Kent & Medway NHS & Social Care Partnership Trust

Ward Manager

The closing date is 14 August 2025

Job summary

We are looking for a Band 7 Ward Manager to join our busy team based in Maidstone. We require someone who demonstrates strong leadership qualities and embraces a trauma-informed approach to care. The successful candidate will play a key role in fostering a therapeutic environment, supporting staff development, and ensuring high-quality care for our service users.

o You will oversee the management of a defined caseload of clients with complex mental and physical health needs, using evidence based, person centred, recovery orientated principles and practice and trauma informed care.

o You will provide clinical and professional leadership for junior staff through supervision and training.

o You will support the strategic objectives of KMPT through maintaining the adherence of staff and self to all internal policies and external audit requirements.

o You will work on a supernumerary basis and as part of the overall team covering clinical input where required.

The post holder must hold a full, valid, UK driving licence and have access to a car/vehicle to use for business purposes (unless you have a disability as defined by the Equality Act 2010).

Main duties of the job

The Ward Manager is responsible for ensuring high standards of patient care. They are professionally responsible for ensuring the delivery of a range of multidisciplinary assessments of care needs and the development, implementation and evaluation of programmes of care.

They must maintain a supportive leadership profile for the Deputy Ward Managers and for the full multidisciplinary team whilst working collaboratively with all other professionals to support the delivery of a therapeutic approach to patient care. The wellbeing of patients, staff and visitors is paramount to the ward ethos.

The Ward Manager must be able to work competently in a challenging environment and be able to react to changing care demands whilst demonstrating the highest levels of care and empathy towards patients. This is across all aspects of the role in a flexible manner, demonstrating the trust values.

At KMPT, we are serious about diversity and inclusion, and we are working hard to build this into our DNA. We warmly welcome applications for any of our roles from people from diverse backgrounds, and we are proactively encouraging applications from underrepresented communities for our more senior roles, like this one.

About us

Come and work with us in the Garden of England where we combine exceptional professional development opportunities with a tremendous quality of life.

We are Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust (KMPT), providing mental health, learning disability and specialist services, serving 1.8 million people in Kent and Medway, as well as specialist services for adults in Sussex and Surrey. We are rated Good overall by the CQC.

Each year we care for over 2,000 people in our hospitals and 54,000 people in the community.

We are proud to employ over 3,800 people from 66 nationalities, and to serve an increasingly diverse range of communities across rural and urban areas.

You will be joining friendly, passionate colleagues, rich in their diversity, who are committed to providing excellent care to our service users and their loved ones.

The nature of our work attracts kindness and compassion as standard and everyone from our cleaners and porters to the chief executive and chairman are recognised as playing a vital role in providing an exemplary service.

Our strategy

Our mission is what we set out to do every dayWe deliver brilliant care through brilliant people

Our vision is where we want to be in the futureTo provide outstanding care and to work in partnership to deliver this in the right place, for every service user, every time.

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Date posted

31 July 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 7

Salary

£47,810 to £54,710 a year per annum

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

380-FR0585

Job locations

Trevor Gibbens Unit, Maidstone

Hermitage Lane

Maidstone

ME16 9PH

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see the attached job description for full details of the main duties and responsibilities of the role.

At KMPT, we are serious about diversity and inclusion, and we are working hard to build this into our DNA. We warmly welcome applications for any of our roles from people from diverse backgrounds, and we are proactively encouraging applications from under-represented communities for our more senior roles, like this one.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see the attached job description for full details of the main duties and responsibilities of the role.

At KMPT, we are serious about diversity and inclusion, and we are working hard to build this into our DNA. We warmly welcome applications for any of our roles from people from diverse backgrounds, and we are proactively encouraging applications from under-represented communities for our more senior roles, like this one.

Person Specification

Qualifications, Skills and Experience

Essential

RMN/RN or RNLD - depending on the nature of the ward; Dip HE or Degree; Preparation of Mentors post-registration qualification
Experience as a Deputy Ward Manager within an inpatient setting - or equivalent experience
Good organisational and time management
Strong leadership skills
Self Motivation; ability to work autonomously and part of a multi-disciplinary team
Ability to manage performance of staff
Ability to participate in change

Person Specification

Qualifications, Skills and Experience

Essential

RMN/RN or RNLD - depending on the nature of the ward; Dip HE or Degree; Preparation of Mentors post-registration qualification
Experience as a Deputy Ward Manager within an inpatient setting - or equivalent experience
Good organisational and time management
Strong leadership skills
Self Motivation; ability to work autonomously and part of a multi-disciplinary team
Ability to manage performance of staff
Ability to participate in change

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

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

Kent & Medway NHS & Social Care Partnership Trust

Address

Trevor Gibbens Unit, Maidstone

Hermitage Lane

Maidstone

ME16 9PH

Employer's website

https://www.kmpt.nhs.uk (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details

Employer name

Kent & Medway NHS & Social Care Partnership Trust

Address

Trevor Gibbens Unit, Maidstone

Hermitage Lane

Maidstone

ME16 9PH

Employer's website

https://www.kmpt.nhs.uk (Opens in a new tab)