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Job requirements
Essential
4 listedRequirements the employer expects applicants to meet.
- Experience
Experience of basing service development on the views and opinions of service users. Evidence of successful quality improvement initiative
- Technical Skills
Sound knowledge of complex clinical issues, including the management of risk, different treatment modalities, the MHA, the MCA • Sound knowledge and experience of managing a team. • Sound knowledge of leadership and change- management. • Sounds knowledge of nursing professional issues and professional responsibility and accountability. • Effective leadership skills and experience. • Ability to effectively manage an operational team to ensure the best possible outcomes for service users. • Ability to maintain, monitor and improve standards to enhance service user experience. • Sound supervisory skills. • Excellent communication skills. • Knowledge of processes in the management of staff e.g. Sickness absence
- Personal Qualities
Warmth, empathy and kindness. • Willingness to challenge and be challenged. • Ability to pay attention to detail
- Training and Qualifications
Registered Mental Health Nurse • Post registration experience within inpatient service with a management/leadership role. • Evidence of continuous personal and professional development and willingness to undertake a qualification in leadership or management, to degree level or above
Desirable
3 listedAdditional qualities the employer would prefer.
- Experience
Project management skills
- Technical Skills
Trained to deliver specific mode of treatment e.g. CBT, DBT, PSI. Experience of managing staff through HR processes
- Training and Qualifications
Qualification in a leadership or management module or course at degree level or above
Job overview
This is an exciting opportunity to provide Maternity cover for a Ward Manager within Sheffield Health Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust.
G1 Ward is a specialist ward for people who have complex dementia and associated challenging or highly distressed behaviour. It is set in a peaceful location in private grounds with staff parking facilities. The ward has 16 beds and is the only one of its kind in Sheffield.
The team are currently engaged in some exciting changes which you could be part of and instrumental in leading.
We are seeking dynamic, motivated individual with an interest in service development, quality improvement and a passion to ensure our service users receive high quality, compassionate care.
The individual will work in close collaboration with the Senior Nurse Practitioner and Matron to ensure that the clinical priorities and standards of care are achieved.
You will need to be a Registered Mental Health Nurse with experience of clinical leadership. You should be a confident, competent, and a person-centred leader with a high level of knowledge and skills with dementia care. You should be passionate with a knowledge of standards and procedures that direct and influence this system.
Main duties of the job
- Provide effective leadership and management
- Be a visible and credible role model
- Develop team performance and individual personal development
- Manage the ward/department environment
- Deliver a safe and effective service within allocated resources ensuring the resources are used to maximum effect
- Effectively manage budgets
- To ensure safe and effective practice/Professional, ethical and legal
- Act as a change agent, developing clinically effective practice through the effective utilisation and integration of evidence
- Maintain a safe and clean environment for staff, patients/clients and visitors by ensuring compliance with legislation, policies and protocols including health and safety, healthcare associated infection, risk management and critical incident reporting
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the attached job description for the main roles, responsibilities and key requirements of the post.
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 Ward Manager with Sheffield Health Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust in Sheffield, England. It is listed as a Band 7 Ward manager role. The advertised salary is £49,387 - £56,515 Dependent on experience. The contract type is Secondment: 12 months (None). The application deadline is 18 Oct 2026.
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