# Ward Manager, Neonatal Unit

**Company**: Ashford & St. Peter's Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
**Location**: Chertsey
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: Negotiable
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced and motivated neonatal nurse to join our Level 3 Neonatal Intensive Care Unit as a Ward Manager (Band 7) on a full-time, permanent contract.

As Ward Manager, alongside your Band 7 Clinical Sister colleagues, you will be responsible for leading a dedicated multidisciplinary team, ensuring the delivery of safe, effective, and compassionate care while maintaining the highest standards of clinical excellence.

You will play a pivotal role in workforce management, quality improvement, service development, staff wellbeing, and shaping the perinatal culture agenda.

Our Level 3 NICU provides intensive, high dependency, special care, and transitional care services for premature and critically ill newborns across the region.

**Main duties of the job**

- Be responsible for the day-to-day management of the nursing staff.

- Deputise for the unit Matron for specific delegated tasks.

- Have joint responsibility with other Band 7 Sisters for operational management and service delivery processes.

- Lead and promote a quality service using research and evidence-based practice.

- Exercise excellent judgement in dealing with clinical and interpersonal challenges.

- Strive for safe staffing on a shift-by-shift basis on the Neonatal Unit.

- Support safe staffing across the Paediatric Division.

**Benefits**

- The full range of NHS benefits & discounts.

**Person Specification**

- Essential qualifications: oRN, RM or RN Child, Registered with NMC, Neonatal Qualification, NLS, Mentor Preparation Qualification.

- Desirable qualifications: Leadership and Management qualification.

**Experience**

- Essential experience: Experience at Band 6 in a similar Neonatal environment, experience of taking charge of a department, leading and managing a team.

- Desirable experience: Change management experience.

**Skills**

- Essential skills: People management skills, motivation of staff and team building, strong IT and digital skills, excellent interpersonal and communication skills.

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## Skills

### Required
- neonatal care
- leadership
- team management
- communication skills
- IT and digital skills

### Nice to have
- change management
- presentation skills

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