Job overview

Are you an experienced Acute Medicine Nurse? Are you looking to progress your career into ward management? 

If so we, have the perfect opportunity within the newly created Urgent and Emergency Care Division for a Ward Manager for our Windsor Short Stay. 

We pride ourselves on innovation and team work and are looking for the right candidate to join our team and lead them to the exciting times ahead. 

Main duties of the job

The main duties for this role include:

• Having continuing accountability for the 24-hour management of the ward and delivery of patient care.

• To have accountability for the line management of departmental based nursing staff

• Create a culture of continuous service development that is driven by patient outcomes and feedbac
• To manage resources within agreed budge
• To provide a suitable and stimulating learning environment for students and for the ongoing professional development of registered staff in collaboration with the Acute Medical education team.

• To maintain communication networks at all appropriate clinical and managerial levels.
• To ensure complaints are actioned with relevant actions assigned to improve clinical outcomes for patients

• To ensure that all audits are completed on time and working with the Matron to lead and develop achievable action plans to create service improvement
• To work closely with the flow co-ordination team to ensure timely flow through the Acute Medical Unit, adherence to 24-hour KPI’s and escalation when this is not met.

Working for our organisation

The Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEH) King's Lynn is West Norfolk has a superb unspoilt coastline with pretty villages, all with their own individual charm. The medieval port of King's Lynn has some very interesting architecture.

We provide a comprehensive range of specialist and general acute services to around 331,000 people across West and North Norfolk, in addition to parts of Breckland, Cambridgeshire and South Lincolnshire. We have more than 4,000 staff and volunteers and approximately 500 beds on a single site. Some specialist services and clinics are provided in community facilities, such as the North Cambridgeshire hospital in Wisbech. We work in partnership with neighbouring hospitals for the provision of tertiary services.

In February 2022 the QEH the Care Quality Commission rated the Trust as 'Good' in all of the core services they inspected, and recommended the Trust moves out of the recovery support system (formerly special measures).

We are delighted to have been added to the New Hospital Programme – and we look forward to bringing a new Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEH) to King’s Lynn and West Norfolk which is nothing less than our patients, local communities and staff deserve.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see the attached job description and person specification for full details of this role - any questions please do not hesitate to get in contact

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Good general education
• Registered Nurse (Level 1) or a Professional registration within health care
• Degree in Nursing
• Evidence of further continued professional development

Experience

Essential criteria

• Experience in Acute Medicine at a deputy leadership level as a shift/team leader

Desirable criteria

• Experience with regards to leading teams, coaching and producing high performing team cultures and behaviours
• Experience of participating in budget management

Skills, abilities, and knowledge

Essential criteria

• Good time management skills
• Knowledge of up-to-date nursing and NHS issues relevant to the Urgent and Emergency Care
• Knowledge of evidence informed and research-based practice relevant to Acute Medicine

Applications are welcome from anyone who meets the criteria specified in the person specification regardless of age, gender, disability, race ,ethnicity, religion, belief, sexual orientation or other personal circumstances. Only those applicants who demonstrate in the application form how they meet the criteria in the person specification will be shortlisted for interview. We not only recruit employees based on their qualifications and experience - we recruit individuals who possess and can demonstrate the behaviours which underpin our core values.