Ward Manager

Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities 1.To manage the care pathway for young people at The Darwin Centre from referral to discharge. To include ensuring effective communication with families, referrers and external agencies, the management of commissioning arrangements, bed management and case load management for the team. 2.To have overall management responsibility for the delivery of care within the unit, in accordance with Trust policies and procedures. 3.To lead a team of clinical staff in the delivery of high-quality evidence-based practice, ensuring that regular supervision, appraisal and mandatory training takes place. 4.To ensure that all children and families have high quality comprehensive and collaborative care plans that include evidence-based assessments and interventions and address risks. 5.To ensure the programme of assessment and therapeutic activities is maintained and developed to a high standard, is evidenced based and in line with NICE guidelines, QNIC and CQC standards. 6.To oversee and support the teams management of clinical risk and to offer advice and guidance when necessary. 7.Support the clinical team to create accurate documents of their observations and assessments to a standard that could inform child protection procedures. To ensure that for each child a discharge report is created that provides a comprehensive multi-disciplinary assessment 8.To ensure that systems that operate for staff support and supervision are maintained. 9.To be accountable for own professional practice and to maintain standards described in own professions code of conduct, legislation, government guidelines, trust policies and research. 10. To ensure that all policies and procedures are easily accessible to staff, are current and that unit policies are reviewed regularly

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