Modern Matron – Acute Care for Mental Health

Job overview

Acute Care (Crisis Response Home Treatment and Mental Health Liaison)

12 month secondment covering maternity leave

This career enhancing opportunity has arisen for a senior nurse to gain experience to progress their nursing career.

This role is one of three matron roles within the acute care pathway for the Shropshire, Telford & Wrekin Care Group, which practice around the NHS England Matrons Handbook which highlights, reinforces and celebrates the critical role matrons play in health and care services.

We are seeking a senior nurse who has compassionate and collective/inclusive leadership skills and is focused on delivering innovative practice whilst upholding professional standards and accountability. Someone who will work in partnership with colleagues and system partners and in so doing engage and maintain good working relationships.

You will need acute inpatient, crisis response and/or community mental health experience with clinical, governance, patient safety, quality and managerial knowledge and operational oversight, be familiar with mental health legislation, safeguarding, who understands and delivers both quality, safety and performance outcomes.

There will be opportunities to develop your skills further, through supervision and with the support of the existing Care Group and Trust-wide senior nursing and management teams. If you think you have the right skills and determination to deliver high quality inpatient care, we would like to hear from you.

Main duties of the job

To work alongside nursing and other clinical staff in planning care and risk management for individuals and their families and carers, taking an active role when this is required.

To develop local solutions by listening to nursing feedback and in doing so work collaboratively escalating risks to the collective leadership team and/or via quality governance mechanisms that are in place.

Be instrumental in the management of risks across the urgent car pathway, maintaining local risk register and ensuring all risks have controls and mitigations in place that are managed, monitored and reduced/closed as appropriate.

To ensure that safe systems for patients and staff to deliver care are in place, in particular trained staff to identify the deteriorating patient, to undertake resuscitation in all wards and the use of best practice least restrictive techniques in mental health wards.

In collaboration with the Care Group and Quality and Clinical Performance Directorate to ensure that teams have clearly identified and understood written team objectives based on the service and Trust objectives for quality, performance and safety.

To monitor the quality of patient assessments, care plans and the evaluation of those care plans to ensure that they are of a high standard

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

This role provides visible clinical knowledge, expertise and leadership for nurses and other health professionals providing care in an inpatient setting whilst working with mental health community services and community and acute providers to ensure safe, high quality and effective delivery of care.

You will be accountable for acute care community based teams to include bed management, site management team and 136 suite (on-site at the Redwoods Centre), be visible and available to ward/community team staff, patients and carers and be responsive to their experiences of care and concerns about the ward environment.

Please see attached job description for further details.

For an informal conversation about this opportunity please contact Anton Dias on [email protected]