Band 8a Physical Health Matron | Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS foundation Trust; Lifford; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent healthcare organization in Lifford seeks a Modern Matron to lead clinical operations within Learning Disability services. The role emphasizes high-quality care, quality improvement, and robust clinical leadership skills. You will oversee service delivery and develop integrated clinical pathways, ensuring excellence in community health initiatives. Join a team committed to providing outstanding care for adults with learning disabilities.

Qualifications

• Excellent interpersonal, communication and planning skills.
• Flexibility and adaptability.
• Interest in quality improvement.

Responsibilities

• Provide clinical operational leadership and responsibility for services.
• Maintain complex clinical caseload.
• Maintain visibility within clinical areas.
• Assist in overall budget management for services.
• Collaborate with Divisional colleagues to review and improve services.

Skills

Interpersonal skills

Communication skills

Planning skills

Flexibility

Adaptability

Quality improvement

Job description

Overview

Please note that this post will close once sufficient applicants have been received and may close before the advertised closing date. Please submit your application as soon as possible.

Are you prepared to help the division challenge traditional views of professional roles within Learning Disability Healthcare services? An exciting opportunity has arisen as a direct result of a large-scale Strengthening Operational Structures transformation programme, for a dynamic and innovative Registered Allied Health Professional or Nurse with experience of working in Learning Disability Services to fill a Modern Matron post. The post will help to influence and shape this multi-professional role.

This Modern Matron post will support the provision of high-quality, compassionate and responsive leadership, ensuring robust arrangements are in place to support evidence-based, high-quality clinical service delivery to service users within our community.

This role involves quality improvement, development of integrated pathways within the trust and across the system, governance (including complaints, investigations and proactive risk management) and promoting good practice and strong multi-professional/agency working relationships. CPD support is strong, with encouragement and facilitation of audit, research and policy development.

The post holder will be responsible for the clinical operational management and clinical improvement of services listed in Appendix 1 adjoined to this job description and will oversee the clinical effectiveness of the service, including responses to complaints, patient experience and staff feedback, using this information with incident, safety, safeguarding and clinical forums to deliver high-quality care.

The post holder will work with the Service Manager on rota management (including safe staffing), activity against agreed plans, managing overall caseload and waiting time performance for services listed in Appendix 1. The post holder will support cost improvement schemes and ensure service delivery is maintained within set budgets, providing clinical leadership in delivering these. Where required, the post holder will support development of business cases and continued transformation/improvement of services. The post holder will lead recruitment and retention of the clinical workforce across the respective services.

Be Part of Our Team

BCHC has more than 5000 staff across Birmingham and the West Midlands in community nursing and specialist healthcare roles. BCHC delivers over 100 clinical services in people’s homes, health centres, clinics and inpatient facilities, including services for children, young people and families, adults and community services, two community hospitals, services for people with learning disabilities, the West Midlands Rehab Centre and one of Europe’s leading Dental Hospitals and School of Dentistry. The organisation is committed to integrated, personalised care rooted in local communities and aims to deliver outstanding, integrated care as a key NHS provider in the West Midlands. If you want to be part of our team and work with a Foundation Trust striving for the best care and healthy communities, we want to hear from you.

IMPORTANT

• Please ensure you check your Trac account regularly as this is how we will communicate with you during the shortlisting and selection process
• Please ensure all sections of the application form are completed fully. Provide full details of all referees including business email address, telephone contact details and postal address

Role Details

Modern Matron in the Learning Disability Division covering physical health teams and bedded areas, focusing on safe, high-quality care to adults with learning disabilities across Birmingham. Applicants must possess excellent interpersonal, communication and planning skills. You will need to be flexible, adaptable, have an interest in quality improvement and be confident in promoting good practice and good relationships within multi-professional/agency working.

• Provide clinical operational leadership and responsibility for the Services listed in Appendix 1, including clinical advice and expertise as required.
• Maintain complex clinical caseload where necessary and keep professional knowledge and personal development up to date.
• Provide clinical leadership in developing clinical/standard operational processes and ensure policies and practices are followed across all services.
• Maintain visibility within clinical areas and support staff on clinical matters to ensure best patient outcomes and experience.
• Provide service clinical operational leadership/support for student and educational placements within the group of services as required.
• Support the Divisional on-call rota where requested.
• Assist in overall budget management for the Services listed in Appendix 1.
• Work with Divisional colleagues to review and improve services in line with local and national guidelines and Professional Leads guidance.
• Support robust CIP identification, reporting and monitoring for Services listed in Appendix 1, providing clinical expertise to ensure outcomes continue to be delivered.
• Collaborate with the DDNT & Professional Lead to develop a strategic overview for continuing quality improvement within services, providing leadership and clinical support to enable change.

Qualifications & Eligibility

• Applicants must possess excellent interpersonal, communication and planning skills; be flexible and adaptable; have an interest in quality improvement; be confident in promoting good practice and working relationships across multi-professional/agency teams.
• Be part of a progressive, expanding organisation committed to safe, high-quality care.

Closing

This advert closes on Wednesday 24 Sep 2025.