Ward Manager - Nicol Unit

Ward Manager - Nicol Unit

South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust

The closing date is 22 January 2026

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Band 7 Ward Manager for a 18–21 bedded rehabilitation unit on Nicol Unit, Stratford Hospital, Stratford upon Avon.

The successful candidate must be enthusiastic, self‑motivated and have a minimum of 3 years' band 6 ward experience. They need to support and develop staff as well as maintaining their own clinical and leadership skills. He/she will be committed to the role and create an environment where patients are shown care and compassion reflecting the values of our Trust.

You will be required to lead and collaborate within a multi‑disciplinary team to ensure patients reach their rehabilitation potential. This is often challenging but equally rewarding role in supporting patients with multiple co‑morbidities and complex needs.

One of the main responsibilities of the ward manager is to support the flow of patients. The successful candidate will be expected to maintain safe staffing levels, deliver effective care and review incidents/complaints/audits.

Establish, develop, maintain, monitor and facilitate the delivery of services at ward/departmental level, ensuring services provided meet organisational objectives, divisional service strategies and quality accounts.

Come and join a Trust rated Outstanding by the CQC. South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust have been rated as outstanding following our latest inspection by the CQC and we are recruiting new staff to come and help us improve even further. In addition our staff survey results have placed us 4th in the country for recommended place to work.

We provide services across Warwickshire and beyond ranging from Hospitals in Warwick, Stratford‑Upon‑Avon, Royal Leamington Spa and Shipston‑on Stour to Community Services across the county. We are a progressive, expanding organisation with great ambition around improving quality, integrating pathways and delivering high levels of productivity. Our values can be summed up in one sentence. We are 'Trusted to provide safe, inclusive, effective and compassionate care'.

Throughout the recruitment process you will be asked to think about how you demonstrate these values and how they impact on your work. It doesn't matter what role you do, whether it is patient facing or not, we are all working in the same way with our values at the core.

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Professional/Clinical

To provide strong visible leadership to all staff within the ward and across the organisation, ensuring that nursing practice is up to date, evidence based and cost effective.

To develop the ward teams, individuals and self to enhance performance, ensuring that staff training needs to meet organisational objectives are pursued through the principles of IPR and PDP and knowledge & skills framework, in accordance with Trust Policies and procedures.

To be responsible for own professional registration and ensure that all nurses working on the ward have valid NMC registration and practise in accordance with the NMC Code, Standards of Conduct, Performance and Ethics for Nurses and Midwives and in accordance to Trust policy, ensuring a robust system is in place to checking registered practitioners registration status.

Provide leadership for the implementation of the quality initiatives such as Essence of Care benchmarking, Productive Ward Project.

Ensure a strong team focus on high quality, clinically effective healthcare that meet our patients needs, is embedded in ward culture.

Create and maintain a strong culture of Infection Prevention & Control awareness & practice and ensure robust systems are in place to measure IP&C standards, celebrate & share good practice and develop & review action plans to address deficiencies.

Develop, maintain and review annually the wards philosophy so that this continually reflects the aims of the team, division and…