Job summary
- Main area
- Forensic Medium Secure
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 380-FR0585
- Employer
- Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Trevor Gibbens Unit, Maidstone
- Town
- Maidstone
- Salary
- £47,810 - £54,710 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 14/08/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Ward Manager
Band 7
The CQC rates us as an Outstanding organisation for Caring with an overall rating of Good
Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust (KMPT) offer a range of ongoing benefits to our valued workforce across the Trust. From an active health and wellbeing programme to regular recognition events, we work hard to provide varied benefits that make a difference to your work-life balance.
Would you like to work flexibly? In the NHS, we are reminded every day of how important life is. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us, for our patients and for you.
Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement.
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Job overview
We are looking for a Band 7 Ward Manager to join our busy team based in Maidstone. We require someone who demonstrates strong leadership qualities and embraces a trauma-informed approach to care. The successful candidate will play a key role in fostering a therapeutic environment, supporting staff development, and ensuring high-quality care for our service users.
• You will oversee the management of a defined caseload of clients with complex mental and physical health needs, using evidence based, person centred, recovery orientated principles and practice and trauma informed care.
• You will provide clinical and professional leadership for junior staff through supervision and training.
• You will support the strategic objectives of KMPT through maintaining the adherence of staff and self to all internal policies and external audit requirements.
• You will work on a supernumerary basis and as part of the overall team covering clinical input where required.
The post holder must hold a full, valid, UK driving licence and have access to a car/vehicle to use for business purposes (unless you have a disability as defined by the Equality Act 2010).
Main duties of the job
The Ward Manager is responsible for ensuring high standards of patient care. They are professionally responsible for ensuring the delivery of a range of multidisciplinary assessments of care needs and the development, implementation and evaluation of programmes of care.
They must maintain a supportive leadership profile for the Deputy Ward Managers and for the full multidisciplinary team whilst working collaboratively with all other professionals to support the delivery of a therapeutic approach to patient care. The wellbeing of patients, staff and visitors is paramount to the ward ethos.
The Ward Manager must be able to work competently in a challenging environment and be able to react to changing care demands whilst demonstrating the highest levels of care and empathy towards patients. This is across all aspects of the role in a flexible manner, demonstrating the trust values.
At KMPT, we are serious about diversity and inclusion, and we are working hard to build this into our DNA. We warmly welcome applications for any of our roles from people from diverse backgrounds, and we are proactively encouraging applications from underrepresented communities for our more senior roles, like this one.
Working for our organisation
Come and work with us in the Garden of England where we combine exceptional professional development opportunities with a tremendous quality of life.
We are Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust (KMPT), providing mental health, learning disability and specialist services, serving 1.8 million people in Kent and Medway, as well as specialist services for adults in Sussex and Surrey. We are rated Good overall by the CQC.
Each year we care for over 2,000 people in our hospitals and 54,000 people in the community.
We are proud to employ over 3,800 people from 66 nationalities, and to serve an increasingly diverse range of communities across rural and urban areas.
You will be joining friendly, passionate colleagues, rich in their diversity, who are committed to providing excellent care to our service users and their loved ones.
The nature of our work attracts kindness and compassion as standard and everyone from our cleaners and porters to the chief executive and chairman are recognised as playing a vital role in providing an exemplary service.
Our strategy
Our mission is what we set out to do every day
We deliver brilliant care through brilliant people
Our vision is where we want to be in the future
To provide outstanding care and to work in partnership to deliver this in the right place, for every service user, every time.
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Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the attached job description for full details of the main duties and responsibilities of the role.
At KMPT, we are serious about diversity and inclusion, and we are working hard to build this into our DNA. We warmly welcome applications for any of our roles from people from diverse backgrounds, and we are proactively encouraging applications from under-represented communities for our more senior roles, like this one.
Person specification
Qualifications, Skills and Experience
Essential criteria
- RMN/RN or RNLD – depending on the nature of the ward; Dip HE or Degree; Preparation of Mentors post-registration qualification
- Experience as a Deputy Ward Manager within an inpatient setting – or equivalent experience
- Good organisational and time management
- Strong leadership skills
- Self Motivation; ability to work autonomously and part of a multi-disciplinary team
- Ability to manage performance of staff
- Ability to participate in change
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Buba Cooper
- Job title
- General Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07785242660
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