Matron

Come and join one of the UK's largest providers in Neuro and Mental Healthcare. We proudly employ over 4000+ people - no matter what your experience, we have jobs for everyone.

We'd like you to join us as a Matron ( Mental Health Nurse) at our service Ivetsey Bank in Stafford.

Ivetsey Bank Hospital is a Tier 4 Child and Adolescent Mental Health (CAMHS) hospital for young people aged 12-18 with a diagnosed mental health condition. We're committed to helping every person we support feel safe, happy and empowered, enabling them to live the best life possible.

This is a Nurse qualified role - Mental Health

What you'll be working:

We're flexible, so you'll work a total 37.5 hours per week.

• Monday to Friday
• On call duty will be required on a rota basis (1 in 5 weekends)

What you'll be doing:

• To promote a culture of openness and responsiveness to the view of the Service, a philosophy of person-centred care and recovery, and an ethos of positive learning from incident within a high performing service.
• To be able to balance the philosophy with a passion for co-ordinating and leading patient safety.
• Working with the Nursing staff the post-holder will be responsible for leading and advancing clinical practice in the hospital.
• In partnership with the Hospital Director and Ward Managers lead on the development and on-going review of ward staffing models and that ward are appropriately staffed.
• Oversee adherence to the Hospitals Incident Management Policy, including the Management of Serious Incidents, and embedding learning from incidents.
• Oversee compliance with audits, the site risk register and ensure escalation to the corporate risk register as appropriate.
• Provide specialist advice, guidance and support to the Hospital Director, Ward Managers, Senior Management Team, and other staff on patient safety issues that affect the hospital, its employees and others using the facilities.
• Act as a role model within the hospital and display appropriate leadership behaviours at all times.
• To promote the NMC Code of Conduct, performance and ethics of nurses at all times across registered and un-registered staff.
• Ensure the safe custody to oversee the safe administration of medication.
• Demonstrate competence in the full set of clinical nursing skills required of this role.
• Provide on-call clinical advice to the team, as required.
• To be accessible and approachable to families and clients.
• Lead the development of an on-going quality improvement plan that encompasses the organisations values, quality priorities, and staff and patient views.
• Ensure that the service has in place a system to investigate, report on and review all serious incidents in a timely way, providing quality assurance of incident reporting and learning systems throughout the hospital site and other hospitals in the group.
• Support the Hospital Director to initiate, develop, implement and evaluate and maintain a comprehensive patient safety / incident management process across the full range of the Hospital's activities.
• Lead the hospitals multi-disciplinary serious incident (SIRI / SUI) reviews as per Hospital Serious incident management policy.
• Chair the Serious Incident review meeting to ensure all SI's are investigated, action plans are developed and monitored.
• Chair the Local Governance meetings and oversee the risk register, on behalf of the Hospital Director.
• To co-ordinate and lead the Assurance Framework if required.
• To ensure all SIRI's are investigated and closed within agreed timeframes. To develop system that provides assurance that outcomes from SIRI investigations are implemented.
• To work closely with the Ward Managers to ensure that all patient safety elements are progressed and that wider support is provided to the governance agenda.
• To oversee and lead the Hospital's complaints policy and ensure all complaint are investigated and responded to in a timely manner.
• Undertake clinical and non-clinical investigations as required.
• To work with Corporate colleagues to ensure the site is leading best practice in nursing standards.
• Assist in maintaining efficient control of the services budget.
• Take the lead in writing or reviewing local protocols.

What you'll have:

• A current NMC Pin number (Mental Health Nurse)
• A legal right to work in the U.K.

We also want to ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable facilities to participate in job applications or interviews to perform essential job functions. To support this, we are a Disability Confident committed employer.

What to look forward to:

• 25 days plus bank holidays
• Birthday off
• Join the Active Learning Hub and benefit from a wide range of e learning and face to face training and development opportunities
• Active Reward App giving discounts and savings on your weekly shop
• Free 24 hour confidential Employee Assistance Programme Helpline & App to support with legal, health, wellbeing, relationship and consumer advice
• A Nest Personal Pension account
• Access to join a Medicash Health Plan for you and your family to save money on everyday health essentials like going to the dentist or opticians
• We recognise outstanding Active Behaviours via the Active Awards programme
• Enhanced Sick & Maternity Pay benefits
• Refer a Friend Scheme and earn yourself up to 1500 for Nurses, Therapists & Doctors, 500 all other roles, by recommending someone you know
• and, of course, the support and guidance of our qualified clinical and business leadership teams so that you can really develop your career with Active Care Group