Job summary
The inpatient units are designed to meet the holistic needs of service users/patients and carers, in a working environment conducive to staff development and wellbeing. Matrons will provide a visible, accessible, and authoritative presence on wards, to whom patients and their families can turn for assistance, advice, and support. Alongside demonstrating a passion for driving up clinical and professional standardsmatrons will be responsible for role modelling the trust values.The post holder will work in collaboration with the clinical, operational, and quality workforce to support the delivery of the inpatient service model, providing leadership to professional and direct care staff in implementing quality standards, leading on quality improvement, and amplifying the voice of the service user and carer throughout service design, planning and delivery.This will be achieved in line with the ten key responsibilities of the role, as set out by NHS England and NHS Improvement.
Main duties of the job
To provide professional nurse leadership and leadership to other clinical staff to ensure the delivery of safe, high quality, effective and compassionate patient services within the area of responsibility.o To demonstrate through personal behaviours, the core values of the Trust, ensuring a professional appearance and maintaining professional standards.o Communicate wide ranging, highly time sensitive and complex information to a broad range of internal and external audiences.o To act as an expert resource, providing advice on complex nursing issues in relation to clinical interventions, policies and protocols, service delivery and service development.o Accountable for monitoring standards of nursing practice by working regularly in clinical areas alongside staff providing patient care, ensuring care is provided to a high standard in line with policies and procedures. Responding effectively to any failings and monitoring corrective action with ward managers and heads of quality.o To take a lead in developing the role of nurses throughout areas ofresponsibility, acting as a role model and an ambassador for the profession.o To ensure that appropriate resources are in place to support the delivery of high-quality services within areas of responsibility.o To ensure a regular physical presence in all areas of responsibility to provide visible leadership.
About us
We are proud to provide high quality mental health and learning disability services, both inpatient and in the community across five boroughs of Greater Manchester - Bury, Oldham, Rochdale, Stockport and Tameside and Glossop.
Our vision is for a happier and more hopeful life for everyone in our communities and our staff work hard to deliver the very best care for the people who use our services. We're really proud of our#PennineCarePeopleand do everything we can to make sure we're a great place to work.
All individuals regardless of race, age, disability, ethnicity, nationality, gender, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage and civil partnership are encouraged to apply for this post. We would also encourage applications from individuals with a lived experience of mental illness, either individually or as a carer.
If you come and work for us we will offer a range of benefits and opportunities, including:
- Generous annual leave entitlement for Agenda for Change and Medical and Dental staff.
- Flexible working opportunities to support your work/life balance
- Access to Continued Professional Development
- Involvement in improvement and research activities
- Health and Wellbeing activities and access to an excellent staff wellbeing service
- Access to staff discounts across retail, leisure and travel
Job description
Job responsibilities
Use monitoring systems, data, and processes to provide assurance of patient safety and quality of care across area of responsibility. Analysing complex information and providing detailed reports for the network director of quality, nursing, and AHP and/or head of nursing Audit and monitor practice to maintain care quality, using methods that provide real time feedback ensuring results are acted upon within their areas of responsibility. Responsible for the review of efficiency and effectiveness of nursing models and implement new care models to maximise workforce utilisation and patient outcomes. Support the implementation and ongoing application of the patient safety incident response framework. Ensure environmental cleanliness and infection prevention and control compliance is maintained locally and approached as a collectiveresponsibility. Ensure safeguarding covers all people by embedding all safeguardinglegislation, policies, and procedures within area of responsibility. Providing professional support in maintaining mental health law and mental capacity act processes. Lead on investigations and complaints, applying duty of candour where applicable. To appropriately identify and escalate actual and potential risks, ensuring that remedial action is taken promptly where unacceptable risks are identified.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Use monitoring systems, data, and processes to provide assurance of patient safety and quality of care across area of responsibility. Analysing complex information and providing detailed reports for the network director of quality, nursing, and AHP and/or head of nursing Audit and monitor practice to maintain care quality, using methods that provide real time feedback ensuring results are acted upon within their areas of responsibility. Responsible for the review of efficiency and effectiveness of nursing models and implement new care models to maximise workforce utilisation and patient outcomes. Support the implementation and ongoing application of the patient safety incident response framework. Ensure environmental cleanliness and infection prevention and control compliance is maintained locally and approached as a collectiveresponsibility. Ensure safeguarding covers all people by embedding all safeguardinglegislation, policies, and procedures within area of responsibility. Providing professional support in maintaining mental health law and mental capacity act processes. Lead on investigations and complaints, applying duty of candour where applicable. To appropriately identify and escalate actual and potential risks, ensuring that remedial action is taken promptly where unacceptable risks are identified.
Person Specification
Education/Qualifications
Essential
- First level nurse (mental health, learning disability, children, or adult)
- Current statement of NMC registration
- MSc and/ or equivalent clinical experience
- Evidence of recent post registration continuing professional development in the relevant field
- Completion or willingness to undertake the matron developmental framework assessment
Desirable
- A leadership/ management qualification
- Teaching qualification
- Quality improvement training
- Investigation training
- MHOST training
Experience
Essential
- Demonstrable experience of caring for people with a mental illness, learning disability and/or autism within inpatient services
- Significant leadership experience at band 7 level or above.
- Evidence of actively working as part of a multi-disciplinary team
- Proven experience of delivering and recording supervision
- Use of monitoring systems and processes to provide assurance of patient safety and quality of care across area of responsibility
- Experience of leading the workforce to deliver quality care and meet the key performance indicators of the service
Desirable
- Recent operational experience
- NHS experience
- Previous experience of supporting staff in the process of organisational change through quality improvement methodology
- Demonstrable experience of leading the development of service standards and/ or service specifications
- Experience of cross boundary working to improve staff and patient experience of care
- Evidence of participation in the trust on-call rota
Knowledge
Essential
- Knowledge of the key trust strategies
- Sound understanding of the national mental health, learning disability and autism agenda
- Knowledge of the national nursing agenda
- Awareness of the new patient safety incident response framewor
- Awareness of key legislation, policies, and procedures within local area of responsibility
- Knowledge of risk management processes
Desirable
- Understanding of IPC manual
- Awareness of safer staffing agenda
- Awareness of Chief Nursing Officer for England's strategic plan for research
- Knowledge and application of the Mental Health Act and Mental Capacity Act
Skills and abilities
Essential
- Ability to communicate clearly and effectively with a wide range of stakeholders
- Ability to organise workload and present information in a succinct, effective, and professional format
- Ability to provide high level reports
- Ability to establish professional boundaries and role model required standards effectively
- Undertake regular staffing reviews to ensure staffing levels are safe to deliver quality care by appropriately skilled staff
- Previous completion of learning needs analysis and succession planning
- Monitor finance and activity to ensure care is delivered, and resources are used, costeffectively
- Ability to analyse and implement evidence based practice
- Ability to analyse complex information from a range of sources
- Undertake training and development of the workforce
- Essential IT skills, including the ability to use Microsoft Office Applications
- Demonstrate a willingness to be flexible, proactive and adaptable to meet the ever changing and competing service demands.
Desirable
- Experience of using trust specific electronic systems e.g., Paris, erostering systems such as NHS at Work, Allocate and NHSP
- Presentation and training skills
- Evidence of involvement in workforce change management
Work Related Circumstances
Essential
- Ability to participate in the trusts on-call function
- Ability to work across the trust footprint
- Provide cross cover for identified
- Flexibility - ability to work unsocial hours/weekends as dictated by workload and service need
- Use of a car or access to a means of mobility to travel across the Trust footprint in line with service needs
- Willing to carry out all duties and responsibilities of the post in accordance with the Trust Equal Opportunities and Equality and Diversity policies
Person Specification
Education/Qualifications
Essential
- First level nurse (mental health, learning disability, children, or adult)
- Current statement of NMC registration
- MSc and/ or equivalent clinical experience
- Evidence of recent post registration continuing professional development in the relevant field
- Completion or willingness to undertake the matron developmental framework assessment
Desirable
- A leadership/ management qualification
- Teaching qualification
- Quality improvement training
- Investigation training
- MHOST training
Experience
Essential
- Demonstrable experience of caring for people with a mental illness, learning disability and/or autism within inpatient services
- Significant leadership experience at band 7 level or above.
- Evidence of actively working as part of a multi-disciplinary team
- Proven experience of delivering and recording supervision
- Use of monitoring systems and processes to provide assurance of patient safety and quality of care across area of responsibility
- Experience of leading the workforce to deliver quality care and meet the key performance indicators of the service
Desirable
- Recent operational experience
- NHS experience
- Previous experience of supporting staff in the process of organisational change through quality improvement methodology
- Demonstrable experience of leading the development of service standards and/ or service specifications
- Experience of cross boundary working to improve staff and patient experience of care
- Evidence of participation in the trust on-call rota
Knowledge
Essential
- Knowledge of the key trust strategies
- Sound understanding of the national mental health, learning disability and autism agenda
- Knowledge of the national nursing agenda
- Awareness of the new patient safety incident response framewor
- Awareness of key legislation, policies, and procedures within local area of responsibility
- Knowledge of risk management processes
Desirable
- Understanding of IPC manual
- Awareness of safer staffing agenda
- Awareness of Chief Nursing Officer for England's strategic plan for research
- Knowledge and application of the Mental Health Act and Mental Capacity Act
Skills and abilities
Essential
- Ability to communicate clearly and effectively with a wide range of stakeholders
- Ability to organise workload and present information in a succinct, effective, and professional format
- Ability to provide high level reports
- Ability to establish professional boundaries and role model required standards effectively
- Undertake regular staffing reviews to ensure staffing levels are safe to deliver quality care by appropriately skilled staff
- Previous completion of learning needs analysis and succession planning
- Monitor finance and activity to ensure care is delivered, and resources are used, costeffectively
- Ability to analyse and implement evidence based practice
- Ability to analyse complex information from a range of sources
- Undertake training and development of the workforce
- Essential IT skills, including the ability to use Microsoft Office Applications
- Demonstrate a willingness to be flexible, proactive and adaptable to meet the ever changing and competing service demands.
Desirable
- Experience of using trust specific electronic systems e.g., Paris, erostering systems such as NHS at Work, Allocate and NHSP
- Presentation and training skills
- Evidence of involvement in workforce change management
Work Related Circumstances
Essential
- Ability to participate in the trusts on-call function
- Ability to work across the trust footprint
- Provide cross cover for identified
- Flexibility - ability to work unsocial hours/weekends as dictated by workload and service need
- Use of a car or access to a means of mobility to travel across the Trust footprint in line with service needs
- Willing to carry out all duties and responsibilities of the post in accordance with the Trust Equal Opportunities and Equality and Diversity policies
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
