Due to the high number of applications that are received for some posts, we reserve the right to close any vacancies before the stated closing date. Therefore, please ensure you apply without delay if you wish to be considered for this role.

In line with NHS protocols, only those applicants who demonstrate clearly how they meet our person specification will be shortlisted for interview. We regret that it is not possible to contact all applicants for every vacancy. If you have not been contacted within 4 weeks of the closing date, please assume you have not been shortlisted for the next stage.

Applications from job seekers who require sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome. Please ensure you hold the correct right to work in the UK at the time of your application. Some roles may not be eligible for sponsorship, and we want to make sure you have all the information you need before applying. To avoid disappointment please check that you are eligible under the UKVI guidelines: https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/uk-visas-and-immigration

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.

Please note, in order to progress your application your data will be processed by our 3rd party recruitment providers - North London Partners Shared Service, who conduct recruitment activities on behalf of North London NHS Foundation Trust. As part of pre-employment checks your identity and right to work documentation will be verified remotely (in most circumstances), using a certified identity verification service provider TrustID. You will be asked to capture an image of the relevant documents as well as a "selfie" using your smartphone/tablet (if available) for facial matching. TrustID will also perform a digital address check using Trunarrative and Equifax, which is a soft check and does not leave a footprint on your credit rating. For more information, visit www.trustid.co.uk

The Trust uses electronic new starter forms on Trac to collect personal details. Information collected is securely stored and used to set up the employee record on the ESR HR system.

We are an equal opportunities employer and are committed to creating an inclusive, fair, and supportive workplace for all. We actively welcome applications from individuals who are under-represented within our workforce and are dedicated to eliminating discrimination in all its forms.

As a Disability Confident (Two Ticks) employer, we guarantee an interview to disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria for the role and are committed to making reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process.

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.

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

• Ward Manager JD (PDF, 424.4KB)
• Functional Requirement Form (PDF, 525.8KB)
• A comprehensive guide for candidates (PDF, 544.2KB)