Matron Mill View Hospital

4 months ago


Hove, United Kingdom Sussex Partnership NHS FoundationTrust Full time

Are you a passionate, hard working, friendly and experienced Mental Health Nurse Leader looking for a new opportunity within Acute care? Looking for a Band 8a Clinical Nurse Leadership role? We are looking for a Matron to join our hospital, covering three of our wards, working alongside both the leadership and ward teams. You will work alongside one other Matron whom covers our other two wards and the Health Based Place of Safety, together to lead high quality care and governance.

You will oversee the governance and quality for both inpatient wards and provide expertise and advice to the clinical team as appropriate. Working closely with the Ward Manager's, MDT and wider trust networks.

Caburn ward is 17 bedded acute ward.

Regency Ward is a 20 bedded acute ward.

Brunswick ward is our 10 bedded dementia ward.

We will support your continued professional development and we are passionate about supporting your wellbeing. We take pride in our culture at Mill View Hospital, our culture is underpinned by quality improvement and working with a compassionate, open and psychologically safe leadership approach. We work within a friendly, kind and gentle environment where least restrictive practice is always prioritised.

Working with the MDT to ensure patients receive the highest quality care possible, including, but not exclusive to, coordinated care, smooth transitions, privacy and dignity, nutritional, spiritual and cultural needs being met

Ensuring the patient and carer voice remains heard through frequent feedback

Overseeing safer staffing levels

Empowering nurses and overseeing supervision standards

Ensuring that clinical environments are maintained at a high level of cleanliness

Supporting Staff Wellbeing and retention

Networking with colleagues across the trust to maintain good relationships

Complete an 'On call' manager rota

Provide clinical and managerial supervision

Oversee ward budgets alongside team leaders

Engage in Quality Improvement projects and co-production

To protect the health and safety of our staff/workers, patients, and those attending our sites, we encourage our workforce to get fully vaccinated against COVID

We provide mental health and learning disability care for children, young people and adults across Sussex and for children and young people in Hampshire.

**Working in Sussex**:
Travel easily between coast and countryside, with a blend of picturesque villages and seaside towns there’s always new experiences to be enjoyed

Embrace the city life with great access to visit Brighton and London

With easy access to Gatwick and Heathrow and excellent railway links across the UK there is plenty of opportunity for adventure

We’d love you to join our organisation that is rated ‘good’ overall and ‘outstanding’ for caring by the Care Quality Commission. Our staff agree, with 82% of people in our recent staff survey telling us that they recognise that care for patients is our top priority.

**Other key staff survey results include**:
70% highlighting flexible working opportunities as a key point for satisfaction at work

79% reporting feeling able to make suggestions to improve the work within their team

77% identifying the opportunities to show initiative in their roles
- Provide strong clinical leadership, to use the authority of the role to assert the needs of patients and carers within the clinical setting.
- Ensure systems are in place to actively promote patient and carer involvement. Which respond constructively to suggestion or complaint.
- Provide and audit individual, group and clinical supervision to Ward Managers, senior staff and multi-professional staff as required.
- Ensure patients have advice and treatment available regarding their physical health as well as mental health. This includes smoking cessation, and obesity, and long-term conditions.
- Lead - in collaboration with the specialist infection control nurse - on all practices that increase hospital cleanliness and infection control measures
- Support General managers in strategic planning to meet the requirements of the service.
- Ensure that the delivery of care including basic procedures meet the requirement of NICE guidelines, the NSF, the Essence Of Care and evidence-based practice and any other relevant national guidance.
- Monitor, report and act upon any clinical risks associated with change processes or financial constraints. The Matron will be the key lead in the monitoring of recommendations of any reports or Serious Untoward Incidents (SUI).
- To take a lead role in the development of clinically based policies and procedures for the relevant service area.



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