Job summary
Band 8A Inpatient Matron
Are you looking for an exciting new challenge and are a compassionate, visible, are you dynamic, highly motivated and committed to improving patient outcomes and experience, are you committed to the delivery of high-quality patient care and keen to be part of a team where your ideas and opinions are valued and values-based leader who engages well with colleagues, system partners and service users - then look no further.
We are looking for an experienced, innovative and enthusiastic nursing leader who is passionate about nursing and delivering the best patient care, and who can provide leadership and strategic direction for their clinical areas and manage our acute inpatient wards. To undertake this challenging role, you will need to have extensive experience in leading and managing nursing teams within an acute setting. You will have excellent communication and interpersonal skills and demonstrate an ability to work collaboratively with multidisciplinary teams.
The purpose of this role is to lead and coordinate the hospital site including the clinical and operational patient flow from admission to discharge through St. Charles Hospital.
The Matron will provide excellent leadership across inpatient wards ensuring the deliverance of expert nursing care to the adults and their families whilst offering support, guidance and supervision to the various staff members.
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
CNWL has an established reputation for providing the highest standards of care together with an extensive range of clinical services. We are extremely proud of our employees across our services, with high quality patient care at the heart of everything we do. 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. Providing top quality care depends on our ability to employ the best people. You will become part of a talented, compassionate and enthusiastic workforce committed to a vision of 'making a positive difference in people's lives'.
We're always looking to recruit people who will go the extra mile to support our patients, colleagues, teams and the Trust. You will be working for an organisation which values and respects all of its staff and the community it serves. The Trust provides excellent benefits for its staff. This includes commitments to professional development but also many policies to support employees in balancing their personal and professional lives.
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 with the NMC Level 1
- Relevant Management Qualification
- Evidence of on-going personal and professional development
- Degree/Masters in specialist field or appropriate experience
- Enb998/SLICE or Mentorship qualification
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
- Experience of managing wards
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 with the NMC Level 1
- Relevant Management Qualification
- Evidence of on-going personal and professional development
- Degree/Masters in specialist field or appropriate experience
- Enb998/SLICE or Mentorship qualification
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
- Experience of managing wards
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).
