Deputy Ward Manager Children's Ward

Job summary

Are you keen to develop your leadership skills in a supportive and dynamic paediatric service? You will work alongside the ward manager deputising in her absence. The role will involve mainly clinical work but there will be an allocation of management time within the roster. We envisage 1 long day management day a week and the rest of your time will be clinical.

Specific responsibilities will include, audit, quality rounds, and health and wellbeing management.

This role will allow you to work within a dynamic, forward thinking and established nursing team. We see a wide range of children and young people with a variety of different medical and surgical conditions which will providefantastic learning opportunities.

We offer a robust induction program to ease the transition into a new working environment which we will adapt to meet the needs of each individual candidate. We offer a very supportive and welcoming team and will ensure you receive all the training on induction to enable you to carry out the role safely ensuring excellent standards of care.

Main duties of the job

Does your passion lie in giving excellent care to sick children? Are you career minded with drive and enthusiasm?

With rapidly expanding Paediatric services there has never been a more exciting time to apply for a job with us. We are committed to building on your existing skills and knowledge and we relish in the opportunity to learn from you and help you realize your potential. In return we are able to offer wide ranging development opportunities alongside our Clinical Nurse Education Team which includes in-house training and funded post graduate courses.

To be considered for the role you will be a registered Children's Nurse with an RSCN or RN Child qualification and have completed ENB 998/Mentorship/ SLAiP course. You must also have evidence of professional updating within the last 12 months and have an appropriate post registration course. It would be advantageous to have management experience and evidence of effective leadership skills. As a team leader you will be responsible for managing your own team of staff ensuring that their mandatory training and annual personal development reviews are completed, as well as leading the team clinically. The posts will also include some managerial responsibilities.

All applicants should be flexible providing a 24 hour, 7 days a week service, working a shift pattern of days and nights to meet the needs of the service.

About us

The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust is one of the largest NHS trusts in the West Midlands providing primary, acute and community services and we are incredibly proud of the diversity of both our staff and the communities we serve. We are building a workforce that can help us to fulfil our values, improve quality of care for patients, and solve the health care problems of tomorrow. We're passionate about the value that diversity of thinking and lived experience brings in enabling us to become a learning organisation and leader in delivering compassionate care for our patients.

We are delighted that we have been rated as "Good" by CQC. We have achievednumerous awards; The Nursing Times Best Diversity and Inclusion Practice and Best UK Employer of the Year for Nursing Staff in 2020.

The Trust is a supportive working environment committed to creating flexible working arrangements that suit your needs and as such will consider all requests from applicants who wish to work flexibly.