Job summary
An opportunity has arisen within Adult Forensic Services to appoint a motivated, passionate, and inspirational leader into a Clinical Ward Manager role (Band 7), to complement our senior leadership team at Southfield Low Secure Forensic Unit. Southfield provides low-secure mental health inpatient care for patients detained under the mental health act.
The ward manager role is not just a role but a career where your ideas, skills, and successes are valued and recognised. As a critical multi-disciplinary team member, you will work collaboratively with your colleagues to support delivering high-quality patient care.
As the ward manager, you will be responsible for providing effective leadership and management to staff to promote high-performance standards, both individually and as a team, to achieve the Trust's objectives and priorities. You will be central in delivering clinical practice and maintaining positive ward culture through supportive and effective leadership.
We would welcome applications from experienced RLDN and RMN nurses who are highly motivated, possess excellent organisation and team working skills, be patient-focused, and embrace the Trust values. You will be ready to take the next step in your career and have evidence of CPD.
The role will support both secondment and permanent opportunity
If you are person and patient-centred, passionate, and dedicated individual with strong leadership skills who is looking for a new challenge, then we are keen to hear from you.
Main duties of the job
An opportunity has arisen within Adult Forensic Services to appoint a motivated, passionate, and inspirational leader into a Clinical Ward Manager role (Band 7), to complement our senior leadership team at Southfield Low Secure Forensic Unit. Southfield provides low-secure mental health inpatient care for patients detained under the mental health act.
As the Clinical Ward Manager you will have continuing responsibility for the assessment of care needs, the developing, implementation and evaluation of programmes of care and setting standards of care, the management of a designated ward including the deployment and supervision of staff where the teaching of students and/or extensive nursing intervention is required.
You will have continuing overall responsibility for the management of nursing services within the Unit, providing flexible cover across other Units during those times when such duties are delegated by Modern Matron/Service Manager whilst on call or to cover for leave or absence.
You will take lead responsibility to assess and make nursing recommendations to the Responsible Medical Officer on the suitability of Service Users for admission to the Unit and formulate policy relevant to your sphere of influence.
Under the overall direction of the Service Manager/Modern Matron, you will maintain high standards of patient care and maintain a supportive leadership profile for the Charge Nurses, Mental Health Nurse Practitioners and Health Care Support Workers.
About us
Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides joined-up mental and physical healthcare for around two million people across our communities. With over 13,000 staff working in the community and local hospitals, we deliver care at every stage of life, helping people live their best and healthiest lives.
Our mental health services include community-based support and early intervention in psychosis (EIP) for both adults and young people, alongside a network of specialist inpatient wards covering forensic, learning disability, eating disorder and older person's care.
We deliver extensive physical health services too, from urgent community response teams helping frail and older patients remain safely at home, to hospitals at home teams providing acute-level care in familiar surroundings. Our neurological services offer rehabilitation and treatment for conditions including Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson's Disease, Motor Neurone Disease, Head Injury, Cerebral Palsy and Stroke. Across Hampshire, our community hospitals provide inpatient rehabilitation as a step down from acute care, and our dedicated teams also staff Treetops Sexual Assault Referral Centre in Portsmouth, offering expert, compassionate support.
Everything we do is underpinned by our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect and excellence
Job description
Job responsibilities
Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached. It is important to us that we ensure our recruitment processes are accessible and inclusive to everyone - if as a potential candidate you are concerned a person specification may prevent or restrict your application for employment as a result of unintentional barriers on the grounds of your sex, race, age, sexual orientation, religion/belief or disability please initially contact the Trust's Recruitment team - detailed in the advert. The Trust will seek to resolve this issue wherever possible.
We are happy to talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached. It is important to us that we ensure our recruitment processes are accessible and inclusive to everyone - if as a potential candidate you are concerned a person specification may prevent or restrict your application for employment as a result of unintentional barriers on the grounds of your sex, race, age, sexual orientation, religion/belief or disability please initially contact the Trust's Recruitment team - detailed in the advert. The Trust will seek to resolve this issue wherever possible.
We are happy to talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- RMN or Equivalent
- Sub part 1 of the NMC Register
- Significant experience post RMN registration.
- Evidence of Continuing Professional Development (CPD)
Desirable
- Further post registration development
Experience
Essential
- In depth experience of those years spent working in a mental health setting at Band 6 or above.
- Experience and knowledge of assessing training needs.
- Teaching skills.
- Sound understanding of current legal and administrative procedures concerning care of mentally ill service users e.g. MHA, CPA.
- Good leadership skills with the ability to; coach, guide, supervise, teach and role model qualified and un-qualified staff, including students.
- Ability to manage and prioritise own workload and meetings.
- Excellent interpersonal skills; active listening, negotiation, assertiveness, negotiation, decision making, social awareness.
- Understanding of service user issues and related problems.
- Sound understanding of current legal and administrative procedures concerning care of mentally ill service users e.g. MHA, CPA.
- Good leadership skills with the ability to; coach, guide, supervise, teach and role model qualified and un-qualified staff, including students.
- Ability to manage and prioritise own workload and meetings.
- Excellent interpersonal skills; active listening, negotiation, assertiveness, negotiation, decision making, social awareness.
- Good verbal, written and communication skills.
- Good level of IT skills -- Outlook (email), word, excel.
- Good facilication skills and the ability to organise and chair meetings.
- Ability to network internally and externally.
- Demonstrate evidence of a positive approach to work/team working.
- Able to secure the co-operation of colleagues at all levels.
- Highly motivated with the ability to work independently.
- Evidence of motivation for personal/ professional drive.
- Ability to work under pressure.
- Highly motivated.
- Pragmatic.
- Good attendance record.
- Ability to work as part of a team.
- Patients & People First
- Providing compassionate, safe care
- Listening to each other
- Doing the right thing
- Appreciating each other
- Delivering quality
- Demonstrates personal integrity; reliable, honest, trustworthy, conscientious and is an active listener.
- Partnership
- Communicating clearly
- Supporting each other
- Working as a team
- Building relationships
- Making things happen
- Builds relationships with people inside and outside of the organisation and understands their team cannot provide a good service on their own.
- Respect
- Acting with honesty and integrity
- Respecting each other
- Taking responsibility
- Getting the best from our resources
- Doing what we say we will do
- Delivers as part of a team or partnership, working well and respecting others opinions to achieve the best outcomes for our service users.
Desirable
- Experience in carrying out workforce investigations and assessments at a senior level.
- Experience of carrying out preadmission assessments
- Active involvement in change processes within previous working environments and team
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- RMN or Equivalent
- Sub part 1 of the NMC Register
- Significant experience post RMN registration.
- Evidence of Continuing Professional Development (CPD)
Desirable
- Further post registration development
Experience
Essential
- In depth experience of those years spent working in a mental health setting at Band 6 or above.
- Experience and knowledge of assessing training needs.
- Teaching skills.
- Sound understanding of current legal and administrative procedures concerning care of mentally ill service users e.g. MHA, CPA.
- Good leadership skills with the ability to; coach, guide, supervise, teach and role model qualified and un-qualified staff, including students.
- Ability to manage and prioritise own workload and meetings.
- Excellent interpersonal skills; active listening, negotiation, assertiveness, negotiation, decision making, social awareness.
- Understanding of service user issues and related problems.
- Sound understanding of current legal and administrative procedures concerning care of mentally ill service users e.g. MHA, CPA.
- Good leadership skills with the ability to; coach, guide, supervise, teach and role model qualified and un-qualified staff, including students.
- Ability to manage and prioritise own workload and meetings.
- Excellent interpersonal skills; active listening, negotiation, assertiveness, negotiation, decision making, social awareness.
- Good verbal, written and communication skills.
- Good level of IT skills -- Outlook (email), word, excel.
- Good facilication skills and the ability to organise and chair meetings.
- Ability to network internally and externally.
- Demonstrate evidence of a positive approach to work/team working.
- Able to secure the co-operation of colleagues at all levels.
- Highly motivated with the ability to work independently.
- Evidence of motivation for personal/ professional drive.
- Ability to work under pressure.
- Highly motivated.
- Pragmatic.
- Good attendance record.
- Ability to work as part of a team.
- Patients & People First
- Providing compassionate, safe care
- Listening to each other
- Doing the right thing
- Appreciating each other
- Delivering quality
- Demonstrates personal integrity; reliable, honest, trustworthy, conscientious and is an active listener.
- Partnership
- Communicating clearly
- Supporting each other
- Working as a team
- Building relationships
- Making things happen
- Builds relationships with people inside and outside of the organisation and understands their team cannot provide a good service on their own.
- Respect
- Acting with honesty and integrity
- Respecting each other
- Taking responsibility
- Getting the best from our resources
- Doing what we say we will do
- Delivers as part of a team or partnership, working well and respecting others opinions to achieve the best outcomes for our service users.
Desirable
- Experience in carrying out workforce investigations and assessments at a senior level.
- Experience of carrying out preadmission assessments
- Active involvement in change processes within previous working environments and team
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.
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
