Community Matron

Job summary

We are looking to offer a 6 month secondment into a Community Matron position toenhance the safety, experience and outcomes of people using our services.

This is a unique opportunity for someone with a drive to embed high quality care to people in our GY&W communities, based on best practice. Ensuring that services meet the essential standards of care and quality required under CQC regulations and NSFT's quality and safety agenda.

The role will predominantly cover our older adults population with an expectation that nursing leadership will extend to our adult and Learning disability services.

We are looking for a person who is kind and compassionate to others, and is proactive in helping people reach their potential.

This is an exciting time for change within NSFT, this opportunity will benefit someone looking expand their already established nursing practice, knowledge and clinical leadership to embed and maintain effective systems for quality assurance and high standards clinical care

Main duties of the job

As Matron, you will be expected to demonstrate the qualities and skills associated with a clinical leadership role and be accountable for services meeting essential standards of care as outlined by the CQC as well as agreed local and national quality standards encompassing the following domains:

Patient Safety

Quality

Environment

Infection Prevention

Physical Health

Safeguarding

Feedback, Complaints, service improvement

Clinical Audit

About us

Here at NSFT we pride ourselves on being a welcoming, talented, friendly and supportive team who like nothing better than sharing experiences and learning from each other. In addition to ongoing training and development opportunities, we are committed to providing an environment in which you can thrive.

Why work for us? We have challenges as a Trust, but we have ambitious aspirations, are pushing ahead with exciting transformation work and we need dedicated individuals to support us on our journey. We have strong, established nursing networks coupled with an exceptional leadership team who will ensure you are truly cared for and cared about.

Why Great Yarmouth and Waveney? The people here are warm and welcoming, you'll never be far from the beautiful coastline or Broads National Park. We're an hour and a half away from London and have an international airport in Norwich too. Our coastal villages, towns and cities are packed full of history, independent cafes, shops and theatres. We have excellent shopping, eating out, top ranking schooling and affordable house prices too.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please find attached our Job Description and Person Specification for more detail on your Key Accountabilities, then if you feel you have what it takes to make a difference in your local communities, click APPLY

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Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

First level nurse with current NMC registration UK Master's Degree or equivalent experience

Experience

Essential

Significant experience working within and managing mental health clinical services Significant experience of clinical performance management Significant general and operational management experience to include the management of a large multi-disciplinary group of staff - part of which to have been in the NHS

knowledge

Essential

quality and safety agenda

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