Job summary
Due to promotion an opportunity has become available for a suitably experienced Band 7 nurse to join the team at Horton Rehabilitation Service as Matron.
The service consists of 3 wards; 2 high dependency wards, and an open rehabilitation ward. There is a full range of professional disciples across the service. We are also commencing a number of quality improvement projects so this is an excellent opportunity for development. You would be a key influencer within the service and have the opportunity to steer the changes within the service.
Based in Epsom, Surrey, Horton Rehabilitation Service provides inpatient rehabilitation to adults with complex and enduring mental health needs. The hospital is situated within spacious grounds and is a short distance from Epsom Town providing good transport links, free onsite parking and access to local amenities.
The successful applicant may have contact with patients or service users. As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings.
Main duties of the job
- Will be a visible, accessible and authoritative presence in clinical areas providing assistance, advice and support to staff, patients, relatives, carers and visitors.
- "Walk the floor" and use this opportunity to meet patients and pick up clinical and staff issues.
- Be focused on the clinical area, with moderate involvement in broader divisional and Trust arenas and to have a strong profile both in their area of responsibility across the division and with corporate services.
- Be reactive to local problems and work strategically to resolve them.
- Strong operational role, ensuring equipment and supplies, infection control, appropriate skill mix and staffing.
- To ensure that effective patient flow is maintained and that people are provided care in the least restrictive environment based on a risk assessment
- Have involvement in meeting trust targets and priorities but not sole responsibility
- Line manage senior clinical nursing staff, who in turn, manage more junior staff
- Be responsible to senior managers and professionally accountable to Lead Nurse and divisional director of nursing.
- To manage all resources within the post holder's span of control and make best use of available workforce resources based on agreed staffing models.
About us
Horton Rehabilitation Services is based within three acres of grounds just outside Epsom in Surrey. There are 3 wards including 2 high dependency wards, and a community rehabilitation ward. There is a full range professionals working in the service to provide care and treatment to who are experiencing a severe and enduring mental illness. This includes a peer support worker and the use of our recovery centre as as spoke of the Recovery College.
We are part of the largest NHS mental health rehabilitation service in the country and accept patients from across North West London. There is free car parking on site.
We want to support our staff in developing their knowledge and skills so support training. In addition to apprenticeships we are also supporting our staff to undertake training in Family Interventions, CBTp, and Advanced Clinical Practitioner training, amongst others. We are also keen to support our staff and to that end have been running groups to enhance people's resilience as well as reflective practice.
We are in the process of developing our sensory practices and facilities both for patients and staff in order to support well-being.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Leading by example in clinicalleadership. demonstrate the standard for compassion and respect by the way they address patients and their families and managerial leadership by ensuring a nursing voice in decision making and encouraging staff to raise concerns
- Making sure those who use our service get quality care by influencing the development of standards and protocols. All teams in the Trust should be able to demonstrate that they are meeting the Care Quality Commission (CQC) standards of care
- Ensuring staffing is appropriate to patient need Ensuring minimum staffing levels and involved in recruitment and selection
- Empowering nurses to take wider range of responsibilities. Help nurses to develop their clinical skills working closely with clinical educators and educational leads.
- Improving hospital cleanliness through close liaison with domestic staff to maintain high standard
- Ensuring patient nutritional needs are met. Ensuring god nutritional standard and that healthy eating is promoted
- Improving wards for patients. Making the environment are congenial, balancing comfort, dignity and patient safety.
- Making sure patients are treated with respect Ensuring staff are adhering to expected standards of behaviour and demonstrate trust values, by the way they address complaints and manage aggression and violence.
- Preventing hospital acquired infections. Ensuring infection prevention and control procedures are in place, responding to audits and inspections and also by example and impromptu teaching.
- Resolving problems for patients and their relatives by building closer relationships. Work on personal engagement directly with patients and their relatives.
- Enabling staff to use evidence-based strategies and person-centre/psychosocial interventions in the care and treatment of people with mental health problems.
- To ensure people are provided care in the least restrictive environment whilst optimising bed occupancy.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Leading by example in clinicalleadership. demonstrate the standard for compassion and respect by the way they address patients and their families and managerial leadership by ensuring a nursing voice in decision making and encouraging staff to raise concerns
- Making sure those who use our service get quality care by influencing the development of standards and protocols. All teams in the Trust should be able to demonstrate that they are meeting the Care Quality Commission (CQC) standards of care
- Ensuring staffing is appropriate to patient need Ensuring minimum staffing levels and involved in recruitment and selection
- Empowering nurses to take wider range of responsibilities. Help nurses to develop their clinical skills working closely with clinical educators and educational leads.
- Improving hospital cleanliness through close liaison with domestic staff to maintain high standard
- Ensuring patient nutritional needs are met. Ensuring god nutritional standard and that healthy eating is promoted
- Improving wards for patients. Making the environment are congenial, balancing comfort, dignity and patient safety.
- Making sure patients are treated with respect Ensuring staff are adhering to expected standards of behaviour and demonstrate trust values, by the way they address complaints and manage aggression and violence.
- Preventing hospital acquired infections. Ensuring infection prevention and control procedures are in place, responding to audits and inspections and also by example and impromptu teaching.
- Resolving problems for patients and their relatives by building closer relationships. Work on personal engagement directly with patients and their relatives.
- Enabling staff to use evidence-based strategies and person-centre/psychosocial interventions in the care and treatment of people with mental health problems.
- To ensure people are provided care in the least restrictive environment whilst optimising bed occupancy.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- oExperience of managing a multi-disciplinary staff team, including line management, supervision responsibility and operational management of services.
- oExperience of multi-professional collaboration at senior level, including partnership working with other agencies.
- oExperience of managing staff and resources
- oExperience of managing budgets
- oExperience writing reports and delivering presentations to a high standard and to senior staff
- oExperienced in involving service users and their carers in service planning and monitoring
Skills & Knowledge
Essential
- oAble to demonstrate an up to date knowledge of nursing developments, especially in mental health.
- oAbility to build and develop teams of people and to provide strong leadership to a diverse workforce.
- oAbility to communicate effectively in writing and orally, presenting ideas with clarity in a persuasive and influential style, for a variety of audiences.
- oAble to demonstrate an understanding of safe guarding practice for both vulnerable adults and children
Attidues, Aptitudes & Personal Characteristics
Essential
- oA demonstrable ability to make sound and timely decisions and initiate action to solve problems
- oDemonstrable ability to plan, manage and implement projects when required and assume delegated lead responsibilities.
Qualification
Essential
- oRegistered Mental Health Nurse
- oRelevant Practice Assessor
Desirable
- oRecognised senior management training in leadership, policy or strategy
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- oExperience of managing a multi-disciplinary staff team, including line management, supervision responsibility and operational management of services.
- oExperience of multi-professional collaboration at senior level, including partnership working with other agencies.
- oExperience of managing staff and resources
- oExperience of managing budgets
- oExperience writing reports and delivering presentations to a high standard and to senior staff
- oExperienced in involving service users and their carers in service planning and monitoring
Skills & Knowledge
Essential
- oAble to demonstrate an up to date knowledge of nursing developments, especially in mental health.
- oAbility to build and develop teams of people and to provide strong leadership to a diverse workforce.
- oAbility to communicate effectively in writing and orally, presenting ideas with clarity in a persuasive and influential style, for a variety of audiences.
- oAble to demonstrate an understanding of safe guarding practice for both vulnerable adults and children
Attidues, Aptitudes & Personal Characteristics
Essential
- oA demonstrable ability to make sound and timely decisions and initiate action to solve problems
- oDemonstrable ability to plan, manage and implement projects when required and assume delegated lead responsibilities.
Qualification
Essential
- oRegistered Mental Health Nurse
- oRelevant Practice Assessor
Desirable
- oRecognised senior management training in leadership, policy or strategy
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).
