Modern Matron - Low Secure Forensic Units - Oxford

TN United Kingdom; Oxford; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Modern Matron for its Low Secure Forensic Units in Oxford. This pivotal role involves leading nursing teams, ensuring high-quality mental health care, and driving improvements in patient services. The ideal candidate will balance clinical duties with managerial responsibilities, contributing to a culture of excellence in care delivery. With opportunities for professional development and a supportive work environment, this position offers a unique chance to make a significant impact in mental health services. Join a team dedicated to providing outstanding care to those in need.

Benefits

27 days annual leave

NHS Discount

Lease car scheme

Cycle to work scheme

Employee Assistance Programme

Mental Health First Aiders

Staff accommodation

Career progression opportunities

Learning and development access

Diversity and Inclusion support groups

Qualifications

• Registered Mental Health Nurse with leadership experience.
• Degree in nursing or related field required.

Responsibilities

• Provide clinical leadership for inpatient teams.
• Ensure compliance with Care Quality Commission standards.

Skills

Mental Health Nursing

Clinical Leadership

Budget Management

Team Management

Education

Registered Mental Health Nurse (RMN)

Degree Level Education

Master's Degree

Job description

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Client:

Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust

Location:

Oxford, United Kingdom

Job Category:

Other

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Yes

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Posted:

02.05.2025

Expiry Date:

16.06.2025

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Job overview

Are you a registered mental health nurse looking for a balance of clinical and managerial responsibilities where you will be an influential member of the leadership team for your wards?

We are recruiting for a Modern Matron (Forensic Inpatient Services) at Littlemore Mental Health Centre, Oxford, to provide clinical leadership for nurses and other health professionals providing care in an inpatient setting.

This role offers you a combination of patient contact, carer involvement and managing ward teams, leading on the provision of high quality evidence-based mental health nursing care.

You'll be available to ward staff, patients and carers and be responsive to their experiences of care and concerns about the ward environment.The role of a modern matron is pivotal in delivering the vision of the Trust, patients and carers onto your wards.

You'll offer operational and strategic leadership to the in-patient teams at our Lambourn House (pre-discharge unit), and Wenric Ward, both within the forensic directorate, and be the clinical and governance lead for these wards.

If this sounds like your next career move, we would love to hear from you!

Main duties of the job

• You'll hold a key role as a member of the leadership team for the wards they are responsible for, alongside psychiatry and allied health professionals.
• Demonstrate a level of healthy curiosity about care delivery and become actively engaged in care planning and risk management as required.
• Contribute to the governance of care and lead on the improvement and development of nursing care with a strong focus on quality improvement, ensuring that Care Quality Commission (CQC) essential standards are met and exceeded
• Support and inspire teams within our inpatient services to meet CQC standards of ‘Excellent’.

The in-patient wards are also involved in the in-patient mental health transformation programme, including the NHS England Culture of Care programme. You will be a core part of the leadership team driving this transformation to improve quality of care.

Please refer to the job description attached for a comprehensive list of duties.

The ability to travel independently between sites within the Trust is essential for this role. Please note if you are based outside of the UK you will need to be fully qualified, have already passed your OSCE and have an NMC pin number in order to be considered for this role.

Working for our organisation

Oxford Health is a great place to work and to be able to showcase the best of yourself when making an application please read the “candidate guide to making an application” and ensure your supporting statement is tailored to the role you are applying for and addresses any essential criteria.

As a Trust we provide physical, mental health and social care for people of all ages across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath and Northeast Somerset. Our services are delivered at community bases, hospitals, clinics and people’s homes, delivering care as close to home as possible. Our vision is that no matter who you are or where you are, you will tell us that you receive: “Outstanding care delivered by an outstanding team”

Our values are: “Caring, safe and excellent”

At Oxford Health we offer a wide range of benefits designed to support your career and wellbeing. These include:

• Excellent opportunities for career progression
• Access to tailored individual and Trust wide learning and development
• 27 days annual leave, plus bank holidays, rising to 33 days with continuous service
• NHS Discount across a wide range of shops, restaurants and retailers
• Lease car scheme
• Cycle to work scheme
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Mental Health First Aiders
• Staff accommodation (please note waiting lists may apply)
• Staff networking and support groups hosted by our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion team

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

We hope that the advert has given you a clear understanding of the skills we are seeking and the opportunity at hand. You will need to use the “supporting statement” element of your application form to demonstrate your suitability for this role and you should refer to the job description, person specification and the guidance notes attached to this role to help you tailor your application.

The essential and desirable criteria will be used to shortlist for interview and you should ensure that you refer to these within your application to increase your chances of being selected for interview.

Person specification

Qualifications

• RMN, Educated to degree level
• RGN and/or Master’s degree

Knowledge Requirements

• Experience of successful budget and resource management
• Skills and experience in managing poor performance and dealing with misconduct issues
• Extensive knowledge of clinical governance and Care Quality Commission (CQC) essential standards of care

Experience

• Experience of leading teams, and of managing the performance of individuals within those teams.
• Detailed understanding of the key policy issues affecting the delivery of health and social care across local health economy and at national leve
• Experience of leading the planning, delivering, and evaluation of care to address changing needs.

Personal Qualities

• Demonstrate an ability to organise and motivate self and others
• Demonstrate an ability to communicate at different levels and relay information to people with different levels of ability to understand

Contractual / other requirements

• To be available to take part in on-call rota
• To be able to travel to work in different parts of the Trust; if possible to hold a current driving license
• Commitment to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults
• All new starters have a thorough induction process, both local and Trust wide, which aims to create a positive supportive working environment allowing new employees to learn key elements of their role over a reasonable timescale.
• Appointment to this post is subject to the trust receiving satisfactory references covering 3 years of employment or study. Please ask your referees to respond promptly to reference requests.
• We’re advocates of flexible working and many of our roles offer a range of employment options to help you balance your work and personal life.
• Employees are expected to undertake mandatory and statutory training related to their role.
• We are ambitious in our pursuit of excellence, driven by the belief that a fair, just and fully inclusive organisational culture enables our teams to deliver the best quality of care and services possible and we work hard to ensure that our diverse workforce reflects the communities that we serve.
• We welcome applications from all sections of the community, are an Equal Opportunities employer with a number of internal networking groups to support our employees and where possible will always look to make reasonable adjustments in order that you can fulfil the role to recognise your full potential. All our employees are committed to demonstrating through their behaviour our core values – safe, caring and excellent.
• We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults, we expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
• Oxford is a world-renowned centre of excellence for research. Oxford Health works closely with the University of Oxford department of Psychiatry and the Department of Primary care, has a Biomedical Research Centre dedicated to improving mental health and the NIHR Clinical Research Facility at the Warneford site. The Trust also hosts the NIHR Applied Research Collaboration (ARC) which carries out applied research that directly impacts patient health and wellbeing