Ward Manager Children's Service inBirmingham inBirmingham PUBLISHED
WED 27 NOV 2024
Key responsibilities include providing compassionate leadership, ensuring patient safety, and engaging with multidisciplinary teams to enhance the care environment. The position requires strong clinical and management skills, a commitment to quality improvement, and a transformational leadership approach aligned with the trust's values: Ambition, Respect, and Compassion. Weekend work may be required, and previous applicants need not apply.
Are you passionate to improve children and young peoples experience and care through dynamic leadership? This is a great opportunity to develop the future of children's services at Sandwell and West Birmingham Trust. This is an exciting time for us as we move into our new acute hospital: Midland Metropolitan University Hospital.
We are delighted to announce we are looking to recruit an exceptional Paediatric Ward Manager to be part of our existing forward thinking Senior Paediatric Nurse Leadership team.
We are looking for a dynamic, motivated individual who is passionate about quality driven care for children and young people. The successful candidate demonstrates a commitment to patient safety, quality improvement and an approach to leadership reflective of our Trust Values of Ambition, Respect, Compassion.
You will be expected to use your expert clinical knowledge, alongside your management and leadership skills, to enhance the experience of children, young people and families, and seek opportunities to engage with colleagues to embed a positive practice environment.
If you are enthusiastic, ambitious and have transformational leadership skills in order to support our exciting vision. Please do contact us for more information or an informal discussion
The paediatric unit offers a unique environment for nursing professionals to develop their paediatric experience across a range of areas, Inpatients, HDU Critical Care Level 2, Paediatric Assessment Unit, and outpatients including surgery and day case interventions. As an integrated organisation our acute paediatric team works in close collaboration with our community children's nursing teams inclusive of our virtual ward team who are Nursing Times award nominees.
You will be responsible for the daily clinical, operational and quality management of outpatient and day case paediatric clinical areas, providing professional development of staff within that area. You will provide support to all staff within the paediatric unit and will work in partnership with all multi-disciplinary teams.
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You will be responsible for providing compassionate leadership and professional development for nursing and support workers within the service and will work with the other paediatric senior nurses to develop best practice and ensure that there is consistency across the paediatric unit.
In collaboration with senior nursing team and acute Paediatric Matron, you will provide senior nursing leadership for the unit including some weekend working.
PLEASE NOTE: PREVIOUS APPLICANTS NEED NOT TO APPLY
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