South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
CAMHS Deputy Ward Manager
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Are you ready to take the next step in your leadership journey within CAMHS?
Do you want to work in a team where you feel empowered, supported, and proud to make a difference in young people’s lives? If so, joining the CAMHS Inpatient Units as a Deputy Ward Manager could be the opportunity you’ve been looking for.
We are committed to delivering high-quality, patient-centred care across our adolescent inpatient services, including general and PICU wards. Our patients are at the heart of everything we do, and we strive to create a safe, therapeutic environment that promotes recovery and resilience.
About the Role
As a Deputy Ward Manager, you will play a key role in supporting the clinical leadership of the ward, ensuring safe staffing, effective care delivery, and a positive team culture. You’ll work closely with the Ward Manager and multidisciplinary teams to uphold clinical standards, drive service improvements, and mentor junior staff.
What We Offer
We believe that providing excellent care starts with recruiting exceptional people. We’re looking for compassionate, motivated leaders who are ready to go the extra mile for our patients and colleagues. Whether you’re stepping into your first leadership role or building on existing experience, we’ll support your development through structured training, coaching, and career progression opportunities. At SLaM, there’s always a place for you to grow.
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Learning and Development
During this role, you will have the opportunity to learn new specialist skills through our excellent learning and development opportunities, which will include leadership and managerial skills alongside clinical interventions. It is important to show through your application and interview, what transferable skills and experience you have.
As well as our in-house development program, we also have our CAMHS Nursing Academy, which is a training and development program based on the four pillars of advanced nursing practice.
Location
This opportunity is based within our CAMHS Bethlem Adolescent Inpatient Unit on the beautiful grounds of the Royal Bethlem Hospital site, based in Beckenham.
Benefits
We are committed to ensuring our staff get the most out of their benefits package and understand the importance of a healthy work-life balance. There is an extensive range of excellent benefits for you and your family. We want you to feel like you are part of a close-knit team at SLaM. It’s important to us that you feel valued and appreciated, and that is why we have a comprehensive benefits package on offer.
- Generous pay, pensions, and leave, we offer a comprehensive pay, pensions, and leave package which is dependent on the role and length of service.
- Work-life balance, flexible working, and support a range of flexible options, such as: part-time working and job sharing.
- Career development, There are plenty of opportunities to progress your career, and we support your development through a number of programs such as mentoring, coaching, positive people management, collective leadership, and other talent programs.
- Car lease, our staff benefits from competitive deals to lease cars.
- Accommodation, our staff benefits from keyworker housing available, which is available on selected sites.
- NHS discounts, with discounts up to 10% from a variety of well-known retail brands through the Health Service Discounts website.
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Other Benefits Include
- Counselling services
- Wellbeing events
- Long service awards
- Cycle to work scheme
- Season ticket loan
- Childcare vouchers
- Staff restaurants
Please note: vacancy can be closed early once maximum applications received.
We are looking forward to receiving your application.
For further details / informal visits, contact:
Name: Dorota Waluga
Job title: Ward Manager - CAMHS Bethlem Adolescent Unit
Email address: Dorota.waluga@slam.nhs.uk
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