Description
The Psychological Medicine, Older Adult and Neurodevelopmental (PMOA & NDS) Directorate at South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a proactive and proficient Matron to join their team. The successful post holder will be based within the Directorate and will be an integral part of the Nursing, Quality and Assurance Team.
The Matron role will provide senior overall operational, quality and clinical leadership and responsibility. The post holder will deliver on the Matrons 10 responsibilities:
- Leading by example
- Making sure patients get quality care
- Ensuring staffing is appropriate to patient needs
- Empowering nurses to take on a wider range of clinical tasks
- Improving hospital/team cleanliness
- Ensuring patients' nutritional needs are met
- Improving patients' experience
- Making sure patients are treated with respect
- Preventing hospital-acquired infection
- Resolving problems for patients and their relatives
The successful candidate will have exceptional communication, motivational and influencing skills, and be able to influence and encourage teams to work across organisational boundaries whilst holding patient care at the heart of their work. The post holder will be a 'self-starter' and be able to work autonomously as well as part of a multi-professional team.
The salary for this post is £66,274 to £73,496 a year.