Job summary
- Main area
- Mental Health
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Shifts over 7 day week rota)
- Job ref
- 110-NMR230-0525
- Employer
- Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Coity Clinic
- Town
- Bridgend
- Salary
- £37,898 - £45,637 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 01/06/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Deputy Ward Manager
Band 6
We provide healthcare services to people living in Bridgend, Merthyr Tydfil and Rhondda Cynon Taf county borough areas, serving a population of around 450,000. We are ideally situated between Wales’s capital city, Porthcawl to the west, and the stunning scenery in the Brecon Beacons.
Our vision is to care for our communities and patients by preventing ill-health, promoting better health, providing excellent services and reducing the need for inpatient care wherever possible through the provision of strengthened home, primary and community care.
We value the diversity of our staff and welcome applications from people from protected groups under the Equality Act 2010, this specifically includes age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity/reassignment, race/nationality, religion/belief, disability, pregnancy and maternity and marriage and civil partnership.
Cwm Taf Morgannwg is a Living Wage Employer.
Please check your email account regularly. Successful applicants will receive all recruitment related correspondence via the email account registered on the application form.
All applicants are invited to apply in Welsh or English, and no preference will be given to applications submitted in either language.
Please be advised that there is a temporary top up for Bands 2 and 3 to reflect the incorporation of the top up to the living wage of £12.60 per hour - £24,638 per annum.
This temporary top up will be in place until the annual pay uplift for 2025/26 is confirmed
Job overview
An excellent opportunity has arisen for a Band 6 Deputy Ward Manager on Ward 14 within Coity Clinic. The post is a full time, permanent position.
The post holder will assist the ward manager in providing day to day management and supervision of a team of registered and unregistered staff for a ward .
To contribute to the provision of health care to the people of Cwm Taf Morgannwg with continuing responsibility for the assessment of care needs and the delivery and evaluation of skilled professional nursing care.
Main duties of the job
To be responsible and provide effective leadership for a team of staff providing a high quality service within the resources available within a defined area, and specifically to deliver on the following key areas:
- To support the ward manager in creating a culture of effective risk management is present in the team
- Actively promote the development of evidence based practice
- Foster robust working relationships with all disciplines and partners in particular the Local Authority.
- Lead on the management of complex cases and supporting staff in the management of such cases.
- To respond in the absence of the ward manager to serious untoward incidents, complaints and communications regarding team issues providing feedback to the team to ensure lessons learned are shared and inform practice development
- Deputises for Ward Manager as and when required.
Working for our organisation
Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board is part of the NHS Wales family. Our Health Board provides primary, secondary and community health and wellbeing services to around 450,000 people living in three County Boroughs: Bridgend Merthyr Tydfil, and Rhondda Cynon Taf.
We live by our core values:
- We listen, learn and improve
- We treat everyone with respect
- We all work together as one team
We are a proud local employer; around 80% of our 15000 workforce live within our region, making our staff not only our lifeblood of our organisation but of the diverse communities that we serve.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
You will be able to find a full Job description and Person Specification attached within the supporting documents or please click “Apply now” to view in Trac
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- UK NMC Registration
Desirable criteria
- Management qualification
Skills
Essential criteria
- Organisational ability and time management skills; Clinical assessment and formulation skills; People management and leadership skills; Excellent oral and written communication skills
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of managing people and ability to lead a team of staff
Desirable criteria
- Experience in a range of clinical settings
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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.
Welsh language skills are desirable
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Cath Granelli
- Job title
- Senior Nurse
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01656753723
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