Ward Manager

Job summary

The Ward Manager provides clinical, managerial, and educational leadership to the ward team, ensuring delivery of patient-centred, evidence-based care.

Accountable for maintaining high standards of care, safety, and cleanliness, the role involves leading staff development, overseeing budgets, and ensuring compliance with trust policies.

The manager ensures effective communication with patients, families, and multidisciplinary teams while fostering a positive, professional environment.

Responsibilities include staff supervision, recruitment, audits, risk management, and implementing evidence-based practices to improve patient outcomes.

The role requires strong leadership, organizational skills, and the ability to adapt to a dynamic healthcare setting.

Main duties of the job

The Ward Manager is accountable for delivering high-quality, safe, and patient-centred care on Eliot Ward. Key responsibilities include providing clinical leadership to the ward team, overseeing patient care delivery, and ensuring adherence to national and trust policies, including infection control, health and safety, and clinical governance standards. The role requires organizing and managing the ward's workforce, including recruitment, appraisals, and managing sickness or performance issues in line with HR policies.

• To ensures effective communication with patients, relatives, and multidisciplinary teams, addressing complaints, resolving issues proactively, and fostering collaboration. They coordinate ward meetings, lead on staff training, and oversee mandatory compliance, ensuring a culture of continuous learning and professional development.
• To monitor and manage ward budgets, equipment, and staffing rosters to ensure resources are effectively utilized. They are responsible for implementing action plans from audits, improving standards through local and national guidelines, and ensuring clinical incidents or near misses are addressed and used for learning.
• To play a key role in risk management, maintaining the local risk register, conducting assessments, and promoting a clean, safe, and efficient environment. By leading audits and quality improvement initiatives, they drive performance improvements, enhance patient satisfaction, and support the ward team in delivering evidence-based care

About us

At Somerset NHS Foundation Trust, we're committed to supporting our employees with a range of benefits designed to enhance your professional and personal life. We offer:

• Flexible working options to help you balance work and life
• NHS pension scheme for long-term financial security
• Generous annual leave allowance to recharge and relax
• A strong focus on career development to help you grow and achieve your potential

Additionally, you'll gain access to our Blue Light Card, unlocking exclusive discounts on shopping, dining, and leisure activities, as well as NHS-specific perks to support you both inside and outside of work.

We are proud to foster a diverse, skilled, and inclusive workforce, and we encourage applications from all backgrounds.

Why Somerset? Somerset offers the perfect blend of idyllic countryside, outstanding areas of natural beauty, and breath-taking coastlines, with vibrant cities like Bristol, Bath, and Exeter just a short drive away - and only two hours to London.

The region is home to excellent educational facilities, and with affordable housing compared to other parts of the country, it's a great place to build both your career and your future.

Somerset truly has it all - the peaceful countryside and cosmopolitan city life, with something for everyone to enjoy.