Matron - AFPICU Inpatient

Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust; Leicester; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust is seeking a Matron for its Acute and Forensic Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit. This role involves overseeing nursing services across acute mental health wards, ensuring high-quality patient care and effective clinical leadership. The successful candidate will support staff development, promote patient safety, and lead initiatives to enhance healthcare outcomes.

Benefits

Generous pension contribution

27 days holiday allowance

Free onsite parking

Health and Wellbeing Support

Qualifications

• Must possess a Registered Nurse qualification.
• Significant experience in clinical leadership.
• Commitment to improving patient care quality.

Responsibilities

• Provide clinical and operational leadership for wards.
• Ensure high standards of nursing care.
• Manage resources for effective service delivery.

Skills

Leadership

Nursing

Patient Care

Education

Registered Nurse Qualification

Job description

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Job Overview

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.

Job Overview

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 that will enable you to achieve your long-term goals and work to your strengths.

We Also Offer

• A generous pension contribution and holiday allowance starting at 27 days
• Free onsite parking
• Access to a wide range of additional benefits (attached) such as discounted shopping, recognition schemes and various other packages you can draw from to help support your work-life balance
• Health and Wellbeing Support
  
  

For an informal chat, please contact Louise Short on 07769886181 or email [e-mail]

Job Description Summary (Main Duties And Responsibilities)

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 contribution’s 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.

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.

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