Job summary
Employer heading
Deputy Ward Manager - Acute Medical Ward
Band 6
Job overview
Due to the expansion of the senior nursing team on F4, an opportunity has arisen for a highly motivated individual to join the team. F4 is an acute medical ward, caring for infectious diseases patients and renal medicine.
You will be closely supported by the Senior Sister and Matron Team, along with the divisional Practice Development Team. This post will enable you to implement change, expand your leadership skills and support staff.
This is a full time post, including a full range of shifts, including divisional bleep holding
Main duties of the job
To assist the ward / unit manager in the overall management of the ward and to provide safe, individualised, holistic and evidence based, patient focused care.
Working for our organisation
Come Nurse with us…
Cambridge University Hospitals (CUH) NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest teaching Trusts in the country. It comprises Addenbrooke’s Hospital and the Rosie Hospital. We provide accessible high-quality healthcare for the local people of Cambridge and regional and national specialist services. It’s a great place to nurse, work and live.
You will work on a vibrant hospital campus with a friendly community feel; we have excellent facilities to practise your skills and abilities to support your career pathway and development. Our values of Together – Safe, Kind, Excellent support the delivery of outstanding care. We have a fully electronic patient record system that is improving health-care quality; this is transforming services, improving patient safety and clinical outcomes.
CUH is committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive community - a place where we can all be ourselves. We value our differences and fully advocate and support an inclusive working environment where every individual can fulfil their potential. We want to ensure our people are truly representative of all the communities that we serve. We welcome applications for all positions in the organisation irrespective of people’s age, disability, ethnicity, race, nationality, gender identity, sex, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage and civil partnership status, or pregnancy and maternity status or social economic background.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the attached Applicant Information Pack (combined Job Description and Person Specification) for key duties and responsibilities.
A welcome subsidy of £1000 is available to all Band 5 and Band 6 Nurses, Midwives, ODPs and Radiographers taking up substantive employment with the Trust.
If you require sponsorship for a Visa to work in the UK, to avoid disappointment, please check you are not applying from a Red list country - Code of practice for the international recruitment of health and social care personnel in England - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
Closing date is midnight on 15 July 2024
Interviews are due to be held in the week commencing 29 July 2024
Why choose Cambridge University Hospitals?
• Our values and reputation for outstanding care
• Opportunities to experience a range of specialities
• Career and development opportunities
• Preceptorship and mentoring programmes delivered by a dedicated clinical education support team
• Research experience and opportunities
• Lovely location and quality of life
• Excellent schools/colleges and transport links (road, rail and air)
Benefits to you
We offer development opportunities and a wide range of benefits including on-site leisure facilities, shopping concourse, day nurseries and access to a great transport system with easy access to airports and rail travel.
Please note if you would like to discuss the required hours of this role further, you should approach the contact given. In some cases alternative working hours will be considered.
We welcome applications from the Armed Forces.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Current registration with the NMC as an adult nurse
- Evidence of continued professional development
- Practice assessor and supervisor
Desirable criteria
- Completion of a leadership program
- Acute Care qualification
Experience
Essential criteria
- Post registration experience within an acute assessment area or ED
- Acute medical nursing experience
- Experience of complex discharge planning
- Experience of shift co-ordination and patient flow
Desirable criteria
- Experience as team leader
- Experience in team development and management eg. Appraisals, sickness and performance
- Previous experience of bleep holding
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Knowledge of mentorship and teaching
- Knowledge of SDEC pathways and targets
Desirable criteria
- Experience in venepuncture and cannulation
- Management of deteriorating patient
Skills
Essential criteria
- Effective communication skills
- Management and teaching skills
- Effective team working skills
- Problem solving
Desirable criteria
- Interpretation of ABG’s and ECG’s
- Care of deteriorating patients
Additional Requirements
Essential criteria
- The ability to understand and behave at all times, towards patients, visitors and colleagues according to the Trust values of safe, kind, excellent.
- Be able to work a variety of shift patterns including night shifts
Applicant requirements
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Kelly McPhie
- Job title
- Interim Ward Sister
- Email address
- [email protected]
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