Job summary
- Main area
- Physical Health Matron
- Grade
- Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 820-7456224-LD
- Employer
- Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- The Greenfields
- Town
- Kings Norton
- Salary
- £55,690 - £62,682 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 24/09/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Band 8a Physical Health Matron
Band 8a
Job overview
**Please note that this post will close once sufficient applicants have been received so may closed before the advertised closing date. Please submit your application as soon as possible**
Do you wish to help the division challenge traditional views of professional roles within Learning Disability Healthcare services?
An exciting opportunity has arisen as a direct result of large scale Strengthening Operational Structures transformation programme recently undertaken throughout the Trust, for a dynamic and innovative Registered Allied Health Professional or Nurse with experience of working in Learning Disability Services to fill a matron post, and who will help to influence and shape this multi-professional role.
This Modern Matron post will support the provision of high quality, compassionate and responsive leadership, ensuring robust arrangements are in place to support evidence based, and high-quality clinical service delivery to service users within our community.
This will involve Quality Improvement, development of integrated pathways both within the trust and across the system, governance (including complaints, investigations and proactive risk management) and be confident in promoting good practice and good relationships within multi-professional/agency working.
Due to the strong commitment to evidence-based practice throughout the Trust, CPD will be well-supported, and involvement in audit, research and policy development is encouraged and facilitated.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will be responsible for the clinical operational management and clinical improvement of services listed in Appendix 1 adjoined to this job description.
The post holder will oversee the clinical effectiveness of the service(s) overseeing the Service(s) response to Complaints, Patient Experience and Staff Survey feedback. This information will be used by the post holder, in parallel with Incident, Safety, Safeguarding, ECI, clinical harms and the outcomes from clinical forum, to ensure the service delivers high quality and effective care.
The post holder will work in liaison with the Service Manager in rota management (including safe staffing), the delivery of activity against agreed activity plans, managing overall caseload and waiting time performance for service(s) listed in Appendix 1. The postholder will support on Cost Improvement Schemes for their respective areas, as well as ensuring service delivery is maintained within the set budget for respective Service(s) providing clinical expertise and leadership when delivering these. Where required the post holder will support to the development of business cases and continued transformation/improvement of service(s). The post holder will lead on the recruitment and retention of the clinical workforce across the respective services.
Working for our organisation
Be Part of Our Team...
BCHC has more than 5000 staff working across Birmingham and the West Midlands in a wide range of community nursing and specialist healthcare roles. BCHC delivers over 100 clinical services, in people's homes, health centres, clinics and inpatient facilities. We deliver a wide range of services for children, young people and families as well as adults and community services, two community hospitals, services for people with learning disabilities, the internationally recognised West Midlands Rehab Centre and one of Europe’s leading Dental Hospitals and School of Dentistry. We deliver all of this with a commitment to integrated, personalised care that is rooted in our local communities. We have an ambition to deliver outstanding, integrated care as one of the key NHS providers in the West Midlands.
If you want to ‘Be Part of Our Team’ and work with a Foundation Trust which is continuously striving for best care and healthy communities, we want to hear from you.
IMPORTANT
- Please ensure you check your Trac account regularly as this is how we will communicate with you during the shortlisting and selection process
- Please ensure all sections of the application form are completed fully. Please particularly ensure that you provide full details of all referees including BUSINESS EMAIL ADDRESS, telephone contact details and postal address
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Modern Matron in the Learning Disability Division covering our physical health teams and bedded areas, focusing on the delivery of safe high-quality care to adults with learning disabilities across Birmingham
Applicants must possess excellent interpersonal, communication and planning skills. You will need to be flexible, adaptable, have an interest in quality improvement and be confident in promoting good practice and good relationships within multi-professional/agency working.
- Provide clinical operational leadership and responsibility for the Service(s) listed in Appendix 1, this will include clinical advice and expertise where required.
- To maintain Complex Clinical Caseload in respective clinical field where necessary, this will require the post holder to maintain own professional knowledge and personal development.
- Provide Clinical leadership in the development of clinical/standard operational processes, ensuring clinical policies and practices are in place and adhered to for all services.
- To maintain visibility within clinical areas and support staff regarding clinical matters/patient care, to ensure patients receive best possible outcomes and experience.
- Where required to provide Service clinical operational leadership/support for all student and educational placements in the group of services.
- The post holder will support the Divisional on call rota where requested.
- To provide support in the overall management of budget(s) for the Service(s) listed in Appendix 1.
- In partnership with Divisional colleagues, to constantly review and improve the service(s), taking into account local and national guidelines and guidance from Professional Leads.
- Support the facilitation of robust CIP identification, reporting and monitoring approach for Services listed in Appendix 1, providing clinical expertise to ensure that clinical outcomes continue to be delivered.
- Work with the DDNT & Professional Lead to develop the strategic overview for continuing quality improvement within service(s), providing leadership and clinical support to clinical staff to enable change. This includes setting the direction, facilitating strategic discussion, establishing the agendas for action, motivating people and anticipating issues.
We are a progressive, expanding organization with great ambition to deliver safe, high-quality care to our local communities and priorities and champion the health and well -being of our staff.
We are dedicated to being an outstanding place to work and will work with you to get the best experience. We are inclusive, so if you are interested in flexible working, please do speak to the recruiting manager.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Degree level education or equivalent experience
- Membership/Registration of relevant professional body
- Evidence of continuous professional development
Experience
Essential criteria
- Significant clinical experience in relevant professional area
- Significant relevant experience working at senior management level Significant relevant experience of and exposure to performance setting and monitoring Significant experience of managing budgets within financial constraints/targets Significant experience of line managing staff/teams Experience in preparing reports to be presented to senior level stakeholders and committees Significant experience of utilising PC tools/programmes to manipulate, analyse and present information to be distributed to senior level colleagues Experience in identifying education and training needs of staff, supporting them in their professional development
- Significant relevant experience of and exposure to performance setting and monitoring
- Significant experience of managing budgets within financial constraints/targets
- Significant experience of line managing staff/teams
- Experience in preparing reports to be presented to senior level stakeholders and committees
- Significant experience of utilising PC tools/programmes to manipulate, analyse and present information to be distributed to senior level colleagues
- Experience in identifying education and training needs of staff, supporting them in their professional development
Skills
Essential criteria
- Knowledge of local health economy
- Knowledge of current NHS Framework
- Comprehensive understanding of the quality agenda for NHS
- Robust understanding of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion and the ability to lead improvements for both patients and the workforce
- Excellent organisational skills
- Ability to work on own initiative without frequent supervision
- Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to build rapport and credibility with clinical and managerial Teams
- Knowledge of workforce planning, recruitment and retention
personla qualities
Essential criteria
- Self-motivated
- Ability to prioritise and meet tight deadlines
- Willingness to learn and share knowledge
- Proven leadership skills; strong, inclusive leadership style
other job requirements
Essential criteria
- Ability to be independently mobile to travel across the Trust area
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Application numbers
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Hassan Waheed
- Job title
- Lead Matron
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0121 466 3900
- Additional information
For further information, and to express interest in the post please contact Hassan Waheed Lead Matron on 0121 466 3900, Email: [email protected]
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