Ward Manager

The Clinical Ward Manager will be responsible for providing clinical leadership to all ward-based staff and ensuring the MDT provides a consistent approach incorporating recovery model to patient care. They will also ensure day to day operational management of the ward is effective and efficient.

The ward manager will have overall management responsibility for the delivery of care within the ward, in accordance with Trust policies and procedures. To lead a team of nursing staff in the delivery of high-quality evidence-based practice, ensuring that regular supervision and appraisal take place. To manage administrative and operational resources in a cost-effective manner, evaluating the standard of service delivered. To co-ordinate multidisciplinary working, maintaining excellent communication and working relationships with all team members, and other services within the Trust, to ensure effective interface and continuity of care between disciplines and services.

The post holder will carry out nursing procedures to a standard that ensures safe and effective care, and complies with The Nursing and Midwifery Council's Code of Professional Conduct.

There is an expectation that the post holder will place the needs of service users at the center of care delivery. The Ward Manager will be a visible, accessible and authoritative presence in clinical

areas providing assistance, advice and support to staff, patients, relatives, carers and visitors.

This is a patient facing role.

Main duties of the job

Below are the key responsiblities:

1- Management of Nursing Care and Practice

2- Management of Financial and Material Resources

3- Management of Clinical Standards

4- Management of Human Resources

5- Patient Flow

6- Management of the Environment

Central and North West London NHS Trust expects all Band 7 ward managers to act in a way which shows you understand our core values and are willing to put them into practice with service users, their friends, family and carers and also other staff members.

As a Band 7 Ward Manager we expect you to show COMPASSION, contribute to a caring and kind environment and recognise that what you do and say helps can make the lives of others better

We expect you to RESPECT everyone and acknowledge and welcome people's differences rather than ignore them or see them as problematic.

We expect you to EMPOWER others and continually try to provide information, resources and support to help others make their own decisions and meet their own needs.

We expect you to work in PARTNERSHIP and behave in a way that shows that you recognise that commissioners and users of our services are the people who generate and pay for our work.