Matron - AFPICU Inpatient

NHS; Leicester; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust is seeking a Matron for its Acute and Forensic Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit teams. The role involves providing professional clinical leadership over several wards, ensuring high standards of care, and developing the nursing team. This position offers career progression opportunities in a supportive NHS environment dedicated to improving patient outcomes.

Benefits

Robust induction and supervision

Opportunities for career progression

Supportive work environment

Focus on staff wellbeing

Qualifications

• Experience in a leadership role within healthcare, preferably mental health.
• Commitment to high standards of patient care.
• Ability to lead and develop nursing teams.

Responsibilities

• Oversee clinical and operational leadership for mental health wards.
• Ensure high quality and effective nursing care.
• Develop relationships with multidisciplinary teams and external agencies.

Skills

Nursing leadership

Clinical care

Operational management

Multi-disciplinary teamwork

Patient safety

Education

Registered Nurse qualification

Job description

Come and Join Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust, where we offer a wide variety of challenging and rewarding roles within a supportive, innovative and dynamic work environment!

We have an exciting opportunity for a Matron to join our Acute and Forensic Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit Inpatient teams within the Directorate of mental Health.

The Matron for the Female pathway will oversee the clinical/ professional and operational leadership of 2 acute mental health wards and 1 female PICU, based at the Bradgate Mental Health Unit.The role of the Matron is to provide professional clinical and operational leadership and management for services ensuring high quality, safe and effective quality of care is delivered, within the resources available while ensuring that care is organised to meet the needs of the patient, enhancing their experience, and supporting staff to meet the Directorate and Trust objectives.

The matron role is instrumental in promoting high standards of clinical care and maintaining patient safety, reducing health inequalities, and promoting equality for all. Staff education & development, workforce retention and recruitment through compassionate, inclusive leadership.

The health and wellbeing of our team members is very important to us and we offer a robust induction period, as well as regular supervision and support. You will have opportunities to progress your career with a structured learning journey.

Main duties of the job

Providing credible nursing leadership to deliver inspiration and direction by being a highly visible and accessible clinical leader with a demonstrable commitment to improving the quality of patient care for the designated areas within the identified portfolio.

The post holder will work as part of a designated Directorate and will take responsibility for the delivery and maintenance of the highest standards of nursing care.The post holder will have management responsibility and accountability for the provision of nursing care within the designated areas, including operational and resource management of the services covered. The post holder will be professionally accountable for standards of nursing care and influence the non-clinical contributions that are necessary to care delivery including standards of food, cleanliness of the environment and other services that impact on patient care and welfare.

The post holder will be required to develop excellent working relationships with vast multi-disciplinary/speciality teams, Heads of Nursing, Associate Medical Director, Medical colleagues, as well as external agencies such as housing, social care, Integrated Care board, and other stakeholders in order to effectively manage inpatient mental health services and support the development of pathways to improve patient and staff outcomes.

About us

We may close the advert early, if we receive a sufficient number of applicants, so please apply as soon as possible.

About Us

Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust (LPT) provides a range of community health, mental health and learning disability services for people of all ages. Delivered through over 100 settings from inpatient wards to out in the community, our 6,500 staff serve over 1 million people living in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland.We aim to develop a workforce that reflects our community. We actively implement equal opportunities in employment and service delivery and seek people who share our commitment. We strongly encourage applications from all sections of the community, particularly from underrepresented groups.Details of our benefits, leadership behaviours and other important information can be found in the Information for Applicants, please view the supporting documents.We will consider requests to work alternative hours or varied working patterns in line with our flexible working policy.For all substantive roles, new staff (excluding medical staff) are appointed subject to a 6-month probationary period (see Probation Policy).All jobs will require permission to work in the UK.For all jobs the cost of any DBS disclosure required will be met by the individual. This will be deducted from salary once started.Applicants at risk within the local NHS who meet essential criteria will have preference for interview.

Job responsibilities

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Person Specification

Qualifications

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Experience

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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.

Employer name

Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust

Address

Bradgate Mental Health Unit, Glenfield Hospital

Bradgate Mental Health Unit, Glenfield Hospital