Matron - Band 8a

Job summary

Come and join our senior leadership team (SLT), as Matron for Mental Health Inpatient Services. You be responsible for clinical/ operational leadership and management across 5 secure wards, directly managing ward managers/clinical leads and be an active member of their multidisciplinary teams. You must have significant experience at Band 7 ward manager level and experience in an MH setting.

You need to be resilient, able to identify and harness opportunities and work closely with the SLT, to drive outcome focused goals that deliver sustainable transformation, aligned to the Trust, Nursing, Workforce and Quality/Safety strategies.

Visible nursing leadership is critical, offering specialist advice for inpatient services and driving service improvement. Knowledge and experience of QI mythologies are advantageous. You will contribute to workforce reviews, ensuring teams have skills/knowledge to deliver evidence-based interventions, that support coproduced and exceptional quality patient centred services.

This role offers the opportunity to engage in collaborative approaches across the trust, liaising withnursing lead peers from across the organisation and to be part of the wider Reach Out provider collaborative.

Main duties of the job

The post holder is responsible for:

Providing clinical and operational leadership, overall planning, management and delivery of service transformation in secure services.

Work in conjunction with the Head of Nursing, Associate Director of Nursing , General Manager and Associate Director of Operations. to provide professional leadership and efficient, effective, high quality services for service users and staff.

Work alongside Pathway Managers/Matrons who contribute to the wider MH Directorate management team, providing cross cover, deputising for the Head of Nursing and participating in the on-call rota.

Delivery against the five key CQC Tests of Safe, Caring, Responsive, Effective and Well-led.

Delivering services within allocated resources/budgets and agreed national and local quality standards, key performance

Workforce reviews, ensuring appropriate numbers, the right level of knowledge, skill and expertise.

Effective communication, ensuring robust systems exist, enabling staff to feel informed, engaged and able to influence Trust priorities.

Presenting and communicating complex information to a wide range of audiences with different levels of understanding of subject area.

Leading investigations of complaints/untoward incidents, implementing lessons learnt are in a timely and effective manner.

Line management responsibility and accountability for designated services and the staff within them.

About us

At Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust (CWPT), we deliver a wide range of physical, mental health, learning disability and autism services, and are proud to serve communities across Coventry, Warwickshire and beyond.

We put 'people at our heart'; this ethos is at the centre of everything we do and how we do it. We care for our staff and colleagues as much as they care for others and offer a wide range of benefits and development opportunities.

• generous annual leave entitlement which increases during your time with us
• excellent learning and development opportunities, including apprenticeship frameworks, distance learning, internal training, coaching and mentoring, and much more
• salary sacrifice schemes for lease car/ vehicle, Cycle to Work, home and electronics, gym membership and more
• discounts with a range of retailers, restaurants and entertainment venues through our Employee Assistance Programme and NHS discount schemes
• wellbeing support, including an in-house counselling service, external helpline and more
• staff networks and support group

We're always on the lookout for people who share our passion for improving the lives and wellbeing of people in our community, as well as our values of compassion, collaboration, excellence, integrity and respect.