About this role
Job summary
To provide senior nursing leadership and responsibility for overseeing the clinical care within the working age adults inpatient services under Southwark Directorate. To secure and to assure that the highest standard of clinical care is provided to our patients/service users. The post holder will deliver on the Matron's 10 responsibilities:
o Leading by example;
o Making sure patients get quality care;
o Ensuring staffing is appropriate to patient needs;
o Empowering nurses to take on a wider range of clinical tasks;
o Improving hospital cleanliness;
o Ensuring patients' nutritional needs are met;
o Improving wards and community sites for patients (to include supporting ward in identification of ligatures and management plan regarding existing ligatures);
o Making sure patients are treated with respect;
o Preventing hospital-acquired infection;
o Resolving problems for patients and their relatives by building closer relationships.
Main duties of the job
- Ensuring staffing is appropriate to patient needs
- Ensuring patients' nutritional needs are met
- Empowering nurses to take on a wider range of clinical tasks
- Improving hospital cleanliness
- Ensuring and improving the patient environment
- Resolving problems for patients and their relatives by building closer relationships
- Preventing hospital-acquired infection
About us
South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust (SLaM) is one of the United Kingdom's largest and most comprehensive providers of mental health services, serving a local population of approximately 1.3 million people across south London and delivering specialist services nationally and internationally.
We provide the widest range of NHS mental health and substance misuse services in the UK, spanning more than 240 services including inpatient care, community teams, outpatient clinics and specialist units for children, adults and older people. Each year we deliver inpatient care for thousands of people and treat tens of thousands across the London boroughs of Lambeth, Southwark, Lewisham and Croydon.
The Trust operates multiple psychiatric hospitals, and over 100 community sites and clinical teams, making our Trust a complex multi-site organisation with deep expertise across the full spectrum of mental health care. We are known for our strong partnerships with academia and research, most notably with the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience at King's College London and as part of King's Health Partners, contributing to world-leading research and innovation in mental health diagnosis, treatment and care.
An important part of our current strategy, and a core theme we will continue to take forward, is our ongoing journey to being an anti-racist organisation and building on what has been achieved through our Patient and Carer Race Equality Framework (PCREF).
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Ensuring staffing is appropriate to patient needs
- Empowering nurses to take on a wider range of clinical tasks
- Improving hospital cleanliness
- Ensuring and improving the patient environment
- Resolving problems for patients and their relatives by building closer relationships
- To be visible and accessible to patents, relatives and staff in order to provide immediate assistance, advice and support - this also includes liaison with PALS to participate in community meetings as required. To set up opportunities to enable patients/SU to discuss issues of concern.
- Support the development of systems to support relatives and carers. Attend Service Users Advisory Groups (SUCAG) as required.
- Preventing hospital-acquired infection
- Take the lead on infection control policy implementation and represent the Directorate in IPC strategy meetings
- Please see attached for a detailed JD and main responsibilities.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Mental Health Nurse (RMN)/ Registered Nurse
- Extensive post- registration continuing professional development in relevant or related clinical field.
- Practice supervisor training
Desirable
- Master's degree or equivalent training in physical health care, including wound care.
- Training in Quality Improvement methodology
Experience
Essential
- Experience of setting, monitoring and evaluating standards of care
- Managing change and introducing new ways of working for mental health teams
- Experience at a senior management/clinical level, collaborating and working to improve service delivery.
- Partnership working with other statutory and voluntary agencies
- Experience of working in a multi-cultural environment and knowledge of methods to develop culturally sensitive practice
- Current experience of working in relevant clinical practice areas
- Experience in using audits to drive improvement in clinical care
- Experience of using effective individual and group teaching and learning strategies with both patients and staff groups.
- Knowledge of the current policy context and the implications for mental health nursing, relevant to acute adults' services Knowledge of current professional developments in nursing and nurse education
Desirable
- Diversity and/or cultural competency training
- Experience of leading on quality improvement methodology and influencing team culture
- Experience of working with other client groups and of using a variety of models and approaches to care
- Practical understanding of interagency working for working age adults including relevant community services, social care and physical healthcare services
- Knowledge and understanding of Care Quality Commissions (CQC) standards and the quality Improvement agenda for the directorate.
- An appreciation of the unique needs of patients from diverse cultural communities
Knowledge and Skills
Essential
- Experience of setting, monitoring and evaluating standards of care
- Ability to communicate complex and sensitive issues to multidisciplinary teams
- Ability to advise on clinical nursing issues, demonstrating an understanding of professional guidance, nursing policy and relevant Trust and national strategies.
- Ability to negotiate and influence in order to achieve objectives without direct line management
- Ability to manage crises and conflicts effectively
- Ability to establish credibility and good working relationships with representatives of external agencies and other stakeholders, and manage those relationships with sensitivity and compassion
- Ability to address problems collaboratively with the team by reviewing options and take appropriate action without a predetermined framework.
- Demonstrate compassion and sensitivity when liaising with service users, carers, nursing colleagues and members of the MDT.
Desirable
- Able to work on several projects simultaneously
- Ability to negotiate and reach compromises in a manner which inspires confidence and respect from others.
- Ability to present to an audience coherently and professionally.
- Demonstrate high degree of self-awareness, able to demonstrate appropriate use of authority, providing a clear and unambiguous role within the senior management team
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details
Employer name
South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Maudsley Hospital
Denmark Hill
London
SE5 8AZ
United Kingdom
Employer's website
https://www.slam.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)