Modern Matron - Sexual Health

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

The closing date is 29 April 2025

Job summary

We are looking for a Modern Matron for our Southampton and Southwest locality, within the Hampshire and Isle of Wight Sexual Health and HIV Service (SHHS).

The SHHS provide Sexual Health Care to local communities across Hampshire and the Isle of Wight with its purpose captured from our patient's perspective as 'Help me to have healthy, worry-free sex'. The service has undertaken an inspiring change process, endorsing the Vanguard Method of Systems Thinking, ensuring patient pathways are of the highest quality and standards. Meaningful data allows us to respond to statistically significant variation in real time, enabling us to make changes to the service we are providing with agility.

we are looking for an experienced leader who are dynamic and passionate about the delivery of Sexual Health and HIV care across communities, including harder to reach groups within our local populations.

Modern Matrons play a pivotal role in providing clinical and strategic leadership for the service and are an instrumental part of the senior leadership team, ensuring that the clinical voice is always at the forefront. Modern Matrons are required to put quality first and to ensure oversight of quality and safety across their localities, escalating themes, trends, observations and issues relating to Quality, through the service line governance process.

If you are keen to be a part of a refreshing, forward-thinking and digitally advanced service, this role is for you.

Main duties of the job

*In conjunction with the senior management team, to be responsible for the management and delivery of Sexual Health Integrated clinical services both within the clinic and in community settings.

*To support the Head of Quality and Professions (HQP) for ensuring the delivery of high quality Sexual Health Integrated clinical services within the context of a clinical governance framework.

*Support the nursing team in clinical governance processes to ensure compliance with the CQC to improve patient outcomes and reduce inequalities.

*To provide professional leadership to all staff within Sexual Health, working in close collaboration and co-operation with members of the multi-professional team.

*To support the delivery and achievement of measures to achieve best outcomes.

*Be responsible for the activity through measures, CQUIN's, budget statements, workforce reports, Trust reports, audit and other measurement tools and to lead on actions in response to outcomes.

*To be responsible for supporting the senior nursing team, community and network manager and business managers for the day to day active management of the Nursing staff, Health Advisers, Sexual Health Promotion and clerical staff groups meet definable measurable outcomes.

*Be accountable, manage and delegate responsibility for investigating patient complaints and incidents in the clinical area as directed by the HQP.

*To proactively promote the Trust Values and work within teams to interpret behaviours from the values.

About us

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is a newly established organisation, bringing together expertise from across mental health, learning disabilities, community, and physical health services. We are dedicated to delivering compassionate, high-quality, and accessible care to the diverse communities of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight.

With over 13,000 dedicated staff working across more than 300 sites, we place patients and staff at the centre of everything we do. Our goal is to create an integrated healthcare system that improves accessibility and ensures more consistent care for patients. By working together, we aim to improve patient outcomes, drive innovation, and meet the unique needs of the populations we serve.

Our Trust unites services from Southern Health, Solent NHS Trust, Isle of Wight NHS Trusts community and mental health teams, as well as Hampshire CAMHS, originally part of Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust. This transformation enables us to deliver more seamless care across the region, ensuring that patients receive the right support, in the right place, at the right time.

Join us as we embark on this exciting journey to shape the future of healthcare across Hampshire and the Isle of Wight. We are deeply committed to our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect, and excellence, and offer outstanding opportunities for career development, training, and collaborative working.

Date posted

15 April 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 8a

Salary

£53,755 to £60,504 a year based on full time hours

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Part-time

Reference number

348-CSS-7770

Job locations

Bitterne Health Centre

Commercial Street

Southampton

Hampshire

SO18 6BT

Royal South Hants Hospital

Graham Road

Southampton

Hampshire

SO14 0YG

Job description

Job responsibilities

Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached. It is important to us that we ensure our recruitment processes are accessible and inclusive to everyone - if as a potential candidate you are concerned a person specification may prevent or restrict your application for employment as a result of unintentional barriers on the grounds of your sex, race, age, sexual orientation, religion/belief or disability please initially contact the Trust's Recruitment team - detailed in the advert. The Trust will seek to resolve this issue wherever possible.

We are happy to talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process.

Job description

Job responsibilities

We are happy to talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

*Registered Nurse(1).
*Masters Level Qualification OR equivalent experience.

Desirable

*Teaching and mentorship qualification.

Experience

Essential

*Experience of working at a team manager, or clinical leadership equivalent level, or as a project or non-operational manager at Band 7.
*Experience of assembling and presenting CQC evidence.
*Excellent communication skills, written and verbal.
*Project management skills at an advanced level.
*Ability to lead, influence and persuade others.
*Ability to deliver outcomes on time and to specification.
*Ability to work as part of a close knit team.
*Self-motivated, self-starter, able to organise a large and varied work programme.
*Numerate.
*Literate in English.
*Being flexible and adaptable at work in order to meet competing priorities.

Desirable

*Commissioning manager for SIRIs.
*Clinical Audit and audit presentation and dissemination.
Experience of presenting complex information to committees where non-experts are present.

Additional Criteria

Essential

*High level leadership skills.
*Ability to work as part of a multidisciplinary and multi-agency team.
*Ability to reflect and critically appraise own performance.
*High level of communication skills.
*Experience of leading in a constantly changing environment.
*Experience of delivering supervision.
*Self-Motivated and effective communicator
*Ability to manage a high level of information and communicate it to a staff team in digestible and understandable way.
*Excellent leadership and organisational skills.
*Ability to prioritise and effectively manage changing priorities.

Desirable

*Experience of managing staff
*Holds a current UK driving licence and has access to a vehicle insured for work purposes.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

*Registered Nurse(1).
*Masters Level Qualification OR equivalent experience.

Desirable

*Teaching and mentorship qualification.

Experience

Essential

*Experience of working at a team manager, or clinical leadership equivalent level, or as a project or non-operational manager at Band 7.
*Experience of assembling and presenting CQC evidence.
*Excellent communication skills, written and verbal.
*Project management skills at an advanced level.
*Ability to lead, influence and persuade others.
*Ability to deliver outcomes on time and to specification.
*Ability to work as part of a close knit team.
*Self-motivated, self-starter, able to organise a large and varied work programme.
*Numerate.
*Literate in English.
*Being flexible and adaptable at work in order to meet competing priorities.

Desirable

*Commissioning manager for SIRIs.
*Clinical Audit and audit presentation and dissemination.
Experience of presenting complex information to committees where non-experts are present.

Additional Criteria

Essential

*High level leadership skills.
*Ability to work as part of a multidisciplinary and multi-agency team.
*Ability to reflect and critically appraise own performance.
*High level of communication skills.
*Experience of leading in a constantly changing environment.
*Experience of delivering supervision.
*Self-Motivated and effective communicator
*Ability to manage a high level of information and communicate it to a staff team in digestible and understandable way.
*Excellent leadership and organisational skills.
*Ability to prioritise and effectively manage changing priorities.

Desirable

*Experience of managing staff
*Holds a current UK driving licence and has access to a vehicle insured for work purposes.

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.