Community Matron

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Bromley, United Kingdom TN United Kingdom Full time

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Community Matron - Specialist Services, Bromley

Client: South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust

Location: Bromley, United Kingdom

Job Category: Other

EU work permit required: Yes

Job Reference: c0299ed67955

Job Views: 6

Posted: 23.01.2025

Expiry Date: 09.03.2025

Job Description:

Job summary

The Psychological Medicine and Older Adults Directorate is offering an exciting opportunity for a proactive and proficient Matron role in their Specialist community services. This role allows for close working and collaboration with senior management and clinicians in the future development of the directorate. The successful post holder will be based at the PMOA (Specialist) Community teams and will be an integral part of the Nursing, Quality and Assurance Team.

The successful candidates will have exceptional communication, motivational and influencing skills, being able to influence and encourage teams to work across organisational boundaries whilst holding patient care at the heart of their work. Candidates will need to be passionate about the delivery of high-quality patient care and have experience in leadership. The post holder will be a 'self-starter' and be able to work autonomously as well as part of a multi-professional team.

Main duties of the job

We are particularly interested in hearing from positive, motivated, dynamic and enthusiastic applicants who enjoy participating in a range of quality improvement activities with staff and patients. The Matron will provide expert advice, support and visible leadership to all staff driving the quality agenda throughout services.

About us

We are committed to ensuring our staff get the most out of their benefits package and understand the importance of a healthy work-life balance. There is an extensive range of excellent benefits for you and your family. We want you to feel like you are part of a close-knit team at SLaM. It's important to us that you are valued and appreciated and that is why we have a comprehensive benefits package on offer.

Some of our benefits are highlighted here:

  • Generous pay, pensions and leave: We offer a comprehensive pay, pensions and leave package which is dependent on the role and length of service.
  • Work-life balance: Flexible working and support a range of flexible options, such as part-time working and job sharing.
  • Career development: There are plenty of opportunities to progress your career and we support your development through a number of programmes such as mentoring, coaching, positive people management, collective leadership and other talent programmes.
  • Car lease: Our staff benefits from competitive deals to lease cars.
  • Accommodation: Our staff benefits from keyworker housing available at selected sites.
  • NHS discounts: Discounts up to 10% from a variety of well-known retail brands through the Health Service Discounts website.

Other benefits include:

  • Counselling services
  • Long service awards
  • Cycle to work scheme
  • Season ticket loan
  • Staff restaurants

We look forward to receiving your application.

Job responsibilities

The post holder will deliver on the Matrons 10 responsibilities:

  • 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/team cleanliness
  • Ensuring patients' nutritional needs are met
  • Improving patients' experience (to include supporting teams in identification of ligatures and management plans regarding existing ligatures where patients are seen in outpatients)
  • Making sure patients are treated with respect
  • Preventing hospital-acquired infection when patients are admitted to the ward
  • Resolving problems for patients and their relatives by building closer relationships
Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Registered Nurse (RN) with relevant mental health experience
  • Extensive post-registration relevant continuing professional development

Desirable

  • Leadership course at level 5 or above
  • Specialist qualification/training relevant to the clinical services
  • Master's degree in nursing/Mental health field

Experience

Essential

  • Experience at a senior management level of multi-professional collaboration and managing change
  • Experience of setting, monitoring and evaluating standards of care
  • Quality improvement methodology, assessing and teaching
  • Relevant clinical experience in inpatient and community Mental health services
  • Experience in completing audits and preparing reports/action plans

Desirable

  • Experience of working in specialist commissioned community and outpatient services

Knowledge

Essential

  • Understanding of risk issues including Clinical and Health and Safety
  • An appreciation of the unique needs of patients from diverse cultural communities
  • Knowledge and understanding of Care Quality Commission standards and the quality improvement agenda for the directorate

Desirable

  • Training in Coaching skills
  • Awareness of evidence-based practice in specialist clinical services

Skills

Essential

  • Able to advise on clinical nursing issues, demonstrating an understanding of professional guidance, nursing policy and relevant Trust and national strategies
  • Able to negotiate and influence in order to achieve objectives without direct line management
  • Ability to establish credibility and good working relationships with representatives of external agencies and other stakeholders, and manage those relationships with sensitivity and compassion

Desirable

  • Able to work on several projects simultaneously using project management skills
  • Ability to negotiate and reach compromises in a manner that inspires confidence and respect from others

Values

Essential

  • Innovative, creative, flexible with a willingness to try something different
  • Able to demonstrate a strong commitment to equal opportunities and equal access with a practical approach to ensure that policies are applicable to practice
  • Can demonstrate a high level of perseverance, being committed to seeing plans through to their conclusion within agreed time scales
  • Demonstrate a high degree of self-awareness, able to demonstrate appropriate use of authority, providing a clear and unambiguous role within the senior management team
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