Job summary
- Main area
- Adult & Specialist Mental Health
- Grade
- Band 8a
- Contract
- 6 months (Fixed term for 6 months or secondment)
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 310-MASMH-7403035
- Employer
- Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Fulbourn Hospital
- Town
- Cambridge
- Salary
- £55,690 - £62,682 per annum, pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 11/09/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Modern Matron
Band 8a
Job overview
We are seeking an experienced leader with a background in managing diverse teams at a senior level to join our leadership group. The Interim Modern Matron position is available to support some of the Adult Inpatient Wards and associated teams in Care Group 2 for up to 6 months.
The role involves overseeing safe, high-quality care, governance, and performance to improve service user experience across the wards, as well as supporting our new inpatient clinical model to enhance service flow. This band 8a portfolio contributes to shaping, developing, and maintaining the mental health acute care pathway, aiming to ensure safe and effective clinical interventions and strengthen the integration between Crisis, Community, and Inpatient services.
This is a fixed-term position. For those interested in a secondment, please first discuss this with your line manager to confirm release from your current role and to arrange backfill if needed.
Main duties of the job
To lead and manage the acute adult mental health across the inpatient & associated teams in Care Group 2 delivering safe and effective high-quality services, within the available resources to achieve the team targets.
The post holder will provide leadership and expertise to deliver services within an agreed service model, working with service users and carers, and other stakeholders, maintaining effective working relationships.
The post holder will work to establish effective multi-disciplinary working within and across the wider acute services.
Working for our organisation
Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust is a health and social care organisation dedicated to providing high-quality care with compassion to improve the health and wellbeing of the people we care for, as well as supporting and empowering them to lead a fulfilling life.
Our clinical teams deliver many NHS services, not only via inpatient and primary care settings, but also within the community. These services include children's, adult and older people's mental health, forensic and specialist mental health, learning disabilities, primary care and liaison psychiatry, substance misuse, social care, research and development.
To achieve our goal, we look to recruit high-calibre candidates who share our vision and values. As an equal opportunities employer, we encourage applications from all sectors of the community, particularly from under-represented groups including disabled people and members of our ethnic minority and LGBTQ+ communities.
For further information on CPFT, please visit our website at www.cpft.nhs.uk
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities.
To provide the highest quality service within the resources allocated.
To ensure that there are team systems and processes to provide a responsive and effective and service to service users and carers..
To ensure that the services are delivered within a robust clinical governance framework, monitoring and evaluating standards of care routinely in accordance with Trust governance arrangements.
To provide leadership within the team, supporting and developing the team to provide effective services.
To investigate and respond to comments/complaints/incidents in line with the Trust policy and take appropriate action.
Participate in an on-call as required.
Person specification
Education/Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Degree or equivalent experience
- Professional qualifications
- Senior Leadership experience/qualifications
- Professional registration NMC, AMHP, HPCP
- Experience in managing Adult Mental Health Inpatient wards.
Desirable criteria
- Post qualification continuing professional development
Experience
Essential criteria
- In depth experience as a senior professional or manager
- Evidence of successful working within multidisciplinary teams
- Evidence of managing workload and ability to prioritise
- Evidence of clinical supervision training and/or experience
Desirable criteria
- Experience of operational management of multiple teams
- Experience in working in or managing mental health services
- Experience of working with wider stakeholder groups
- Lived experience of mental health
Knowlege & Skills
Essential criteria
- Able to demonstrate commitment to high quality care and service provision
- Good understanding of Care Programme Approach / Care Management.
- Evidence of leadership ability, able to influence, involve and develop individuals and teams. ng of performance information
- Decision making and problem-solving skills.
Desirable criteria
- Experience of managing feedback, investigation of complaints or similar
Abilities
Essential criteria
- Ability to use performance management information and demonstrate understanding of performance information.
- Knowledge of policy and legislation relating to mental health and social care services.
- Good interpersonal skills and the ability to foster good inter- team/interagency working relationships.• Good interpersonal skills and the ability to foster good inter- team/interagency working relationships.
- Able to demonstrate initiative and be proactive.
- Approachable, flexible and reliable.
Other
Essential criteria
- Recognise people’s right to privacy and dignity, treating every person with respect
- Willingness to embrace integrated model and new ways of working
- Willingness to be flexible in approach and attitude
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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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
- Sam Swinden (she/her)
- Job title
- General Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07866940749
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