Deputy Ward Manager

Job overviewYou must have post registration experience including working with older adults and have completed mentorship training to be able to mentor students. You must also be able to support the needs of people diagnosed with dementia, their relatives and carers. This requires excellent communication and liaison skills.You will need to have a good knowledge of DoLs assessments and safeguarding, and have a working knowledge of CHC checklist and BICCA/FACE assessment knowledge.You will also have excellent interpersonal skills to manage and supervise staff effectively. You will be working with a wide range of experienced and friendly professionals providing high quality care with compassion. We offer regular clinical supervision and management supervision.Main duties of the jobWe believe in clinically led, management supported services and want to strengthen nurse leadership to provide safe, compassionate, creative services which really make a difference to patient lives. You will therefore be an excellent clinician, committed to the concept of person centred care and that of personal care.You will have the ability to influence, enthuse and enable, a role model who leads from the front and by example you will use your clinical expertise to improve practice, to challenge tradition and to work with the team to create a culture of therapeutic optimism and hope.Resilient, tenacious and ready for a challenge you will support and develop staff to provide the kind of service you would want to recommend to family and friends.We will offer development programme opportunities, supervision, reflective practice, mentoring and coaching and will ensure you are fully supported in your new role. Some working knowledge of the Dementia Toolkit would be highly desirable.Working for our organisationCome and work with us in the Garden of England where we combine exceptional professional development opportunities with a tremendous quality of life.We are Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust (KMPT), providing mental health, learning disability and specialist services, serving 1.8 million people across the county.The Trust (rated Good overall by the CQC and Outstanding for care) has 3,283 staff working in 66 buildings across 33 locations, covering an area of 1,450 square miles.As this post is based in Dartford the successful applicant willreceive an additional payment each month.5% of basic salary, subject to a minimum payment of£1,192 per year and a maximum payment of £2,011 per year (the agreed annual amount will be divided into 12 equal amounts and paid monthly)You will be joining friendly, passionate colleagues, rich in their diversity, who are committed to providing excellent care to our service users and their loved ones.The nature of our work attracts kindness and compassion as standard and everyone from our cleaners and porters to the chief executive and chairman are recognised as playing a vital role in providing an exemplary service.Detailed job description and main responsibilitiesYou must have post registration experience including working with older adults and have completed mentorship training to be able to mentor students. You must also be able to support the needs of people diagnosed with dementia, their relatives and carers. This requires excellent communication and liaison skills.You will need to have a good knowledge of DoLs assessments and safeguarding, and have a working knowledge of CHC checklist and BICCA/FACE assessment knowledge.You will also have excellent interpersonal skills to manage and supervise staff effectively. You will be working with a wide range of experienced and friendly professionals providing high quality care with compassion. We offer regular clinical supervision and management supervision.Please see job description for full details.Person specificationQualificationEssential criteriaRMN completion of Preceptorship programmeExperience of Mental HealthEvidence of recent PracticeDesirable criteriaPractice developmentLeadership knowledge and further trainingKnowledgeEssential criteriaMentel Health LegislationSafeguarding and ability to apply principlesClinical effectiveness and patient experiencePerson Centered care planningGood IT SkillsMedication CompetencyKnowledge of NMC guidelines and revalidationDesirable criteriaExperience co-ordinating shiftsExperience managing or supervising lower grade staffClinical reflection evidenceKMPT Staff Benefits:NHS pension scheme Your employer pays 20.6% towards your pension and life assurance benefits.Please see Apply . Apply /Pensions.aspx for more details.Annual leave for Agenda for Change On appointment to NHS27 days for full time or pro rata if part timeAfter 5 years NHS service29 days full time or pro rata if part timeAfter 10 years NHS service33 days full time or pro rata if part timePlus bank holidays, that's up to 41 days - more than 8 weeks paid time off!Medical staffs have national Terms and Conditions.Buying and selling of annual leave is also available as part of our flexible approach to staff benefits.Recommend a friend campaign If you already work for us you could refer a friend from outside of the Trust to any of the roles below and you can receive £1000 if they are successfully recruited; Nursing staff - RMN RGN RNLD - Band 5 and 6, Medical Doctors, Clinical Psychologist and Allied Health Professionals,Flexible working Covers job share, term time working, flexible shifts etc. Just ask and we will try to help.Statutory and occupational maternity, paternity or adoption leave Dependant on length of NHS serviceOther paid/unpaid leave This can be for Jury Service, Reserved Armed Forces, etc. This is paid outside of annual leave.Non paid leave for career breaksStaff Support KMPT offers a face to face counselling service for any issues not just work related problems.NHS discounts and shopping vouchers Staff can sign up for Red Guava, PS discounts and Health Service Discounts to receive a variety of discounts in travel, fashion, technology, mobile phone contracts, food and drink, days out etc.Learning and Development opportunities In addition to the mandatory subjects there are a number of leadership, management and staff topic areas, including coaching and mentoring.InductionKMPT is committed to supporting all new staff and this includes a comprehensive Induction programme. The programme's duration depends on role and can be from 2 days to 4 weeks (not always consecutive days).The Induction programme will provide an excellent opportunity for new staff to meet and engage with KMPT's subject specialists and include the required training.The programme may involve some travel to the various training venues across Kent and Medway, the main ones being Canterbury, Maidstone and Dart This job was posted to
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