In this Band 7 Ward Manager role, you will lead the Paddington Ward paediatric service, including the High Dependency Unit and Medical Day Case Unit, on a six-month secondment. You will provide visible, compassionate leadership, oversee 24/7 operations, and drive safe, family-centred care with governance and service improvement. This is a development opportunity to gain ward-management experience with strong support from an established leadership team. You will work alongside multi-professional colleagues to optimise patient flow, staffing and quality standards.
Responsibilities
Provide visible clinical and operational leadership to the multidisciplinary team
Oversee daily ward operations, patient flow, staffing, acuity and escalation
Maintain high standards of safe, effective and family-centred care
Lead workforce development, wellbeing, performance and a positive team culture
Drive governance and improvement through incident review, audit, risk management and learning
Manage ward resources effectively and collaborate across Child Health and wider services
Key requirements
Registered Childrens Nurse/RSCN with leadership and management training
APLS or EPLS
teaching and assessing experience
substantial acute paediatric experience at Band 6 or above
strong leadership, communication, governance, safeguarding, organisational and change-management skills
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