Location
Sheffield | United Kingdom
Job description
Ward Manager Healthcare, Pharmaceutical and Medical
Sheffield sheffield
£30,000-£40,000 Per year
permanentDuration
Job Title: Ward Manager - Hospital
Reports To: Deputy Hospital Director / Clinical Services Manager
Responsible to: Hospital Director
Role Summary:
To be visible on the ward as the Lead Nurse
To provide support to the Clinical Services Manager in the delivery of safe, effective care and treatment and the day to day management of clinical/professional issues in designated clinical areas. Provide leadership, direction, support and supervision for the nursing team to achieve compliance with both professional and regulatory standards in accordance with any operational and strategic objectives.
Be accountable for delivering weekly reports, audit, staffing resources, developing skills, ensuring systems are in place for staff and patients / young people. Accountability for all documentation and audits, accuracy and timely delivery
Main Responsibilities:
- Support the Line Manager in the management of the
- nursing service, delegating responsibility to the Team Leaders as appropriate but retaining overall accountability
- Ensure links with Contracts Compliance, medical and nursing teams facilitate the efficient and effective assessment, admission and care pathways of patients / young people
- Ensure that budgetary and human resource management are addressed and variance accounted for according to acuity and budgets
- As directed, develop or review policies and procedures to meet professional, statutory and organisational requirements
- Participate in on call arrangements for the Hospital and role of senior nurse on site as scheduled
- Act as the clinical manager for the service in absence of line manager
- Contribute to decision making and strategy formulation.
- Provide weekly report on patient and staff activities in own area with KPIs
- Support and participate in all visits by regulatory/ professional bodies
Clinical and professional
- Monitor all nursing care practices, procedures and treatments to ensure they reflect professional, national and local standards for the service
- Support the Line Manager in the management of the nursing service, delegating responsibility to the Team Leaders as appropriate
but retaining overall accountability - Ensure links with Contracts Compliance, medical and nursing teams facilitate the efficient and effective assessment, admission and
care pathways of patients / young people - Ensure that budgetary and human resource management are addressed and variance accounted for according to acuity and budgets
- As directed, develop or review policies and procedures to meet professional, statutory and organisational requirements
- Participate in on call arrangements for the Hospital and role of senior nurse on site as scheduled
- Act as the clinical manager for the service inabsence of line manager
- Contribute to decision making and strategy formulation.
- Provide weekly report on patient and staff activities in own area with KPIs
Support and participate in all visits by regulatory/ professional bodies
Clinical and professional
- Monitor all nursing care practices, procedures and treatments to ensure they reflect professional, national and local standards for the service
- Provide all clinical reports for individual patients / young people and external bodies; meet identified deadlines
- Ensure compliance with CQC; CQUIN, relevant QualityNetwork standards (Secure or QNIC)
- Participate in review of incidents in order that lessons can be learned and information shared utilising root cause analysis principles
- Undertake clinical and security audits, ensuring action plans are implemented by target dates and advising Line Manager of outcomes
- Ensure all safeguarding requirements are met
Staffing
- Weekly staff meetings; recorded and minutes sent tosenior management and CEO
- Liaise with HR in relation to human resource
- planning, recruitment, retention; participation in the selection process forclinical staff.
- Monitor ward staffing requirements and maintainbudgetary control
- Undertake return to work interviews; and monitoringof sickness / absence trends
- Undertake annual appraisals and the development ofperformance plans
- Facilitate the provision of clinical supervision to
- Team Leaders; ensure that own supervision requirements are met
- Ensure group supervision and reflective practice isin place
- Ensure identified training needs are met
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Salary
£30k - £40k per annum
