Ward Manager

Scope

• To support the Clinical Services Manager in ensuring outstanding care is delivered to Patients in line with best practice and the Fairlie Healthcare Groups Core Values and Values Framework, ensuring Patients are treated with compassion, kindness, dignity and respect.
• To support the Registered Nursing Staff to ensure they are empowered and enabled to manage their allocated clinical area effectively.
• To collate clinical information for quality and dashboarding purposes, ensuring accuracy and integrity of clinical data.
• To provide nursing and clinical leadership to the Registered Nursing Staff and Care Staff acting as a role model to ensure the highest standards of Patient care are delivered at all times including ensuring Group Operating and Clinical Policies are implemented and followed., Working as part of the MDT to ensure defined and assessed needs of patients on the assigned floor are met, in line with evidence based practice and defined in the Patients Care Plan and to effectively manage clinical risk.
• To ensure care plans are kept up to date, reflect current care needs, are sufficiently personalised and are reviewed and updated in line with current Group and other legal requirements.
• To provide nursing leadership to the qualified nursing staff allocated to the assigned floor, acting as a role model and encouraging service development in relation to nursing practice.
• To be aware of Patient clinical dependencies and build effective partnership relationships with Patients and their significant others. To undertake pre-admission assessments as directed by the Clinical Services Manager or Centre Director as appropriate.
• Ensuring the assigned floor/ clinical area is safely staffed in respect of skill mix, competency and numbers of staff with regards to Patient dependencies, clinical risk and appropriate resource allocation as per the Centres agreed Establishment Hours. Ensuring the rota system is updated in real time including the sign-off of anomalies.
• To have an overview of the medicines management system to ensure medicines on the assigned floor are ordered, stored, given and disposed of in line with the medicines management policies, and that all nursing staff are trained, competent and supervised in the administration of medicines.
  
  The Fairlie Healthcare Group is a leading provider of high-quality care, and we were established in 1999. We specialise in caring for adults with neurological conditions, as well as patients with tracheostomies and who require ventilator support.
Our new career pathway means that whatever skills and experience you currently possess, you could fit into our pathway and progress your career with The Fairlie Healthcare Group, gaining specialist competencies and personal development along the way. We are now looking for more outstanding staff to join us on this exciting journey.