# Deputy Ward Manager > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/deputy-ward-manager/f46d27b1-5fb9-4183-84d4-cc1b536a7720 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/deputy-ward-manager/f46d27b1-5fb9-4183-84d4-cc1b536a7720.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust - **Town:** Maidstone - **Region:** South East - **Country:** England - **Profession:** Manager and corporate - **Grade:** Band 6 - **Salary:** £39,959 - £48,117 per annum - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-06-19T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-06-05T15:01:17.645Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Kent/Maidstone/Kent_Medway_Mental_Health_NHS_Trust/Acute_Mental_Health_Services/Acute_Mental_Health_Services-v8039116 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8039116?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.kmpt.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview As our new  Deputy Ward Manager, you will provide senior clinical leadership and support the Ward Manager and across the site in the 24-hour management of the acute inpatient environment. You will act as a role model for the nursing team, ensuring that patients in the most acute phase of their mental illness receive safe, compassionate, and evidence-based care. When the Ward Manager is away, you are the clinical lead on the ground, making pivotal decisions to ensure ward safety and flow. ### Main duties of the job Clinical Leadership: Lead the nursing teams  in delivering high-quality care, overseeing complex admissions and discharges, and ensuring Care Programme Approach (CPA) standards are met, this may be across site. Operational Management: Assist in the management of rosters, recruitment, InPhase and safeguarding reviews, and the supervision of Band 5 Nurses and Healthcare Assistants. Risk & Safety: Lead on risk assessments and safety plans. You will be a key figure in managing incidents, conducting debriefs, and ensuring the ward remains a therapeutic environment. Quality Improvement: Participate in audits (i.e. IPC audits, Risk Assessment and Care Plan Audits, MRSA audits etc. ) and drive clinical excellence through the implementation of "Safety Culture Bundle". Mentorship: Act as a Practice Supervisor/Assessor for student nurses and a preceptor for newly qualified staff, fostering a culture of continuous learning. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities Please refer to the attached job description for the full details on the responsibilities and person specification ## Job Details As our new Deputy Ward Manager, you will provide senior clinical leadership and support the Ward Manager and across the site in the 24-hour management of the acute inpatient environment. You will act as a role model for the nursing team, ensuring that patients in the most acute phase of their mental illness receive safe, compassionate, and evidence-based care. When the Ward Manager is away, you are the clinical lead on the ground, making pivotal decisions to ensure ward safety and flow. ## Job Description Clinical Leadership: Lead the nursing teams in delivering high-quality care, overseeing complex admissions and discharges, and ensuring Care Programme Approach (CPA) standards are met, this may be across site. Operational Management: Assist in the management of rosters, recruitment, InPhase and safeguarding reviews, and the supervision of Band 5 Nurses and Healthcare Assistants. Risk & Safety: Lead on risk assessments and safety plans. You will be a key figure in managing incidents, conducting debriefs, and ensuring the ward remains a therapeutic environment. Quality Improvement: Participate in audits (i.e. IPC audits, Risk Assessment and Care Plan Audits, MRSA audits etc. ) and drive clinical excellence through the implementation of "Safety Culture Bundle". Mentorship: Act as a Practice Supervisor/Assessor for student nurses and a preceptor for newly qualified staff, fostering a culture of continuous learning. ## Responsibilities Please refer to the attached job description for the full details on the responsibilities and person specification ## Person Specification ### Experience **Essential** - Leadership Experience - Experience of working in an inpatient setting - Up to date knowledge and clinical leadership on all aspects of mental health and learning disability nursing **Desirable** - Training in leadership - Previous experience as a Band 6 ### Qualification **Essential** - RMN completion of Preceptorship programme - Leadership experience **Desirable** - Evidence of continuing professional development - Evidence of leadership courses/training courses ### Knowledge and Skills **Essential** - Good working knowledge of and ability to apply relevant legislative frameworks and policies relating to care e.g. Mental Capacity Act, Safeguarding, Consent to Treatment. - Good organisational and time management skills - Excellent verbal, interpersonal and written communication skills - Computer skills - Ability to provide, undertake and use supervision effectively **Desirable** - Ability to support and develop an environment which ensures effective clinical care and innovation. ## Documents - [jd and ps (pdf, 176.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10327504) - [staff benefits (pdf, 623.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?ddoc=2394) - [trust name change (pdf, 813.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2991) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.