Deputy Ward ManagerNHS

Job summary

We are looking for a department leader to join our dual purpose outpatient and medical day case unit at Berwick Infirmary.

We hold multiple clinics of varied specialities within our OPD department Monday to Friday. Due to this variety this enables you to work with a very diverse team of staff from across the organisation teams.

Our medical day case unit provides treatment locally for patients requiring drug infusions, venesection and blood transfusion etc. We work hard to ensure that patients can have their treatments locally, bringing in new treatments with the support of specialist teams. This is a unique post as staff cover both OPD and medical day case areas with a huge variety of treatments and development of a unique skill set.

This is an exciting time to join our team as we prepare to move into our new hospital with the development of additional services and treatments.

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

• Manage the treatment and care of patients who attend our nurse led medical day case unit, liaising with speciality teams to provide safe and efficient care.
• Responsible for the daily running of the out patient department, ensuring safe staffing levels and supporting staff on a daily basis.
• Working closely with multiple teams, providing education and support to the local team to allow us to provide safe care in a rural location.
• Provide highest standards of clinical practice and act as a role model to others
• Adapting to the changing environment and supporting the team during service development and quality improvement initiatives
• Control workload and manage duties by identifying networks of support for yourself and other employees
• Delegates to member of the team

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 theabsence 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 topromote ownership of learning and quality improvement and (c) facilitates team working and collaboration within teams / departments and across organisational boundaries.

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.