Job requirements
Essential
6 listedRequirements the employer expects applicants to meet.
- Experience
Previous post registration experience.
- Experience
Experience of relevant speciality.
- Experience
Experience of co-ordinating a team.
- Qualifications
First level live NMC Registered Nurse or Registered Mental Nurse.
- Qualifications
Mentorship Qualification or relevant equivalent qualification (essential requirement for post, expectation this will be completed within an 18-month period).
- Qualifications
PP126/127 or AC631 or D32/33 or A1 or equivalent.
Desirable
6 listedAdditional qualities the employer would prefer.
- Experience
Knowledge of or experience in coaching and mentoring practices and tools.
- Experience
Knowledge of or experience in Quality improvement tools, techniques and methods.
- Qualifications
Management course
- Qualifications
Leadership course
- Qualifications
Diploma or degree in nursing
- Qualifications
Qualification in specialty
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Deputy Ward Manager on Ward 9 Wansbeck General Hospital. Ward 9 is a busy 23 bedded stroke rehabilitation ward.
Main duties of the job
- To provide nursing care to a case load of patients and to provide verbal and written handovers to nursing colleagues and the multi-disciplinary team.
- Support the Ward Manager in her accountability for the management of staff and budgets.
- To provide nursing care to an advanced level.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
•To assume responsibility for the management of a ward/department, including the assessment of care needs, the implementation of evidence-based programme of care in the absence of the Ward Manager.
- To supervise, support and educate junior members of the team.
- To exercise accountability as set out in the NMC Code of Professional Conduct.
- To be responsibility for all nursing care standards and to maintain high clinical standards.
- To act as team leader and co-ordinate the multi-disciplinary care of a group of patients.
- To role model compassionate and inclusive leadership in order to shape the creation of a collective leadership culture within the trust. This means demonstrating a consistent leadership style which (a) engages, enables and empowers others (b) uses coaching to promote ownership of learning and quality improvement and (c) facilitates team working and collaboration within teams / departments and across organisational boundaries.
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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This advert is for Deputy Ward Manager with Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust in Ashington, England. It is listed as a Band 6 Ward manager role. The advertised salary is £39,959 - £48,117 per annum. The contract type is Permanent. The application deadline is 01 Nov 2026.
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