Job overview

NHS Band 7 Salary:  £49,387 - £56,515 per annum

Hours per Week:   full time 37.5 

Contract Type:   Permanent

We are recruiting for a Ward Manager for SCBU who wishes to join #TeamIOWNHS. You should share our passion and drive to ensure that our patients receive quality and compassionate care and work with us to ensure the Trust continues its journey towards “working together, improving together”.

•  Lead and coordinate the nursing team, taking continuing responsibility on a 24-hour basis for the management and organisation of the clinical area.
• Through effective leadership ensure the clinical team deliver a safe, effective, responsive, caring and well led service where compassion is embedded, and a positive patient experience is achieved.
• Provide strong professional clinical and managerial leadership to nursing and act as a professional role model.
• A highly skilled clinical expert with specialised knowledge in caring for patients and their carers. 

Main duties of the job

• Promote and set high standards of professional nursing care and maintain the delivery of quality care within the trust policies, protocols, and guidelines. Implement the trust ‘vision and values’ ensuring they are embedded into everyday practice and evaluate their impact on the patient’s experience.
• Provide strong professional nursing leadership to staff within sphere of clinical responsibility. Lead and motivate staff by giving clear direction and setting achievable objectives.
• Continuing responsibility for the assessment of care needs, the development, implementation, and evaluation of programmes of care.
• Maintain a high visible presence within the clinical area ensuring that patients, visitors, healthcare staff and the multidisciplinary team, always have access to senior staff. Act as an effective professional role model and expert clinician.
• Develop the ward/department philosophy and models of care to ensure that all policies and procedures are implemented and to lead on the development of nursing practice. Ensure that all staff understand the significance of the philosophy to practice, monitoring its impact on patient experience.

We are passionate about providing excellent CARE, which is why our values are Compassion, Accountable, Respect and Everyone counts. Our mission is to make sure that our community is at the heart of everything we do and that we hold our values across all our services.

Working for our organisation

Working for our Trust brings a variety of benefits, including an onsite day nursery, cycle-to-work scheme, discounts at local businesses and gyms, and the opportunity to hire Trust’s beach hut in Ryde. We offer many flexible working opportunities, speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement for you and if it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.

The Isle of Wight is a unique and stunning gem located off the South Coast of England, a short ferry journey from Portsmouth and Southampton, with journey times taking from as little as 10 minutes. London can be reached in 90 minutes by rail from Southampton or Portsmouth. The island offers an amazing coastline with beautiful countryside, year-round events, festivals and award-winning attractions.