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Ward Manager

Employer
Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Location
Sherwood
Salary
£43,742 to £50,056 a year per annum (pro rata for part time)
Closing date
17 Jun 2023

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Profession
Other Health Profession
Grade
Band 7
Contract Type
Permanent
Hours
Full Time
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Ward Manager to join Pegasus Ward.

Pegasus Ward is a Specialist CAMHS Eating Disorder Unit based in The Lookout, at Hopewood Hospital in Nottingham.

This is a great opportunity for a highly motivated and dedicated clinician to join a well established and Multi-Disciplinary Team who provide highly specialist care and treatment to young people experiencing eating disorders/difficulties .

Main duties of the job

The post holder will be a senior clinician within the team working closely alongside MDT colleagues in particular The Trainee ACP, Service Manager, Clinical Nurse Specialist and Consultant Psychiatrist to ensure a collaborative approach to leadership.

The Ward Manager will have operational responsibility for the ward ensuring targets are met, high quality care is achieved and staff experience a supportive environment in which they can develop their skills.

The Ward Manager will ensure leadership responsibilities including providing high quality supervision to junior members of the team.

Within this role the post holder will support the team with the implementation and evaluation of safe and effective treatment plans for the young people whilst offering regular support to families and carers

About us

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Ward Manager to join Pegasus Ward.

Pegasus Ward is a 12 bed Specialist CAMHS Eating Disorder Unit based in The Lookout, at Hopewood Hospital in Nottingham.

The Lookout houses 3 wards including a General Adolescent Unit, Specialist Eating Disorder Unit and Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit. We are co-located with perinatal services as well as core CAMHS and Specialist CAMHS Community Teams. Our inpatients have the opportunity to attend our on site Education Facility.

We have more than 100 sites and a huge scope of unique opportunities to develop your career and gain some amazing experiences. We strive to be a great place to work and offer many staff benefits and tailored staff support and wellbeing programmes. We have a growing number of ACPs and trainees with increasing opportunities for peer support, teaching, rotational insight visits and networking.

Do you want to make a difference?

Do you believe in Trust, Honesty, Respect, Compassion and Teamwork?

Then Nottinghamshire Healthcare is the perfect place for you to start, maintain or further your career. Join our team of nearly 9000 who are making a difference every day. We are all about our people - our staff, volunteers, carers, service users and patients. We are NottsHC.

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Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see job description and person specification for further details relating to the Ward Manager role.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Professional Qualification (Mental Health/Learning Disabilities) plus further specialist knowledge/post registration experience to diploma level or equivalent underpinned by theory within physical healthcare or other formal training
  • Maintain current registration with the NMC and adheres to the NMC Code. Demonstrates continuing Professional Development within their specialism
  • Management and Leadership qualification and experience


Experience

Essential

  • Demonsrate satisfactory clinical expertise for the banding


Desirable

  • The ability to deal with and resolve conflict


Skills

Essential

  • Demonstrate leadership and management skills and qualities


Desirable

  • A high level of emotional intelligence


Knowledge

Essential

  • Advanced knowledge of the principals of medication management and concordance
  • Knowledge of education of others and identification of training requirements
  • Advanced knowledge of the Care Programme Approach, Mental Capacity Act, Deprivation of Liberty and Safeguarding etc.
  • Knowledge and understanding of current legislation and understanding of clinical risk assessments
  • Knowledge of the nursing 6 c's


Desirable

  • Knowledge of CQC/Service Improvement/QNIC


Employer details

Employer name

Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Hopewood

Foster Drive

Sherwood

NG5 3FL

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186-863-23-MH

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