Ward Manager
At a glance
- Band
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Posted
- 20/08/2026
- Closes
- 03/09/2026
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Role summary
This role seeks an experienced and motivated Ward Manager to provide strong clinical and operational leadership. The successful candidate will be responsible for delivering high-quality patient care, leading staff development, managing resources, and driving quality improvement initiatives. Working collaboratively with multidisciplinary teams, you will ensure excellent patient experience and effective service delivery, while promoting Trust values and supporting your team's professional growth. This is an exciting opportunity for a nurse leader passionate about patient care and service improvement.
Essential criteria
- Professional Registration for Paediatric Nursing/Health Studies
- Teaching Qualification
- Post-registration management qualification or equivalent experience
- Paediatric Advanced Life Support
- Evidence of continuing professional development
- Experience in nurse management
- Significant experience at band 6 within acute hospital setting
- Experience of change management
- Experience of Acute paediatrics
- Presentation skills and relevance to question
- Experience of writing guidelines/protocols & policies
- Sound knowledge of evidence based practice
- Knowledge and experience of audit process
- Evidence of involvement in change management
- Sound resource (human and finance) management skills
Desirable criteria
- Some knowledge of business planning
- Can demonstrate characteristics of effective leadership
- Demonstrates ability to motivate, train and develop staff
- Is innovative, positive and has ability to stimulate a productive team Able to set/achieve individual/team objectives and meet deadlines
- Able to role model both clinically & managerially
- Other Job Requirements
- Up to date with current NHS priorities and nursing issues
- Flexible and adaptable in meeting changing service demand
- Experience of project work and report writing
- Professional Registration for Paediatric Nursing/Health Studies
- Teaching Qualification
- Post-registration management qualification or equivalent experience
- Paediatric Advanced Life Support
- Evidence of continuing professional development
- Experience in nurse management
- Significant experience at band 6 within acute hospital setting
- Experience of change management
- Experience of Acute paediatrics
- Presentation skills and relevance to question
- Experience of writing guidelines/protocols & policies
- Sound knowledge of evidence based practice
- Knowledge and experience of audit process
- Evidence of involvement in change management
- Sound resource (human and finance) management skills
- Some knowledge of business planning
- Can demonstrate characteristics of effective leadership
- Demonstrates ability to motivate, train and develop staff
- Is innovative, positive and has ability to stimulate a productive team Able to set/achieve individual/team objectives and meet deadlines
- Able to role model both clinically & managerially
- Other Job Requirements
- Up to date with current NHS priorities and nursing issues
- Flexible and adaptable in meeting changing service demand
- Experience of project work and report writing
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 7 at £46,148 – £52,809 a year, across England.
This advert: £49,387 – £56,515 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
Posted 10d ago · Closes in 5d
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Job summary
We are seeking an experienced and motivated Ward Manager to provide strong clinical and operational leadership within our ward team. The successful candidate will be responsible for delivering high-quality, safe and effective patient care, leading and developing staff, managing resources and driving quality improvement initiatives. Working collaboratively with multidisciplinary colleagues, you will ensure excellent patient experience, effective service delivery and continuous improvement, while promoting Trust values and supporting the professional development and wellbeing of your team.
This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced nurse leader with a passion for patient care, staff development and service improvement to make a significant contribution to the delivery of outstanding healthcare services.
Main duties of the job
Establish, develop, maintain, monitor and facilitate the delivery of services at ward/departmental level, ensuring services provided meet organisational objectives, divisional service strategies and quality accounts.
About us
**_Come and join a Trust rated Outstanding by the CQC. South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust have been rated as outstanding following our latest inspection by the CQC and we are recruiting new staff to come and help us improve even further. In addition our staff survey results have placed u
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