NHS
Matron - AFPICU Inpatient
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Job Description
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Job summary
Come and Join Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust, where we offer a wide variety of challenging and rewarding roles within a supportive, innovative and dynamic work environment!
We have an exciting opportunity for a Matron to join our Acute and Forensic Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit Inpatient teams within the Directorate of mental Health.
The Matron for the Female pathway will oversee the clinical/ professional and operational leadership of 2 acute mental health wards and 1 female PICU, based at the Bradgate Mental Health Unit. The role of the Matron is to provide professional clinical and operational leadership and management for services ensuring high quality, safe and effective quality of care is delivered, within the resources available while ensuring that care is organised to meet the needs of the patient, enhancing their experience, and supporting staff to meet the Directorate and Trust objectives.
The matron role is instrumental in promoting high standards of clinical care and maintaining patient safety, reducing health inequalities, and promoting equality for all. Staff education & development, workforce retention and recruitment through compassionate, inclusive leadership.
The health and wellbeing of our team members is very important to us and we offer a robust induction period, as well as regular supervision and support. You will have opportunities to progress your career with a structured learning journey.
Main duties of the job
Providing credible nursing leadership to deliver inspiration and direction by being a highly visible and accessible clinical leader with a demonstrable commitment to improving the quality of patient care for the designated areas within the identified portfolio.
The post holder will work as part of a designated Directorate and will take responsibility for the delivery and maintenance of the highest standards of nursing care. The post holder will have management responsibility and accountability for the provision of nursing care within the designated areas, including operational and resource management of the services covered. The post holder will be professionally accountable for standards of nursing care and influence the non-clinical contributions that are necessary to care delivery including standards of food, cleanliness of the environment and other services that impact on patient care and welfare.
The post holder will be required to develop excellent working relationships with vast multi-disciplinary/speciality teams, Heads of Nursing, Associate Medical Director, Medical colleagues, as well as external agencies such as housing, social care, Integrated Care board, and other stakeholders in order to effectively manage inpatient mental health services and support the development of pathways to improve patient and staff outcomes.
About us
We may close the advert early, if we receive a sufficient number of applicants, so please apply as soon as possible.
About Us
Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust (LPT) provides a range of community health, mental health and learning disability services for people of all ages. Delivered through over 100 settings from inpatient wards to out in the community, our 6,500 staff serve over 1 million people living in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland. We aim to develop a workforce that reflects our community. We actively implement equal opportunities in employment and service delivery and seek people who share our commitment. We strongly encourage applications from all sections of the community, particularly from underrepresented groups. Details of our benefits, leadership behaviours and other important information can be found in the Information for Applicants, please view the supporting documents. We will consider requests to work alternative hours or varied working patterns in line with our flexible working policy. For all substantive roles, new staff (excluding medical staff) are appointed subject to a 6-month probationary period (see Probation Policy). All jobs will require permission to work in the UK. For all jobs the cost of any DBS disclosure required will be met by the individual. This will be deducted from salary once started. Applicants at risk within the local NHS who meet essential criteria will have preference for interview.
Details
Date posted
27 May 2025
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 8a
Salary
£53,755 to £60,504 a year
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-time
Reference number
003701
Job locations
Bradgate Mental Health Unit, Glenfield Hospital
Groby Road
Leicester
Leicester
LE3 9EJ
Job descriptionJob description
Job responsibilities
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Job responsibilities
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Person SpecificationPerson Specification
Qualifications
Essential
Experience
Essential
Qualifications
Essential
Experience
Essential
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.
Employer details
Employer name
Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust
Address
Bradgate Mental Health Unit, Glenfield Hospital
Groby Road
Leicester
Leicester
LE3 9EJ
Employer's website
https://www.leicspart.nhs.uk/jobs/ (Opens in a new tab)
Employer details
Employer name
Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust
Address
Bradgate Mental Health Unit, Glenfield Hospital
Groby Road
Leicester
Leicester
LE3 9EJ
Employer's website
https://www.leicspart.nhs.uk/jobs/ (Opens in a new tab)
About the company
National Health Service (NHS) is the umbrella term for the publicly-funded healthcare systems of the United Kingdom (UK). The founding principles were that services should be comprehensive, universal and free at the point of delivery—a health service based on clinical need, not ability to pay. Each service provides a comprehensive range of health services, free at the point of use for people ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom apart from dental treatment and optical care.
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