Ward Lead- Spinal Treatment Centre
Job overview
Are you passionate about helping others on their journey to health and recovery? We are looking for an experienced and dynamic Ward Lead to lead our Spinal Rehabilitation Ward within the Duke of Cornwall Spinal Treatment Centre. This is a Specially Commissioned Service covering the South West of England.
This role offers a fantastic opportunity to make a real difference in the lives of patients while taking on a leadership role in a highly specialized and rewarding environment. You will oversee day-to-day operations, ensure the delivery of high-quality care, and support your team of nurses in providing personalised care to patients in their recovery journey.
Your positivity and encouragement will be instrumental in creating a motivating environment for our staff and patients. This role is perfect for individuals who thrive in a team setting, have a genuine desire to develop and encourage others, and possess the skills to lead a team to deliver an excellent experience for patients.By becoming part of our team, you'll contribute to enhancing patients' lives and positively impacting their recovery journey.
Main duties of the job
As the Band 7 Ward Lead you will take the key role in the management and leadership of the nursing team providing specialist nursing care in the total management of patients paralysed following spinal cord injury or non-progressive spinal cord disease.Continually looking for new and innovative ways of improving the ward and the patient’s experience enabling individual patients to optimise their physical and psychological ability to achieve independence appropriate to their level of disability within your agreed budget.
As a registered, accountable and autonomous nurse you will act in the best interests of your patients at all times and take personal responsibility for your actions and decisions. You will be responsible for patient assessment, planning of care, giving and supervising safe and compassionate care, and evaluating the effectiveness of care.
As the ward leader you will be responsible for your workforce plan, annual skill mix review, service development plan and budget management. In collaboration with the Spinal Education Lead you will be responsible for the learning and development of all staff and students within the ward with a strong focus on the development of practical requirements of delivering compassionate and competent care.
You will demonstrate strong leadership qualities that constantly reinforce the Trust values and beliefs.
Working for our organisation
Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust (SFT) is an innovative hospital with a proud heritage and over 250 years of experience behind us. Here we’re driven to deliver an outstanding experience for everyone and have been well regarded for the quality of care and treatment we continue to provide for our patients and also our staff.
We are an acute Trust, rated “Good” by the CQC, with a track record of high performance providing regional and super regional specialist services such as: Burns, Plastics & Reconstructive Surgery, Wessex Regional Genetics Laboratory, Wessex Rehabilitation, Spires Cleft Centre and the Duke of Cornwall Spinal Treatment Centre.We have about 470 beds and employ over 4000 staff.
We support flexible working and will consider requests taking into account the needs of the service. We think working here is pretty rewarding. You can access a range of NHS discounts, receive a minimum of 35 days paid holiday (pro rata), and we offer a generous pension scheme.On-site benefits include car parking (fee applies), leisure centre, day nursery and holiday play scheme.
Salisbury is an attractive place to live and work and really gives you the best of everything. With easy access to London and local airports, the city of Southampton is only a short train or car journey away or if you prefer the sea, Bournemouth is also accessible.Don’t just take our word for it, why not explore what Salisbury has to offer by visiting www.experiencesalisbury.co.uk
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see attached Job description and person specification for full details of roles and responsibilities.
Person specification
Essential criteria- NMC Registration Adult
- 2 years leadership or management experience at Band 6
- Evidence of ongoing professional development
- Qualification in spinal, neuro or rehabilitation nursing
- Experience in spinal, neuro or rehabilitation nursing
- Holiday starting at 27 days plus Bank Holidays rising to 29 days after 5 years and 33 days after 10 years for Agenda for Change staff
- Holiday entitlement for Medical and Dental staff starts at 27 days for Junior/Senior Clinical Fellows, Specialty Doctors and rises to 32 days after 5 years. Consultant entitlement starts at 32 days and rises to 34 days after 7 years
- An additional day's leave to celebrate your birthday (after 12 months)
- Access to a career average revalued earnings pension scheme
- Life assurance if a member of the pension scheme
- An extensive Health and Wellbeing offer to help you deal with life's challenges
- Exclusive deals and discounts websites saving you money on everyday purchases, treats for the family, eating out and utility bills for home
- Cycle to work scheme
- Uniform provided (where required)
- On site Day Nursery and Holiday Play scheme
- On site health and fitness club
- On site car parking
- Opportunities to get on - take advantage of our ongoing learning opportunities and training, to help you achieve the job and career you want.
Please be advised that this vacancy may close earlier than stated if we receive a large number of applications. We will not accept any applications or queries via agencies, under any circumstances.
SEASONAL RESPIRATORY VACCINATIONS
We continue to encourage and support our staff to participate in the seasonal respiratory vaccination programme in order to protect themselves, colleagues and their patients.
GETTING TO WORK
We offer parking on site at Salisbury District Hospital, a daily charge applies. We encourage our staff to utilise other green methods of getting to work such as cycling or walking where possible, and our Trust is well connected through the bus services to the city centre and other areas.
OUR COMMITMENT TO EQUALITY
We are committed to making Salisbury an inclusive and welcoming place for every single staff member, regardless of who they are and where they come from. Equality sits at the heart of everything we do, and we ensure that all employees have equal opportunity to develop, to apply for promotions and to work flexibly.
The Trust actively promotes a work environment free from harassment and discrimination and provides training for staff to ensure this happens. We also closely monitor recruitment activity, training, development and employment practices to ensure equality of practice with regard to race, colour, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, gender, sexual orientation, disability, martial status and age.
OTHER INFORMATION
If this job requires you to have DBS check to enable you to properly fulfil the requirements of the job, on appointment, you will be required to replay the cost of obtaining a DBS check and this amount will be reclaimed in instalments from your salary.Many staff use the DBS update service at a cost of £13 per annum but you need to sign up for this via their website.
Please read the job description and person specification carefully and ensure that your application reflects the knowledge, skills and experience required.
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