Quality Matron Job at Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust Retford DN22
We have exciting and unique opportunities available here at Rampton Hospital, just outside Retford.
Rampton Hospital, part of the Forensic Division within the Trust, is an award-winning hospital, and is one of only three high secure hospitals in England.
We are the only hospital in the country to provide high secure care to patients who are women, who are deaf or who have Learning Disabilities, alongside our Mental Health and Personality Disorder treatment pathways.
Rampton Hospital is therefore, a very unique place to work, with patients at the centre of everything we do.
We are seeking to recruit Quality Matrons to join our fantastic team, to provide clinical leadership to the wards within the Hospital and contribute to the development of high standards of nursing practice within the Clinical Service. Individuals will work with the Head of Nursing and wider Senior Nurse and Leadership Group to ensure compassionate and effective care is provided to the patients across the Directorate.
Our core values of honesty, compassion, trust, respect and teamwork are very important to us, both in terms of patient care and staff care, and as such this is an exciting opportunity in a unique field of nursing.
Rampton Hospital has 24 wards offering comprehensive assessment and recovery focussed individualised care and treatment packages for patients who experience a mental health disorder, personality disorder or learning disabilities combined with a history of offending behaviour.
The role requires a clinically experienced Mental Health or Learning Disability Registered Nurse, who can provide strong leadership and direction to the multi-disciplinary teams and nursing staff at all grades that provide assessment, treatment and rehabilitation for the patient group in the Directorate.
The post holder will be required to have flexibility and adaptability to support the leadership of a nursing resource across a range of complex and diverse service areas to ensure all aspects of physical and mental healthcare needs are met. In addition, support and deputise for the Head of Nursing in all aspects of professional leadership and service and change management within the service.
We want to help our staff reach their full potential and are committed to providing the support, skills and development needed to succeed. This includes a supportive and strong health and well-being team, a developing staff voice group and a robust preceptorship package.
We have a huge variety of opportunities in our expansive Trust covering geographically from South Yorkshire, Nottinghamshire to Leicester, providing mental health inpatient and community services, community health services, forensic mental health services and secure prison healthcare across the East Midlands.
We have more than 100 sites and a huge scope of unique opportunities to develop your career and gain some amazing experiences. We strive to be a great place to work and offer many staff benefits and tailored staff support and wellbeing programmes.
Do you want to make a difference? Do you believe in Trust, Honesty, Respect, Compassion and Teamwork?
Then Nottinghamshire Healthcare is the perfect place for you to start, maintain or further your career. Join our team of nearly 9000 who are making a difference every day. We are all about our people – our staff, volunteers, carers, service users and patients. We are NottsHC.
Follow us on Facebook and Twitter @NottsHealthcare
The post holder will actively contribute to implementing the strategies for complaints, clinical governance, recruitment, professional development, security, health and safety, performance and quality, infection control, essence of care, safeguarding, user involvement and physical health care within the Directorate and wider hospital.
The post-holder will take responsibility for the development and delivery of evidence-based practice for patients with complex needs, ensuring that it supports and reflects patient’s individual needs, the trust objectives and professional guidance.
The post holder will develop ways to communicate with patients and receive their feedback and adapt services to meet individual patient requirements. To ensure a multidisciplinary approach is adopted, including the carer feedback to deliver positive and evidence-based care. To ensure continuous personal development through the utilisation of regular supervision, annual appraisal and training where appropriate.
The post holder will also be be responsible for the implementation of policies and procedures within the Directorate and actively engage in service improvement and policy development within the Forensic Division and wider Trust utilising specialist knowledge and experience.
Your role as a Quality Matron would include:
Healthcare Assistant, Blake Ward
My journey to Rampton started atypically, spending the first 10 years of my working life building a career in financial services and banking.
I decided to take the leap into healthcare in the control room at Rampton Hospital, having no experience in a health care or NHS setting. It was during the induction training at Rampton that I first heard about the clinical side of the job, our patients and their experiences, the staff and theirs along with information about the national services we held. I was immediately intrigued and joined the nurse bank.
After 12 months juggling the two roles, I had fallen in love with the clinical role, engaging with patients, aiding their therapeutic recovery journeys as much as possible so, with this in mind, jumped into a full-time role as a Health Care Assistant.
After another 12 months, I am about to start the Trainee Nurse Associate course which is fully funded by the Trust and start my journey to become a qualified Mental Health Nurse.
Ward Manager Bonnard Ward
I am the ward manager on Bonnard Ward. One of two, male mental health admission Wards. How did I get there?… I started as a newly qualified nurse at Rampton hospital in 2014, following a successful specialist student nurse placement in the personality disorder directorate. I was inspired to work at Rampton following a lecture at my university talking about forensic nursing and what staff may be faced with. A honest and true account about caring for patients with an added extra of balancing risk. I thought I could do it. I was definitely determined to apply, and I was successful!
The staff on my first ward, gave me so much support, showing me security procedures and how to build therapeutic relationships with patients but most importantly how to transition from student to qualified mental health nurse. The team showed me guidance, experience and the ward manager projected the right attitude and philosophy for the ward. I just knew I would pinch those skills!
So there I was … a few years later.. I progressed as a team leader, working on the ICU ward in the Personality disorder care stream. I felt clinically challenged, motivated and rewarded. I found a new way to nurse; building rapport and de-escalation were my best assets.
I transitioned to the mental health directorate, embracing a new opportunity that was offered to me. The Intensive care ward, taught me about me how to advocate for my patients, and how best to nurse organic mental health disorders.
I was given the opportunity to step in to the ward manager role, learning about the organisation, how to lead and manage teams, and how to get the best out of a team. I was successful at interview for a ward manager post at the ripe age of 28!
I’m so proud of myself of what I have achieved but more so, I am proud to work as a forensic nurse at Rampton Hospital.
Violence Reduction Team leader
Having worked on the wards at Rampton Hospital for several years this has given me confidence and different skills which I gained from working alongside patients with different diagnosis’ in a High Secure hospital.
Working in very challenging environment has been a truly rewarding experience, supporting patients who have very diverse needs and communication difficulties, ensuring their quality of life is improved and meaningful, accessing a wide range of support services at Rampton Hospital.
Supporting some of our most vulnerable patients to promote freedom of choice and autonomy but working collaboratively with patients to manage the known and foreseeable risks of working within a High secure Hospital.
These challenges have also brought opportunities to develop myself, increasing my skills and developing myself professionally.
During my time at Rampton Hospital I have been supported to access numerous courses and qualifications, including the completion of my degree course in the prevention and management of violence and aggression and my subsequent appointment to Violence Reduction Team Leader.
2021 Awards for Rampton Hospital
National Service User Awards 2021:
Shortlisted: Category – Recovery and Arts - Women’s service poetry competition
Category – Health and Well-being – Women’s service Sensory Gardens
Winners: Category – Excellence in Co-production – Personality Disorder service
Nursing Times Awards 2021:
Shortlisted: Category – Nursing in Mental Health – Personality Disorder Transition Project
Category – Nurse Leader of the Year – Ruby Ward, Ward Manager
Category – Learning Disability Nursing – Aintree Autism specialist ward
Winners: Category – Nursing in Mental Health – Coral Ward, Women’s service, Reducing restrictive practice and improving patient experience.
Additional benefits whilst working at Rampton Hospital as a Registered Nurse on wards
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Rampton Hospital, part of the Forensic Division within the Trust, is an award-winning hospital, and is one of only three high secure hospitals in England.
We are the only hospital in the country to provide high secure care to patients who are women, who are deaf or who have Learning Disabilities, alongside our Mental Health and Personality Disorder treatment pathways.
Rampton Hospital is therefore, a very unique place to work, with patients at the centre of everything we do.
We are seeking to recruit Quality Matrons to join our fantastic team, to provide clinical leadership to the wards within the Hospital and contribute to the development of high standards of nursing practice within the Clinical Service. Individuals will work with the Head of Nursing and wider Senior Nurse and Leadership Group to ensure compassionate and effective care is provided to the patients across the Directorate.
Our core values of honesty, compassion, trust, respect and teamwork are very important to us, both in terms of patient care and staff care, and as such this is an exciting opportunity in a unique field of nursing.
Rampton Hospital has 24 wards offering comprehensive assessment and recovery focussed individualised care and treatment packages for patients who experience a mental health disorder, personality disorder or learning disabilities combined with a history of offending behaviour.
The role requires a clinically experienced Mental Health or Learning Disability Registered Nurse, who can provide strong leadership and direction to the multi-disciplinary teams and nursing staff at all grades that provide assessment, treatment and rehabilitation for the patient group in the Directorate.
The post holder will be required to have flexibility and adaptability to support the leadership of a nursing resource across a range of complex and diverse service areas to ensure all aspects of physical and mental healthcare needs are met. In addition, support and deputise for the Head of Nursing in all aspects of professional leadership and service and change management within the service.
We want to help our staff reach their full potential and are committed to providing the support, skills and development needed to succeed. This includes a supportive and strong health and well-being team, a developing staff voice group and a robust preceptorship package.
We have a huge variety of opportunities in our expansive Trust covering geographically from South Yorkshire, Nottinghamshire to Leicester, providing mental health inpatient and community services, community health services, forensic mental health services and secure prison healthcare across the East Midlands.
We have more than 100 sites and a huge scope of unique opportunities to develop your career and gain some amazing experiences. We strive to be a great place to work and offer many staff benefits and tailored staff support and wellbeing programmes.
Do you want to make a difference? Do you believe in Trust, Honesty, Respect, Compassion and Teamwork?
Then Nottinghamshire Healthcare is the perfect place for you to start, maintain or further your career. Join our team of nearly 9000 who are making a difference every day. We are all about our people – our staff, volunteers, carers, service users and patients. We are NottsHC.
Follow us on Facebook and Twitter @NottsHealthcare
The post holder will actively contribute to implementing the strategies for complaints, clinical governance, recruitment, professional development, security, health and safety, performance and quality, infection control, essence of care, safeguarding, user involvement and physical health care within the Directorate and wider hospital.
The post-holder will take responsibility for the development and delivery of evidence-based practice for patients with complex needs, ensuring that it supports and reflects patient’s individual needs, the trust objectives and professional guidance.
The post holder will develop ways to communicate with patients and receive their feedback and adapt services to meet individual patient requirements. To ensure a multidisciplinary approach is adopted, including the carer feedback to deliver positive and evidence-based care. To ensure continuous personal development through the utilisation of regular supervision, annual appraisal and training where appropriate.
The post holder will also be be responsible for the implementation of policies and procedures within the Directorate and actively engage in service improvement and policy development within the Forensic Division and wider Trust utilising specialist knowledge and experience.
Your role as a Quality Matron would include:
- Leading direct Care to complex patient groups and role model to junior staff
- Ensuring a high standard of practice is maintained in relation to detention of the mentally ill and all learning disability patients Under the Mental-Health Act and Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards
- Knowledge of complex safeguarding issues and support into the management processes
- Ensure patient experience is positive, the environment is pleasant, clean, comfortable and suitable for its use at all times and liaising with other departments as a necessary
- Act role model for staff promoting positive performance and challenging poor or sub-standard care and standards.
- Provide professional and managerial leadership, support and assist in the development of strategies, mentorship and managerial supervision for identified nursing colleagues within the Directorate.
- Lead reducing restrictive practices and Long-Term Segregations and promote recovery focused practices
- To undertake investigations and reviews as required and fully participate in all aspects of clinical leadership. This will include leading quality improvement, service development and ensuring performance and conduct standards are achieved.
- The attendance at incidents will require the Quality Matron to support nursing and clinical colleagues in the decision-making process for interventions with patients. E.g., Seclusion; Mechanical Restraint application; Medical Emergency (including blue-light dispatch); Protective Equipment deployment; and other untoward and unforeseen issues requiring leadership.
- Actively participate in the recruitment and selection of staff for the hospital, in liaison with the Human Resources and recruitment and retention teams
- To take personal and professional responsibility for the provision of high-quality service, within areas of practice. The post-holder will support and locally promote the quality strategy of the Trust and the Division.
- In conjunction with the Operational, Service Managers and senior colleagues, implement key performance indicators, which enable the service provided to be assessed and monitored in line with Clinical Governance and the service Clinical Strategy objectives.
- To assess daily the IPC standards on a ward and CQC KLOE standards and manage accordingly
- To lead and be part of QI projects to enhance service delivery and patient experience
- To update, maintain and clinical knowledge of national, Trust wide and local mental Health and Learning disability health initiatives in order to contribute and maintain service development and good stands of care cascade.
Healthcare Assistant, Blake Ward
My journey to Rampton started atypically, spending the first 10 years of my working life building a career in financial services and banking.
I decided to take the leap into healthcare in the control room at Rampton Hospital, having no experience in a health care or NHS setting. It was during the induction training at Rampton that I first heard about the clinical side of the job, our patients and their experiences, the staff and theirs along with information about the national services we held. I was immediately intrigued and joined the nurse bank.
After 12 months juggling the two roles, I had fallen in love with the clinical role, engaging with patients, aiding their therapeutic recovery journeys as much as possible so, with this in mind, jumped into a full-time role as a Health Care Assistant.
After another 12 months, I am about to start the Trainee Nurse Associate course which is fully funded by the Trust and start my journey to become a qualified Mental Health Nurse.
Ward Manager Bonnard Ward
I am the ward manager on Bonnard Ward. One of two, male mental health admission Wards. How did I get there?… I started as a newly qualified nurse at Rampton hospital in 2014, following a successful specialist student nurse placement in the personality disorder directorate. I was inspired to work at Rampton following a lecture at my university talking about forensic nursing and what staff may be faced with. A honest and true account about caring for patients with an added extra of balancing risk. I thought I could do it. I was definitely determined to apply, and I was successful!
The staff on my first ward, gave me so much support, showing me security procedures and how to build therapeutic relationships with patients but most importantly how to transition from student to qualified mental health nurse. The team showed me guidance, experience and the ward manager projected the right attitude and philosophy for the ward. I just knew I would pinch those skills!
So there I was … a few years later.. I progressed as a team leader, working on the ICU ward in the Personality disorder care stream. I felt clinically challenged, motivated and rewarded. I found a new way to nurse; building rapport and de-escalation were my best assets.
I transitioned to the mental health directorate, embracing a new opportunity that was offered to me. The Intensive care ward, taught me about me how to advocate for my patients, and how best to nurse organic mental health disorders.
I was given the opportunity to step in to the ward manager role, learning about the organisation, how to lead and manage teams, and how to get the best out of a team. I was successful at interview for a ward manager post at the ripe age of 28!
I’m so proud of myself of what I have achieved but more so, I am proud to work as a forensic nurse at Rampton Hospital.
Violence Reduction Team leader
Having worked on the wards at Rampton Hospital for several years this has given me confidence and different skills which I gained from working alongside patients with different diagnosis’ in a High Secure hospital.
Working in very challenging environment has been a truly rewarding experience, supporting patients who have very diverse needs and communication difficulties, ensuring their quality of life is improved and meaningful, accessing a wide range of support services at Rampton Hospital.
Supporting some of our most vulnerable patients to promote freedom of choice and autonomy but working collaboratively with patients to manage the known and foreseeable risks of working within a High secure Hospital.
These challenges have also brought opportunities to develop myself, increasing my skills and developing myself professionally.
During my time at Rampton Hospital I have been supported to access numerous courses and qualifications, including the completion of my degree course in the prevention and management of violence and aggression and my subsequent appointment to Violence Reduction Team Leader.
2021 Awards for Rampton Hospital
National Service User Awards 2021:
Shortlisted: Category – Recovery and Arts - Women’s service poetry competition
Category – Health and Well-being – Women’s service Sensory Gardens
Winners: Category – Excellence in Co-production – Personality Disorder service
Nursing Times Awards 2021:
Shortlisted: Category – Nursing in Mental Health – Personality Disorder Transition Project
Category – Nurse Leader of the Year – Ruby Ward, Ward Manager
Category – Learning Disability Nursing – Aintree Autism specialist ward
Winners: Category – Nursing in Mental Health – Coral Ward, Women’s service, Reducing restrictive practice and improving patient experience.
Additional benefits whilst working at Rampton Hospital as a Registered Nurse on wards
- A Trust allowance of £4,012 per annum will be paid in addition to your salary.
- Relocation support is provided of up to £8,000 to help with buying or renting your new home.
- Excellent preceptorship package – and first year of professional registration fees will be paid
- No DBS charges to pay
- Flexible working including long days
- A superb Health and Well-Being team to access to support your transition into Rampton
- Robust induction and training
- Free car parking – and electric points for charging
- Lots of green space around the hospital aiding mental wellbeing
- Close to A1 for ease of commuting
Please Note :
siennaramirez.com is the go-to platform for job seekers looking for the best job postings from around the web. With a focus on quality, the platform guarantees that all job postings are from reliable sources and are up-to-date. It also offers a variety of tools to help users find the perfect job for them, such as searching by location and filtering by industry. Furthermore, siennaramirez.com provides helpful resources like resume tips and career advice to give job seekers an edge in their search. With its commitment to quality and user-friendliness, Site.com is the ideal place to find your next job.