mental health nurse

We are looking to recruit a highly motivated and experienced mental health nurse to join our senior management team within the Acute and Crisis Mental Health Directorate to manage the provision of high quality, evidence-based care within Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust. The directorate includes services such as Crisis Teams, Liaison Teams, Health Based Place of Safety and Inpatient services for working age adults and older people. The post holder will be clinically competent and able to generate pride and accountability for clinical excellence in the services that they lead. The post holder will be comfortable and confident to engage with peers from all professions, with staff, patients, staff, families and carers.
The Modern Matron will provide clinical leadership, with a highly visible presence to ensure service users and their carers receive high quality care. They have personal responsibility and accountability for delivering a safe and clean care environment and ensuring that action is taken at all levels by nurses to maintain and provide high standards of care. The post holder will be accountable for standards and quality, patient experience, patient safety and clinical effectiveness in in-patient services, This role provides clinical leadership for nurses and other health professionals providing care in an inpatient setting. You will be available to ward staff, patients and carers and be responsive to their experiences of care and concerns about the ward environment.
Greenwich Modern Matron to cover all the three Working Age Adult Wards.
The successful candidate will be required to demonstrate effective communication skills, clinical expertise, a flexible problem-solving approach and to lead Quality Improvement projects to improve patient care. The ability to work with adult and older people with acute mental health problems and with all members of the multi-disciplinary team is essential.
The successful applicant will have experience of managing services, project management experience and demonstrable adaptive leadership skills. The matron holds a key role as a member of the leadership team for the services alongside psychiatry, psychology, allied health professionals and administration. In addition to this they will contribute to the governance of care and lead on the improvement and development of nursing care with a strong focus on quality improvement, including ensuring that Care Quality Commission (CQC) essential standards are met and exceeded., + To provide highly visible, professional leadership promoting a culture of high professional standards
+ Provide visible and authoritative presence in ward settings to whom service users and their families can turn to for assistance
+ To lead the quality agenda focusing on service user safety, experience and clinical effectiveness
+ Provide effective professional and clinical leadership and be accountable for the nursing service in their area of responsibility
+ To work within the Modern Matrons' Charter to ensure good standards of infection control, privacy and dignity, cleanliness, and health and safety and report back on action taken to the Service Directorate and Nursing Directorate
+ In conjunction with the Unit and Service Manager, develop the service in line with national and local requirements ensuring the delivery of performance targets, development of best practice, and modernization agenda
+ Support the professional aspects of recruitment and deployment of people within in-patient services
+ To enhance clinical skills and competencies through supervision and teaching qualified and unqualified staff including students
We are committed to creating an inclusive workplace that welcomes and supports individuals of all abilities. Remember, if you meet the minimum criteria for this role and you have a disability, you can be guaranteed an interview under the Disability Confident Scheme - Please ensure you select this on your application form. We would encourage you to be open about your needs so we can work with you to design a comfortable and accessible interview experience. Any information you provide regarding a disability or a need for adjustments will be treated in confidence and will only be shared with colleagues who are supporting this request.
If you require any adjustments to participate fully in the interview process, please let us know by adding the relevant details when scheduling your preferred interview date and time. Please feel free to contact the appointing manager to discuss your needs.
We encourage applicants to contact the hiring manager before their interview, if they have any questions about the role or the process. This is a great way to get clarity and prepare effectively for the interview.
If you have declared you are part of the armed forces community, you may be asked to provide evidence during the recruitment process. If you misrepresent this information, your offer may be withdrawn. For Armed Forces specific support, see our webpage: https://oxleas.nhs.uk/armed-forces-community/
Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI)
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Working for our organisation
Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children's centres, schools and people's homes.
We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary's Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.
Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:
+ We're Kind
+ We're Fair
+ We Listen
+ We Care