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Location

Brighton, East Sussex | United Kingdom

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Job description

A Vacancy at Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust.

As the largest community healthcare provider within Sussex we are excited to offer you this opportunity to join our Children's community nursing services as their Matron.

If successful you will be joining an established Matron team that is passionate and innovative, where positive outcomes for children are at the heart of everything they do.

As a senior leadership team we are equally motivated to ensure that our teams are led compassionately and aspire to provide a positive and supportive working experience and where individual voices are heard and their opinions valued and where development opportunities are key to success and growth.

If you have a passion for children's services and a desire to support the provision of high levels of care in their homes, if you want to work within a positive and motivated team then this is the role for you.

If you believe you have leadership skills that will further enhance care and support to the services we provide, then we would welcome your application,

If you are looking for a new challenge and a chance to be part of an exemplar children's community provision then we'd love to hear from you and have the opportunity to meet you through an informal visit or conversation and through interview.

The post will be for children's community nursing across Brighton and West Sussex and we will accept applicants from all areas and then decide the appropriate base for them.

Good luck

The Matron's work closely with the General Manager, Area Nurse and consultant nurse to ensure all services are equipped and resourced to deliver high quality care to children in their homes.

They are accountable for the direct clinical and operational delivery of services within their portfolio acting as a proactive resource for their teams utilising the scope of the role as described in the Matrons Handbook.

As an experienced children’s nursing practitioner, the post holder will be expected to create an environment of continuous quality improvement, developing clinical practice and ensuring that delivery of care is regularly reviewed embedding the CQC NICE and other quality benchmarks.

Key responsibilities will include contributing to the strategic development of CYP community nursing within SCFT, maximising human and financial resources and the delivery of the Key Performance indicators identified.

They will have a 20/80% split in clinical and leadership/management responsibilities, which is flexible according to need. They will have advanced clinical nursing skills to a level of competence of band 6 or above so as able to perform clinically

We are the main provider of NHS community services across East and West Sussex. Our 6,000 staff serve a population of 1.3 million providing essential medical, nursing, and therapeutic care to adults and children.

Our Trust vision is to provide excellent care at the heart of the community, helping people plan, manage, adapt to changes in their health, supporting avoidable hospital admissions and reducing hospital stay times.

We have opportunities for everyone across our wide variety of services including medical, clinical, support and corporate services.

Why work for us?
• Positive 2022 NHS Staff Survey results, scoring highly in compassionate culture & leadership, and staff wellbeing support
• Variety of working environments across the community, in patients' homes, within our community hospitals and bases across the county
• Supportive flexible working patterns such as: part time, flexi time, annualised hours, and flexi retirement options
• Excellent training and development opportunities
• Research opportunities
• Cost-effective workplace nurseries in Crawley, Hove and Brighton
• Thriving BAME, Disability and Wellbeing, LGBT+ and Religion and Belief staff networks
• Level 3 accredited Disability Confident Leader, committed to creating inclusive workplaces
• Veteran Aware Trust, achieving accreditation from Veterans Covenant Healthcare Alliance (VCHA)
• Located in stunning Sussex, with easy access to the South Downs and the coast
• Access to a wide range of benefits and discounts for NHS staff

Key responsibilities

• Responsible for operational management of designated teams across the service.
• Responsible for profiling and analysing children’s community nursing caseloads and the allocated resources according to the defined needs of the population and within the West Sussex model of children’s community nursing provision.
• Implements, monitors and reviews clinical standards within the clinical workload, ensuring all staff are competent in the execution of their clinical workload
• Identifies, develops and implements clinical protocols, standard operating procedures and guidelines to contribute to improved outcomes for children and families, as part of the long term conditions, complex needs, palliative care and urgent care pathways.
• Takes a lead on designated elements of clinical nursing for example, infection control and medicines management, medical devices and resuscitation divided between Matrons.
• Responsible for the development and management of teams and specialists/advanced practitioners in all aspects of clinical practice, facilitating staff to develop specific areas of nursing expertise and proficiency to meet the needs of the caseload within the available resources
• Critically evaluates and interprets research findings from a variety of sources making informed judgments and decisions about their significance to practice and service

development.
• Works clinically in a supernumerary capacity on a regular basis, thus acting as a role model by demonstrating expert clinical practice, professional competence authority and credibility.
• Facilitates training and proficiency/competency for all children’s community nursing staff including relevant clinical skills and risk assessments to deliver safe home nursing and care.
• Participates in self-appraisal, maintaining managerial and clinical competence and responsible for continually developing own skills and knowledge.
• Ensures competence of mentors and NMC Sign off Mentors liaising closely with the education and training teams and education providers.
• Identifies opportunities for professional development through clinical supervision amongst peers and health professionals.

1. Main tasks

Clinical and operational management

• Identifies complex and longstanding challenges and responds proactively to problem solve and resolve.
• Contributes to workforce planning and leads on recruitment across area working collaboratively with colleagues to maintain safe staffing levels, delegating appropriately to Team Leaders.
• Responsible for the management of individuals and team performance in line with organisational policies and procedures
• Ensures that the children’s community nursing clinical supervision framework is implemented including facilitating individual or group clinical supervision.
• Works in collaboration with the General Manager monitoring and actioning decisions in relation to ensuring appropriate nursing skill mix is in place in relation to caseload and activity.
• Reviews and agrees bank and agency requirements, usage and control bank and agency spend.
• Responsible for initiating, delegating, implementing and monitoring risk management strategies in accordance with Trust policy within geographical area managed
• Analyses and presents information, reports and audits results, where appropriate, utilizing a wide and varied range of computer skills
• Contributes to the workforce development to ensure that staff have the skills and competencies to deliver new service models and care pathways.
• Leads where appropriate on investigating complaints and adverse events, facilitating learning from incidents and implementing action plans
• Undertakes role as lead investigator for serious untoward incidents using root cause analysis
• Is flexible in maintaining essential service cover for other members of the team during planned and unplanned absence.
• Deputises for the General Manager for CYP Community Nursing where necessary.

Staff management / Development

Finance

• Accountable and responsible for delegated budgets and acts as authorised signatory.
• Contributes to business objectives and promotes cost improvement programmes for CYP community nursing.

Service development and improvement

• Contributes to and influences the redesigning of CYP community nursing at a strategic level, undertaking project work and research as required.
• Responsible for the identification of priorities with regard to new service development and acts as a change agent in implementation.
• Contributes to the formulation, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of children’s community nursing strategic and operational plans.
• Critically appraises and evaluates clinical practice through audit and continually strives to improve children’s and families experiences, including the transition process to adult community services.
• Questions and constructively challenges children’s nursing practice, to enable monitoring of standards of care, embrace new ideas and make changes to improve children and family provision.
• Demonstrates awareness of objectives and strategies at a local and national level to monitor and report on performance.
• Participates in children’s services work streams that contribute to modernisation and improvement in children’s services.
• Participates in local and national Children’s Community Nursing Network and/or sub group meetings.

Responsibility for dealing with difficult situations

• Sets and maintains standards of practice. Conducts decision making in conjunction with the Multidisciplinary team and challenges those who do not follow or meet the standards ensuring corrective action is taken, being clear reporting mechanisms.
• Demonstrates appropriate behaviour in stressful and difficult situations in a range of settings. Supports and where appropriate counsels staff. Supports and advises all staff when difficult situations encountered, ensuring peer supervision strategies are in place.
• Promotes evidence based decision making.
• Supports all staff when working in a large geographical area as lone workers within a complex organisation, and having to work alongside a wide range of personnel in voluntary, statutory agencies.
• Recognises and manages areas of conflict and leads on the management of this to promote a healthy work environment.
• Confidently deals with highly stressed families/staff, providing support and advice.
• Promotes and supports equality, diversity and rights of staff, children and families.

Physical working conditions and environment

• Recognises high risk situations and takes appropriate action. Identifies risks and near misses implementing the Trust Incident Reporting Policy.
• Advices and supports Team Leaders to ensure that staff are aware of their responsibilities in accordance with legislation, including the Health and Safety at Work act, COSHH regulations, RIDDOR, EU regulation, SCFT risk procedures, NMC Policies and other professional bodies as appropriate.
• Ensures procurement, maintenance and competence of medical devices and equipment within CYP CN and that medical device records are maintained.
• Proficiently utilises Information Technology for professional purposes; producing reports and spreadsheets as required.
• Collects and submits caseload data as required to assist in service planning and provision.
• Travels around county to a variety of venues to access staff, meetings or corporate departments.
• Ensures own and staff personal safety by adherence to the Lone Worker policy.

This advert closes on Sunday 17 Mar 2024

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