An exciting opportunity for a skilled nurse to step up into a six month post of Clinical Matron (Primary Care Mental Health).

East and North Hertfordshire Primary Care Mental Health Services PCMHS are now firmly established and we have identified the need for nursing leadership.

This is a great opportunity to shape the clinical delivery and to use your relationship skills in building strong working partnerships with the Primary Care Networks within East & North Herts, both with HPFT colleagues and with those working in primary care. You will line manage mental nursing staff as well as ensuring strong clinical supervision is provided.

Main duties of the job

• Under the guidance and direction of the Head of Nursing and the Service Line Lead you will be the professional/quality lead for the nursing staff within primary care mental health and responsible for providing clear leadership and support to staff within these teams.
• You will ensure that service users' experience safe and effective care delivered in partnership with them and their carers, inspiring both service user and public confidence. This will be achieved through high visibility, accessibility and surveillance. You will be a visible presence within PCMHS teams providing support, leadership and expertise, highlighting and taking appropriate action where there are concerns and deficits in care.
• You will support initiatives and projects that enhance service user care and outcomes and provide a platform to inform, train and develop staff to provide a positive service user experience. You will support the teams to recognise and embed standards of excellence, through increased teamwork and the promotion and facilitation of shared learning.
• As a member of the senior team within the Strategic Business Unit (SBU), you will act as a professional role model to all nursing staff and will promote a just and inclusive culture whilst upholding the standards required of the Trust and the profession. You will also be required to act up in a professional capacity as required and appropriate.

About us

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 theCare 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 3500 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.

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:

Our Trust values are:

Welcoming. Kind. Positive. Respectful. Professional.

These values are at the core of who we are, everything we do, and how we do it!

Job description

Job responsibilities

Duties and Responsibilities

• To be accountable for ensuring the appropriate and effective development, delivery and monitoring of service user care and services across the SBU
• To assist in the development and implementation of quality monitoring systems and contribute to the development of clinical audit and effectiveness within the Trust
• To support Matron and senior nurse colleagues to ensure the most safe staffing resource is maintained and appropriately distributed for the provision of safe, effective and quality services
• To actively participate in clinical audit and promote/identify research activity and opportunities
• To take lead responsibility in the development, implementation, evaluation and review of tools that will demonstrate the quality of nursing care

• To be responsible for all infection prevention and control practices are adhered to and the required audits and monitoring procedures are followed and acted on
• To monitor the quality and timeliness of nursing care and service provision in accordance with relevant professional and local standards
• To be responsible for ensuring that care is delivered in a safe, efficient, effective and timely manner

For a more detailed description, please see attached JD and PS.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Registered Nurse on NMC register
• Educated to Master's degree or currently working towards a Master's degree
• Evidence of continuing personal and professional development
• Leadership course evident or working towards

Experience

Essential

• Wide knowledge of developments in the NHS impacting on the Trust, including comprehensive understanding of current NHS initiatives and targets
• Confident with HR policies and procedures and demonstrable evidence of managing significant numbers of staff

Desirable

• Accreditation (CQC, AIMS) and revalidation knowledge and experience

Physical Skills

Essential

• Advanced IT skills and ability to use a variety of software packages, such as windows, able to manipulate spread sheets
• Able to move between bases and offices, as required, using suitable mode of transport.

Employer details

Employer name

Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Rosanne House, Parkway, Welwyn Garden City, AL8 6HG

Parkway

Welwyn Garden City

AL8 6HG

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