Paediatric Deputy Ward Manager
At a glance
- Band
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time, Part-time
- Posted
- 04/09/2026
- Closes
- 20/09/2026
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Role summary
This is an exciting permanent opportunity for a Deputy Ward Manager to join the Paediatric team at York Hospital. The role requires excellent clinical and leadership skills to support and lead junior staff, ensuring high standards of care. You will work autonomously and as part of a team, coordinating shifts and acting as a positive role model. The role offers excellent learning and development opportunities with a tailor-made professional development plan.
Essential criteria
- Working with a wide range of professionals
- At least 2 years at Band 5 or equivalent Clinical audit and standard setting
- Ability to communicate effectively with a multi-disciplinary team
- Ability to teach, supervise and assess qualified and unqualified staff
- Time management skills Clinical leadership
Desirable criteria
- Understanding of training needs in relation to post
- Recruitment and selection
- Special Knowledge
- Insight into clinical speciality
- Insight into current issues in nursing/ professional issues
- Standards of professional practice
- Ability to communicate effectively with a multi-disciplinary team
- Ability to teach, supervise and assess qualified and unqualified staff
- Clinical leadership
- Recognised teaching/assessing qualification
- Registered Children's Nurse or Registered Sick Children's nurse Part 8/15
- Working with a wide range of professionals
- At least 2 years at Band 5 or equivalent Clinical audit and standard setting
- Ability to communicate effectively with a multi-disciplinary team
- Ability to teach, supervise and assess qualified and unqualified staff
- Time management skills Clinical leadership
- Understanding of training needs in relation to post
- Recruitment and selection
- Special Knowledge
- Insight into clinical speciality
- Insight into current issues in nursing/ professional issues
- Standards of professional practice
- Ability to communicate effectively with a multi-disciplinary team
- Ability to teach, supervise and assess qualified and unqualified staff
- Clinical leadership
- Recognised teaching/assessing qualification
- Registered Children's Nurse or Registered Sick Children's nurse Part 8/15
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.
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York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Paediatric Deputy Ward Manager
The closing date is 20 September 2026
Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a permanent Deputy Ward Manager to join the Paediatric team on the Children's Wards at York Hospital.
You should possess excellent clinical and leadership skills and be highly motivated and dedicated to provide support and leadership to junior staff to ensure a high standard of care is being delivered across both units.
As Band 6 Deputy Sister/Charge Nurse you will be expected to work autonomously as well as part of the team, and will be responsible for coordinating and leading the team on a shift by shift basis, utilising and sharing your clinical expertise and acting as a positive role model within the department for staff, patients and carers.
You will be supported by our enthusiastic Children's Nursing Team, Nurse Educator Specialist Nurses, and medical staff, offering you excellent learning and development opportunities. You will have a tailor made personal and professional development plan to support your career development within this exciting new role.
Main duties of the job
Work with the medical workforce and multidisciplinary team to deliver outstanding care to all Children and Young People who access the service. You will be supported to develop into the role by the N
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