Modern Matron

Bradford District Care NHS Foundation Trust; Long Lee; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent healthcare provider in Long Lee seeks a dedicated Modern Matron for their Mental Health Inpatient Services. This role focuses on improving patient experiences through effective leadership and high-quality care. Candidates must have a Mental Health Nurse Qualification, current NMC registration, and significant experience in clinical management. The organization offers a supportive working environment with various benefits.

Benefits

Increased mileage rates

Health and wellbeing support packages

Development and learning opportunities

Qualifications

• Current NMC Registration.
• Significant experience in mental health care.

Responsibilities

• Provide leadership and supervision to clinical and care staff.
• Ensure high standards of care.
• Empower nurses to take on a wider range of clinical tasks.
• Resolve patient issues by building relationships.

Skills

Leadership

Clinical Management

Communication

Problem-solving

Education

Mental Health Nurse Qualification

Post Graduate level education in specialist area

Master's Level education or equivalent experience

Job description

We are seeking a dedicated and motivated Modern Matron to join our Inpatient Services at Airedale Centre for Mental Health.

Key Responsibilities:

The matrons' fundamental role is to improve the patient experience. The main objectives of the role are:

• Providing leadership and supervision to clinical and direct care staff within their unit, to ensure high standards of care
• Ensuring that administrative and support services for their unit support the delivery of high standards of care
• Providing a visible, accessible and authoritative presence in wards for patients and their families
• To provide focus on key performance indicators (KPI's), finances and safety of the unit

The underpinning principle is to have a professional leader who is accountable for co-coordinating safe, high-quality care to improve patients' experience.

Main duties of the job

• Leading by example
• Making sure patients get quality care
• Ensuring staffing is appropriate to patient needs
• Empowering nurses to take on a wider range of clinical tasks
• Improving hospital cleanliness
• Ensuring patients nutritional needs are met
• Improving wards for patients
• Making sure patients are treated with respect
• Preventing hospital-acquired infection
• Resolving problems for patients and their relatives by building closer relationships

About us

Everything we do is underpinned by our core values:

• We Care - We act with respect and empathy, and always value difference
• We Listen - We understand people's views and respond to their individual needs
• We Deliver - We develop and provide excellent services and support our partners

We will consider a variety of flexible working arrangements to enable staff to balance their work and home lives and support staff by offering a fantastic range of benefits including:

• Increase mileage rates for > 3500
• A wide range of health and wellbeing support packages
• A range of internal and external development and learning opportunities

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Mental Health Nurse Qualification
• Current NMC Registration
• Evidence of continuing professional development
• Post Graduate level education in specialist area or equivalent experience
• Educated to Masters Level or working towards

Experience

• Mental health care/treatment relevant to service (Significant experience)
• Clinical leadership
• Operational management of a clinical team

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.

Right to Work in the UK

Prior to your appointment you will be asked to provide confirmation of your right to work and reside in the UK.