Paediatric Ward Manager

Job overview

Are you a Paediatric Nurse looking for the next step in your career?

We are looking for a compassionate ward manager to ensure that children and young people get the best possible care and treatment when accessing services.

You will:

• Be passionate about quality driven care for children and young people.

• demonstrates an approach to leadership reflective of our Trust Values of Ambition, Respect, Compassion.

• demonstrates a commitment to patient safety, quality improvement

Acute and Community Paediatrics is an integrated Directorate that sits within the Women & Child Health Division.

Paediatric ward & SDEC is part of the Paediatric Unit.

As an integrated acute and community organisation our acute paediatric team works in close collaboration with our community children's nursing teams inclusive of our virtual ward team who are Nursing Times award nominees.

Main duties of the job

You will:

• Be highly visible

• Be clinically credible

• Be committed to developing and transforming services

• Work collaboratively with multi-disciplinary teams

Within Paediatric Ward &  SDEC you will be supported to have oversight of:

• Ensuring safe, effective, responsive, high-quality services

• Workforce management

• Finance and budgeting

• Education and development

• Patient flow

• Performance management

• Digital technology

• Evidence based Practice and Research

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

You will be responsible for providing compassionate leadership and professional development for nursing and support workers within the service and will work with the other paediatric senior nurses to develop best practice and ensure that there is consistency across the paediatric unit.

In collaboration with senior nursing team and acute Paediatric Matron, you will provide senior nursing leadership for the unit including some weekend working.