Job overview

Are you passionate to improve children and young peoples experience and care through dynamic leadership?  This is a great opportunity to develop the future of children's services at Sandwell and West Birmingham Trust.

We are delighted to announce we are looking to recruit an exceptional Paediatric Ward Manager to be part of our existing forward thinking Senior Paediatric Nurse Leadership team. 

We are looking for a dynamic, motivated individual who is passionate about quality driven care for children and young people. The successful candidate demonstrates a commitment to patient safety, quality improvement and an approach to leadership reflective of our Trust Values of Ambition, Respect, Compassion. 

You will be expected to use your expert clinical knowledge, alongside your management and leadership skills, to enhance the experience of children, young people and families, and seek opportunities to engage with colleagues to embed a positive practice environment.

If you are enthusiastic, ambitious and have transformational leadership skills in order to support our exciting vision.  Please do contact us for more information or an informal discussion

Main duties of the job

You will:

·         Be highly visible

·         Be clinically credible

·         Be committed to developing and transforming services

·         Work collaboratively with multi-disciplinary teams

Within Paediatric SDEC you will be supported to have oversight of:

·         Ensuring safe, effective, responsive, high-quality services

·         Workforce management

·         Finance and budgeting

·         Education and development

·         Patient flow

·         Performance management

·         Digital technology

·         Evidence based Practice and Research

Working for our organisation

Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust (SWB) serves Birmingham and the Black Country – one of the country’s most culturally diverse areas. It’s a friendly and welcoming place – a place where you can belong, and a place where you can grow.

We care for our patients, we care about our population, and we care about our people.

Our values – Ambition, Respect and Compassion – are at the heart of who we are. They guide us every step of the way; how we work with each other, and how we look after our patients and their families; how we respect and value the rich diversity of our team and our community.

Our Trust has always aspired to be more than a hospital, more than a healthcare provider. Our purpose is to “Improve the Life Chances and Health Outcomes of our Population.” It is what inspires, drives, and unites us every day. It’s what makes us unique.

We want working at SWB to feel like more than just a job. We want our Trust to be a place where you can feel you belong. A place where you feel happy, safe, and rewarded. A place where you can develop your career in whatever way you choose. When we say we’re ‘with you all the way’ we want you to know that we mean it. Visit the SWB website to find out more about our ambitions and people plans.

Multi-site working 

The four partner Trusts of the Black Country Provider Collaborative (Dudley Group NHS FT, Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust, Sandwell & West Birmingham NHS Trust, and Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust) are actively working in partnership to deliver a collective vision focused on providing "better, faster and safer care to the population of the Black Country and beyond". 

To support this vision, we are (where appropriate and safe to do so) actively looking at new models of care which:

Against this context, although this post is hosted by Sandwell & West Birmingham NHS Trust, there may be an expectation to work flexibly across the four partner Trusts to better meet patient and service needs.