Ward Manager - Trauma & Orthopaedics

The post holder will have management responsibility for the ward/department over the 24 hr period, ensuring a high standard of nursing care.,

• Coordination of the ward on a day to day basis including planning, allocation and evaluation of work carried out by teams or individuals and self.
• Provide specialist knowledge to all Nursing staff on the ward.
• Will promote a critical, analytical approach to the delivery of nursing care, ensuring that the ward environment is responsive to current issues.
• Ensure that all existing procedures and protocols relating to the care of patients are reviewed and updated as required.
• Develop methods for identifying, maintaining and improving the quality of patient care through facilitation of best practice and clinical benchmarking.
• Ensure due regard is given to the customs, values and spiritual beliefs of patients/clients.
• Explore and undertake expanded practice to optimise patient care as required within specialist area, in accordance with Trust policies.
Management/Leadership Responsibilities
• Exercise strong and effective leadership, acting as an exemplary role model for the ward/department team.
• Maintain adequate staff cover and skill mix on the ward through effective use of staffing rotas.
• Ensure staff compliance with mandatory training and maintain current records.
• Ensure effective communication with patients and their carers.
• Liaise with nursing, medical and allied health professional colleagues to ensure that all facets of the patients care are covered.
• Ensure effective communication with relatives, community nursing staff, other hospitals and local agencies to facilitate the smooth transfer and after-care of patients/clients.
• Lead ward team meeting to ensure appropriate information is communicated to all team members.
• Ensure that the ward participates in maintaining standards relating to clinical governance.
• Responsible for the implementation of risk management policies within the ward/department, including the development, implementation and monitoring of action plans to address identified risks.
• Responds within appropriate timeframes to patient complaints and concerns and ensure outcomes and action plans are implemented and monitored.
• Responsible for ensuring compliance with Trust policies and procedures.
• In collaboration with the matron, implement the Trust grievance/disciplinary policy with the aim of ensuring early identification of performance issues.
• Monitor and manage staff sickness/absence following the Trust guidelines, and liaise with the Matron as necessary.
• Participate in recruitment and selection of staff within the nursing ream ensuring appropriate policies are adhered to.
• Support the implementation of the Trusts Human Resources Strategy, including the principles of Improving Working Lives and Investors in People.
• Monitor performance of staff ensuring that learning needs are identified through personal development plans, appraisal systems and supervised practice.
• Contribute to planning, monitoring and control of resources.
• Contribute to nursing developments across the organisation via appropriate forums as required.
• Support the implementation of the Trusts Strategy for Nursing at ward/department level.
• Participate in Senior Nurse Directorate cover as necessary.
  
  We are looking for an experienced and highly motivated Nursing leader to join the Major Trauma and Orthopaedic Care Group. The role of the Ward Manager is fundamental to lead safe, effective and compassionate care to our patients.
The Major Trauma and Orthopaedic Care Group provides comprehensive major trauma, orthopaedic trauma and elective orthopaedic service to the city of Liverpool. If you strive to provide the highest standards of care and have a passion for improvement and education then we want to hear from you. The successful candidate would report directly to the Matron and would be an integral part of the Ward Manager team in the Care Group. You will be encouraged and empowered to lead your team and have ownership of the ward area with the support of the senior nursing team and wider MDT. If you are an experienced Ward Manager looking for a change or a Band 6 with leadership experience then we would welcome your application. Having knowledge of Trauma and Orthopaedics, with understanding of complexities of the patient group would be an advantage but not essential.,
• Understanding and application of clinical governance, Excellent communication skills
• Basic IT skills, including email and word processing, High level of personal and professional credibility
• Supportive of colleagues
• Committed to delivering high standards of patient care, Registered nurse, current NMC registration
• Teaching and assessing qualification
• Post registration qualification in speciality
Desirable criteria
• 1 st level degree or studying towards, Demonstrate experience at Band 6 level
• Evidence of effective ward management and leadership skills
• Evidence of staff development, including pre and post registration students
• Evidence of application of current nursing issues and developments
• Evidence of managing a change
• Evidence of developing standards of nursing care through clinical benchmarking, You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
  
  Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust was created on 1 October 2019 following the merger of two adult acute Trusts, Aintree University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and the Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust.
The merger provides an opportunity to reconfigure services in a way that provides the best healthcare services to the city and improves the quality of care and health outcomes that patients experience. The Trust runs Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital, Liverpool University Dental Hospital and the Royal Liverpool University Hospital. It serves a core population of around 630,000 people across Merseyside as well as providing a range of highly specialist services to a catchment area of more than two million people in the North West region and beyond.

The Trust is committed to promoting a healthy work-life balance and achieve fair, equitable and consistent practice. We welcome flexible working requests and will consider a variety of flexible working arrangements from day one of your employment. Not all roles are suitable for every flexible working opportunity all of the time. Flexible working options may include reduced hours, compressed hours, fixed shifts, time back in lieu and home working. The Trust is committed to promoting equality and diversity; we value the contribution of individual talent, skills, knowledge and experience and aim for a workforce demography representative of the local community. We encourage applicants from the following groups that are currently under-represented in our workforce black, Asian and minority ethnic, lesbian, gay, bisexual and Transgender (LGBTQ+), disabled, male and age 16-24. Trust policy requires that the cost of submitting & processing the successful applicant/s DBS application be recovered via salary deduction following start in post. The amount of £18+£5 (standard disclosure) or £38+£5 (enhanced disclosure) will be deducted from salary, in manageable monthly instalments for up to 3 months following commencement of employment. Bank posts require upfront payment. From April 2017, Skilled visa applicants and their adult dependant(s) will be required to provide a criminal record certificate from each country they have lived in consecutively for 12 months or more in the past ten years. Applicants requiring sponsorship may wish to determine the likelihood of obtaining sponsorship for this position by assessing themselves against the criteria on the gov.uk website - https://www.gov.uk/check-uk-visa. This organisation has a zero-tolerance approach to the abuse of children, young people and vulnerable adults. All staff must ensure they adhere to the organisations safeguarding children and adults' policy and comply with the Local Safeguarding Children and Adult Board procedures. Staff should be mindful of their responsibility to safeguard children and adults in any activity performed on behalf of the organisation in line with the requirements of statutory guidance and legislation. All employees (and volunteers)are expected maintain their safeguarding knowledge and skills by completing mandatory safeguarding training which includes understanding and recognising the signs of abuse and neglect and taking appropriate action. As an organisation, we have adopted the Merseyside Domestic abuse workplace scheme which supports our staff who are experiencing Domestic Abuse /any forms of sexual violence. If you have any personal requirements that will enable you to participate in our recruitment process please contact a member of the Recruitment Services by phone on at the earliest opportunity to ensure that measures can be put in place to enable your application for this post. Please note: new entrants to the NHS will commence on the first pay point of the relevant band. For agenda for change banded roles; salary payments will reflect the 2023/24 pay scales. The 2024/25 pay scales will be paid in October 2024 including any backpay due. Therefore should the successful applicant start in post prior to October, the salary will initially reflect the 2023/24 pay scales.