About this role
Job summary
Do you have a track record of providing high quality care? Are you a credible clinician looking for your next opportunity? West Norfolk locality is recruiting a Community Matron on a full-time, permanent basis within the Norfolk Early Intervention in Psychosis (EIP) Service. Our service comprises of five teams, one EIP team in Kings Lynn, one in Great Yarmouth, two in Norwich and our At Risk Mental State (ARMS) team (known as TIDES, also based in Norwich but covering the county). The successful post holder will be expected to work peripatetically across the county to support all five teams.
The post holder will work closely with the operational manager and have overall responsibility for the clinical and financial management functions within the service. This will involve ensuring effective and efficient clinical, quality and safety performance, working alongside the operational manager and associate director of operations and holding joint responsibility for financial management; the delivery of evidence-based patient care and ensuring that the service is safe. The Community Matron will provide clear, visible leadership, strategic vision, and good clinical knowledge and experience of working within psychosis services or pathways.
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 yourservices 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
About us
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.
Why Norfolk and Suffolk?The people here are warm and welcoming, you'll never be far from the beautiful coastline or Broads National Park. We're an hour and a half away from London and have an international airport in Norwich too. Our villages, towns and cities are packed full of history, independent cafes, shops and theatres. We have excellent shopping, eating out, top ranking schooling and affordable house prices too.
Job description Job 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!
Some of the benefits you can expect:
NHS pension a comprehensive in house & external training programmes career progression starting annual leave of 27 days per annum increasing to 33 days pa based on length of service (plus paid bank holidays) staff physio service NHS discounts and many more. Interview dates are yet to be set; you will be contacted via email and invited to book a time. These emails may go to your SPAM, so please keep checking all your emails if applying.
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Person Specification
Qualifications Essential
Diploma level/Degree in relevant health/social care profession, eg RMN, RLDN OT, Social Worker. Current relevant registration with the NMC or HCPC
Desirable
Masters Level Degree or equivalent
Experience Essential
Clinical Leadership and clinical care Involvement in managing change/projects.
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 Norfolk & Suffolk Foundation NHS Trust
Address 7 Unthank Road
Norwich
NR2 2PA
United Kingdom
Employer's website https://www.nsft.nhs.uk/Pages/Home.aspx (Opens in a new tab)