Benefits
* Band 7 Salary with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions
* Free tea, coffee, and milk at your base location
* Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on everyday purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
* Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life’s emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
* Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing – from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
* Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our ‘Outstanding’ learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
* An open, just culture where you’re encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care – backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
* The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with a majority of our rated services holding “good” or “outstanding” ratings from the Care Quality Commission
Job Introduction
We are looking for a Ward Manager / Nurse Manager to join our team inSittingbourne Memorial Hospital. This is a full-time position working Monday to Friday 8am-4pm.
You willeffectively lead a Community Hospital Nursing Team, taking responsibility for the management and professional accountability of the Team and its individual staff members and be responsible for the overall management of the inpatient wards ensuring the provision of holistic assessment, management, and evaluation of evidenced based nursing care to patients in the community hospital settings.
Main Responsibilities
* Provide skilled, effective, and evidenced based nursing care to patients with complex care needs within the inpatient community hospital settings.
* Manage the day to day, ongoing delivery, and development of the Service within remit ensuring delivery of a service that is responsive and high quality.
* Take responsibility for ensuring that patient experiences of the Service are positive.
* Deliver effective communications with patients/carers to discuss sensitive and complex information.
* Act as a role model in order to provide effective leadership, ensuring competent and safe practice.
* Plan and organise patient care according to individual needs and evaluate care according to the evidence provided by the Team.
The Ideal Candidate
You will be qualified to a degree level and hold a current NMC registration, ideally having 3 years experience in a variety of settings including hospital and community. Evidence of continuing professional education and training at degree level and Teaching / Assessing NMC approved qualification.
You should be willing to become an independent supplementary prescriber (V300) registered with the NMC whilst co‑ordinating and managing a team.
Equal Opportunities
We’re committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.
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