Assistant Ward Manager

Job summary

Assistant Ward Manager - Lynfield Mount Hospital (Band 6)

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an Assistant Ward Manager to join Lynfield Mount Hospital, providing inpatient care for people experiencing acute and complex mental health needs.

We are seeking a motivated and compassionate Registered Mental Health Nurse to support the Ward Manager in delivering high-quality, recovery-focused care. The successful candidate will provide clinical leadership, support staff development and help maintain a safe, therapeutic environment for service users.

You will contribute to clinical decision-making, provide supervision and support to the multidisciplinary team, and play a key role in service improvement, quality assurance and governance activities. Responsibilities include supporting safer staffing, roster management, audits, incident learning and continuous improvement initiatives.

Working closely with colleagues, carers and partner organisations, you will help develop effective care pathways that support recovery and positive patient outcomes. You will be passionate about developing others, improving services and ensuring care is delivered in line with Trust values.

This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced nurse with strong leadership, communication and organisational skills who is committed to delivering safe, effective and person-centred care within a challenging and rewarding environment.

Main duties of the job

• Deliver and maintain high standards of care within the Lynfield Mount Hospital, promoting a safe, therapeutic and recovery-focused environment.
• Support the Ward Manager with operational management, workforce planning and staff development.
• Provide clinical leadership and specialist knowledge to the multidisciplinary team in the care of patients with complex mental health needs.
• Ensure compliance with professional, legal and quality standards, including the Mental Health Act, Mental Capacity Act and Trust policies.
• Lead on risk assessment, risk management, care planning and safe medicines management.
• Support training, supervision and professional development of staff.
• Contribute to audits, quality improvement initiatives, incident learning and service development.
• Provide visible leadership, supporting governance, performance and continuous improvement.
• Work collaboratively with patients, carers and partner agencies to support recovery and effective care pathways.
• Maintain accurate clinical records and promote high standards of documentation.

Closing Date: 22nd November 26Shortlisting Date: w/c 23rd November 26Interview Date: w/c 30th November 26

About us

Everything we do is underpinned by our core values: -

We Care- We act with respect and empathy, and always value difference

We Listen- We understand people's views and respond to their individual needs

We Deliver- We develop and provide excellent services and support our partners

We will consider a variety of flexible working arrangements to enable staff to balance their work and home lives and support staff by offering a fantastic range of benefits including :

Increase mileage rates for > 4500

A wide range of health and wellbeing support packages

A range of internal and external development and learning opportunities

Plus many more.

We are also proud to pledge our support to the Armed Forces and hold a Bronze Award in the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme.

BDCFT is dedicated to environmental and social sustainability by delivering on the commitments within our Green Plan. All staff are actively encouraged and supported to participate in training and to identify and implement sustainable quality improvement across all service areas and activities.

Please note that the Trust reserves the right to close the vacancy before the closing date if a sufficient number of applications are received. It is in the candidate's best interest to apply as soon as possible