Ward Manager-9B

As a ward manager you will be leading and coordinating the clinical, managerial and educational requirements of your clinical area, ensuring staff are up to date with mandatory training, career conversations and providing development opportunities.

Maintaining and monitoring standards of care that ensure patient safety and a high quality of patient centred care through audits and governance. This will include learning from incidents and complaints and adopting a PSIRF approach to resolutions.

Being visible and continually role modelling for your team, you will be involved with direct patient care and patient engagement rounds. Working within agreed KPI's, participating in Quality Improvement and leading on change are key aspects to this role.

You will also partake in the senior nurse role for daily staffing across the service group and a late shift to support the weekend rotas which provides senior support to the wards out of hours.

As a ward manger you will be responsible for leading a dynamic nursing team, working alongside a multidisciplinary team providing patient centred care. You will support best practice tariffs and provide assurance of high quality standards. There is an expectation that hours of work are worked flexibly over a rota basis which will include lates and weekends as part of the senior nurse rota. You will require excellent communication skills, a teamwork approach and be able to deliver excellent patient care with your team

As an organisation, Somerset NHS Foundation Trust offers employees a wide range of benefits including flexible working, NHS pension scheme, generous annual leave allowance and a commitment to career development.You will be eligible for our Blue Light Card and a wide range of NHS exclusive shopping & leisure discounts.We are proud of our skilled, diverse workforce and as an inclusive employer we welcome applications from all backgrounds.Working in Somerset enables you to enjoy the idyllic countryside, areas of outstanding beauty and stunning coastlines whilst still only being a stone's throw away from bustling city centres like Bristol, Bath and Exeter and only two hours away from London.There are excellent educational facilities in the area and, when compared to other regions, house prices are reasonable.Somerset offers the countryside and the cosmopolitan -- there is truly something for everyone!