Ward Manager

Band 7

• Medicine & Emergency Care Services
• Band 7
• Permanent
• Part time - 27.5 hours per week
• 328-UE-7509511

• The James Cook University Hospital
• Middlesbrough
• £47,810 - £54,710 per annum
• Yearly
• 10/11/2025 23:59

Job overview

This is an exciting opportunity to join the Medical and Emergency Care collaborative as a Ward Manager.

We are looking for talented, motivated professional senior nurse, preferable in a clinical sister’s position at present, although not essential, who is able to demonstrate strong leadership and managerial skills within the clinical setting. As the Manager you will be pivotal in leading the team in the delivery of enhanced holistic services and standards of care to our patients aligned to the STAQC principles.

Out patient department manager

Budget holder.

Staff management and development.

running clinics

Main duties of the job

As an integral part of the managerial team you will be expected to demonstrate exceptionally diverse communication skills. Have an aptitude for people management and the professional competence to make informed decisions to effectively manage operational and clinical incidents, staffing issues and effective bed utilisation throughout the directorate.

Please note this post may close at sufficient applicants.

Working for our organisation

We support the 'Making Every Contact Count' approach to behaviour change in the promotion of health and wellbeing of individuals and communities.

South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust offers leadership and improvement training to all new staff to the Trust; this training programme has been designed to support our leaders in developing their understanding of leadership and management skills. You will be expected to attend the leadership development programme, and the Quality Improvement Programme that the Trust delivers. This programme aims to

Explore leadership within the NHS

Promote Trust Values and Behaviours

Develop your Leadership effectiveness and skills

Practitioner level in quality improvement, equipping you with the skills to champion, lead and complete quality improvement within your role

After you complete this four and a half days of training you will be able to explore further leadership and improvement training opportunities, we offer further in-house courses dependent upon your role and bitesize programmes and leadership apprenticeships at level 3,5 and 7.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see the full job description and person specification document(s) attached for main responsibilities of the role.

Person specification

Knowledge

Essential criteria

• Excellent organisational and communication skills, with the ability to communicate complex and highly sensitive information
• Advanced clinical decision-making and critical thinking skills
• Clinically able to prioritise and delegate effectively whilst working within acute/stressful situations
• Assertiveness skills
• Ability to initiate, manage and sustain change
• Teaching skills
• Demonstrates an ability to work on own initiative as well as part of a team
• Demonstrates an ability to lead and manage a team to provide safe effective clinical care
• Demonstrates an ability to motivate staff by providing a positive role model
• Able to respond and adapt appropriately to changing needs of the service
• Demonstrates competent IT and system skills
• Participate in regular clinical supervision

Desirable criteria

• Previous Leadership and team management experience.

Qualifications and Training

Essential criteria

• Registered nurse with the NMC
• Degree/ Diploma, specialist training to masters level
• Highly developed clinical skills

Desirable criteria

• Leadership and Management qualification L6/L7

Experience

Essential criteria

• Experience in CCI
• Effective leadership and management skills
• Effective people management skills

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.

Application numbers

Documents to download

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Further details / informal visits contact

• Name
• Sharon Yearwood
• Job title
• department Manager
• Email address
• sharon.yearwood@nhs.net
• Telephone number
• 01642 850850
• Additional information

• ext 54389

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