About this role
Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced and inspirational Modern Matron to provide senior nursing leadership across the Secure, Acute and Crisis inpatient wards at Parklands Hospital (Hazel Ward - PICU and Place of Safety), Cherry Ward and Juniper Ward).
The Modern Matron will be accountable for ensuring high standards of risk management, patient safety, cleanliness and dignity within the clinical environment, ensuring full compliance with the Matron's Charter and Hygiene Code across the Acute and Crisis inpatient pathway.
You will provide visible, compassionate and professional clinical leadership, ensuring consistent delivery of high quality, evidence based care to patients and their families, with patient safety as the overriding priority. The role requires strong professional role modelling and the ability to foster a culture of collective responsibility, accountability and compassionate care.
Working closely with multi disciplinary and multi agency partners, you will contribute to the strategic development, service improvement and quality assurance of Acute and Crisis inpatient services at Parklands Hospital, supporting delivery of safe, effective and well led care.
This role is ideally suited to a motivated and experienced senior nurse with strong leadership skills and a passion for quality improvement in inpatient mental health services.
Main duties of the job
The Modern Matron provides senior professional nursing leadership across the Secure, Acute and Crisis inpatient wards at Parklands Hospital, with accountability for the quality, safety and effectiveness of care delivered across the Acute and Crisis inpatient pathway.
The post holder is responsible for ensuring the clinical environment is safe, therapeutic and conducive to recovery, maintaining high standards of risk management, cleanliness and dignity in line with the Matron's Charter, Hygiene Code, clinical governance requirements and legislation. The role ensures that evidence based, multi disciplinary care is delivered in accordance with professional standards, with consistent oversight of medicines management, physical health monitoring, nutrition and the fundamentals of care.
The Modern Matron provides visible leadership and role modelling, fostering a culture of compassionate care, collective responsibility and continuous improvement. They ensure effective clinical risk assessment, safeguarding, incident management and learning from adverse events, supporting investigations and service improvement activity.
The role includes responsibility for workforce leadership, supervision, appraisal, learning & development, skill mix and recruitment, alongside effective communication with service users, carers and partners. The Modern Matron contributes to operational management, performance monitoring, policy development & Trust wide collaboration to ensure services are safe, effective & well led.
About us
Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides joined-up mental and physical healthcare for around two million people across our communities. With over 13,000 staff working in the community and local hospitals, we deliver care at every stage of life, helping people live their best and healthiest lives.
Our mental health services include community-based support and early intervention in psychosis (EIP) for both adults and young people, alongside a network of specialist inpatient wards covering forensic, learning disability, eating disorder and older person's care.
We deliver extensive physical health services too, from urgent community response teams helping frail and older patients remain safely at home, to hospitals at home teams providing acute-level care in familiar surroundings. Our neurological services offer rehabilitation and treatment for conditions including Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson's Disease, Motor Neurone Disease, Head Injury, Cerebral Palsy and Stroke. Across Hampshire, our community hospitals provide inpatient rehabilitation as a step down from acute care, and our dedicated teams also staff Treetops Sexual Assault Referral Centre in Portsmouth, offering expert, compassionate support.
Everything we do is underpinned by our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect and excellence
Job description Job responsibilities
Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached. It is important to us that we ensure our recruitment processes are accessible and inclusive to everyone - if as a potential candidate you are concerned a person specification may prevent or restrict your application for employment as a result of unintentional barriers on the grounds of your sex, race, age, sexual orientation, religion/belief or disability please initially contact the Trust's Recruitment team - detailed in the advert. The Trust will seek to resolve this issue wherever possible.
We are happy to talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process.
Person Specification
Qualifications Essential
Registered RMN Nurse Mentorship Course Leadership and Management Qualification or comparable experience Evidence of clinical study at level 3 Evidence of ongoing, active CPD
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.
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 Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Address Parklands Hospital
Aldermaston Road
Basingstoke
Hampshire
RG24 9RH
United Kingdom
Employer's website https://hiowhealthcare.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)