Main area Mental Health Grade NHS AfC: Band 8a Contract 12 months (Fixed term) Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week (flexibility required to reflect service demands plus participation in on-call manager rota) Job ref 301-VA-25-7141859
Employer Midlands Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site The Redwoods Town Shrewsbury Salary £53,755 - £60,504 Pro rata Salary period Yearly Closing 11/05/2025 23:59
Modern Matron – Acute Care for Mental Health
NHS AfC: Band 8a
Job overview
**INTERNAL MPFT APPLICATIONS ONLY**
Acute Care (Crisis Response Home Treatment and Mental Health Liaison)
12 month secondment covering maternity leave
This career enhancing opportunity has arisen for a senior nurse to gain experience to progress their nursing career.
This role is one of three matron roles within the acute care pathway for the Shropshire, Telford & Wrekin Care Group, which practice around the NHS England Matrons Handbook which highlights, reinforces and celebrates the critical role matrons play in health and care services.
We are seeking a senior nurse who has compassionate and collective/inclusive leadership skills and is focused on delivering innovative practice whilst upholding professional standards and accountability. Someone who will work in partnership with colleagues and system partners and in so doing engage and maintain good working relationships.
You will need acute inpatient, crisis response and/or community mental health experience with clinical, governance, patient safety, quality and managerial knowledge and operational oversight, be familiar with mental health legislation, safeguarding, who understands and delivers both quality, safety and performance outcomes.
There will be opportunities to develop your skills further, through supervision and with the support of the existing Care Group and Trust-wide senior nursing and management teams. If you think you have the right skills and determination to deliver high quality inpatient care, we would like to hear from you.
Main duties of the job
To work alongside nursing and other clinical staff in planning care and risk management for individuals and their families and carers, taking an active role when this is required.
To develop local solutions by listening to nursing feedback and in doing so work collaboratively escalating risks to the collective leadership team and/or via quality governance mechanisms that are in place.
Be instrumental in the management of risks across the urgent car pathway, maintaining local risk register and ensuring all risks have controls and mitigations in place that are managed, monitored and reduced/closed as appropriate.
To ensure that safe systems for patients and staff to deliver care are in place, in particular trained staff to identify the deteriorating patient, to undertake resuscitation in all wards and the use of best practice least restrictive techniques in mental health wards.
In collaboration with the Care Group and Quality and Clinical Performance Directorate to ensure that teams have clearly identified and understood written team objectives based on the service and Trust objectives for quality, performance and safety.
To monitor the quality of patient assessments, care plans and the evaluation of those care plans to ensure that they are of a high standard
Working for our organisation
By joining Team MPFT, you will be helping your communities and in return for this, we will support you by;
* Supporting your career development and progression
* Generous maternity, paternity and adoption leave
* Options for flexible working
* Up to 27 days annual leave (increasing with service up to 33 days) and the opportunity to purchase additional leave
* Extensive Health and Wellbeing support and resources
* If you work in our community teams, we pay for your time travelling between patients
* Lease car if you complete more than 500 business miles per annum, fully insured and maintained (including tyres), mileage paid at lease car rate
* Salary sacrifice car - fully insured and maintained (including tyres), your gross pay is reduced by the cost of the vehicle before tax, NI and pension deductions are calculated, mileage paid at business rates
* Salary sacrifice bikes up to £2k
* Free car parking at all trust sites
* Free flu vaccinations every year
* Citizens Advice support linked with a Hardship Fund for one off additional support up to £250 (if the criteria is met)
And more. We are proud to be a diverse and inclusive organisation and there is a choice of staff networks that help you meet like-minded people.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
This role provides visible clinical knowledge, expertise and leadership for nurses and other health professionals providing care in an inpatient setting whilst working with mental health community services and community and acute providers to ensure safe, high quality and effective delivery of care.
You will be accountable for acute care community based teams to include bed management, site management team and 136 suite (on-site at the Redwoods Centre), be visible and available to ward/community team staff, patients and carers and be responsive to their experiences of care and concerns about the ward environment.
Please see attached job description for further details.
For an informal conversation about this opportunity please contact Anton Dias on anton.dias@mpft.nhs.uk
Person specification
Qualifications
* • Registered Mental Health or Learning Disability Nurse.
* • Educated to Master’s degree level (or equivalent).
* • Meet NMC requirement for maintenance of registration
Skills
* • Ability to analyse highly complex information (including financial and performance data) which may be conflicting.
* • Ability to provide effective leadership and team effectiveness
* • Ability to negotiate, persuade and influence at a senior level across the Trust and externally
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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.
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