Deputy Ward ManagerNHS

Job summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Deputy Ward Manger in the Discharge Lounge at The Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital (NSECH).

You will be working with all the wards and departments in the hospital in order to facilitate patient flow and improve patient experience. The successful candidate will maintain patient safety whilst assisting nursing teams in the prompt and efficient transfer of patients to the discharge lounge and out of hospital.

You must have a proven ability in supervising, managing and controlling the activities within an area in an effective and efficient manner.

You will have excellent communication skills and high clinical standards with a passion to make a difference for patients and staff alike.

Please note we reserve the right to close this vacancy prior to the closing date once the required number of suitable applications have been received.

Main duties of the job

• To function as a competent clinical practitioner within the clinical area. To deliver direct patient care whilst, coordinating and overseeing nursing practice.
• To be responsible for ensuring the delivery of clinical activities during their span of duty.
• To ensure that there is efficient and effective utilisation of resources to deliver high quality care to their client group.
• To deputise for the ward/ department manager in his / her absence, driving forward evidence based practice and taking responsibility for the supervision of staff and the policies and practices that operate within their clinical area.
• Proactively support in de-escalating site by facilitating flow and discharges from the wards.
• To work flexibly to meet the needs of the service.
• To answer Datix and Complaints.
• To oversee the nursing roster.

Job description

• To assume responsibility for the devolved management of a ward/department, including the assessment of care needs, the implementation of evidence based programme of care in the absence of the Ward Manager.
• To supervise, support and educate junior members of the team.
• To provide senior nurse site management cover.
• To exercise accountability as set out in the NMC Code of Professional Conduct.
• To be responsibility for all nursing care standards and to maintain high clinical standards.
• To act as team leader and co-ordinate the multi-disciplinary care of a group of patients.
• To role model compassionate and inclusive leadership in order to shape the creation of a collective leadership culture within the trust. This means demonstrating a consistent leadership style which (a) engages, enables and empowers others (b) uses coaching to promote ownership of learning and quality improvement and (c) facilitates team working and collaboration within teams / departments and across organisational boundaries.
• To provide nursing care to a case load of patients and to provide verbal and written handovers to nursing colleagues and the multi-disciplinary team.
• Support the Ward Manager in her accountability for the management of staff and budgets.
• To provide nursing care to an advanced level.

About us

We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, in addition to our state-of-the-art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. We also care for people in their homes and provide services from facilities in local communities such as health centres. We give people greater choice and control over their care to help them to live independently at home and avoid hospital admission where appropriate. High quality patient care is at the heart of everything we do and we strive to ensure every single patient and service user has an exceptional experience with us. We have one of the most extensive patient experience programmes of any trust in England.