Job summary
There is an exciting job opportunity for a Band 7 Ward Manager or Charge Nurse to develop their management and leadership skills. St Pancras Rehabilitation Hospital (SPRU) is a level 2 rehabilitation centre in the heart of London, just 10 minutes' walk from Kings Cross St Pancras International. This post will be based on Rochester West which is a 19 bedded ward - specialising in caring for multi pathology patients, including patients who have had amputations. If successful the applicant will be responsible for the smooth running of the unit, working with a large MDT including nurses, doctors, and therapists ensuring the patients receive good quality nursing care.We are looking for a candidate with strong leadership and management skills and the ability to bring positive change and growth to the unit, who is patient focused and has the ability to empower the team using training and development resources. The successful candidate also needs to reflect the CNWL Trust values and must consistently model these behaviours to the wider team.
Main duties of the job
The Ward Manager is a key leadership role with responsibility for quality: ensuring patient safety and that clinical outcomes are achieved as well as working to improve the patient experience. They will provide forward-thinking clinical and professional leadership to nursing staff at all levels within the ward to ensure that nursing care is delivered to a high standard and that the nursing resource is managed effectively. The Ward Manager will also contribute to the monitoring of quality and clinical performance indicators and will also ensure that consideration of the patient experience underpins all activity on the ward and ensures that nursing care is of the highest possible standard at all times with particular emphasis on dignity and compassion.
About us
Central and North West London NHS Trust expects all employees to act in a way which shows you understand our core values and are willing to put them into practice with service users, their friends, families, carers and also other staff members.
As an employee of CNWL:
We expect you to show COMPASSION, contribute to a caring and kind environment and recognise that what you do and say helps can make the lives of others better
We expect you to RESPECT everyone and acknowledge and welcome people's differences rather than ignore them or see them as problematic.
We expect you to EMPOWER others and continually try to provide information, resources and support to help others make their own decisions and meet their own needs.
We expect you to work in PARTNERSHIP and behave in a way that shows that you recognise that commissioners and users of our services are the people who generate and pay for our work.
The successful applicant may have contact with patients or service users. As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please read the attached job description and person specification for detailed roles and responsibilities.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please read the attached job description and person specification for detailed roles and responsibilities.
Person Specification
Education and Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Nurse Adult
- Evidence of relevant Continuous Professional Development
Desirable
- Mentorship qualification
- Degree
Experience
Essential
- Previous experience at Band 6
Desirable
- Experience of working in a rehabilitative environment
Skills and Knowledge
Essential
- Communication skills- Able to communicate with the multi-disciplinary team, present cases, take note of actions, update others in the team and use handover effectively. Speaking face to face but also by telephone and writing letters and reports.
- Communication skills- Able to talk to people about sensitive issues in a supportive manner but also challenge others assertively where necessary
- IT Skills - Able to maintain electronic patient records Use Microsoft Word for letter and report writing
- Nursing skills - Care planning: being able to assess patients, develop, implement and evaluate a care plan
- Nursing skills - Empowering and working in partnership
- Nursing skills - Safeguarding and advocacy
- Nursing skills - Understanding how the Mental Capacity Act and Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards impacts on their work and the people they are working with
- Nursing skills - Understanding the concept of quality and their role in improving safety, clinical outcomes and the patient experience
- Nursing skills - Infection control and Asceptic Non Touch Technique
- Nursing skills - Manual Handling patients
- Nursing skills - Obtaining consent
- Nursing skills - Medicines management and administration
- Clinical Leadership: including communicating effectively, being kind and considerate, reliable and enthusiastic
- Clinical Leadership: Manage others and contribute to the management of the team
- Clinical Leadership: Contribute to the culture of the team and play a role in making it inclusive, kind and hard working.
- Clinical Leadership: Coordinate work allocation and shifts (if appropriate)
- Clinical Leadership: Help others in the team achieve their objectives and deliver safe, effective care
- Clinical Leadership: Mentor, teach and support others in the team
- Clinical Leadership: Supervise others in the team and facilitate Appraisals
Desirable
- Expertise in particular skills and evidence of how you developed them and use them in your current role
- Supervision, Line management and appraisal training
- HR skills training e.g. recruitment, managing absence
Attitudes, aptitudes and personal characteristics
Essential
- Caring for the people who use our services, their families and carers, and other staff
- Respectful of others and genuinely treating them how you would want to be treated
- Able and willing to work with service users, family and carers, and other staff in a way which empowers and supports others and makes them feel better about themselves
- Able and willing to work in partnership with service users, their friends and family as well as other health care professionals
Person Specification
Education and Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Nurse Adult
- Evidence of relevant Continuous Professional Development
Desirable
- Mentorship qualification
- Degree
Experience
Essential
- Previous experience at Band 6
Desirable
- Experience of working in a rehabilitative environment
Skills and Knowledge
Essential
- Communication skills- Able to communicate with the multi-disciplinary team, present cases, take note of actions, update others in the team and use handover effectively. Speaking face to face but also by telephone and writing letters and reports.
- Communication skills- Able to talk to people about sensitive issues in a supportive manner but also challenge others assertively where necessary
- IT Skills - Able to maintain electronic patient records Use Microsoft Word for letter and report writing
- Nursing skills - Care planning: being able to assess patients, develop, implement and evaluate a care plan
- Nursing skills - Empowering and working in partnership
- Nursing skills - Safeguarding and advocacy
- Nursing skills - Understanding how the Mental Capacity Act and Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards impacts on their work and the people they are working with
- Nursing skills - Understanding the concept of quality and their role in improving safety, clinical outcomes and the patient experience
- Nursing skills - Infection control and Asceptic Non Touch Technique
- Nursing skills - Manual Handling patients
- Nursing skills - Obtaining consent
- Nursing skills - Medicines management and administration
- Clinical Leadership: including communicating effectively, being kind and considerate, reliable and enthusiastic
- Clinical Leadership: Manage others and contribute to the management of the team
- Clinical Leadership: Contribute to the culture of the team and play a role in making it inclusive, kind and hard working.
- Clinical Leadership: Coordinate work allocation and shifts (if appropriate)
- Clinical Leadership: Help others in the team achieve their objectives and deliver safe, effective care
- Clinical Leadership: Mentor, teach and support others in the team
- Clinical Leadership: Supervise others in the team and facilitate Appraisals
Desirable
- Expertise in particular skills and evidence of how you developed them and use them in your current role
- Supervision, Line management and appraisal training
- HR skills training e.g. recruitment, managing absence
Attitudes, aptitudes and personal characteristics
Essential
- Caring for the people who use our services, their families and carers, and other staff
- Respectful of others and genuinely treating them how you would want to be treated
- Able and willing to work with service users, family and carers, and other staff in a way which empowers and supports others and makes them feel better about themselves
- Able and willing to work in partnership with service users, their friends and family as well as other health care professionals
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
