Ward Manager - Ward C9

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At East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust our vision is to be widely recognised for providing safe, personal and effective care. We currently provide high quality services and treat over 600,000 people across East Lancashire and the surrounding area. We employ over 9,500 staff, many of whom are internationally renowned and have won awards for their work.

As a new way of working in the Medicine and Emergency Care, Care Group we have designated Ward C9 as an area to cohort medically optimised for discharge. patients waiting for:

ii) Pathway 1, Reablement, Package of Care, Package of Care restarts, Early Supported Discharge (ESD)

iii) Pathway 2 patients for residential care homes from Blackburn with Darwen only.

iv) Waiting for the delivery of specialist equipment

v) Lancashire County Council patients with a confirmed discharge date to a residential care home

This model means the ward is nurse-led, with some therapist support if required, and medical cover only an as-required in-reach support for patients who may relapse. The proposal is the patients are managed to their discharge by the nurses, therapists, and discharge support teams, depending on the patients’ particular needs, with a clear focus on criteria led discharge.

You will be responsible for the leadership and development of the ward nursing team.

It will be crucial as the ward manager that you will actively seek the support and positive engagement of key stakeholders in the discharge process: including but not limited to Discharge Matron, Discharge Lounge, Clinical Site Management, Intensive Home Support, Intermediate Care Teams, Therapists, Pharmacy, Integrated Discharge Service (IDS), Ward Managers and Ward Coordinators.

It is essential that you you will have the leadership and effective communication skills to ensure that suitable patients as per the criterion in the Standard Operation Procedure is followed with close working with the IDS Team and MEC Bed manager/Clinical Flow Team & Discharge Matron to ensure the best use is made of the Ward.

Our vision is to be widely recognised for providing safe, personal and effective care. We currently provide high quality services and treat over 700,000 patients a year from the most serious of emergencies to planned operations and procedures.

We employ over 9,500 staff, many of whom are internationally renowned and have won awards for their work and achievements.

Provide strong nurse leadership,

Be a confident role model for the junior nursing team

Ensure improvements in patient outcomes and the safety, treating

patients with dignity and respect.

In conjunction with the Matron ensure all quality improvement work

is implemented and sustained.

Ensure an excellent patient journey, safe and effective discharge

planning to achieve a positive patient experience.

Support the provision of a clean environment

• Registered healthcare professional with current registration (NMC )
• Education to degree level, ideally in health related subject and speciality
• Non-Medical prescriber &/or willing to under take training
• Leadership qualification or willing to undertake
• management & leadership experience post registration
• Evidence of involvement in leading change and developing programmes of care.
• work experience in a relevant professional environment
• Experience of Safety and Quality initiatives, Incident and Risk management.
• Proficiency with office systems and computers. Working knowledge of Microsoft Office e.g. Word, Excel, PowerPoint and power-bi
• Able to provide good quality and accurate reports
• Evidence of professional knowledge supplemented by post reg. specialist managerial / leadership training and CPD
• Demonstrate effective communication / negotiation skills is able to make operational judgements involving complex facts/situations
• Evidence of…