Job summary
This is an exciting opportunity to provide Maternity cover for a Ward Manager within Sheffield Health Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust.

G1 Ward is a specialist ward for people who have complex dementia and associated challenging or highly distressed behaviour. It is set in a peaceful location in private grounds with staff parking facilities. The ward has 16 beds and is the only one of its kind in Sheffield.

The team are currently engaged in some exciting changes which you could be part of and instrumental in leading.

We are seeking dynamic, motivated individual with an interest in service development, quality improvement and a passion to ensure our service users receive high quality, compassionate care.

The individual will work in close collaboration with the Senior Nurse Practitioner and Matron to ensure that the clinical priorities and standards of care are achieved.

You will need to be a Registered Mental Health Nurse with experience of clinical leadership. You should be a confident, competent, and a person-centred leader with a high level of knowledge and skills with dementia care. You should be passionate with a knowledge of standards and procedures that direct and influence this system.

Main duties of the job

• Provide effective leadership and management
• Be a visible and credible role model
• Develop team performance and individual personal development
• Manage the ward/department environment
• Deliver a safe and effective service within allocated resources ensuring the resources are used to maximum effect
• Effectively manage budgets
• To ensure safe and effective practice/Professional, ethical and legal
• Act as a change agent, developing clinically effective practice through the effective utilisation and integration of evidence
• Maintain a safe and clean environment for staff, patients/clients and visitors by ensuring compliance with legislation, policies and protocols including health and safety, healthcare associated infection, risk management and critical incident reporting

About us
We are passionate about providing the very best care to the people we support, and we are looking for amazing people who share this passion to join us.

It's important that you feel supported in your role, that the people who you work with are as passionate as you are and that your health and wellbeing is valued and prioritised.

If you are interested in developing your career, you'll have access to a range of training and education opportunities and we have a three year Nursing Plan for your development.

We are all very proud of the difference we make to people's lives each and every day and if that's something that you'd like to be part of we would love to have you with us.

Details
Date posted: 23 October 2026
Pay scheme: Agenda for change
Band: Band 7
Salary: £49,387 to £56,515 a year Dependent on experience
Contract: Secondment
Working pattern: Full-time, Flexible working
Reference number: 457-26-8322798-A
Closing date: 05 November 2026

Essential Technical Skills

• Sound knowledge of complex clinical issues, including the management of risk, different treatment modalities, the MHA, the MCA
• Sound knowledge and experience of managing a team
• Sound knowledge of leadership and change management
• Sound knowledge of nursing professional issues and professional responsibility and accountability
• Effective leadership skills and experience
• Ability to effectively manage an operational team to ensure the best possible outcomes for service users
• Ability to maintain, monitor and improve standards to enhance service user experience
• Sound supervisory skills
• Excellent communication skills
• Knowledge of processes in the management of staff e.g. Sickness absence

Desirable Technical Skills

• Trained to deliver specific mode of treatment e.g. CBT, DBT, PSI
• Experience of managing staff through HR processes

Essential Training and Qualifications

• Registered Mental Health Nurse
• Post registration experience within inpatient service with a management/leadership role
• Evidence of continuous personal and professional development and willingness to undertake a qualification in leadership or management, to degree level or above

Desirable Training and Qualifications

• Qualification in a leadership or management module or course at degree level or above

Essential Experience

• Experience of basing service development on the views and opinions of service users
• Evidence of successful quality improvement initiative

Desirable Experience

• Project management skills

Essential Personal Qualities

• Warmth, empathy and kindness
• Willingness to challenge and be challenged
• Ability to pay attention to detail

Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.

Employer details
Employer name: Sheffield Health Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust
Address: G1 Ward, Grenoside Grange Hospital, Salt Box Lane, Sheffield, S35 8QS, United Kingdom
Employer's website: Apply through our website

Contact for questions about the job
Modern Matron: Derrick Okrah, Derrick.Okrah@sheffieldpartnership.nhs.uk, 07779098266

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