# Ward Manager > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Sheffield Health Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/ward-manager/ec4b6acc-3a3e-4258-898f-4e46d60de061 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/ward-manager/ec4b6acc-3a3e-4258-898f-4e46d60de061.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Sheffield Health Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust - **Location:** Centre Court - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Ward manager - **Grade:** Band 7 - **Salary:** £49,387 - £56,515 Dependent on experience - **Contract type:** Secondment: 12 months (None) - **Employment type:** Full time, Flexible working, 37.5 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-10-18T07:00:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-10-05T09:01:21.761Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/South_Yorkshire/Sheffield/Sheffield_Health_Partnership_University_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Older_Adults/Older_Adults-v8322798 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8322798?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.shsc.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### 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. ## Person Specification ### Experience **Essential** - - Experience of basing service development on the views and opinions of service users. Evidence of successful quality improvement initiative **Desirable** - - Project management skills ### Technical Skills **Essential** - - 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 **Desirable** - - Trained to deliver specific mode of treatment e.g. CBT, DBT, PSI. Experience of managing staff through HR processes ### Personal Qualities **Essential** - - Warmth, empathy and kindness. - Willingness to challenge and be challenged. - Ability to pay attention to detail ### Training and Qualifications **Essential** - - 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** - - Qualification in a leadership or management module or course at degree level or above ## Documents - [job description and person specification (pdf, 459.9kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10644597) ## 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.