Modern Matron MHSOP Inpatient Services

Job description

Job responsibilities

The successful applicant will work alongside the MDT to ensure high quality care is delivered to our service users. You will maintain a focus on patient safety, excellent care delivery, safe staffing and work alongside other disciplines' to ensure that service users receive the care that they need with empathy, compassion and respect.

Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for further detailed information to ensure that you meet the role criteria before applying.

Person Specification

Knowledge

Essential

• Sound knowledge of principles of nursing and how to apply these in a practice setting
• Detailed understanding of Clinical Risk Assessment and Management/Harm Minimisation and its application in practice.
• Detailed understanding of Safeguarding and its application in practice.

Experience

Essential

• Extensive experience working with people with complex mental ill health or learning disabilities in an inpatient or community environment.
• Extensive experience in a clinical nurse leadership role
• Extensive experience providing clinical supervision, mentoring and teaching to healthcare professionals and students.

Desirable

• Use of the Trust's quality Improvement System to implement change
• Experience of working alongside higher education providers

Qualifications

Essential

• RNMH RNLD current professional registration with NMC
• BSc/BA degree in Health related field (if not already a degree level nurse
• Professional knowledge acquired through degree/diploma supplemented by specialist training or equivalent experience to master's level equivalent
• Recognised clinical teaching qualification or equivalent clinical mentoring and teaching experience
• Leadership qualification or willingness to work towards. Qualification must be achieved within agreed timescale.
• Quality Improvement Systems for Leaders or willing to undertake within agreed timescale.
• Evidence of continuous personal development

Skills

Essential

• Use initiative to make critical judgements and decisions independently under pressure
• Provide effective clinical supervision, teaching, training and assessing in clinical practice.
• Use clinical skills appropriate to the area of work e.g. intramuscular injections.

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

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).

Employer details

Employer name

Tees Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Auckland Park Hospital

Westfield Road

County Durham

DL14 6AE

Employer's website

https://www.tewv.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)