Job summary

This role provides clinical leadership for nurses and other health professionals providing care in an inpatient setting.The matron holds a key role as a member of the leadership team for the units they are responsible for & manage, alongside psychiatry, psychology, social work and occupational therapy andwill provide clinical leadership and support for nursing staff to maintain clinical and non- clinical standards of care and implement quality improvement. This includes ensuring that Care Quality Commission essential standards are met and exceeded.The matron will undertake specific service improvement and development projects, as directed by the Head of Nursing, Service Lead and Clinical Director using quality improvement methodology.Contribute to complaints and SI investigations as required or directed by Head of Nursing, working with the Head of Nursing, Service Lead and directorate governance leads to identify specific trends with regard to incidents, auditing and lessons learnt.Postholders will have responsibility for a number of designated wards plus one of the key aspects of the service: Recruitment, Practice Development, Physical Health, Quality Improvement.

This may mean that you are required to work at any location that fall under Barnet, Enfield and Harringay Trust and Camden and Islington Trust. The Trust reserves the right to require staff to work at such other places or locations as it considers reasonable and necessary on a temporary or permanent basis.

Main duties of the job

Clinical LeadershipTo ensure that care is delivered on the inpatient wards or their clinical areas of responsibility, meeting or exceeding the standards expected by the Care Quality Commission, QED/RCP Quality Network standards developed by the Royal College of Psychiatry, NICE guidance and Trust initiatives and any other standards considered best practice.Patient and Family/Carer ExperienceTo ensure and respond to feedback from patient and carers about their experiences. This includes developing action plans based upon feedback received and ensuring that they are implemented and monitored (e.g. through clinical audit).Standards of PracticeTo develop and monitor effective systems of critical reflective practice within clinical teams including critical review and learning lessons techniques. This may include shared service developments and joint care planning and delivery.Quality Performance and Risk ManagementIn collaboration with service leads ensure that teams have clearly identified and understood written team objectives based on the service and Trust objectives for quality and safety.Staff DevelopmentTo identify the skills and competencies required to deliver the service and to work with others to develop a workforce development plan to meet those needs. Implement audit and conduct competency assessments of clinical staff

About us

This post is with the Specialist Services line of Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust, Specialist Services provides forensic care for a wide catchment area, namely Camden, Islington, Haringey, Barnet and Enfield.

Specialist Services have 12 in-patient ward which are known as North London Forensic Service (NLFS) which works with an exceptionally ethnically diverse population with an extremely high level of psychiatric morbidity and social deprivation. The service also includes the community pathway, Drug & Alcohol Services and Prison in-reach & outreach.In addition the post holder will be working in a locked environment with patients detained under the 1983 Mental Health Act (amended 2007), many of whom suffer from a severe and enduring mental illness which may present itself at times in episodes of violence to others or the environment.The postholder will need to be comfortable working in an environment of complex matrix management arrangements and will at all times behave and align with our Trusts' values and cultural pillars. In order to meet the needs of the new Partnership services you may be required from time to time to work at different locations to your normal place of work.