# Ward Manager

> NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust.

## Canonical URLs

- **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/ward-manager/85f3fb7e-814e-437b-9b78-60cb81ea0869
- **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/ward-manager/85f3fb7e-814e-437b-9b78-60cb81ea0869.md

## Summary

- **Status:** Live
- **Employer:** Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust
- **Location:** St Helier Hospital and Queen Mary's Hospital for Children
- **Workplace type:** onsite
- **Profession:** Ward manager
- **Grade:** Band 7
- **Salary:** £55,524 - £62,652 pro rata per annum inclusive of HCAS
- **Contract type:** Permanent
- **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- **Closing date:** 2026-11-23T23:59:59.999Z
- **Posted:** 2026-11-09T14:40:58.682Z
- **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/London/Sutton/Epsom_St_Helier_University_Hospitals_NHS_Trust/Acute_Setting/Acute_Setting-v8394253
- **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8394253?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002
- **Employer website:** https://www.epsom-sthelier.nhs.uk

## Job Content

### Job overview

The Band 7 Ward Manager is responsible for the overall leadership, management, and development of a hospital ward, ensuring the delivery of safe, effective, and high‑quality patient care. The post holder provides clinical leadership, manages staff and resources, and ensures compliance with Trust policies, professional standards, and quality frameworks.

### Main duties of the job

### Main Job Role and Responsibilities

- Provide clear clinical leadership, setting high standards of nursing care
- Ensure safe, evidence‑based, and person‑centred care at all times
- Act as a role model for professional practice and behaviour
- Respond to complex clinical situations and lead escalation when required
- Maintain patient safety, infection prevention, and risk management
- Ensure compliance with NHS policies, CQC standards, and trust guidelines
- Investigate incidents, complaints, and concerns; implement learning
- Monitor quality indicators (falls, pressure damage, medication safety)
- Manage and support nursing and support staff on the ward
- Lead recruitment, retention, appraisal (PDR), sickness and absence management
- Ensure appropriate skill mix and safe staffing levels
- Support staff wellbeing, supervision, and professional development
- Oversee day‑to‑day running of the ward
- Manage patient flow, admissions, discharges, and bed capacity
- Coordinate multidisciplinary team (MDT) working
- Ensure effective communication within the team and with senior management
- Support training and competency development of staff and students
- Identify learning needs and ensure mandatory training compliance
- Encourage reflective practice and continuous improvement
- Clinical Leadership & Quality of Care
- Patient Safety & Governance
- Staff Management & Workforce Planning
- Operational Management
- Education & Development

### Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see the attached supporting document which contains more information about the Ward Manager role at Epsom and St Helier.

### 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.

## Person Specification

### knowledge

**Essential**

- in depth knowledge of current practice
- Holistic patient assessment
- clinical supervision
- budgetary awareness

### skills and abilities

**Essential**

- manage own workload
- able to respond to emergency situations
- able to communicate efficiently and effectively with other depts and healthcare professionals

### Education formal training

**Essential**

- Registered General Nurse
- Mentorship or equivalent qualification
- Nursing related Degree or Diploma

**Desirable**

- relevant previous experience

## Documents

- [dbs policy (pdf, 101.1kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=677)
- [onboarding roadmap (pdf, 87.9kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?ddoc=2450)
- [we're here to care (doc, 39.0kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=678)
- [band 7 ward manager (pdf, 880.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10724738)
- [ai toolkit for candidates (pdf, 1.9mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?ddoc=2413)

## 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.