[ref. l7379522] Community Matron - Adult Community Mental Health Teams - NHS

Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust provides child and adult mental health services, learning disability, wellbeing, older people's and eating disorder services across Norfolk and Suffolk.

We are committed to equality, diversity and inclusion and want to reflect the diversity of our local communities within our teams. We welcome applications from all talented individuals with the relevant qualifications, skills, knowledge and experience

YOUR APPLICATION

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Job overview

Do you have a track record of providing high quality care? Are you a credible clinician looking for your next opportunity? NSFT are recruiting Matrons for opportunities across Community, Inpatient and Specialist services in Suffolk.

Our Future Leadership Structure will see our clinical teams working more closely with partners at place level alongside strengthening clinical and professional leadership. We are developing a clinical transformation programme alongside our partners to enhance the clinical outcomes our service users experience as well as continuing to improve experience of care.

Now that consultation for phase three has ended and initial appointment into roles has taken place, we are able to commence recruitment into a number of Matron positions across our services including:

• Inpatients (Crisis, Psychiatric Liaison & ECT) - Wedgewood, Bury St Edmunds
• Community - Children & Young People, Adult IDT & PCNs, Older Adult and Specialist services - Bury St Edmunds/Ipswich
• Inpatients (PICU, AHP Service, Older Persons and Crisis, Psychiatric Liaison, ECT and Police Triage) - Woodlands, Ipswich
• Community - Children & Young People (Child & Family, Youth, LD CAMs & Emotional Wellbeing Hub), Adult
• Inpatients (adult wards) - Wedgwood House, Bury St Edmunds

Please use your supporting statement in your application to outline which post you are interested in being considered for.

Main duties of the job

As Matron, you will work closely with the locality leadership team to ensure that high quality care is delivered within your services and will provide professional leadership to the nursing workforce.

You will promote a culture of learning and openness and ensure clinical staff have the knowledge, capability, systems and support to deliver evidence based care and embed lessons learned in practice for the improvement of patient experience.

We are looking to appoint individuals who have a passion for their work and a track record of achievement in influencing colleagues and partners to deliver high quality care. We want inspirational and compassionate leaders who will develop their teams to provide outstanding care.

If you have a reputation for leadership, people development, quality and improvement alongside a passion for improving outcomes with a focus on equity and inclusion to ensure that mental health provision has parity across our partners, then please do consider applying for one of these vital roles.

We are determined to create a safer, kinder and better organisation

Working for our organisation

Here at NSFT we pride ourselves on being a welcoming, talented, friendly and supportive team who like nothing better than sharing experiences and learning from each other. In addition to ongoing training and development opportunities, we are committed to providing an environment in which you can thrive.

Why work for us? We have challenges as a Trust, but we have ambitious aspirations, are pushing ahead with exciting transformation work and we need dedicated individuals to support us on our journey. We have strong, established professional networks coupled with an exceptional leadership team who will ensure you are truly cared for and cared about.

We have excellent shopping, eating out, top ranking schooling and affordable house prices too.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please find attached our Job Description and Person Specification for more detail on your Key Accountabilities, then if you feel you have what it takes to make a difference in your local communities, click APPLY!

As part of the select process you will be asked to undertake psychometric testing, details of this will be shared with you in advance of the interview.

Provisional interview date week commencing: 27th January

**This post attracts a recruitment premium of £3,000 (pro-rata for part time roles). This is a one off payment with half paid on appointment and half paid after the completion of a satisfactory probation period (6 months). The premium is taxable. Please note that should you leave employment, or choose to move to an alternative post within the Trust that does not attract this recruitment premium, you will be required to reimburse all or some it, as follows: 100% of the value of the premium in the first 12 months; 50% of the value of the premium in the period 12 months to 2 years following appointment.

Please note this recruitment premium is for external applicants only. Not applicable to newly qualified applicants **

Person specification

Skills

• Confident manner. Approachable, tactful, and diplomatic.

Qualifications

• Diploma level/Degree in relevant health/social care profession, eg RMN, RLDN OT, Social Worker.
• Current relevant registration with the NMC or HCPC

• Masters Level Degree or equivalent

Experience

• Clinical Leadership and clinical care
• Involvement in managing change/projects.

EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES Apart from its legal duties in relation to equality and diversity, the Trust recognises and actively promotes the benefits of a diverse workforce and is committed to treating all employees with dignity and respect regardless of race, gender, disability, age, sexual orientation, religion or belief.

As a part of the Disability Confident Employer Guaranteed Interview Scheme we interview all disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria for the job vacancy (outlined in the Person Specification).. We encourage you to indicate your eligibility through TRAC jobs when applying.

DISCLOSURE AND BARRING SERVICE CHECK (formerly CRB)

FOR POSTS WITH DIRECT SERVICE USER CONTACT - Please be advised that due to recent changes in the DBS Service, organisations no longer receive copies of DBS Disclosures – these are sent directly to candidates only. Therefore, it will be your responsibility, if successful, to ensure that this is taken to the appointing officer as soon as you receive it.

Alternatively, if you have subscribed to the update service, we will be able to check your status once we have your authority to do so.

The Trust has now introduced a DBS Update Service which is a contractual requirement. You need to subscribe when you have applied for your DBS clearance and there is a time limit to subscribe of 19 days after receipt of your DBS disclosure. Please ensure that this is completed within the set time scale.

This update service is an annual subscription at a cost of £16 to you. This will enable the Trust to have instant online access to your DBS record, with your consent, and so will remove the need for you to have to apply for this repeat check again.