Ward Manager
At a glance
- Band
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Posted
- 16/09/2026
- Closes
- 30/09/2026
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Role summary
This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced and highly motivated Critical Care Nurse to join the Critical Care team as a Ward Manager at Darlington Memorial Hospital. The role involves day-to-day management and professional leadership of the nursing team, ensuring safe, effective, and high-quality patient care. The successful candidate will provide visible, professional, and clinical leadership, develop the nursing workforce, and lead improvements in quality, governance, and clinical practice. They will also be responsible for safe staffing, workforce planning, and effective resource use.
Key responsibilities
- Provide visible, professional and clinical leadership to the Critical Care nursing team.
- Ensure the safe and effective day-to-day management of the unit.
- Provide specialist clinical expertise and ensure assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of care.
- Lead and develop the nursing workforce, promoting a positive and inclusive culture.
- Contribute to the development and implementation of specialist protocols, standards and services within Critical Care.
- Work collaboratively across professional and organisational boundaries, representing Critical Care at relevant meetings.
Essential criteria
- Registered Nurse (adult) on part 1 of the NMC register
- Valid UK NMC PIN
- Able to travel across Trust sites to meet the requirements of the post
- Substantial post registration nursing experience
- Experience within a leadership role
- Clinical expertise in the area of practice
- Awareness / experience of budget and resource management
- Experience of staff line management
- Experience of Risk Management
- Experience of managing challenging situations
- Effective communication and interpersonal skills
- Demonstrate emotional intelligence
- Effective organisational skills
- Management of budgets
- Experience of change management, Quality / service improvement.
- Ability to deal with non-routine and unpredictable nature of workload and individual patient contact working with high levels of concentration.
- Competent IT Skills
- Be able to work flexibly within the service needs.
- Nursing Degree or equivalent qualification
- Post graduate critical care qualification
- Evidence of continual professional development
- Teaching/assessors qualification / certificate
Desirable criteria
- Leadership qualification
- Step 4 Critical Care competencies in management and leadership
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.
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County Durham & Darlington NHS Foundation Trust
Ward Manager
The closing date is 30 September 2026
Job summary
An exciting opportunity has
arisen to join our Critical Care team as a Ward Manager at Darlington Memorial
Hospital. This key leadership role has responsibility for the day-to-day
management and professional leadership of the nursing team, ensuring the
delivery of safe, effective and high-quality patient care.
We are looking for an
experienced and highly motivated Critical Care Nurse with strong leadership and
communication skills and a passion for developing people and services. Working
with the wider Critical Care leadership and multidisciplinary teams, the Ward
Manager will provide visible and compassionate leadership, support workforce
development and safe staffing, and lead improvements in quality, governance and
clinical practice.
Main duties of the job
The successful candidate will provide visible, professional
and clinical leadership to the Critical Care nursing team, with responsibility
for the safe and effective day-to-day management of the unit. They will provide
specialist clinical expertise and ensure the assessment, planning,
implementation and evaluation of care reflects current evidence and delivers
consistently high standards of safe, patient-focused critical care.
Working closely with the Matron and wider multidisciplinary
team, t
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