Job overview

Location: Based at Oxleas House, QEH, Stadium Road, Woolwich, SE18 4QH with an expectation to travel across Trust sites within Bexley, Bromley & Greenwich.

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

Main duties of the job

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.

The post holder will be responsible for the management of Older Adult Inpatient Wards, a PICU and PICU Outreach Team.

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.

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