Modern Matron - Oxford inOxford inOxford PUBLISHED 30 OCT 2024

Band 8a: £53,755 to £60,504 a year Pro rata per annum  PERMANENT 
This role provides clinical leadership for nurses and other health professionals providing care in an inpatient setting.

Are you a mental health nurse looking for a balance of clinical and managerial responsibilities? A combination of patient contact, carer involvement and managing ward teams, leading on the provision of high quality mental health nursing care. An opportunity to be an influential member of the leadership team for your wards?

Do you have a passion and interest in Eating Disorders and want to lead your team to providing excellent, evidence based care on this 14 bedded mixed gender specialist Eating Disorder ward for adults?

This role provides clinical leadership for nurses and other health professionals providing care in an inpatient setting. You will be available to ward staff, patients and carers and be responsive to their experiences of care and concerns about the ward environment. The role of a modern matron is pivotal in delivering the vision of the Trust, service users and carers onto your wards.

The matron holds a key role as a member of the leadership team for the wards they are responsible for, alongside psychiatry and allied health professionals.

The matron will demonstrate a level of healthy curiosity about care delivery and become actively engaged in care planning and risk management as required.

In addition to this they will contribute to the governance of care and lead on the improvement and development of nursing care with a strong focus on quality improvement, including ensuring that Care Quality Commission (CQC) essential standards are met and exceeded.

Our inpatient services provide high quality care and are currently assessed as 'Good' by the CQC and are. We want to work with highly skilled, highly motivated matrons that will support and inspire teams within our inpatient services to meet CQC standards of 'Excellent'.

About us

It is essential that any applicant demonstrates their ability to work collaboratively and with compassion for service users, carers and staff.

The matron will take a lead role on developing aspects of the service across inpatient services working closely with matron colleagues within the directorate in addition to working across the wider Trust as necessary, providing an opportunity for networking and shared learning across the organisation.

Are you a mental health nurse looking for a balance of clinical and managerial responsibilities? A combination of patient contact, carer involvement and managing ward teams, leading on the provision of high quality mental health nursing care. An opportunity to be an influential member of the leadership team for your wards?

Do you have a passion and interest in Eating Disorders and want to lead your team to providing excellent, evidence based care on this 14 bedded mixed gender specialist Eating Disorder ward for adults?

This role provides clinical leadership for nurses and other health professionals providing care in an inpatient setting. You will be available to ward staff, patients and carers and be responsive to their experiences of care and concerns about the ward environment. The role of a modern matron is pivotal in delivering the vision of the Trust, service users and carers onto your wards.

The matron holds a key role as a member of the leadership team for the wards they are responsible for, alongside psychiatry and allied health professionals.

The matron will demonstrate a level of healthy curiosity about care delivery and become actively engaged in care planning and risk management as required.

In addition to this they will contribute to the governance of care and lead on the improvement and development of nursing care with a strong focus on quality improvement, including ensuring that Care Quality Commission (CQC) essential standards are met and exceeded.

Our inpatient services provide high quality care and are currently assessed as 'Good' by the CQC and are. We want to work with highly skilled, highly motivated matrons that will support and inspire teams within our inpatient services to meet CQC standards of 'Excellent'.

About us

It is essential that any applicant demonstrates their ability to work collaboratively and with compassion for service users, carers and staff.

The matron will take a lead role on developing aspects of the service across inpatient services working closely with matron colleagues within the directorate in addition to working across the wider Trust as necessary, providing an opportunity for networking and shared learning across the organisation.



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