Modern Matron

Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust; Cambridgeshire and Peterborough; On-site; GBP 47,000 - 53,000; Full time

Job summary

A public health organization in Cambridgeshire is seeking an experienced leader for the Modern Matron role in adult inpatient wards. This position involves overseeing high-quality care and performance, contributing to the mental health acute care pathway. Strong leadership skills and experience in managing diverse teams are essential for this pivotal role.

Qualifications

• Experience in managing diverse teams at a senior level.
• Expertise in acute adult mental health services.
• Strong leadership and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage the acute adult mental health services across inpatient and associated teams.
• Provide leadership and expertise within an agreed service model.
• Establish effective multi-disciplinary working within acute services.

Job description

Overview

We are seeking an experienced leader with a background in managing diverse teams at a senior level to join our leadership group. The Modern Matron position is available to support Oak 1 and Oak 3 Adult Inpatient Wards based at the Cavell Centre in Care Group 2. The role involves overseeing safe, high-quality care, governance, and performance to improve service user experience across the wards, as well as supporting our new inpatient clinical model to enhance service flow. This band 8a portfolio contributes to shaping, developing, and maintaining the mental health acute care pathway, aiming to ensure safe and effective clinical interventions and strengthen the integration between Crisis, Community, and Inpatient services.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage the acute adult mental health services across the inpatient and associated teams in Care Group 2, delivering safe and effective high-quality services within available resources to achieve team targets.
• Provide leadership and expertise to deliver services within an agreed service model, working with service users and carers, and other stakeholders, while maintaining effective working relationships.
• Establish effective multi-disciplinary working within and across the wider acute services.

About the organisation

Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust is a health and social care organisation dedicated to providing high-quality care with compassion to improve the health and wellbeing of the people we care for, as well as supporting and empowering them to lead a fulfilling life.

Our clinical teams deliver many NHS services, not only via inpatient and primary care settings, but also within the community. These services include children’s, adult and older people’s mental health, forensic and specialist mental health, learning disabilities, primary care and liaison psychiatry, substance misuse, social care, research and development.