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Looking for a new challenge?  Have clinical experience in the field of frailty care as well as  in leading nursing teams  to delivering quality care and practice innovation?  Keen to lead a unit that focus's on caring for the frail elderly? Then this could be the post for you!

The role requires you to have overall responsibility for the 24-hour management of the frailty and complex elderly care ward and to provide on going assurance of delivery of safe, effective, compassionate patient care.

Part of the role will be to foster and lead a care environment that promotes continuous development in frailty care and clinical practice, encouraging innovation and proactively exploring service development.  We are always promoting the learner environment and the post holder will also ensure that  a suitable and stimulating learning environment for all and for the ongoing professional development of registered nursing workforce.  

Key to delivery and success in the post with be the integrated working with all members of the Multi-disciplinary team and medical clinical lead. The provision of robustly maintained communication networks at all appropriate clinical and managerial levels as well as operationally manage resources within agreed budget as key associated strands of this senior leadership role.

Main duties of the job

An exciting opportunity has arisen for the position of Ward Manager (Band 7) for West Dereham Ward, our recently refurbished  28 bedded frailty and complex care ward.

You will have the ability to provide excellent leadership and be responsible and accountable for the management of services; ensuring that high quality, evidence-based care is delivered.

We are looking for someone who is positive, progressive and forward thinking.  You will be an enthusiastic, flexible and committed person, striving to deliver high quality care for our patients. You should promote continuous development in clinical practice and delivery of patient care, encouraging innovation, improvement and appropriate change in service delivery.

Working for our organisation

There’s never been a more exciting time to join TeamQEH.  We’re working on a once in a generation opportunity to build a new state-of-the-art hospital to open in 2030 and we are also carrying out on one of the biggest pieces of digital transformation work we’ve ever undertaken.

Our new electronic patient record (EPR) will replace paper-based patient records from 2026 and will lead to better, safer, joined-up care at The Queen Elizabeth Hospital and beyond.

At The QEH we provide a comprehensive range of specialist, acute, obstetrics and community-based services to around 331,000 people across west and north Norfolk, North Cambs and South Lincs.

We are an ambitious organisation that upholds our values of kindness, wellness and fairness. We strive for continuous quality improvement, recently demonstrated in our 2024 CQC maternity inspection rating our services as ‘Good’, and we are proud to be a place to learn and grow through recognised learning and apprenticeships.

We recognise and reward our 4,000 staff and volunteers, priding ourselves on a community atmosphere and positive team spirit.  We have approx. 530 beds across 33 wards and have newly built education and training facilities, a range of modern award-winning centres alongside a talented team of people ready to give you a warm welcome.  We love working here and think you will too.