Ward Manager

Caring for our most acutely ill patients is a vital responsibility and a key component of the Trust's mental health services. The impact of our staff in these roles is immense and highly valued.
We are pleased to announce an opening on Castle Ward, a 19-bed female acute ward dedicated to adults with mental health needs. This 24-hour facility supports working-age women (18-65) experiencing acute mental health challenges.
As Ward Manager, you will lead with confidence in the daily management of the ward. Key qualities include curiosity, creativity, self-awareness, and assertiveness, enabling you to think innovatively while staying aligned with the Trust's Vision and Values. Your role will involve responsibility for clinical and financial KPIs, working collaboratively with the Multidisciplinary Team to uphold high standards of care individually and as a team.
A commitment to delivering high-quality care should come naturally, along with an openness to change. You will foster a culture of best practices, effective communication, transparency, and equity in patient care.
If you are interested in applying and would like to know more, please contact Jos White to discuss this role in further detail.
[email protected], Manage and hold 24-hour responsibility for the provision of clinical care on a ward.
To co-ordinate and make effective use of staff, supervise staff and ensure training is maintained.
To ensure adequate staffing levels and provide clinical leadership for staff.
To ensure cost effective use of resources, + Accountable for all nursing practice and can demonstrate involvement of user/carer in practice within their immediate practice setting.
+ Continually refine and up date their knowledge, skills and attitudes to a higher practice level with regard to their particular practice setting.
+ Frequently critique the nursing intervention of the team against latest evidence to assess where improvements could be made.
+ Regularly assist in the evaluation of health and social outcomes of clients treated within their team.
+ Contribute and assist in the development of a strategic plan to inform practice within the team.
+ Provide skilled clinical and managerial supervision to the wider multi-disciplinary team.
+ Use specialist knowledge to deal effectively with newly encountered clinical situation
Leadership
+ Accepts overall management responsibility for the delivery of high quality, effective treatment and care within their area of responsibility.
+ Demonstrate the ability to manage and lead a team's development and improvements in their clinical practice.
+ Provide advise and consultation on complex clinical matters faced by the team.
+ Instigate, lead, implement and evaluate local quality improvement programmes.
+ Demonstrate the ability to effectively influence the political dimensions of service development.
+ Practice Development and Research
+ Construct a local service delivery plan in association with other professional groups/stakeholders.
+ Establish a clearly defined support structure for team members to implement agreed local practice development action plans.
+ Actively lead in practice and service development at a local level within the wider context of health and social care improvement.
+ Give a professional nursing perspective on service delivery..
+ Oversee local practice development projects.
+ Work in partnership with other professional groups to establish the model and philosophy of care appropriate to the care environment.
+ Promote a learning environment where evidence/value-based practice is implemented routinely.
+ Identify areas of nursing practice for further research.
+ Formulate existing research and evidence into proposals for improving the quality of care provided by the team i.e. NICE
+ Establish a system in which local networks and stakeholders actively contribute to ongoing evaluation of service delivery.
+ Education, Training and Personal Development
+ Implement a range of different models of learning.
+ Ensure all nurses within the team undertake clinical supervision
+ Contribute to the ongoing development of the learning environment.
+ Effectively contribute to the training needs analysis of the nursing team reflecting the team' ability to deliver operational/service objectives.
+ Facilitate and support others in the extension of their professional roles and their personal development.
+ Monitor and support the roles of all nurses undertaking a mentor role in accordance with the assessment and learning in practice standard (NMC) and provide a suitable learning environment for all learners.

Working for our organisation
Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health services and a number of learning disability, autism and social care services in the county of Lincolnshire. Employing around 2,800 staff, and serving a population of over 766,000, our people lie at the heart of everything we do.
You could be part of a Trust rated by staff as one of the best mental health and learning disability trusts in England, in an area heralded as a fantastic place to live and work. We firmly believe the key to high quality care is a contented workforce. This is reflected in our Care Quality Commission rating of 'outstanding' for well-led and 'good' overall. In the most recent National NHS Staff Survey, our staff rated us as the number one trust nationally for staff morale and one of the top scoring NHS Trusts in the Midlands for being compassionate and inclusive. We're really proud of this!
We are also leading the way in transforming care, with multi-million-pound transformation of patient environments and radical redesign of community services.
This is the time to join and help redesign our services of the future. We offer options for flexible working and provide a wide range of training and promotion opportunities in all professions. We support and celebrate diversity, have active staff networks groups and are always looking at what more we can do to support our staff.