Job summary
- Main area
- Croydon Directorate
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8a
- Contract
- 6 months (Fixed term: 6 months)
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 334-NUR-7163245-LF
- Employer
- South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- River House Offices
- Town
- Beckenham
- Salary
- £59,490 - £66,239 per annum inclusive of HCAs
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 03/06/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Inpatient Matron
NHS AfC: Band 8a
South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust has a rich history, well-established community links and an international reputation. We deliver specialist services in the London boroughs of Croydon, Lambeth, Lewisham and Southwark, Bexley, Bromley, Greenwich, Wandsworth and Richmond.
We are committed to provide a high quality and specialist care to our service users and we are recognised for our care and treatment we provide. The Care Quality Commission already rates our services as ‘good’.
We launched our five-year strategy, Aiming High; Changing Lives in 2021 together with Our Care Improvement System as our quality management system methodology to make a positive impact on patient care, outcomes and staff experience. By joining SLaM, all staff will get the opportunity to be part of this exciting improvement journey supported with learning and development to harness everyone’s potential as change makers.
The trust recognises the unique and valuable contribution that people with lived experience of mental illness can bring to a role. We therefore welcome applications from people with lived experience and consider them as an asset to the Trust.
Our Values
We take pride in providing specialist care to our service users where our Trust values and our promise to be caring, kind, polite, prompt, honest, listen and do what I say I’m going to do is at the heart of everything we do. When you join us, you’ll be part of something special.
As a Trust we are happy to talk flexible working.
Job overview
We have an exciting opportunity for a Matron to join our inpatient team within Croydon Directorate.
The post holder will lead and be responsible for the delivery of high quality care and patient experience within the acute inpatient setting through proactive clinical and professional leadership to nursing/non-nursing staff at all levels within their clinical area of responsibility.
The post holder will need to ensure the delivery of high quality, evidence based, compassionate, person-centred care and ensure that care delivered is in a safe and clean environment.
Main duties of the job
This is an exciting post that allows for close working and collaboration with senior management and clinicians in the future development of the directorate. The inpatient matron will be an integral part of the Nursing, Quality and Assurance Team.
The successful candidates will have exceptional communication, motivational and influencing skills being able to influence and encourage teams to work across organisational boundaries whilst holding patient care at the heart of their work.
The candidates will need to be passionate about the delivery of high quality patient care and have experience in leadership. The post holder will be a ‘self-starter’ and be able to work autonomously as well as part of a multi professional team.
The post holder will deliver on the Matron’s 10 Key Responsibilities;
- Leading by example
- Making sure patients get quality care
- Ensuring staffing is appropriate to patient needs
- Empowering nurses to take on a wider range of clinical service
- Improving hospital cleanliness
- Ensuring patients’ nutritional needs are met
- Improving wards for patients (to include supporting ward in identification of ligatures and management plan regarding existing ligatures)
- Making sure patients are treated with respect
- Preventing hospital-acquired infection
- Resolving problems for patients and their relatives by building closer relationships
Please see attached for full job description and person specification
Working for our organisation
We are committed to ensuring our staff get the most out of their benefits package and understand the importance of a healthy work life balance. There is an extensive range of excellent benefits for you and your family. We want you to feel like you are part of a close knit team at SLaM. It’s important to us that you feel valued and appreciated and that is why we have a comprehensive benefits package on offer.
Some of our benefits are highlighted here:
- Generous pay, pensions and leave, we offer a comprehensive pay, pensions and leave package which is dependent on the role and length of service.
- Work life balance, flexible working and supporting a range of flexible options, such as: part-time working and job sharing.
- Career development, There are plenty of opportunities to progress your career and we support your development through a number of programmes such as mentoring, coaching, positive people management, collective leadership and other talent programmes
- Car lease, our staff benefit from competitive deals to lease cars
- Accommodation, our staff benefit from keyworker housing which is available on selected sites
- NHS discounts, with discounts up to 10% from a variety of well-known retail brands through Health Service Discounts website.
Other benefits include:
- Counselling services
- Wellbeing events
- Long service awards
- Cycle to work scheme
- Season ticket loan
- Childcare vouchers
- Staff restaurants
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. For both overviews please view the Job Description attachment with the job advert.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- • Registered Mental Health Nurse (RMN)/ Registered Nurse with a first degree in nursing or relevant field.
- • Extensive post- registration continuing professional development in relevant or related clinical field.
- • Practice supervisor training
Desirable criteria
- • Master’s degree or equivalent
- • Training in physical health care, including wound care.
- • Training in Quality Improvement methodology
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- • Knowledge of the current policy context and the implications for mental health nursing, relevant to acute adults’ services
- • Knowledge and understanding of Care Quality Commissions (CQC) standards and the quality Improvement agenda for the directorate.
- • Working knowledge of relevant legislation and policies associated with Mental Health Care
- • Understanding of clinical risks and ways of supporting teams in managing risks proactively
- • An appreciation of the unique needs of patients from diverse cultural communities
Desirable criteria
- • Practical understanding of interagency working for working age adults including relevant community services, social care and physical healthcare services
- • Practical understanding of interagency working for working age adults including relevant community services, social care and physical healthcare servicesKnowledge of the Patient Safety Incident Reporting Framework
Skills & Abilities
Essential criteria
- Able to communicate complex and sensitive issues to a multi-disciplinary teams
- Able to advise on clinical nursing issues, demonstrating an understanding of professional guidance, nursing policy and relevant Trust and National strategies
- Able to negotiate and influence in order to achieve objectives without direct line management
- Ability to manage crisis and conflicts effectively
- Ability to establish credibility and good working relationships with representatives of external agencies and other stakeholders, and manage those relationships with compassion and sensitivity
- Ability to address problems collaboratively with the team(s) by reviewing options and take appropriate action without a predetermined framework
Desirable criteria
- • Able to work on several projects simultaneously
- • Ability to negotiate and reach compromises in a manner which inspires confidence and respect from others
- • Ability to present to an audience coherently and professionally.
- • Coaching skills
Experience
Essential criteria
- • Experience of setting, monitoring and evaluating standards of care
- • Managing change and introducing new ways of working for inpatient mental health teams
- • Experience at a senior management/clinical level, collaborating and working to improve service delivery.
- • Experience of working in a multi-cultural environment and knowledge of methods to develop culturally sensitive practice Partnership working with other statutory and voluntary agencies
- • Current experience of working in relevant clinical practice areas
- • Experience in using audits to drive improvement in clinical care
- • Experience of using effective individual and group teaching and learning strategies with both patients and staff groups.
Desirable criteria
- • Diversity and/or cultural competency training
- • Experience of leading on quality improvement methodology and influencing team culture
- • Experience of working with other client groups and of using a variety of models and approaches to care
Values
Essential criteria
- • Demonstrate compassion and sensitivity when liaising with service users, carers, nursing colleagues and members of the MDT.
- • Is highly motivated and able to work independently prioritising work and effectively dealing with competing demands
- • Responds to complaints from SU, family/carers and staff with compassion and openness.
- • Demonstrate a strong commitment to equal opportunities and equal access with a practical approach to ensure that policies are applicable to practice
- • Is innovative, creative and demonstrate a willingness to try something different
- • Can demonstrate a high level of perseverance, being committed to seeing plans through to their conclusion within agreed time scales.
- • Able to manage workload across multiple services
Desirable criteria
- • Demonstrate high degree of self-awareness, able to demonstrate appropriate use of authority, providing a clear and unambiguous role within the senior management team
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Lucy Phiri
- Job title
- Deputy Head of Nursing and Quality
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07932047138
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