Children & Young Inpatient Ward Manager, Ash Ward

Children & Young People Inpatient Ward Manager, Ash Ward (12 months)

The closing date is 12 March 2026.

We are seeking an experienced and highly motivated senior children's nurse to join our Children and Young People's (CYP) inpatient ward as Ward Manager on a secondment basis. This is an exciting opportunity for a skilled nurse leader to deliver outstanding, evidence-based, family-centred care while supporting staff development and service improvement.

The post holder will provide expert clinical leadership, ensuring high standards of nursing practice, patient safety, and effective patient flow, including discharge planning and safe admission, transfer, and specialist pathways.

Working closely with the CYP Matron and multidisciplinary team, you will contribute to clinical governance, infection prevention, quality improvement, and workforce development. You will act as a role model for advanced nursing practice, mentoring and supporting junior staff through supervision, education, and professional guidance.

The role also includes responsibility for staff allocation, rota management, recruitment and retention, and promoting staff wellbeing to maintain a safe and supportive ward environment.

The successful candidate will demonstrate excellent communication, strong leadership, and a commitment to continuous learning, research, safeguarding, and improving outcomes for children, young people, and their families.

The post holder will provide strong clinical and managerial leadership within the Children and Young People's inpatient ward, ensuring the delivery of high-quality, evidence-based nursing care, including support for children requiring High Dependency (HDU) care.

The Ward Manager will oversee patient flow from admission through to discharge or transfer, coordinating safe staffing, rota management, and effective resource allocation. The role includes promoting clinical governance, infection prevention, safeguarding, and patient safety, ensuring care remains family‑centred and responsive to the needs of children and young people. The post holder will lead service development and quality improvement initiatives, while supporting multidisciplinary working across the wider healthcare team.

The successful candidate will demonstrate advanced expertise in children's nursing, proven leadership experience in an acute inpatient setting, including HDU care, and excellent communication skills to support families, lead teams, teach and uphold Trust policies, safeguarding processes, and the NMC Code of Conduct.

Ashford and St. Peters Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust serves a population of more than 410,000 people living in North‑West Surrey, parts of Hounslow and beyond.

Over 3,700 highly trained doctors, nurses, midwives, therapists, healthcare scientists and other support staff make up our workforce, providing a wide range of services across our two hospital sites, Ashford, Surrey and St Peter's, Chertsey, Surrey.

We also run many specialist clinics in the community and local community hospitals and other healthcare facilities.

Our vision is to be one of the best healthcare Trusts in the country. There has never been a better time to join us in the NHS  are committed to providing continuous professional development and flexibility to shape our workforce around our patient care.

We are expanding our theatres at Ashford Hospital and moving towards this becoming our dedicated elective centre. We want to create a state‑of‑the‑art centre for excellence for planned surgical procedures.

• Excellent pension scheme and annual leave entitlement
• On‑site Nurseries
• On‑site staff cafes
• On‑site parking
• Salary Sacrifice schemes including wage stream, lease cars, Cycle to Work schemes and home electronics

Adverts may close early, so applicants are encouraged to submit an application as soon as possible.

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