Deputy Ward Manager

Main area: older persons
Grade Band: 6
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Earlies, Lates, Long Days and Nights)
Job ref: 350-MHC7082288

Site: Fern Ward
Town: Liverpool
Salary: £37,338 - £44,962 per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 30/03/2025 23:59

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust celebrates diversity and promotes equal opportunities; we are committed to challenging and eliminating racism and other forms of discrimination and advancing and promoting equality of opportunity in the provision of services and creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We believe that everyone has the right to be treated with dignity and respect.

We take positive action to support disadvantaged groups and also particularly encourage applications from ethnic minorities, disabled and LGBTQIA+ people that are under-represented in our workforce. Furthermore, we welcome applications from reservists and ex-armed forces personnel as we recognise the benefits of the values, skills, training and experience that they bring to their work with us. We encourage all applicants to share their equality information with us.

Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen on Fern Ward for a Band 6 Deputy Ward Manager to support the Clinical Team Manager and Clinical Leadership Team to deliver high quality safe and effective care. Fern Ward is a 16 bedded older persons mixed sex inpatient ward for patients with Dementia, Alzheimer's, cognitive impairment and other mental health conditions.

This is a demanding and challenging role where, as a successful candidate, you will be required to demonstrate high levels of resilience, excellent problem solving and inter-personal skills as well as the ability to provide sound clinical and managerial support to team members.

The post holder will also demonstrate a passion for coaching leadership style, quality improvement and attitude which respects and values service users’ choice and works alongside them and their carers to ensure they are at the centre of care planning.

This post is subject to an enhanced check with adults barred list Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) Check.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will assist the Clinical Team Manager in carrying continuing Professional and managerial responsibility for the ward.

The post holder will operate as part of an integrated multi-disciplinary team, undertaking a balance of Managerial and Clinical activity. They will ensure continuity of care for service users on their journey through the acute service.

Working for our organisation

Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.

We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.

At the heart of all we do is our commitment to ‘perfect care’ – care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We’re currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.

Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

1. Implement case load supervision to monitor the standards of service user care and ensure record keeping is in accordance with Professional and Trust standards.
2. Participate in regular clinical supervision as per Trust policy.
3. Assist in the development and implementation of integrated care pathways, including appropriate service user assessments/referrals and models of care.
4. Provide information, education and support for family members, carers and other relevant professionals.
5. Give/receive regular managerial/clinical supervision as per Trust policy.
6. Ensure the clinical environment is conducive to promote service users health, safety and well-being, thereby preserving and respecting each service user’s personal dignity, privacy, religious and cultural beliefs.
7. Ensure record keeping is in accordance with Professional and Trust standards.
8. Ensure the safe management of medicines and adhere to safe practice and principles of administration in accordance with the NMC code of professional conduct and Trust Medicines Code.
9. Work in a professional and collaborative manner with the Multi-disciplinary team.
10. Participate and promote positive intra-agency working.
11. Participate and assist in setting standards of service user care based on sound research findings.

Person specification

QUALIFICATIONS

• Up to date Professional Registration (to be maintained), on the appropriate part of the NMC register and hold a current NMC registration.
• Post registration training in relevant field.
• Leadership/Management training.

EXPERIENCE/KNOWLEDGE

• Experience of working in an acute environment.
• Experience of mentorship, supervision and co-ordination of staff.
• Experience of Care Planning process.
• Working in a multi-agency framework.
• Demonstrate a contribution to change management process.
• Experience in positive leadership of a team.
• Demonstrate experience of problem solving approaches.
• Recovery Model.
• Mental Health Act (1983).
• Effective Care Coordination.
• Relevant National policies and guidance.
• Evidence based and reflective practice.
• Mental Capacity Act.
• Vulnerable Adults Procedure and Child Protection.
• Safety, Privacy and Dignity Guidelines.

SKILLS

• Demonstrate sound leadership qualities and an understanding of management styles.
• Understanding of quality and change in the clinical setting.
• Ability to delegate and coordinate.
• Ability to work to deadlines.
• Ability to utilise Assessment skills and tools effectively.
• Ability to communicate in a variety of settings.
• Ability to maintain accurate and up to date clinical records.
• Able to present factual information and refer questions to others where appropriate.
• Able to deal with sensitive issues with tact and diplomacy.
• Ability to develop effective interpersonal relationships with colleagues.
• Ability to identify and minimise risk effectively.
• Project Management.
• Formulation of reports.
• Resource and Budget management.

VALUES

• Accountability.
• Support.
• High professional standards.
• Responsive to service users.
• Engaging leadership style.
• Transparency and honesty.
• Discreet.
• Change oriented.

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Only those applicants who demonstrate clearly how they meet our person specification will be shortlisted for interview.

As a Disability Confident Employer, we offer a guaranteed interview scheme for applicants who consider themselves to be disabled who meet the minimum (essential) criteria for the role in the person specification. If you would like your application to be considered under the Trust’s guaranteed interview scheme you can indicate this in the personal information section of your online application form.

Should you require a reasonable adjustment to our recruitment process please email recruitment@merseycare.nhs.uk to ensure that measures can be put in place to support you.

We reserve the right to close any vacancy earlier than advertised in exceptional circumstances once we have received a high volume of applications.

The Trust expects all post holders who require an enhanced DBS for their role subscribe to the DBS Update Service. You will be required to enrol for this service for a fee of £16 per year and maintain registration.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

FULFIL YOUR POTENTIAL AND SPREAD YOUR WINGS WITH MERSEY CARE

At Mersey Care, our commitment to ‘perfect care’ lies at the heart of everything we do, a person centred care that starts with you. It’s a pledge to create an environment and staff support that will enable you to do the best job you can possibly do, to be the best you can possibly be.

You’ll be joining one of the most innovative and progressive NHS trusts in the country. One that offers specialist inpatient and community services to support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. We are the founding member of the Zero Suicide Alliance, and one of only three Trusts in the country which delivers high secure mental health care.

You’ll be made to feel at home, joining an 11,000 strong Mersey Care family comprising doctors and nurses, as well as countless other roles from dieticians to dentists, from data analysts to physiotherapists. You'll find a full list of our roles in our A-Z list.

You’ll have a home in the North West of England where your work/life balance is respected and working from sites easily commutable from Liverpool, Manchester, North Wales and Cheshire with many roles operating a hybrid working system.