Deputy Ward Manager/ Team Leader Stockport Eye Centre

The deputy manager duties include being a visible and approachable leader, empowering staff to provide the best possible service by developing them to achieve their full potential and ensuring they have the resources required for them to do their jobs well. There are opportunities for service development and you will be pivotal to the team's success; you will take a leading role in writing SOPs, training staff, undertaking audit and investigations, and identifying opportunities and planning for improvement.

The successful candidate will have opportunity to grow and develop through work-based learning and peer support and through structured development programmes, offered by the organisation and NHS England.

Please see the job description and person spec.

If you are passionate and proud of the NHS, and have a genuine desire to provide excellent, evidence-based care to the local population and would like to develop your leadership potential, then this could be a post for you. We are seeking someone with a genuine interest in Ophthalmology, with Ophthalmic and acute nursing experience, Theatre or Day Case unit experience, who enjoys motivating a team and isn't afraid of a challenge in the pursuit of excellence. If this sounds like you, then you are encouraged to visit us for an informal chat and to apply for this post!

If successful this vacancy will require an enhanced DBS check at a cost of £54.90. This cost will be deducted from your first Trust salary

In addition to this it will be a condition of your employment that you will join the DBS update service and pay the annual subscription fee of £16.

We hold a unique position in the Stockport community as the provider of healthcare and we are one of its largest employers.

We believe that the best organisations are those that reflect the communities they serve. We are therefore seeking to improve the diversity of our workforce to make it truly representative of our local population.

We actively encourage applications irrespective of race, age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage & civil partnership, or pregnancy or maternity. Recognising those communities that are underrepresented within our workforce, we would particularly welcome applications from you.

If you require support with your application please contact a member of the recruitment team, who can discuss alternative application methods.

We recognise that flexible working is important. We take requests for flexible working seriously, consider any request we receive and try to work with you, so we can explore if your request may fit with the needs of the service.

Skills and Abilities

Desirable: - HR management experience; - Knowledge of change improvement

Knowledge

Experience

Essential: - Ophthalmic Experience

Desirable: - Experience of undertaking audit and implementing service improvement; - HR Management experience

Education and Qualifications

Desirable: - Additional learning in ophthalmology