Ward Manager

Job summary

We are looking for someone who is positive, progressive and forward thinking. An enthusiastic, flexible and committed person, striving to deliver high quality care for our patients

As a Ward Manager on Richard Stevens Ward, you will be an integral part of our multidisciplinary team. This is a challenging but incredibly rewarding role, providing the opportunity to work on a busy and dynamic ward and to gain a variety of skills and experience.

Main duties of the job

As a Ward Manager you will be expected to:

• Provide strong visible leadership to all staff within the ward and across the organization, ensuring that nursing practice is up to date, evidence based and cost effective.
• Develop the ward teams, individuals and self to enhance performance, ensuring that staff training needs to meet organization objectives.
• Ensure a strong team focus on high quality, clinically effective healthcare that meet our patients needs, is embedded in ward culture.
• Manage resources within agreed budget,
• Maintain communication networks at all appropriate clinical and managerial level.

The ideal candidate will have had minimum 2 years as a Band 6 in an hospital setting and will need to demonstrate a pro-active and adaptive approach to leadership and management with a positive mind-set and hold an interest in developing the workforce. They must be an effective communicator, who can demonstrate problem solving skills with the ability to work under pressure, managing staff and delivering patient focused care. They will be able to demonstrate flexibility to meet the varied demands of the role as required.

About us

We are one of the largest hospital trusts in England, with fivehospitals and community clinics serving a local population of around 800,000 people. Our vision is 'great healthcare from great people'. Everything we do is guided by our values: 'People feel cared for, safe, respected and confident that we are making a difference'. We have a new way of working at East Kent Hospitals, called 'We care'. It's about empowering frontline staff to lead improvements day-to-day. We're looking for compassionate people to be part of our improvement journey for the patients, families and carers we care for every day.

Applications for this role should be written by the applicant. If artificial intelligence (AI) programmes are used then the application may be rejected due to this document being an important part of the assessment process. This does not prevent applicants seeking appropriate support with applications should they need to for the purposes of any declared disability.