Deputy Ward Manager
At a glance
- Band
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Posted
- 03/09/2026
- Closes
- 10/09/2026
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Role summary
This is an opportunity for a Band 6 Sister/Deputy Ward Manager nurse on Ward 5A at the Royal Liverpool University Hospital. The role involves providing nursing leadership, clinical guidance, and support to the multidisciplinary team. The post holder will assist the ward manager in ensuring good practice, facilitating staff learning and development, and managing a busy surgical ward. Experience in surgical nursing is essential, with HPB experience being an advantage.
Key responsibilities
- Co-ordination of the ward/department on a day to day basis including planning, allocation and evaluation of work carried out by teams or individuals and self.
- Provide specialist knowledge to all Nursing staff on the ward/ department.
- Promote a critical, analytical approach to the delivery of nursing care ensuring that the ward/ department environment is responsive to current issues.
- Assist in the review and update of procedures and protocols relating to the care of patients.
- Develop methods for identifying, maintaining and improving the quality of patient care through facilitation of best practice and clinical benchmarking.
- Explore and undertake expanded practice to optimise patient care as required within specialist area, in accordance with Trust policies.
Essential criteria
- Excellent communication skills
- Ability to work in changing environments
- Basic IT skills, including e-mail and word processing
- Application of current nursing issues and healthcare governance
- Evidence of management experience
- Evidence of change management
- Application of evidence based practice
- Evidence of developing high standards of patient care
- Lead role in education of staff and patients
- Registered Nurse, current NMC registration
- Teaching and assessing qualification or equivalent
- Post registration qualification in speciality
- Supportive of colleagues
- High level of personal and professional credibility
- Well motivated
Desirable criteria
- 1st level degree
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 6 at £37,338 – £44,962 a year, across England.
This advert: £39,959 – £48,117 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
Posted 2d ago · Closes in 6d
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Job summary
An opportunity for a band 6 sister/Deputy Ward Manager nurse on ward 5A at the Royal Liverpool University Hospital, one site of the Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
You will be part of the 5A family which prides itself on professionalism, teamwork and patient and colleague support. This ward, which includes an enhanced recovery unit, specialises in hepatic, pancreatic and biliary surgery and all general surgery.
This post is for a band 6 to work alongside the ward manager to help with nursing leadership on ward 5A. You will have excellent clinical and communication skills being able to give practical guidance to nursing staff, along with direction and support to the multidisciplinary team. In addition the post holder will be supporting the ward manager in ensuring good practice by taking part in audit, facilitating learning and development of nursing staff, and general management required to run a busy surgical ward.
Experience in surgical nursing is a necessity, HPB experience is an advantage.
Main duties of the job
Clinical Responsibilities
- Co-ordination of the ward/department on a day to day basis including planning, allocation and evaluation of work carried out by teams or individuals and self.
- Provide specialist knowledge to all Nursing staff on the ward/ department
- Will promote a critical, analytical approach to the del
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