Mental health nurse

The Modern Matron will provide clinical leadership, with a highly visible presence to ensure service users and their carers receive high quality care. They have personal responsibility and accountability for delivering a safe and clean care environment and ensuring that action is taken at all levels by nurses to maintain and provide high standards of care. The post holder will be accountable for standards and quality, patient experience, patient safety and clinical effectiveness in in‑patient services.

This role provides clinical leadership for nurses and other health professionals providing care in an inpatient setting. You will be available to ward staff, patients and carers and be responsive to their experiences of care and concerns about the ward environment.

The post holder will be responsible for the management of Older Adult Inpatient Wards, a PICU and PICU Outreach Team. The successful candidate will be required to demonstrate effective communication skills, clinical expertise, a flexible problem‑solving approach and to lead Quality Improvement projects to improve patient care. The ability to work with adult and older people with acute mental health problems and with all members of the multi‑disciplinary team is essential.

The successful applicant will have experience of managing services, project management experience and demonstrable adaptive leadership skills. The matron holds a key role as a member of the leadership team for the services alongside psychiatry, psychology, allied health professionals and administration. In addition to this they will contribute to the governance of care and lead on the improvement and development of nursing care with a strong focus on quality improvement, including ensuring that Care Quality Commission (CQC) essential standards are met and exceeded.

• Provide highly visible, professional leadership promoting a culture of high professional standards.
• Provide visible and authoritative presence in ward settings to whom service users and their families can turn to for assistance.
• Lead the quality agenda focusing on service user safety, experience and clinical effectiveness.
• Provide effective professional and clinical leadership and be accountable for the nursing service in the area of responsibility.
• Work within the Modern Matrons' Charter to ensure good standards of infection control, privacy and dignity, cleanliness, and health and safety and report back on action taken to the Service Directorate and Nursing Directorate.
• In conjunction with the Unit and Service Manager, develop the service in line with national and local requirements ensuring the delivery of performance targets, development of best practice and modernization agenda.
• Support the professional aspects of recruitment and deployment of people within in‑patient services.

We are committed to creating an inclusive workplace that welcomes and supports individuals of all abilities. If you meet the minimum criteria for this role and you have a disability, you can be guaranteed an interview under the Disability Confident Scheme – please ensure you select this on your application form. We would encourage you to be open about your needs so we can work with you to design a comfortable and accessible interview experience.

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