Deputy Ward Manager inTrafford inTrafford PUBLISHED MON 28 OCT 2024

This post places particular emphasis on patient centred care and therapeutic engagement, ensuring all aspects of direct patient care are delivered at the highest quality. A key element of this post will be to support and provide sound clinical interventions to service users and clinical leadership on a day-to-day, shift-to-shift basis for a group of staff on a designated clinical area. The post holder will work in collaboration with the Ward Manager to develop and transform the nursing care provision, ensuring that it supports and reflects service user mental health and physical needs, is culturally appropriate, and compliant with professional guidance.

The post holder will take charge of the shifts on a rotational basis, act as a primary nurse to service users and their carers, as well as being responsible for the establishment and maintenance of effective communication with all relevant personnel who contribute to the care of the service user both internal and external to the Trust.

The post holder will, in collaboration with the ward manager, ensure continuous clinical and professional development for ward staff through on the job coaching, mentoring, audit, regular supervision, and ward based training of less experienced staff.

The post holder will deputise for the ward manager as required and promote multi-disciplinary team working whilst leading predominantly on nursing issues and leadership.

All staff working within our Trust should adopt our values.

All staff have a responsibility to contribute to high standards of care, they need to:

• Be a quality inspector, never knowingly passing on a defect, error or risk to a colleague or patient, putting things right where you can, and reporting everything, especially where you need help to put it right.
• Take a pro-active role in identifying risks and acting on the results to resolve problems at source wherever possible bearing in mind resources and priorities and liaising with Line Manager
• Take part in risk management practices, both clinical and non-clinical in line with the Trust Risk Management Strategy to help reduce risks to the safety of patients.

About us

Pease see attached detailed job descriptionand person specification

Staff benefits

• Pay Enhancements 30% additional for Evenings (8pm onwards) and Saturdays and 60% additional for Sundays and Bank holidays.
• 27 days annual leave plus bank holidays rising to 29 after 5 years and 33 days after 10 years
• Excellent pension
• Cycle to work scheme
• Salary sacrifice car scheme
• Wellbeing programme
• Blue Light Card Discounts