Overview
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Working Full time: 37.5 hours per week
Range of shifts including Long days, early, late, nights and weekend.
An opportunity has arisen for a Deputy Ward Manager to join our team for a 28 bedded, General Surgical Ward - Ward 52.
Responsibilities
* The Deputy Ward Manager is responsible for Team Leading the shift to support patient flow and timely discharge. This involves Multidisciplinary Team Working with a variety of specialty clinical teams. They will work clinically, providing leadership and support to colleagues and role modelling behaviors and attitudes in line with the Trust\'s behavioral standards. They will also support the Ward Manager in some administration duties, audits and quality improvement initiatives.
* As an experienced nurse you will work both clinically as a member of the nursing team providing clinical advice, expertise and leadership to all staff and in partnership with the Ward manager. You will be called upon to deputize in the ward Managers absence to ensure a positive patient experience through the delivery of high standards of care at all times.
About the Trust
The Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust provides services to West Cheshire and to Welsh patients covered by Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board. The Trust works collaboratively within the wider Cheshire and Merseyside Health and Care Partnership. Its services are provided from three locations:
* The Countess of Chester Hospital: providing 438 general and acute beds
* Ellesmere Port Hospital: providing 56 beds as a rehabilitation, intermediate and outpatient facility
* Tarporley War Memorial Hospital: a base for community services which serve the local rural population.
The Trust employs over 5916 staff (headcount) which includes temporary bank staff and provides acute emergency and elective services, primary care direct access services and obstetric services to a population of approximately 411,000. This includes 361,000 residents in Chester and West Cheshire which includes Ellesmere Port and Neston as well as the Deeside area of Flintshire which has a population of approximately 50,000.
Recruitment See Job Description For Further Details. Recruitment selection processes are based on competence (see Person specification) and values. Please note applicants will be required to pay for their DBS check. Costs will be deducted from their salary over the first three months of employment. You are encouraged to enrol for the DBS Update Service. A small annual fee of £16 per year applies. New entrants to the NHS will commence on the minimum of the scale stated above. Applicants are advised to apply early as if a large number of applications are received for this post, we reserve the right to close the vacancy prior to the advertised date. Good luck with your application.
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