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About
Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust (CPFT) provides integrated community and mental health, learning disability and social care services of the highest standard due to our continued commitment to quality and service improvement. We aim to support people of all ages to achieve the very best they can for their health and well being. To ensure that we achieve this goal we look to recruit candidates of a high calibre that share our passion for delivering excellent service user care, research and education.
Ward Manager
Closed for applications on: 27-Sep-2024 00:01
Vacancy status: Closed
Closed for applications on: 27-Sep-2024 00:01
Key details
Location
- Site
- The Darwin Centre for Young People
- Address
- Block 19 Ida Darwin site
- Town
- Fulbourn, Cambridge
- Postcode
- CB21 5EE
- Major / Minor Region
- Cambridgeshire
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Salary
- Salary
- £46,148 - £52,809 per annum pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Grade
- (Band 7)
Specialty
- Main area
- Mental Health - Adolescent Inpatient
Job overview
Are you looking for a new challenge, are you interested in operational management, if so, we have the role for you. Full training will be provided. Flexible hours considered.
We are looking for a Ward Manager who is enthusiastic, hardworking, and dedicated to working with young people and families, to join our team at the Darwin Centre.
The Darwin Centre for Young People is a Tier 4 adolescent inpatient unit based in Cambridge. The unit offers assessment and treatment to young people, aged 13-18, experiencing psychiatric, emotional or psychological problems that interfere with their social, interpersonal and educational functioning.
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The role is to provide management and clinical leadership to the multi-disciplinary team to ensure care is delivered which is person centred and meets standards for Quality and Safety, in partnership with service users and carers, while also ensuring a least restrictive approach to care.
Working for our organisation
Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust is a health and social care organisation dedicated to providing high-quality care with compassion to improve the health and wellbeing of the people we care for, as well as supporting and empowering them to lead a fulfilling life.
Our clinical teams deliver many NHS services, not only via inpatient and primary care settings, but also within the community. These services include children's, adult and older people's mental health, forensic and specialist mental health, learning disabilities, primary care and liaison psychiatry, substance misuse, social care, research and development.
To achieve our goal, we look to recruit high-calibre candidates who share our vision and values. As an equal opportunities employer, we encourage applications from all sectors of the community, particularly from under-represented groups including people with long term conditions and members of our ethnic minority and LGBTQ+ communities.
Regrettably, we cannot offer sponsorship for all our job roles. If you apply for a role that we cannot offer sponsorship for, unfortunately, your application form will be rejected from the process.
For further information on CPFT, please visit our website at www.cpft.nhs.uk
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities
1. To manage the care pathway for young people at The Darwin Centre from referral to discharge. To include ensuring effective communication with families, referrers and external agencies, the management of commissioning arrangements, bed management and case load management for the team.
2. To have overall management responsibility for the delivery of care within the unit, in accordance with Trust policies and procedures.
3. To lead a team of clinical staff in the delivery of high-quality evidence-based practice, ensuring that regular supervision, appraisal and mandatory training takes place.
4. To ensure that all children and families have high quality comprehensive and collaborative care plans that include evidence-based assessments and interventions and address risks.
5. To ensure the programme of assessment and therapeutic activities is maintained and developed to a high standard, is evidenced based and in line with NICE guidelines, QNIC and CQC standards.
6. To oversee and support the team’s management of clinical risk and to offer advice and guidance when necessary.
7. Support the clinical team to create accurate documents of their observations and assessments to a standard that could inform child protection procedures. To ensure that for each child a discharge report is created that provides a comprehensive multi-disciplinary assessment
8. To ensure that systems that operate for staff support and supervision are maintained.
9. To be accountable for own professional practice and to maintain standards described in own profession’s code of conduct, legislation, government guidelines, trust policies and research.
10. To ensure that all policies and procedures are easily accessible to staff, are current and that unit policies are reviewed regularly
Here at Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust (CPFT) we are dedicated to providing high quality care with compassion. We deliver many of the NHS services that are provided outside of hospital and in the community such as physical, mental health and specialist services.
We are a health and social care organisation, offering a wide range of services, including:
- Integrated physical and mental health services for adults and older people;
- Specialist mental health and learning disability services;
- Children and young people’s mental health services;
- Children’s community services in Peterborough;
- Social care;
- Ground-breaking research
We strongly encourage applications from all sections of the community, particularly from under-represented groups including disabled people and members of our ethnic minorities and LGBTQ+ communities. For further information about our positive equality, diversity and Inclusion work, please visit https://www.cpft.nhs.uk/equalityanddiversity.
CPFT is looking to build upon its pool of temporary workers with Temporary Staffing Services (TSS). You will be asked at interview if you would be willing to register with TSS. This is an excellent opportunity for those looking to take on additional hours that are flexible around your personal circumstances.
Please be advised that in line with the WHO Health Workforce Support and Safeguards List, 2020 Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust currently are unable to accept applications from overseas candidates whose country of residence is classed as a ‘Red List’ country.
Applicants who require entry into the UK will be required to provide a valid police certificate from the relevant authority from each country (except the UK) where the applicant has been present for 12 months or more, 10 years before the date of visa application, while aged 18 or over.
If you are successful at interview you will be subject to pre-employment checks, including a DBS (if appropriate), references and Occupational Health. To ensure a smooth process please bring all identity documents to your interview. A list of required identity documents will be attached to your interview invitation.
All communications will be sent to you via TRAC Systems. By applying for this post you are agreeing to CPFT transferring the information contained in this application to TRAC. If you are made an offer, information will also be transferred into the national NHS Electronic Staff Records system.
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
Education / Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Professional qualification in Nursing
- Current registration with the NMC
- Post-graduate qualification or significant experience related to child, adolescent or family mental health.
Desirable criteria
- Management qualification
- Training in supervision
- Physical intervention training
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of working in an intensive service with children and/or families
- Good understanding and experience in delivering clinical and management supervision
- Experience and understanding of performance management
- Experience, knowledge and training in management and leadership
- Comprehensive understanding of the MHA, children’s Act and safeguarding
Desirable criteria
- Experience, knowledge and training in policy and service development
- Understanding of and evidence of implementing least restrictive practice
Skills & Abilities
Essential criteria
- Ability to organise, lead and motivate others from a range of disciplines
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills. Able to produce accurate coherent reports that maybe used in child protection proceedings
- Ability to remain calm and rational in difficult, challenging and distressing circumstances
- Ability to manage capability and disciplinary issues within the staff team effectively
- Ability and vision in developing personal and professional practice of self and others in relation to unit needs and government and trust policy
Desirable criteria
- Willingness and enthusiasm to get involved in physical activities with children in order to provide a role model for parents e.g. swimming, football, kite flying
Knowledge & Understanding
Essential criteria
- Knowledge of implementing MHA in practice
- An excellent working knowledge of current legislation related to this area including the Children Act 1989, and the Human Rights Act
- Knowledge and/or experience of working with child protection concerns and procedures
- An understanding of team and organisational dynamics
Desirable criteria
- Understanding of child development and developmental disorders
Physical Requirements
Essential criteria
- Ability to undertake Physical interventions
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Louise Marks
- Job title
- Service Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
No longer accepting applications
Sorry, this vacancy is no longer accepting applications.
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