Deputy Ward Manager - Ward 6A - Acute Medical Cardiology

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Job description

Main area: General Medicine

Grade Band: 6

Contract: Permanent

Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Including bank holidays, long days, nights and weekends)

Job ref: 287-RMED-89-25

Employer: Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Employer type: NHS

Site: The Royal Liverpool University Hospital

Town: Liverpool

Salary: £37,338 - £44,962 per annum

Salary period: Yearly

Closing: 08/04/2025 23:59

Deputy Ward Manager - Ward 6A - Acute Medical Cardiology

Band 6

Job overview

Band 6 - Deputy Ward Manager

To provide leadership, support and guidance to staff in monitoring the planning, delivery, and evaluation of individualised care.

Responsible for monitoring the workload/patient acuity within the ward/unit on a daily basis to ensure that nursing manpower is adequate to provide a safe standard of nursing care.

The ideal candidate will be an experienced, enthusiastic nurse with a keen interest in Cardiology. You will be an organised nurse who is a role model and leads by example, whilst helping to provide the gold standard of care our patients come to expect from us.

If you’re looking for a new challenge or to progress in your nursing career, we would love to hear from you.

Main duties of the job

An exciting development opportunity has arisen with the Division of Specialist Medicine for an experienced Registered nurse to become a Deputy Ward Nurse Manager on Ward 6A Acute Medical Cardiology.

The successful applicant will:

• Provide visible and effective leadership and management
• Display a positive and professional attitude
• Promote and monitor safe and effective practice
• Enhance the patient/client experience
• Contribute to the delivery of the organisation’s objectives

You will be an experienced Registered Nurse with at least 2 years post registration experience.

Please read full job description and person specification for further details.

Working for our organisation

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust comprises Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital & Royal Liverpool University Hospital.

We are part of NHS University Hospitals of Liverpool Group, formed on 1 Nov 2024 from the coming together of LUHFT and Liverpool Women’s NHS Foundation Trust. The Group was born from a shared aim to improve the care we provide our patients.

UHLG is one of the largest employers in the region, with over 16,800 colleagues dedicated to caring for our communities - from birth and beyond.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Assess, plan, implement and evaluate programs of evidence based care for medical patients.

Provide management and organisation of a clinical area in the presence and absence of the ward manager.

Participate in the development, line management and education of other staff members.

Participate in improvement of services and the quality of care provision.

Person specification

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse, current NMC registration
• Teaching and assessing qualification or equivalent

Experience

• Evidence of management experience
• Evidence of change management
• Application of evidence based practice
• Evidence of developing high standards of patient care
• Lead role in education of staff and patients

Knowledge

• Application of current nursing issues and healthcare governance

Skills

• Ability to work in changing environments
• Basic IT skills, including e-mail and word processing

Other

• Supportive of colleagues
• High level of personal and professional credibility
• Well motivated

Please ensure you check the email account (including junk/spam boxes) from which you apply regularly as we will use this to contact you regarding your application.

Posts advertised to ‘internal staff’ are open to employees of hospitals within University Hospitals of Liverpool Group and you should confirm your employment within your application form.

Only those applicants who demonstrate clearly how they meet our person specification will be shortlisted for interview.

This vacancy may close early if it receives a high number of applications. Please complete and submit your application in good time to avoid disappointment.