Ward Manager

Job overview

An exciting Senior Nursing opportunity has arisen within our Forensic Services at Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust.

We are looking to recruit a dynamic, motivated and innovative Ward Manager to work on our 15 bedded female inpatient low secure service at The Chichester Centre.

You will join the Forensic Multidisciplinary leadership team which is responsible for promoting our clinical strategy and delivering high quality evidence-based practice across the secure forensic pathway, promoting treatment interventions through a trauma informed lens. The service is currently participating in 5 Quality & Improvement projects which you would have opportunity to support and develop.

You would be supported by a strong clinical nursing team. There is also a Modern Matron and 3 Ward Managers, along with robust operational support from an Inpatient General and Service Manager. There are training & research opportunities to grow and develop a strong operational mindset. Co-production is at the centre of our care and the successful applicant will have the opportunity to participate in our Working Together Group

The aim is to ensure excellence in nursing practice and that service delivery is based on NICE guidelines, Trust approved policies, documents and guidance.

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This post offers the Trust's £2,000 Incentive or Relocation Incentive for Band 5-6 Nurses & Practitioners, (pro rata and subject to terms and conditions; please see attached Protocol Document for full details).

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To be responsible for the management and leadership of a team of health professionals providing care over a 24-hour period, including responsibility for assessment planning, implementation and evaluation of care for the patients within their sphere of responsibility.

To ensure that the team functions in line with the care group core business.

To provide effective leadership and management to staff which promotes high performance standards both individually and as a team, in the achievement of the Trust’s objectives and priorities. The Trust’s success will be dependent on all managers playing an active role to make sure the existing areas of good employment practice are universally embedded within the organisation.

To deliver a service within the agreed budgets and resources ensuring maximum value in terms of clinical and cost effectiveness.

Working for our organisation

Forensic mental health is a unique and fascinating field which provides both challenge and opportunity in abundance.

Being curious, creative, self-aware and assertive are important skills that you will build on, as you are often required to think ‘outside the box’.

We play a crucial part in supporting and advocating service users towards recovery, while maintaining the legal requirements within the MHA and of public protection.

Our Trust:

We provide mental health and learning disability care for all ages across Sussex and for children and young people in Hampshire. 

We’d love you to join our organisation, rated ‘good’ overall and ‘outstanding’ for caring by the CQC. Our staff agree, with 82% recognising patient care as our top priority in our staff survey.

Other key survey results include:

•    79% reporting feeling able to make suggestions to improve the work within their team.
•    77% identifying the opportunities to show initiative in their roles.