Job summary
Employer heading
Modern Matron Recovery Units and Low Secure Service
Band 8a
We love what we do and we think you will, too!
At Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust (GHC), we provide joined-up mental health, physical health and learning disability services to people of all ages across Gloucestershire. We run community hospitals and provide care and support in people’s own homes and in a range of other locations across the county.
We are on a mission to enable people to live the best life they can and we have a vision to work together to provide outstanding care. We put people at the heart of our services, focusing on personalised care by asking ‘what matters to you’.
We’re passionate about making sure that everyone can contribute to achieving our mission and we are continually working to support healthy and happy high-quality teams in all areas of the Trust.
Our application process aims to understand each candidates knowledge, skills and experience. We have found that candidates that use AI to generate their answers can lack specificity and fail to address key criteria outlined in the job description.
It is really important to personalise your application to convey your individual skills, knowledge, and experiences effectively and for us to understand why you are applying for this role with GHC. We discourage over reliance on AI-generated as it will lessen your chances of success in securing an interview with us .
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen for Modern Matron role within Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS trust inpatient mental health services. The Modern Matron role will cover our 2 recovery units and local male Low Secure Services.
You will have significant experience of working with people with severe and enduring mental health problems including forensic experience and
have a qualification equivalent to degree level in Mental Health Nursing
As an ideal candidate for this post you would be an experienced and highly competent mental health practitioner with experience in leadership and management looking for a new challenge and seeking an opportunity to make a real difference to people’s lives. If you have an interest in the above this vacancy may be for you.
Main duties of the job
For full details please see Job Description and person specification attached.
- Manage and provide strategic leadership to clinical 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
Working for our organisation
We have in excess of 5000 staff working over 50 sites, providing a diverse range of services. We strive to support an organisational culture that is welcoming, builds and celebrates inclusivity and diversity and provides a sense of belonging and trust.
The annual NHS Staff Survey gives our people the opportunity to tell us about their experience working at the Trust. For the 2023 survey just over 2800 colleagues gave us their views (58.5%). It was great to see from the results that colleagues are saying that:
- 89.7% believe they are making a positive difference to patients/service users;
- 73.3% would recommend the organisation as a place to work;
- 82.4% agree that care of patients and service users is the organisations priority;
- 76.7% would be happy with the standard of care for a friend or relative
Our results put us as 5th nationally as a Community, Mental Health and Learning Disabilities NHS Employer of Choice and 1st equal amongst all NHS Provider Trusts in the South West. However, we know we have more to do and will continue to drive forward our commitment to making GHC a Great Place to Work.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Gloucestershire Health and Care is committed to embedding and providing personalised care through all of its services as part of our high-quality care strategy. The purpose of personalised care is to empower people to lead the lives they want to live. Personalised care starts with a conversation with people about what matters to them. It builds on what people can do, as well as addressing their health needs. Including new ways of working and delivering care, emphasising that we need to make effective use of the full range of our people’s skills and experience to deliver the best possible patient care. So we want to know What Matters to You and that you will share our values and join us on this very important journey.
The qualification, training & experience requirements for the role are underlined in the Job Description/Person Specification.
Please refer to the Additional Information attachment before submitting your application.
Person specification
Experience
Essential criteria
- Extensive experience working within the mental health domain
- Experience in service development
Desirable criteria
- Forensic Experience and knowledge
Professional
Essential criteria
- Extensive experience in management and leadership
- Knowledge of medical and legal issues
Desirable criteria
- Awareness of national and local policies
Applicant requirements
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Steve Ireland
- Job title
- Deputy Director of Hospitals MH and LD.
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0300 421 7010
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