Inpatient Matron

Inpatient Matron - Band 8A - Acute and Urgent Care Directorate - 12 month fixed term position:
Do you have the enthusiasm and drive, combined with the necessary skills to work in a key senior leadership role within the Acute and Urgent Care Directorate? Would you enjoy the challenge of providing professional nursing advice to our Teams, providing strategic awareness in order to enable staff to develops services in ways that support Trust values and initiatives then we want to hear from you.

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an Inpatient Matron to join our Acute and Urgent Care Directorate Management Team and work across our Inpatient Services.

The Directorate leadership comprises of an Associate Director working in partnership with the Clinical Director, supported by Quality Improvement Lead Nurses, Service Managers and an Inpatient Matron to ensure delivery of our responsibilities for planning, performance, finance, quality and governance.

The post holder will provide professional nursing advice to the teams within their designated area of responsibility. They will also have strategic awareness in their speciality in order to enable staff to develop services in ways that support Trust values and initiatives.

They will also provide professional and clinical leadership to Clinical Team Managers on service improvement to ensure the delivery of high quality patient care. They will be visible, accessible and authoritative on issues relating to the three elements of quality - patient safety, clinical effectiveness and patient experience.

They will support the Directorate in the implementation of Trust policy, best practice and contribute to the development and implementation of the Trust Quality Improvement Strategy, leading on quality improvement within the directorate including leading the CQC improvement programme. With Service Managers ensure that within their directorate:
standards of care are delivered to a high quality

there is a culture of learning across the MDT

quality improvement is embedded within teams and services

Awarded Trust of the year

Our vision is ‘To be Outstanding in all we do and how we do it.’ Our team prides themselves on compassion, team work and resilience.

The Team will offer a full induction package.

Our Trust is on an incredible journey of innovation and we’d like you to be part of it. To excel you will be an enthusiastic, caring and compassionate person who is looking to work within a Trust that is ambitious to perform well and has been told by the Care Quality Commission that it is the fastest improving Mental Health Trust in the Country.

In return we offer;
A competitive progressive salary

We cover the cost of your DBS Check (£44)

Competitive staff benefits such as weekly offers and discounts

Individual Personal Development Plan and Career Progression

Excellent pension scheme available

27- 33 days annual leave, plus statutory bank holidays (pro rata)

Free parking

Quality

Take positive action to learn about, and engage with, quality improvement (QI) methodology; leading and driving the QI agenda within the directorate.

Lead on continuous service/quality improvement in relation to the 3 elements of quality - patient safety, clinical effectiveness and patient experience.

Utilise learning from experience to inform continuous improvement strategies; implementing and embedding learning from service user feedback, incidents and complaints.

Prioritise patient safety and ensure that data from relevant audits, such as the inpatient/community staffing matrix, are used for quality improvement.

Lead on adopting LEAN practices within the directorate to ensure efficient and effective use of resources whilst maintain/improving quality.

Lead on the implementation of benchmarking in services and participate in the trust wide meetings and events.

Proactively champion patient safety initiatives and facilitate the implementation of learning from complaints, incidents and feedback.

Direct and lead the development and monitoring of standards for cleanliness of the environment and, where appropriate, the quality of patient food; challenging poor performance where necessary.

Monitor compliance with the standards for IPC and PLACE inspections including cleanliness of environment and, where appropriate, quality of patient food and take appropriate action to address any unresolved issues.

Challenge the status quo with authority, to improve services for the benefit of service users and carers.

Take the lead engagement role for directorate with IPC team, on the implementation of infection, prevention and control, policies locally, attending meetings with the Director of IPC and relevant Trust forums.

Support Team Managers to enhance and personalise clinical environments.

Monitor safer staffing levels and skill mix with the services managers to ensure safe and supportive care. Lead on safer staffing reviews with the Director of Nursing.

Support the development of cu