Matron - Mental Health Services for the Older Person
NHS AfC: Band 8a
- Mental Health for the Older Person
- NHS AfC: Band 8a
- Permanent
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- Part time
- Job share
- Flexible working
- 319-7502490SC
- North Tyneside general Hospital
- North Shields
- £55,690 - £62,682 pro rata per annum
- Yearly
- 19/11/2025 23:59
Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work for an organisation that was voted the best acute and combined acute and community trust in the country, based on the experience of its staff (NHS Staff Survey 2022). Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn’t, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare and, this is…the Northumbria Way!
What the Northumbria Way means for you:
- Extensive staff health and well-being programme including access to our specialist Wellbeing Hub
- Support and connection through a variety of Staff Network groups
- A range of flexible working opportunities
- Generous annual leave and pension scheme
- Access to lease car and home electronics scheme (qualifying criteria applies)
- Opportunities to improve your professional development through our vast training programmes
- Access to savings scheme via salary sacrifice with Northumberland Community Bank
We work closely with Kids First Nurseries that are based within our trust grounds at Wansbeck, North Tyneside and Hexham hospitals to care for our Trust family's children, they offer care for children from 6 weeks old up to 4 years. There are a number of funding options run by the government to help working parents, including Early Years Funding and Tax Free Childcare.
Flexible working offers choice in where, when, and how we work, ensuring patients remain at the heart of all we do. It’s open to everyone, and we aim to find solutions that work for both you and the organisation. All arrangements must be reasonable and balanced to maintain safe and effective patient care.
We are proud to be one of the country’s top performing NHS trusts – rated ‘outstanding’ overall by the Care Quality Commission (CQC). We provide a range of health and care services to support more than 500,000 people living in Northumberland and North Tyneside across the largest geographical area of any NHS Trust in England. Our teams deliver care from hospitals, a range of community venues and people’s homes. Our hospitals include a specialist emergency care hospital (the first of its kind in England), three general hospitals and community hospitals. In the community we deliver a wide range of community and public health services.
We lead in innovation and quality, having opened the Northumbria Healthcare Manufacturing and Innovation Hub during the Covid-19 pandemic and have recently launched our Community Promise – a pledge to make a real impact not just in healthcare but on the wider factors that affect people’s lives, such as education, employment and the economy.
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Job overview
We are seeking to appoint someone with significant experience, evidence of appropriate professional development and service improvement or quality improvement at Band 7. The post holder will need experience in supporting people of older age who have complex physical and mental health needs. .
The post holder will provide strong clinical leadership with the services and be highly visible and accessible to patients. You will lead by example, drive up standards of clinical care and you will be expected to get the essential components of care right for patients - clean wards and departments, quality care, ensuring patients are treated with dignity and respect, resolving problems for patients and relatives and ensuring high standards are maintained throughout the services. The post holder will work within a team of Matrons with in the Medicine Business Unit and participate in Northumbria’s Mental Health Strategy development and delivery, providing expertise and advice to deliver high quality care.
Main duties of the job
Ensure the highest standard of safe clinical care through the provision of effective leadership and management of clinical staff. Responsible to the Deputy Head of Nursing under the Matrons Charter, for coordinating with ward colleagues, Infection Control Department, Catering Department and Nutrition/Dietetics Department to improve the quality of patient food and the patient’s environment and to reduce the risk of cross infection.
Provide visible, accessible and authoritative presence in the hospital environment. Ensuring patients and their families and members of the multidisciplinary team can gain assistance, advice and support.
Respond to enquiries from relatives/carers and other organisations and services.
Deal with concerns and actively problem solve to improve the patient experience, investigate and respond to incidents and complaints within target timescales.
Take shared responsibility with the Deputy Head of Nursing/Lead Clinician/Clinical Director/General Manager for Clinical Governance.
Lead on improving standards of cleanliness through participation in regular audits.
Provide a focus for research and development,
Role model compassionate and inclusive leadership in order to shape the creation of a collective leadership culture within the trust.
Working for our organisation
We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, covering one of the largest geographical areas of any NHS trust in the country. Leading in innovation and quality – opening a state of the art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn’t, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare, this is the Northumbria Way! Please read ‘applicant guidance notes’ before submitting your application.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Provide professional and clinical leadership to the clinical teams, including provision of supportive advice and to understand the activity associated with patient care.
Take responsibility for various components of the Clinical Governance and patient safety agenda.
Liaise with clinical colleagues in the continued development and re-organisation of services emphasising a patient focused approach utilising pathways of care.
Work clinically on a regular basis with clinical teams across Business Unit, maintaining clinical skills & credibility.
Professionally responsible for the delivery of a high-quality safe service for patients and carers.
Advise on and actively contribute to the achievement of national and local performance targets within area.
Responsible for maintaining all nursing and clinical care standards taking shared responsibility with the Lead Clinician for all aspects of the Clinical Governance framework.
Work with partner organisations and advise on service developments that affect patient care.
Provide education and training that is accessed by a broad range of health professionals and by employees.
Act as a role model for clinical teams.
• Be responsible for nursing recruitment and retention within your clinical teams.
• Facilitation of the development of clinical practice by providing clinical and nursing leadership.
Co-ordinate and chair meetings with patients/relatives/complainants Acting as a mediator to resolve potential complaints helping to resolve issues/concerns negotiating and implementing action plans.
To be able to provide contemporary nursing care.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Registered Mentor
- 1st Level live NMC (RG) RN(C) OR RN(MH) depending on specialty)
- PP126/127 or equivalent teaching/assessing D32/33 qualification
- Degree in Nursing or related subject or equivalent level of knowledge through in-depth experience
- Leadership qualification/course/extensive and in-depth experience
Desirable criteria
- Management course
Applicants who are members of the Armed Forces, and those who have a disability that requires support in the work place (two ticks pledge) and who meet the essential criteria will be interviewed under the Trust's interview guarantee scheme.
We recognise the positive value of diversity and inclusion and are committed to a workforce that is diverse, equal and inclusive. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds. We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) candidates as BAME people are currently under-represented in our workforce as well as other under-represented groups such as LGBT+ and disabled candidates. We are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer, a Stonewall Diversity Champion, we have a Gold award from the Defense Recognition Scheme, and we are delighted to support Apprenticeships, Age Posi+ive and are a mindful employer.
If you require any reasonable adjustments to attend interview please make the recruitment team aware as soon as possible by calling our HR Recruitment Team on 0191 203 1415 option 2.
Applicants who meet the Fit and Proper Person Requirements (FPPR) will require additional pre-employment checks in line with CQC and NHS England statutory guidance.
Make sure to read the ‘applicant guidance notes’ before submitting your application and make sure you know everything there is to know before joining our fantastic trust!
Certificate of Sponsorship
Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust proudly hold a sponsor licence. In order to provide sponsorship you and the role you are applying for must meet UKVI eligibility requirements. Please check your eligibility prior to submitting an application. Skilled Worker visa: Overview - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
Please note that it is a requirement of this Trust that all successful applicants pay for their own DBS certification if a DBS check is required for the post. The method of payment is a salary deduction from your first monthly pay.
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Sue Ewart
- Job title
- Deputy Head Nursing -Medicine and Emergency care
- Email address
- susan.ewart@nhct.nhs.uk
- Telephone number
- 07500072383
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