Ward Manager in Carshalton

Main area: Renal

Grade: Band 7

Contract: Permanent

Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Mon - Fri with occasional on call shifts in the evening and weekend)

Site: St Helier Hospital

Town: Carshalton

Salary: £55,524 - £62,652 pa Inclusive of HCAS

Salary period: Yearly

Closing: 20/08/2026 23:59

At Epsom and St Helier Hospitals, we value respect. We put respect at the heart of all we do, by living up to our shared behaviours of kindness, professionalism, positivity and teamwork. This enables us to provide great patient care and make ESTH a great place to work. We welcome applicants who share our values.

Job overview:

We are offering a ward manager role on our Renal wards. Responsibilities include:

• Provide clinical expertise and visible leadership for the Renal acute care unit and Renal Wards.
• Enable staff to ensure that the fundamentals of care are correctly and actively in place.
• Directly manage the ward areas and the nursing staff.
• Develop and update guidelines and related practice in line with current research.
• Monitor standards of care and manage selection, deployment, training and development of staff and students.
• Assess, develop and implement specialised nursing packages of care.
• Create and support an environment of lifelong learning and continuous professional development.
• Provide highly specialised nursing advice to ensure appropriate treatment and care is delivered to the patient at all times.
• Refer and order specialised tests in line with agreed protocols and clinical governance guidelines.

Main duties of the job:

• Ensure that all care delivered is evidence based and that guidelines are up to date.
• Monitor standards of care using fundamentals of care audit framework.
• Selection, deployment, training and development of staff and students.
• Deliver specialist haemodialysis treatments including HDF & SLED in acute setting.
• Deliver specialist respiratory care acute CPAP, Optiflow and Bipap.
• Provide highly specialised nursing advice in line with NICE guidelines and UK Kidney Association guidelines.
• Be accountable for the provision, organisation and direction of the nursing care for the patient.

Working for our organisation:

St George’s, Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals and Health Group cares for a population of four million people in South West London and North East Surrey. Our sites include St George’s Hospital, St Helier Hospital, and Epsom Hospital. After years of collaboration, our two Trusts became a hospitals group in 2021.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities can be found in the attached supporting document.

Person specification:

Qualifications and Training:

• Registered General Nurse, Degree Level or relevant experience.
• Renal specialist qualification or equivalent experience.
• Teaching & Mentorship qualification.
• Experience in acute care setting and NIV therapy.
• Haemodialysis experience.

Knowledge and skills:

• Knowledge of Audit and standard setting.
• Knowledge of recruitment, selection and disciplinary procedures.
• Leadership / management skills.
• Counselling skills.
• ICT skills.
• Presentation and teaching skills.

Personal Attributes:

• Self-aware & able to manage staff well-being.
• Assertive, approachable, conscientious, professional, kind and loyal, reliable.
• Supportive to colleagues.

Experience:

• Previous experience in Renal Nursing to include haemodialysis care.
• Proven experience with change management.
• Previous experience in implementing evidence-based practice.
• Experience and knowledge of transplantation, peritoneal dialysis and general and advanced kidney care.
• Evidence of participation in research.

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.