Job summary

Clinical Nurse Manager - Kingsley Ward

The Clinical Nurse Manager will be expected to provide effective leadership and operational management for Kingsley Ward whilst ensuring a high standard of care for all elective pre/post operative patients. They will be responsible for creating a dynamic environment which is conducive to learning, practice development and research within a framework of quality assurance.

Main duties of the job

• Provide effective leadership and operational management of the ward ensuring high standards of care for all
• Be responsible for creating a dynamic environment which is conducive to learning, practice development and research within a framework of quality assurance.
• Be responsible for delegated budgetary control and to maintain and improve services by controlling and monitoring costs in line with cost improvement programs and the QIPP/transformation agenda.
• Be accountable for coordinating patient care, management of resources and performance of staff.
• Be responsible for the implementation of audit, quality and risk management initiatives and monitoring of local and national policies and quality care
• Be responsible and accountable for the management and safe storage of medicines, for the cleanliness of the ward and for implementing infection control policies and
• Be responsible for ensuring that all staff are customer/patient focused and are courteous, pleasant, and helpful always.

About us

London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust (LNWH) cares for the people of Brent, Ealing, Harrow and beyond.

Our team of more than 8,200 clinical and support staff serve a diverse population of almost one million people.

We run major acute services at:

• Northwick Park Hospital: home to one of the busiest emergency departments (A&E) in the country. The hospital provides a full range of services including the country's top-rated hyper-acute stroke unit and one of only three hyper-acute rehabilitation units in the UK
• St Mark's Hospital: an internationally renowned specialist centre for bowel disease
• Ealing Hospital: a busy district general hospital providing a range of clinical services, as well as 24/7 emergency department and urgent care centre, and specialist care at Meadow House Hospice
• Central Middlesex Hospital: our planned care site, hosting a range of surgical and outpatient services and collocated with an urgent care centre.

We are a university teaching NHS trust, in recognition of the important role we play in training clinicians of the future and bringing the benefits of research to the public