Job Introduction
Mulberry Ward, our stroke rehabilitation unit, is looking for an enthusiastic Unit Manager to complete our In Patient Management Team.
Working alongside an established Multi-Disciplinary Team, the Unit Leader will hold responsibility for ensuring the delivery of a high standard of care to Patients. Key to this role is effective, supportive management of The Team.
Mulberry Ward Manager will be pivotal to raise stroke standards, develop a rehab ethos specific to those admitted following a stroke.
Experience in stroke care with relevant knowledge and experience will support the team in the specific SSNAP (The Sentinel Stroke National Audit Programme) guidance and standards we should be striving to benchmark against.
To enable you in this role, you will be a welcomed member to a cohesive team. You will be supported to identify your training needs which will be nurtured in a style to suit your learning, both formal and informal.
Main Responsibility
You will be responsible for contributing to the holistic assessment, planning, delivery and evaluation of patient care. You will deliver nursing care in accordance with national and local priorities, organisational Policies, procedures and guidelines and in accordance with the Nursing and Midwifery Council.
Mulberry Ward Manager will be pivotal to raise stroke standards, develop a rehab ethos specific to those admitted following a stroke.
For a full list of responsibilities please see the attached job description.
The Ideal Candidate
Our ideal candidate will be / will have:
- Registered Nurse (RN) with current live PIN on NMC register
- Teaching and assessing qualification
- Experience of people management
- 5 years’ experience as a registered nurse, with a minimum of 2 years Band 6 experience in an inpatient setting
- Experience in a variety of settings including hospital and community
- Experience of Stroke, Orthopaedic and Medical conditions with rehabilitation focus
- Experience in the management of end-of-life care
- Evidence of enteral feeding
- Experience of MDT working
As this role requires travel, a driving license and access to a car is required for this role.
Please see job description for full list.
Package Description
You will feel valued as a Band 7 Ward Manager with HCRG Care Group based at Chippenham Community Hospital, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:
- £46,148.00 - £52,809.00 Band 7 Salary with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions
- Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on everyday purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
- Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life’s emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
- Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing – from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
- Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our ‘Outstanding’ learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
- An open, just culture where you’re encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care – backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
About the Company
We change lives by transforming health and care.
Established in 2006 we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.
We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.
While it doesn’t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we’ll need to close it earlier than the date we’ve shown here. If you’re keen to join our team, we’d love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.
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