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We have an exciting 12 months secondment opportunity for a RMN or RNLD to become a Clinical Matron within our Children and Young Peoples inpatient service at HPFT.
Under the guidance and direction of the Head of Nursing, the Clinical Matron (Matron) is the professional/quality lead for the nursing staff within their specialist areas and is responsible for providing clear leadership and support to all clinical teams.
There is an exciting opportunity for an experienced, dedicated and innovative Registered Mental Health Nurse or Registered Nurse Learning Disability to join our Specialist Services Division as Clinical Matron for our Tier 4 CYP Inpatient Unit. Forest House is a 14 bedded inpatient unit providing care for young people under the age of 18, experiencing mental health difficulties.
The Matron’s key responsibility is to ensure that service users’ experience safe and effective care delivered in partnership with them and their carers. This will be achieved through high visibility, accessibility and clinical leadership. The Matron will be expected to be a visible presence within their specialist clinical areas providing support, leadership and expertise, highlighting and taking appropriate action where there are concerns and deficits in care.
* To provide strong clinical and professional leadership and a supportive approach to Team Leaders and clinicians within the multidisciplinary team (MDT)
* To be a visible, accessible and authoritative presence in the clinical areas
* To work within the Modern Matrons Charter to ensure good standards of infection control, privacy and dignity, cleanliness and health and safety
* To oversee and monitor the quality, timeliness and development of nursing care in accordance with all relevant professional standards
* To ensure the environments in which service care and treatment is provided are fit for purpose, clean, well ordered and maintained
* To ensure all nursing practice is in accordance with statutory and corporate policies, including those specific to service user care
* To be responsible for the professional management of the clinical environment, ensuring the right staff with the right skills to deliver person centered nursing care, involving service users and carers
* To supervise and teach registered and non-registered staff including students
* To be responsible for the identification of learning development needs; to plan how these will be met and evaluate the effectiveness for learners and impact on care
* To be responsible for the provision of safe staffing levels, ensuring the privacy and dignity of service users.
Please refer to full Job Description and Person Specification for further details of the role.
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.
Our Trust Values Are
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:
Welcoming. Kind. Positive. Respectful. Professional.
These values are at the core of who we are, everything we do, and how we do it!
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Wendy Allam Job title: Head of Nursing Email address: wendy.allam@nhs.net Telephone number: 07771814893
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Director
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Mental Health Care
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