Job overview

Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust is an integrated physical health, mental health and learning disability community provider, rated ‘Good’ by the CQC.

An exciting opportunity has arisen for the post of Matron for Older Adults in Mental Health within the Trust.

The successful candidate will be responsible for managing the 3 Wards at the Charlton Lane Hospital Site in Cheltenham.

The Hospital has 3 wards,

Mulberry 18 Functional Beds

Chestnut 14 Functional Beds

Willow 16 Dementia/Organic Beds

If you are passionate about the value that great leadership can add to patient care, this is the role for you. You will be resilient, confident and possess the skills that will enable you to understand the service: you will be creative in your approach to problem solving and have an ability to think beyond your immediate role. It is essential that you are a team player, have excellent people and leadership skills and the credibility and ability to work with and influence at every level to deliver innovation and performance.

Main duties of the job

• Manage and provide strategic leadership to clinical ward managers and the multi-disciplinary team
• Responsible for the management of a designated clinical development, clinical environment, allocating and providing sufficient resources and opportunities to deliver person centred nursing care, involving service users and carers
• Work within the Modern Matrons’ charter to ensure good standards of cleanliness, health and safety
• Manage the recruitment and deployment of people in an area of work
• Supervise and teach qualified and unqualified staff including students
• Be responsible for the identification of learning and development needs; to plan how these will be met and evaluate the effectiveness for learners and the impact on care

The qualification, training & experience requirements for the role are underlined in the Job Description/Person Specification.

Working for our organisation

We have a skilled and dedicated workforce of over 5000 colleagues working in a diverse range of services over 55 sites and within people’s homes. We strive to enable a welcoming workplace culture that builds and celebrates civility, inclusivity and diversity, while providing a sense of belonging and trust.

Annual staff surveys, regular Pulse surveys and other engagement opportunities provide our people with lots of opportunity to tell us about their experiences of working with us.  In the latest staff survey, 61% of colleagues gave us their views.  It was great to hear that:

• 72% of colleagues would recommend the Trust as a place to work, ranking us 1st for Provider Trusts in the South West region on this question.
• 76% would recommend the standard of care provided in our services if a friend or relative needed treatment, also ranking us 1st in the South West region.
• 81% said that care of patients and service users is the Trust’s priority, compared with an average in comparable NHS Trusts in England of 64%.

 This high-level overview shows we are in a healthy position, with higher scores than average for comparable organisations, alongside a great response rate, indicating good staff engagement.  However, we also know we have plenty of room for improvement in many areas. To that end, we continue to prioritise and invest in our commitment to genuinely becoming a Great Place to Work with consistent top-quartile performance in the annual staff survey and Pulse surveys.