# Ward Manager > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/ward-manager/d6d97962-827e-4eb5-8132-fe4c7af89fed - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/ward-manager/d6d97962-827e-4eb5-8132-fe4c7af89fed.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust - **Town:** Worthing - **Region:** South East - **Country:** England - **Profession:** Manager and corporate - **Grade:** Band 7 - **Salary:** £49,387 - £56,515 Per annum - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-06-16T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-06-02T13:21:35.900Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/West_Sussex/Haywards_Heath/Sussex_Partnership_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Mental_Health/Mental_Health-v8052508 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8052508?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.sussexpartnership.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview Lead Our Newly Reopened CAMHS Inpatient Unit We are recruiting a Ward Manager for our newly redesigned Children and Young People’s Mental Health Inpatient Unit, reopening in Autumn 2026. Following extensive engagement, co-design and investment in our clinical model, workforce and environment, this is a unique opportunity to lead a modern, therapeutic CAMHS inpatient service where young people (aged 12-17) receive safe, purposeful and high-quality care. About the unit Our refreshed CAMHS inpatient service is built around: - Purposeful admissions with early review points - A structured, therapeutic 7-day programme, including evenings and weekends - Strong integration with crisis and community services, including COAST (Crisis Outreach Acute Support Team) - Trauma-informed and autism-aware practice - A clear focus on reducing restrictive practice and improving outcomes - Strengthened MDT working, safe staffing and robust clinical governance As Ward Manager, you will have overall responsibility for creating and sustaining a therapeutic, well-led and compassionate ward culture, ensuring excellent clinical standards and staff wellbeing. ### Main duties of the job - Provide overall leadership and management of the CAMHS inpatient ward - Ensure delivery of high-quality, evidence-based, trauma-informed nursing care - Lead and support a multidisciplinary workforce, promoting a positive and inclusive team culture - Maintain safe staffing, effective rota management and workforce planning - Ensure robust clinical governance, risk management and safeguarding practice - Take responsibility for quality, safety, complaints and learning from incidents - Support service development, innovation and implementation of new ways of working - Manage the ward within agreed budgets and resources - Work in partnership with families, carers and external agencies to support effective care and discharge pathways - Act as a visible clinical leader and role model for professional practice You would work alongside a Band 7 Clinical Nurse Specialist who would lead on Quality Improvement and developing and maintaining high quality nursing care standards.  Jointly, and with support from the matron, you would hold accountability for quality, safety and culture on the ward This is an exciting opportunity to develop a new team and to lead on ensuring compassion driven values and excellent ward processors around patient care, family and career involvement, team communication   and staff supervision and development ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities As Ward Manager, you will provide overall leadership for the inpatient ward, ensuring the delivery of safe, effective and person-centred care. You will be responsible for workforce management, clinical governance, quality improvement and service development, working closely with senior nursing, medical and multidisciplinary colleagues. You will play a key role in establishing and embedding a positive team culture, supporting staff development and ensuring high standards of professional practice across the service. Person specification Essential criteria - Registered Mental Health Nurse with significant post-registration experience - Strong background in acute mental health care - Demonstrable experience of leading teams within inpatient or comparable settings - Proven clinical leadership and people management skills - Confidence in managing quality, safety and operational performance - Commitment to trauma-informed, recovery-focused care - Resilience, integrity and the ability to lead through change - Passion for improving outcomes for children, young people and families ## Job Details Lead Our Newly Reopened CAMHS Inpatient Unit We are recruiting a Ward Manager for our newly redesigned Children and Young People’s Mental Health Inpatient Unit, reopening in Autumn 2026. Following extensive engagement, co-design and investment in our clinical model, workforce and environment, this is a unique opportunity to lead a modern, therapeutic CAMHS inpatient service where young people (aged 12-17) receive safe, purposeful and high-quality care. About the unit Our refreshed CAMHS inpatient service is built around: Purposeful admissions with early review points A structured, therapeutic 7-day programme, including evenings and weekends Strong integration with crisis and community services, including COAST (Crisis Outreach Acute Support Team) Trauma-informed and autism-aware practice A clear focus on reducing restrictive practice and improving outcomes Strengthened MDT working, safe staffing and robust clinical governance As Ward Manager, you will have overall responsibility for creating and sustaining a therapeutic, well-led and compassionate ward culture, ensuring excellent clinical standards and staff wellbeing. ## Job Description Provide overall leadership and management of the CAMHS inpatient ward Ensure delivery of high-quality, evidence-based, trauma-informed nursing care Lead and support a multidisciplinary workforce, promoting a positive and inclusive team culture Maintain safe staffing, effective rota management and workforce planning Ensure robust clinical governance, risk management and safeguarding practice Take responsibility for quality, safety, complaints and learning from incidents Support service development, innovation and implementation of new ways of working Manage the ward within agreed budgets and resources Work in partnership with families, carers and external agencies to support effective care and discharge pathways Act as a visible clinical leader and role model for professional practice You would work alongside a Band 7 Clinical Nurse Specialist who would lead on Quality Improvement and developing and maintaining high quality nursing care standards. Jointly, and with support from the matron, you would hold accountability for quality, safety and culture on the ward This is an exciting opportunity to develop a new team and to lead on ensuring compassion driven values and excellent ward processors around patient care, family and career involvement, team communication and staff supervision and development ## Responsibilities As Ward Manager, you will provide overall leadership for the inpatient ward, ensuring the delivery of safe, effective and person-centred care. You will be responsible for workforce management, clinical governance, quality improvement and service development, working closely with senior nursing, medical and multidisciplinary colleagues. You will play a key role in establishing and embedding a positive team culture, supporting staff development and ensuring high standards of professional practice across the service. Person specification Essential criteria Registered Mental Health Nurse with significant post-registration experience Strong background in acute mental health care Demonstrable experience of leading teams within inpatient or comparable settings Proven clinical leadership and people management skills Confidence in managing quality, safety and operational performance Commitment to trauma-informed, recovery-focused care Resilience, integrity and the ability to lead through change Passion for improving outcomes for children, young people and families ## Person Specification ### Skills **Essential** - Ability to provide and receive complex and emotive information with staff, service users, carers and other stakeholders - An open and facilitative style of leadership which can be adapted when necessary to ensure delivery of objectives - An understanding of effective systems for integrated governance and the management of clinical and non-clinical risks - Good performance management skills combining clarity around expectations, direction and holding others to account ### Qualifications **Essential** - Educated to degree/ diploma level with a relevant qualification or equivalent experience - A / C Registered Nurse with current registration (mental health / LD/ Adult) appropriate to the job role - Evidence of CPD - A Completion of Mentorship Course/ENB equivalent ### Approach and Values **Essential** - Demonstrate support for the values and beliefs of the Care Group and those of the Trust - Resilient and self motivated with drive and vision that is able to work on own initiative and manage a range of priorities across competing agendas - Empathy towards the needs of people using mental health and related services, and a vision of how services can make step changes for improvement - Punctual and flexible across hours of work when required ### Knowledge/Experience **Essential** - Extensive experience of acute care in the care group and demonstrable achievement in clinical practice - Experience of providing professional support/supervision and motivation of staff - Understanding of Health and Social Care Governance - Experience of managing staff **Desirable** - Previous experience in similar role ## Documents - [privacy notice (pdf, 127.7kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2254) - [ward manager jd (pdf, 265.2kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10342042) ## 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.