Job overview

An exciting opportunity for a skilled nurse join the E&N PCMHS as an Operational Matron (Primary Care Mental Health).

East and North Hertfordshire Primary Care Mental Health Services PCMHS are now firmly established and we have identified the need for nursing leadership.

This is a great opportunity to shape the clinical delivery and to use your relationship skills in building strong working partnerships with the Primary Care Networks within East & North Herts, both with HPFT colleagues and with those working in primary care. You will provide operational management of the GP Plus and ARRS Teams, line manage mental nursing staff as well as ensuring strong clinical supervision is provided. You will also offer nursing leadership to the wider E&N PCMHS teams including EPMHS.

Main duties of the job

• Under the guidance and direction of the Head of Nursing and the Service Manager you will be the professional/quality lead for the nursing staff within primary care mental health and responsible for providing clear leadership and support to staff within these teams.
• You will ensure that service users’ experience safe and effective care delivered in partnership with them and their carers, inspiring both service user and public confidence. This will be achieved through high visibility, accessibility and surveillance.  You will be  a visible presence within PCMHS teams providing support, leadership and expertise, highlighting and taking appropriate action where there are concerns and deficits in care.
• You will support projects that  enhance service user care and outcomes and  train and develop staff to provide a positive service user experience. You will  support the teams to recognise and embed standards of excellence, through increased teamwork and the promotion of shared learning.
• As a member of the senior team within the Division, you will act as a professional role model to all nursing staff and will promote a just and inclusive culture whilst upholding the standards required of the Trust and the profession.  You will also be required to act up in a professional capacity as required and appropriate.
• You will provide day to day operational oversight of the GP Plus and ARRS teams and offer line management supervision to designated staff within these teams

Working for our organisation

Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (HPFT) is an outstanding organisation with ambitions to match. We are one of just five mental health trusts to achieve an overall rating of ‘Outstanding’ from the Care Quality Commission, and our aim is to be the leading provider of mental health and specialist learning disability services in the country.

Our family of over 4000 members of staff provide health and social care for over 400,000 people with mental ill health, physical ill health and learning disabilities across Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, and Norfolk, delivering these services within the community and several inpatient settings. We also deliver a range of nationally commissioned specialist services including Tier 4 services for children and young people, perinatal services, plus medium and low secure learning disabilities services.

The care we provide makes a fantastic difference to the lives of our service users, their families and carers - everything is underpinned by choice, independence and equality, with our Trust values embedded throughout:

Our Trust values are:

Welcoming. Kind. Positive. Respectful. Professional.

These values are at the core of who we are, everything we do, and how we do it!

Would you like to be part of the HPFT family? Would you like work with us to ensure our service users live the fullest lives possible they can? Would you like to be supported in your career to be the best that you can be?