Job summary
Lead a Ward. Influence a System. Live Exceptionally.
An exciting opportunity has arisen to become Ward Manager for Whitby Ward, our 16-bedded rehabilitation inpatient unit within a state-of-the-art newly built hospital in the stunning coastal town of Whitby.
This is a visible, senior leadership role within an integrated community model, combining operational excellence with the opportunity to contribute to wider neighbourhood and frailty system development.
If you are ready to lead beyond the ward walls, influencing patient flow, strengthening frailty pathways and shaping integrated care in one of the UK's most beautiful coastal towns, Whitby Ward could be your next chapter.
Why Whitby?
Whitby offers an exceptional quality of life:
- Dramatic coastline and award-winning beaches
- Access to the North York Moors
- A vibrant harbour town community
- Strong work-life balance
For the right candidate, we are able to explore a relocation support package, helping make a move to the coast achievable and attractive.
This is an opportunity to combine senior NHS leadership with an enviable lifestyle.
About You
We are seeking an exceptional, motivated professional who:
- Holds a registered clinical qualification (NMC/HCPC)
- Has experience in frailty, rehabilitation, palliative care and symptom control
- Demonstrates confident, visible leadership
- Has experience managing teams, performance and budgets
- Can drive quality improvement and service change
- Builds strong partnerships across organisational boundaries
Although predominantly non-clinical, you will bring credible clinical leadership and a track record of delivering high-quality care in complex environments.
Above all, you will be someone who can balance compassion with performance, quality with flow, and local responsiveness with system awareness.
Main duties of the job
An Integrated Community Hospital Model
Whitby Hospital is more than an inpatient unit. Within the same modern facility, the Trust delivers:
- Community District Nursing
- Community Therapies
- Urgent Community Response (UCR)
- Virtual Ward
- Specialist services including MSK
- Urgent Treatment Centre (UTC)
Whitby Ward supports:
- Step-down patientsfrom surrounding acute hospitals across Scarborough, York, Teesside and the wider Humber & North Yorkshire system
- Step-up admissionsfrom local communities, GP practices and urgent care pathways
Our 16-bed inpatient unit benefits from GP and ACP oversight, ensuring robust clinical governance and high-quality decision-making.
This model enables real-time multidisciplinary working and positions the ward at the centre of patient flow across a coastal and rural geography.
Leadership with System Reach
The primary focus of this role is operational and clinical leadership of the inpatient unit, ensuring high-quality care, effective patient flow and strong team performance; however, given the Trust's breadth of services locally, Whitby offers something distinctive.
Working alongside system partners, including Whitby Coast and Moors PCN - one of only 22 PCNs nationally selected to pilot further delivery following the Fuller Stocktake - the Ward Manager will be well placed to inform pathway development and frailty-focused service design.
This is particularly relevant in the context of the Humber and North Yorkshire ICB's newly launched Frailty Strategy. While not a formal system leadership post, the role provides genuine opportunity - for the right candidate - to contribute insight from intermediate care and rehabilitation into neighbourhood-level transformation and evolving models of integrated care.
For candidates with an interest in both operational excellence and strategic development, this presents a rare platform.
About us
We are an award winning and CQC rated good health and social care Trust delivering integrated services across Hull, East and North Yorkshire. Find out more on our website
We are a forward thinking and dynamic Trust with a real commitment to staff development. We value our colleagues and invest in them to ensure they have the right skills to deliver outstanding care.
We are proud to score above or equal to the average for all NHS People Promise theme areas demonstrating our commitment to improve the experience of working in the NHS for everyone. Wherever you work we know you will receive a warm welcome and all the support you'll need to get you started.
We recognise the positive value of diversity and promotes equality whilst challenging discrimination. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds.
Work life balance is about having influence and flexibility over when, where and how you work. If the work pattern for this role does not meet your needs, we welcome an application and are happy to discuss working arrangements that differ from those advertised.
We offer a unique range of benefits that go above and beyond other NHS Trusts including an enhanced leave package and health and wellbeing support.
From city to countryside, market towns to moors you'll find a place to call home including some of the most affordable places to live in the UK.
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Job description
Job responsibilities
For further information for this vacancy please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification.
Job description
Job responsibilities
For further information for this vacancy please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification.
Person Specification
Qualifications and Knowledge
Essential
- Live register or equivalent professional registration relevant to the post
- Postgraduate or equivalent or be able to demonstrate equivalent knowledge or experiential learning/experience in service development, managing change, leading and managing staff, plus specialist training and short courses to Diploma level relevant to area of practice:
- Full understanding of relevant policy, legislation, drivers and their application to clinical and service areas within community health services , e.g. Mental Capacity Act, Social Inclusion, Safeguarding Adults
- Full understanding/application of relevant clinical practice/standards/audit within community services
- Good IT skills e.g. knowledge of word and excel
Desirable
- Accredited leadership/management qualification or ability to demonstrate these at an advanced level
- Working knowledge of Trust IT systems if relevant to own area of work
- teaching certificate qualification
Experience
Essential
- Demonstrable experience of working in the specific field where the post is held
- Proven leadership/management experience, able to demonstrate examples of positive impact/change within service delivery/practice at an advanced level
- expereince of working in NHS and rehabilitation community inpatient ward
- Be able to effectively Chair meetings
Desirable
- Development of expert leadership/management skills
- Experience of developing others through education, mentorship, coaching, teaching, assessing, presentations, publishing
- A breadth of professional practice including specialising in the field where the post is held
- Ability to work across team/organisational boundaries developing and maintaining multiprofessional and multi -agency partnerships
Skills and Competencies
Essential
- Effective inter -personal skills and experience in supervising and mentoring
- Good time management skills
- Ability to lead/motivate staff to embrace change
- Ability to effectively commute between all various Trust sites
Desirable
- Able to demonstrate effective communication skills at all levels i.e. strategically and locally
- Good IT skills e.g. knowledge of word and excel
Person Specification
Qualifications and Knowledge
Essential
- Live register or equivalent professional registration relevant to the post
- Postgraduate or equivalent or be able to demonstrate equivalent knowledge or experiential learning/experience in service development, managing change, leading and managing staff, plus specialist training and short courses to Diploma level relevant to area of practice:
- Full understanding of relevant policy, legislation, drivers and their application to clinical and service areas within community health services , e.g. Mental Capacity Act, Social Inclusion, Safeguarding Adults
- Full understanding/application of relevant clinical practice/standards/audit within community services
- Good IT skills e.g. knowledge of word and excel
Desirable
- Accredited leadership/management qualification or ability to demonstrate these at an advanced level
- Working knowledge of Trust IT systems if relevant to own area of work
- teaching certificate qualification
Experience
Essential
- Demonstrable experience of working in the specific field where the post is held
- Proven leadership/management experience, able to demonstrate examples of positive impact/change within service delivery/practice at an advanced level
- expereince of working in NHS and rehabilitation community inpatient ward
- Be able to effectively Chair meetings
Desirable
- Development of expert leadership/management skills
- Experience of developing others through education, mentorship, coaching, teaching, assessing, presentations, publishing
- A breadth of professional practice including specialising in the field where the post is held
- Ability to work across team/organisational boundaries developing and maintaining multiprofessional and multi -agency partnerships
Skills and Competencies
Essential
- Effective inter -personal skills and experience in supervising and mentoring
- Good time management skills
- Ability to lead/motivate staff to embrace change
- Ability to effectively commute between all various Trust sites
Desirable
- Able to demonstrate effective communication skills at all levels i.e. strategically and locally
- Good IT skills e.g. knowledge of word and excel
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).
