Job Description

There is an exciting job opportunity for a Band 7 Ward Manager or Charge Nurse to develop their management and leadership skills. St Pancras Rehabilitation Hospital (SPRU) is a level 2 rehabilitation centre in the heart of London, just 10 minutes' walk from Kings Cross St Pancras International.



This post will be based on Rochester West which is a 19 bedded ward - specialising in caring for multi pathology patients, including patients who have had amputations. If successful the applicant will be responsible for the smooth running of the unit, working with a large MDT including nurses, doctors, and therapists ensuring the patients receive good quality nursing care.



We are looking for a candidate with strong leadership and management skills and the ability to bring positive change and growth to the unit, who is patient focused and has the ability to empower the team using training and development resources. The successful candidate also needs to reflect the CNWL Trust values and must consistently model these behaviours to the wider team.



The Ward Manager is a key leadership role with responsibility for quality: ensuring patient safety and that clinical outcomes are achieved as well as working to improve the patient experience. They will provide forward-thinking clinical and professional leadership to nursing staff at all levels within the ward to ensure that nursing care is delivered to a high standard and that the nursing resource is managed effectively. The Ward Manager will also contribute to the monitoring of quality and clinical performance indicators and will also ensure that consideration of the patient experience underpins all activity on the ward and ensures that nursing care is of the highest possible standard at all times with particular emphasis on dignity and compassion.



Central and North West London NHS Trust expects all employees to act in a way which shows you understand our core values and are willing to put them into practice with service users, their friends, families, carers and also other staff members.

As an employee of CNWL:

We expect you to show COMPASSION , contribute to a caring and kind environment and recognise that what you do and say helps can make the lives of others better



We expect you to RESPECT everyone and acknowledge and welcome people's differences rather than ignore them or see them as problematic.



We expect you to EMPOWER others and continually try to provide information, resources and support to help others make their own decisions and meet their own needs.



We expect you to work in PARTNERSHIP and behave in a way that shows that you recognise that commissioners and users of our services are the people who generate and pay for our work.



The successful applicant may have contact with patients or service users. As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings.



Please read the attached job description and person specification for detailed roles and responsibilities.