Matron - Adult Inpatient Care

An exciting opportunity lead in the role of Clinical Manager for our crisis pathway, across Acute and Urgent Care Service Line.

The portfolio of services include Psychiatric Liaison across Kingston, St Helier and St Georges Hospital, & Home Treatment Teams across Kingston, Richmond, Sutton, Merton & Wandsworth, as well as The Lotus Assessment Suite (Psychiatric Decision Unit, Health Based Place of Safety). Street Triage Services & Coral Mental Health Crisis Hub (MH Crisis Line, Rapid Assessment Clinic) also sit within the crisis pathway and are currently going through service transformation.

You will be joining a recently established, energised and colaborative leadership team, working within a fast paced, challenging landscape. You will be supported to deliver in this role by 3 x 8a Clinical Service Leads, as well as our HTT ACD and wider senior leadership team. This is an exciting role with a real opportunity to have a great impact supporting the service line and wider Adult Patient Journey (APJ).

You will be an experienced manager within the Trust, ideally with more than 2 years experience at 8A or already working at an 8B level.

You will receive excellent support and supervision from the team.

The post combines a crucial requirement for professional leadership and clinical management, jointly accountable to the Head of Service and Head of Nursing for the service line. The post holder will be responsible for delivery of high quality and performance measures across their portfolio of services, whilst ensuring robust and visible leadership to your team.

We are looking for an individual who has a strong track record of delivery, who demonstrates excellent leadership qualities and someone who is inspirational and engaging with staff, external partners and patients. The individual will represent the portfolio of services and lead on these areas in forums such as cluster, service line governance and business meetings and have a key role with external facing partners.

Flexible Working

We are proud to offer agile and flexible working opportunities as part of our new ways of working, and we are happy to talk flexible working at the interview stage. In this role you will be able to work Monday to Friday in the time frames from 8am to 6pm giving you the very best of good work life balance.

We are Proud to Belong at South West London and St George’s Mental Health NHS Trust.

We have expert services, a rich history and a clear commitment to providing the best quality care for those with mental ill-health. The Care Quality Commission already rates our services as ‘good’ - we aspire to be ‘outstanding’.

This is a great time to join us. We are transforming the way we care for our communities to support our mission of Making Life Better Together. We have built two brand new mental health facilities at Springfield University Hospital, which are amongst the best in the world. More developments are planned across our sites and services as we invest a further £120m to upgrade and modernise our estate by 2027.

We want to attract people from all backgrounds and experiences to enrich the work we do together. We are proud to co-produce and involve our local communities in all that we do.

We offer flexible working, career development and a variety of benefits to enable a positive, welcoming environment in which our people and their careers can thrive.

About our locations:

Springfield University Hospital, Tooting

Our largest, 19-ward site is in Springfield Village, created following our £150m investment into two new world class mental health facilities. A 32-acre public park, shops and cafes are now opening. Springfield is close to shops, cafes and Tooting Bec on the Northern Line plus Earlsfield and Tooting rail stations and bus routes.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Alex Roger Job title: Head of Service Delivery Email address: [email protected] Telephone number: 07583562701