Clinical Deputy Manager Eden Ward

Job overview

Please note: The interview date is planned to take place on the 8th April 2026.

At Brooklands Hospital we are committed to providing the best standard of care and experience for individuals whilst in an inpatient setting, supporting them to gain skills to reach their potential and maintain a good quality of life.

This post is required to support clinical leadership on the ward, with a focus on the safety and quality aspects of Patient care.  The role is critical to the timely management of incidents, supporting the MDT and driving the patients input to co-produced services.  This role is critical in ensuring the ward team benefits from visible clinical support/direction and it enables a firm career structure for succession planning.

We are looking for a dynamic and enthusiastic Deputy Clinical Lead for Eden Ward, a Low Secure Unit for up to 13 women with forensic and complex trauma histories. This is interesting, at times challenging, but very rewarding work.

This is an exciting time to join the team .The secure services have been rated "Good" by the CQC and Eden Ward is enrolled in the national Culture of Care programme. We are also working to explore how women's secure care can be transformed and improved.

Previous experience in inpatient care and/or secure services is essential

Previous applicants need not apply

Main duties of the job

The post holder will be required to work within a multi-disciplinary learning disability inpatient service.  The post holder will ensure that all organisational systems and processes are adhered to. The post holder will manage and organise competing and conflicting priorities and manage change in complex situations. The post holder will be a resource of clinical knowledge and competence in the service area contributing to staff and service development.

They will work over a 24-hour period and support on audit, guidelines and quality improvement approaches to ensure the highest standards of safety and quality in their area. The post holder will be required to undertake trusted assessments, provide evidence-based clinical interventions and clinical leadership.

The post holder will be expected to gain skills in operational management responsibilities and in quality and safety improvement approaches as part of their Band 6 position within inpatient care.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• Formulate and coordinating holistic assessment and treatment of mental and physical needs of our patients.

• To undertake periods of the role as Nurse in Charge (NIC) and to role model effective shift management.

• To supervise and develop junior staff members, with responsibility for ensuring junior staff, students and trainees have specific role competency sign off.

• Ensure there is a robust process for care plan formulation, review, evaluate treatment and safety plans and report back to multi-professional team.

• Develop and maintain professional working relationships with the multidisciplinary team.

• Support the Clinical lead in the maintenance and development of the social and physical therapeutic environment.

• Support in areas of risk management within the ward, including patient risk, positive risk taking, and environmental risk assessment is embedded and that trust processes around risk are adhered to and recorded.

• Responsible for leading high standards of clinical care and maintaining service delivery based on evidence, clinical and professional judgement.

• Responsible for identifying needs to facilitate safe discharge.

• To   lead and coordinate the adherence to and reporting of safety & quality issues. Report any concerns immediately and actively carrying out clinical audits on the AMAT platform and follow up on actions identified.

• Have a detailed working knowledge of key partnership services and organisations (ie. voluntary sector, social services, housing), including their eligibility criteria and access procedures.

• To lead and maintain a learning environment, supervision and guidance to identified junior staff and students. Undertake the role of Practise assessor.

• To lead on Quality Improvement and liaise with the Quality Improvement team to support areas of practice development and to coordinate staff training in improvement approaches.

• To support staff training and development in all areas appropriate to inpatient care.