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Job overview

We're looking for a Deputy Ward Manager to join our friendly team at Hellingly, where you will be a role model, leader, and clinical lead. A Deputy Ward Manager is an exciting role where you will develop your clinical leadership skills and knowledge while maintaining your hands-on nursing skills. The emphasis of this role is on promoting clinical expertise and teaching, whilst being a key member of the ward leadership team.

The role is situated on Oak Ward, a 15-bedded Male medium secure forensic ward. Where we consider a complex picture for our service users of victims of significant trauma and abuse, but also perpetrators of violence.

No two days are the same; while we have structure and set boundaries, there is always a need to be able to adapt to what is a dynamic ward environment.

This post offers a 5% hard-to-recruit premia and is subjected to a Trust-wide standard sign-up bonus of £4k and a Relocation bonus of up to £8k  (pro rata applies and is subject to terms and conditions). 

Main duties of the job

Oak Ward is a unique workplace and requires nurses to manage an ever-changing environment. You will be working with service users who have committed criminal offences, but have often also been victims themselves. Service users regularly experience stigma for both mental health and offending history, so our role is to develop trusting and safe relationships that balance being collaborative and supportive with sound risk management skills.

As a Deputy Ward Manager, your responsibilities will be to:

• Uphold the values of the ward promoting openness, transparency and learning
• Be an enthusiastic mentor to and supervise new staff, newly qualified nurses and junior staff
• Oversee certain areas of clinical expertise such as medication management and physical health provision on the ward
• Support the Ward Manager with HR tasks such as return to works and sickness monitoring
• Accurately and timely maintain clinical documentation
• Manage shifts as a nurse in charge
• Conduct thorough assessments of risks and risk management plans to support incidents on the ward

We are looking for an individual who is resilient, driven, and passionate about providing high-quality nursing care to our patients, whilst supporting the leadership on Oak Ward.

Working for our organisation

Sussex Partnership provides mental health and learning disability care for all age groups across Sussex and for children and young people in Hampshire.

We encourage flexible working. We know that a positive work/life balance brings about huge health-related benefits, which has a positive impact on the care we provide. Please speak to us about flexible working, for example, home-working, part time hours, flexible start/finish times or anything else. If it works for you and works for the role, we'll do our best to make it happen.

 Our Partnership Perks:

• Access to a host of discount schemes including reductions on fuel, savings on high street and online stores, as well as Blue Light Card advantages!
• Generous holiday entitlement (starting at 27 days + 8 bank holidays)
• Maternity package
• Excellent NHS Pension
• Discounted gym memberships
• Free parking on-site
• A position within a trust rated as ‘Outstanding’ for caring and ‘Good’ overall by the CQC, where 82% agree that care for patients is our top priority
• Access to full psychological support via our internal wellbeing team
• Excellent supervision programmes, with ongoing opportunities for training and development