Job summary
We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced and dedicated Mental Health Nurse to join our Acute Directorate as a Matron, with oversight of mental health inpatient wards. The role of the matron is critical in ensuring all patients experience the highest standards of clinical care.
This will be achieved through a combination of professional curiosity, daily presence on wards and expert knowledge in care delivery. They will be visible to patients and carers and be available to resolve complex issues as they arise.
They will provide line management to ward managers and be sighted on local risks to care delivery and have an ability to work collaboratively with others to put in plans to mitigate those risks.
The post holder will take a facilitative and empowering approach, nurturing creativity and being open to doing things differently if the desired outcome improves patient, carer and staff experience.
Main duties of the job
Oversight of acute wards alongside other matrons (with cross cover between Matron colleagues when needed) to include operational line management of Ward Managers and the following key responsibilities;
- Leading by example
- Gaining and providing assurance of quality patient care on a daily basis.
- Building and sustaining systems of quality assurance
- Making sure patients receive high quality care
- Ensuring staffing is appropriate to patient needs
- Empowering nurses to take on a wider range of clinical duties
- Improving 'Team areas' cleanliness
- Ensuring patients' nutritional needs are met
- Improving wards for patients (to include supporting ward in identification of ligatures and management plan regarding existing ligatures)
- Making sure patients are treated with respect
- Preventing (hospital)acquired infection
- Resolving problems for patients and their relatives by building closer relationship
About us
Come and work with us in the Garden of England where we combine exceptional professional development opportunities with a tremendous quality of life.
We are Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust (KMPT), providing mental health, learning disability and specialist services, serving 1.8 million people in Kent and Medway, as well as specialist services for adults in Sussex and Surrey. We are rated Good overall by the CQC.
Each year we care for over 2,000 people in our hospitals and 54,000 people in the community.
We are proud to employ over 3,800 people from 66 nationalities, and to serve an increasingly diverse range of communities across rural and urban areas.
You will be joining friendly, passionate colleagues, rich in their diversity, who are committed to providing excellent care to our service users and their loved ones.
The nature of our work attracts kindness and compassion as standard and everyone from our cleaners and porters to the chief executive and chairman are recognised as playing a vital role in providing an exemplary service.
Our strategy
Our mission is what we set out to do every dayWe deliver brilliant care through brilliant people
Our vision is where we want to be in the futureTo provide outstanding care and to work in partnership to deliver this in the right place, for every service user, every time.
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Date posted
17 April 2025
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 8a
Salary
£53,755 to £60,504 a year plus 1% on-call allowance
Contract
Fixed term
Duration
12 months
Working pattern
Full-time
Reference number
380-AC0694
Job locations
Priority House
Hermitage Lane
Maidstone
ME16 9PH
Employer details
Employer name
Kent & Medway NHS & Social Care Partnership Trust
Address
Priority House
Hermitage Lane
Maidstone
ME16 9PH
Employer's website
https://www.kmpt.nhs.uk (Opens in a new tab)
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