Job overview

Your leadership can transform care – join us as Ward Manager and help shape the future of older adult mental health services.

We are seeking a motivated and compassionate Ward Manager to lead our Older Adult Ward Abbeygate. You will provide strong clinical and operational leadership, ensuring the highest standards of patient-centred care for older adults living with complex mental health needs, dementia, and physical health conditions.

As Ward Manager, you will:

• Lead and support a multidisciplinary team.

• Oversee safe and effective day-to-day ward management.

• Drive quality improvement, patient safety, and compliance with standards.

• Support staff development, wellbeing, and professional growth.

• Work in partnership with patients, families, and wider services to promote recovery and safe discharge.

Main duties of the job

As Ward Manager, you will provide strong clinical and operational leadership, ensuring high standards of care and continuous quality improvement for older adults with complex mental health needs. Working closely with the Clinical Nurse Specialist, you’ll oversee daily ward operations, support and develop staff.

Key responsibilities include:

• Leading and supporting the ward team through supervision and appraisals.

• Overseeing admissions, patient flow, and safe discharge planning.

• Driving quality improvement, audits, and service development.

• Contributing to multidisciplinary meetings and effective partnership working.

• Supporting recruitment, retention, and staff wellbeing.

Working for our organisation

Our Trust values of Positively, Respectfully and Together sum up perfectly what this role encompasses. If you have the right values to join our organisation, you will be supported with a programme of training and development.

We are committed to equality, diversity and inclusion and want to reflect the diversity of our local communities within our teams.  We welcome applications from all talented individuals with the relevant qualifications, skills, knowledge and experience.

We are committed to delivering quality driven mental health services. Every individual makes a valuable contribution. We are proud of our staff who have been commended for the care they provide. Do you value working positively, respectfully and together? If so, we’d love you to join us!