Ward Manager in Sittingbourne

We are looking for a Ward Manager / Nurse Manager to join our team in Sittingbourne Memorial Hospital. This is a full-time position working Monday to Friday 8am-4pm.

You will effectively lead a Community Hospital Nursing Team, taking responsibility for the management and professional accountability of the Team and its individual staff members and be responsible for the overall management of the inpatient wards ensuring the provision of holistic assessment, management, and evaluation of evidenced based nursing care to patients in the community hospital settings.

• Provide skilled, effective, and evidenced based nursing care to patients with complex care needs within the inpatient community hospital settings.
• Manage the day to day, ongoing delivery, and development of the Service within remit ensuring delivery of a service that is responsive and high quality.
• Take responsibility for ensuring that patient experiences of the Service are positive.
• Deliver effective communications with patients/carers to discuss sensitive and complex information.
• Act as a role model in order to provide effective leadership, ensuring competent and safe practice.
• Plan and organise patient care according to individual needs and evaluate care according to the evidence provided by the Team.

The Ideal Candidate

You will be qualified to a degree level and hold a current NMC registration, ideally having 3 years experience in a variety of settings including hospital and community. Evidence of continuing professional education and training at degree level and Teaching / Assessing NMC approved qualification. You should be willing to become an independent supplementary prescriber (V300) registered with the NMC whilst co-ordinating and managing a team.

Package Description

As a Ward Manager, you’ll be part of our valued team at Sittingbourne Memorial Hospital. You will feel valued as a Ward Manager within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:

• Band 7 Salary with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions.
• Free tea, coffee, and milk at your base location.
• Plentiful on site-parking.
• 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.
• The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with a majority of our rated services holding “good” or “outstanding” ratings from the Care Quality Commission.

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.

As you’d expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.

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