Modern Matron – Acute Care for Mental Health

Job summary

Acute Care (Crisis Response Home Treatment and Mental Health Liaison)

12 month secondment covering maternity leave

This career enhancing opportunity has arisen for a senior nurse to gain experience to progress their nursing career.

This role is one of three matron roles within the acute care pathway for the Shropshire, Telford & Wrekin Care Group, which practice around the NHS England Matrons Handbook which highlights, reinforces and celebrates the critical role matrons play in health and care services.

We are seeking a senior nurse who has compassionate and collective/inclusive leadership skills and is focused on delivering innovative practice whilst upholding professional standards and accountability. Someone who will work in partnership with colleagues and system partners and in so doing engage and maintain good working relationships.

You will need acute inpatient, crisis response and/or community mental health experience with clinical, governance, patient safety, quality and managerial knowledge and operational oversight, be familiar with mental health legislation, safeguarding, who understands and delivers both quality, safety and performance outcomes.

There will be opportunities to develop your skills further, through supervision and with the support of the existing Care Group and Trust-wide senior nursing and management teams. If you think you have the right skills and determination to deliver high quality inpatient care, we would like to hear from you.

Main duties of the job

To work alongside nursing and other clinical staff in planning care and risk management for individuals and their families and carers, taking an active role when this is required.

To develop local solutions by listening to nursing feedback and in doing so work collaboratively escalating risks to the collective leadership team and/or via quality governance mechanisms that are in place.

Be instrumental in the management of risks across the urgent car pathway, maintaining local risk register and ensuring all risks have controls and mitigations in place that are managed, monitored and reduced/closed as appropriate.

To ensure that safe systems for patients and staff to deliver care are in place, in particular trained staff to identify the deteriorating patient, to undertake resuscitation in all wards and the use of best practice least restrictive techniques in mental health wards.

In collaboration with the Care Group and Quality and Clinical Performance Directorate to ensure that teams have clearly identified and understood written team objectives based on the service and Trust objectives for quality, performance and safety.

To monitor the quality of patient assessments, care plans and the evaluation of those care plans to ensure that they are of a high standard

About us

By joining Team MPFT, you will be helping your communities and in return for this, we will support you by;

• Supporting your career development and progression
• Excellent NHS Pension scheme
• Generous maternity, paternity and adoption leave
• Options for flexible working
• Up to 27 days annual leave (increasing with service up to 33 days) and the opportunity to purchase additional leave
• Extensive Health and Wellbeing support and resources
• If you work in our community teams, we pay for your time travelling between patients
• Lease car if you complete more than 500 business miles per annum, fully insured and maintained (including tyres), mileage paid at lease car rate
• Salary sacrifice car - fully insured and maintained (including tyres), your gross pay is reduced by the cost of the vehicle before tax, NI and pension deductions are calculated, mileage paid at business rates
• Salary sacrifice bikes up to £2k
• Free car parking at all trust sites
• Free flu vaccinations every year
• Citizens Advice support linked with a Hardship Fund for one off additional support up to £250 (if the criteria is met)

And more. We are proud to be a diverse and inclusive organisation and there is a choice of staff networks that help you meet like-minded people.