Job summary
An exciting opportunity has risen for a substantive Modern Matron post at St. Charles Mental Health Centre working across the adult inpatient unit.
We are looking for an experienced Mental Health Nurse, a dynamic individual who could inspire and lead the team to excellence. The post offers the successful candidate an opportunity to develop a range of skills and gain valuable experience in aspects of nursing leadership and quality.
The Modern Matron will manage ward managers, nursing staff, clerical/administrative staff together with those who support care delivery. The Modern Matron will ensure that national and service quality standards relating to the ward/unit environment and non-clinical support services are monitored and reported on. The Modern Matron will be a visible, accessible and authoritative presence in clinical areas providing assistance, advice and support to staff, patients, relatives, carers and visitors.
Our Values
We take pride in providing care to our service users in line with our Trust values of being Compassionate, Respectful, Empowering and working in Partnership. When you join us, you'll find that staff also treat each other according to our Trust values and become part of a supportive culture.
Main duties of the job
The successful applicant may have contact with patients or service users. As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings.
Key responsibilities
- Leading by example
- Making sure patients receive good quality care
- Ensuring that staffing levels are appropriate to patient needs
- Empowering nurses to take on wider ranges of clinical tasks
- Improving hospital cleanliness
- Preventing hospital-acquired infections
- Ensuring that patients' physical health needs are met
- Taking initiative in improving wards for patients
- Making sure patients are treated in line with Trust Values
- Resolving problems for patients and their relatives by building closer relationships with them
- Prioritising safety and wellbeing of patients and staff
- Ensuring that staff are provided with continuous training and development
- To ensure that all services/wards within their area are fully CQC compliant
About us
We're passionate about delivering first-class patient-centred, safe and effective care, whether it is in a hospital setting, in a community clinic or in the patient's own home. Patients are at the heart of everything we do.Providing top quality care depends on our ability to employ the best people. We're always looking to recruit outstanding people who will go the extra mile to support our patients, colleagues, teams and the Trust. With every new employee we're hoping to find our future leaders and we'll support our staff by providing opportunities to develop your career.With a diverse culture and equally diverse range of opportunities across mental health, community services, addictions, eating disorders, learning disabilities and more - whatever stage of your career you're at, there's always a place for you at CNWL.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see attached the job description and person specification for more information about this role but below is summary of main responsibilities:
1. Clinical Practice ManagementTo act as a Clinical Leader with continuing clinical responsibility within the designated areas, ensuring that services provide high quality evidence-based nursing assessment, care planning, interventions and evaluations for patients.
2. Teaching, Education & Health PromotionTo use the Practitioners specialist skills, knowledge and resources to provide learning opportunities for staff within designated areas.
3. Continuing Professional DevelopmentTo maintain and develop professional knowledge, skills and expertise to ensure that practice reflects best practice, remains evidence based, is current and responsive to meet changing patient and NHS service needs.Abide by the legal rules, statutory regulations and professional responsibilities relating to practice as outlined in the NMC Code of Professional Practice and the Guidelines for mental health and learning disabilities nursing (UKCC 1998).4. Finance and WorkforceTo manage the all budgets within the post holders span of control and make best use of available workforce resources based on agreed staffing models.5 Record Keeping and Administration
To maintain standards of record keeping and associated administration in accordance with CNWL Trust Policy as well as local joint arrangements and professional guidelines.
6 Evidence-Based Nursing, Practice Development & Clinical AuditTo contribute to practice development activity and evidence-based mental health nursing.
7 Service Overview and PlanningTo contribute to the development and planning of services specific to the posts designated areas.8 Professional Nursing AdviceTo provide professional nursing advice within the post-holders area of responsibility.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see attached the job description and person specification for more information about this role but below is summary of main responsibilities:
1. Clinical Practice ManagementTo act as a Clinical Leader with continuing clinical responsibility within the designated areas, ensuring that services provide high quality evidence-based nursing assessment, care planning, interventions and evaluations for patients.
2. Teaching, Education & Health PromotionTo use the Practitioners specialist skills, knowledge and resources to provide learning opportunities for staff within designated areas.
3. Continuing Professional DevelopmentTo maintain and develop professional knowledge, skills and expertise to ensure that practice reflects best practice, remains evidence based, is current and responsive to meet changing patient and NHS service needs.Abide by the legal rules, statutory regulations and professional responsibilities relating to practice as outlined in the NMC Code of Professional Practice and the Guidelines for mental health and learning disabilities nursing (UKCC 1998).4. Finance and WorkforceTo manage the all budgets within the post holders span of control and make best use of available workforce resources based on agreed staffing models.5 Record Keeping and Administration
To maintain standards of record keeping and associated administration in accordance with CNWL Trust Policy as well as local joint arrangements and professional guidelines.
6 Evidence-Based Nursing, Practice Development & Clinical AuditTo contribute to practice development activity and evidence-based mental health nursing.
7 Service Overview and PlanningTo contribute to the development and planning of services specific to the posts designated areas.8 Professional Nursing AdviceTo provide professional nursing advice within the post-holders area of responsibility.
Person Specification
Education and Qualification
Essential
- Registered nurse with the NMC Level 1
- Relevant Management Qualification
- Mentorship Qualification
- Degree/Masters in specialist field or appropriate experience
Desirable
- Recognised senior management training in leadership, policy or strategy
Previous Experience
Essential
- Extensive post-registration experience
- Previous experience of managing a multi-disciplinary staff team, including line management, supervision responsibility and operational management of services at Band 7 or equivalent
- Experience of re-provisioning services and managing staff through change
- Experience of multi-professional collaboration at senior level, including partnership working with other agencies
- Experience of providing clinical/managerial supervision and facilitating reflective practice
- Experience of service development
- Experience of managing staff and resources
- Experience of managing budgets
- Experience writing reports and delivering presentations to a high standard and to senior staff
- Experience writing reports
- Experience in involving service users and their carers in service planning and monitoring
- Experience in IT skills, familiar with word processing, excel and email systems
Desirable
- Experience of representing services at different organisations
- Experience of managing adult mental health services
Skills, Knowledge and Abilities
Essential
- Able to demonstrate an up to date knowledge and understanding of current Mental Health Policy issues including the Mental Health Act
- Able to demonstrate an up to date knowledge of nursing developments especially in mental health
- Ability to provide high quality nursing advice
- Ability to build and develop teams of people and to provide strong leadership to a diverse workforce
- Ability to identify problems and use initiative and creativity in problem solving
- Ability to communicate effectively in writing and orally, presenting ideas with clarity in a persuasive and influential style, for a variety of audiences
- Ability to manage pressure and changing and conflicting priorities effectively
- Ability to support and monitor systems for clinical practice
- Able to influence and use negotiation skills and the ability to manage differences constructively
- Able to demonstrate ability to work closely with a range of stakeholders and other providers in helping plan the future of service provision
Desirable
- Detailed knowledge of policy agenda in Mental Health services
Attitudes, Aptitudes and Personal Characteristics
Essential
- Ability to demonstrate ability to make sound and timely decisions and initiate action to solve problems
- To demonstrate the ability to weigh up situations and consider the benefits and problems before decisions are made
- The ability to implement performance management systems within the service area that meet local and national objectives and motivate staff to achieve these objectives
- Demonstrate ability to plan, manage and implement projects when required and assume delegated lead responsibilities
Desirable
- Demonstrate ability to plan and implement change in the service and ensure the involvement of the workforce in the programme of change.
Person Specification
Education and Qualification
Essential
- Registered nurse with the NMC Level 1
- Relevant Management Qualification
- Mentorship Qualification
- Degree/Masters in specialist field or appropriate experience
Desirable
- Recognised senior management training in leadership, policy or strategy
Previous Experience
Essential
- Extensive post-registration experience
- Previous experience of managing a multi-disciplinary staff team, including line management, supervision responsibility and operational management of services at Band 7 or equivalent
- Experience of re-provisioning services and managing staff through change
- Experience of multi-professional collaboration at senior level, including partnership working with other agencies
- Experience of providing clinical/managerial supervision and facilitating reflective practice
- Experience of service development
- Experience of managing staff and resources
- Experience of managing budgets
- Experience writing reports and delivering presentations to a high standard and to senior staff
- Experience writing reports
- Experience in involving service users and their carers in service planning and monitoring
- Experience in IT skills, familiar with word processing, excel and email systems
Desirable
- Experience of representing services at different organisations
- Experience of managing adult mental health services
Skills, Knowledge and Abilities
Essential
- Able to demonstrate an up to date knowledge and understanding of current Mental Health Policy issues including the Mental Health Act
- Able to demonstrate an up to date knowledge of nursing developments especially in mental health
- Ability to provide high quality nursing advice
- Ability to build and develop teams of people and to provide strong leadership to a diverse workforce
- Ability to identify problems and use initiative and creativity in problem solving
- Ability to communicate effectively in writing and orally, presenting ideas with clarity in a persuasive and influential style, for a variety of audiences
- Ability to manage pressure and changing and conflicting priorities effectively
- Ability to support and monitor systems for clinical practice
- Able to influence and use negotiation skills and the ability to manage differences constructively
- Able to demonstrate ability to work closely with a range of stakeholders and other providers in helping plan the future of service provision
Desirable
- Detailed knowledge of policy agenda in Mental Health services
Attitudes, Aptitudes and Personal Characteristics
Essential
- Ability to demonstrate ability to make sound and timely decisions and initiate action to solve problems
- To demonstrate the ability to weigh up situations and consider the benefits and problems before decisions are made
- The ability to implement performance management systems within the service area that meet local and national objectives and motivate staff to achieve these objectives
- Demonstrate ability to plan, manage and implement projects when required and assume delegated lead responsibilities
Desirable
- Demonstrate ability to plan and implement change in the service and ensure the involvement of the workforce in the programme of change.
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
