The Psychological Medicine and Older Adults Directorate is offering an exciting opportunity for a proactive and proficient Matron role in their Specialist community services.
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 successful post holder will be based at the PMOA (Specialist) Community teams and 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.
We are particularly interested in hearing from positive, motivated, dynamic and enthusiastic applicants who enjoy participating in a range of quality improvement activities with staff and patients. The Matron will provide expert advice, support and visible leadership to all staff driving the quality agenda throughout services.
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 are 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 support 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 benefits from competitive deals to lease cars
• Accommodation, our staff benefits from keyworker housing available which is available on selected sites
• NHS discounts, with discounts up to 10% from a variety of well-known retail brands though 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
We look forward to receiving your application.
The post holder will deliver on the Matrons 10 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 tasks
• Improving hospital/team cleanliness
• Ensuring patients’ nutritional needs are met
• Improving on patients experience (to include supporting teams in identification of ligatures and management plan regarding existing ligatures where patients are seen in outpatients)
• Making sure patients are treated with respect
• Preventing hospital-acquired infection when patients are admitted to the ward.
• Resolving problems for patients and their relatives by building closer relationships
This advert closes on Monday 27 Jan 2025