Matron | Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust

Dyddiad hysbysebu:	21 Mai 2025
Cyflog:	Heb ei nodi
Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog:	£55,877 - £62,626 per annum (inclusive of high cost area supplement)
Oriau:	Llawn Amser
Dyddiad cau:	20 Mehefin 2025
Lleoliad:	DARTFORD, DA1 2DR
Cwmni:	Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust
Math o swydd:	Parhaol
Cyfeirnod swydd:	7202349/380-NK205

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Community Matron (Secondment) - Mental Health

Location:North Kent (DGS Services)Job Type:Full-time, 6-month Secondment

An exciting opportunity has arisen for aCommunity Matronto join our team in North Kent. This 6-month secondment role focuses on providingclinical governance for Mental Health Together and Crisis Serviceswithin DGS.

You'll embed learning from patient safety events, support CQC compliance, and drive patient safety and quality initiatives. We're looking for aRegistered Mental Health Nursewith sound clinical knowledge and excellent leadership and problem-solving skills. You'll build key relationships with internal and external partners, demonstrating a dynamic, "can-do" attitude.

Familiarity with community and inpatient mental health services is essential. You'll travel across North Kent services and be required to join the Manager on-call rota (including weekends/nights).

Working Hours:Monday - Friday, 09:00 - 17:00 (some flexibility required).
• The role of the matron is critical in ensuring that all service users experience the highest standards of clinical care. This will be achieved by a combination of a daily presence in teams, professional curiosity and expert knowledge in care delivery in their specific areas.
• They will be visible to service users and carers and be available to resolve issues that arise.
• They will provide clinical supervision to team managers and be sighted on local risks to local care delivery and have an ability to work collaboratively with others to put in plans to mitigate the risks.
• The post holder will take an facilitative and empowering approach, nurturing creativity and being open to doing things differently if the desired outcomes improves service user, carer and staff experience.
• They will work closely with other matrons, governance lead and officer to ensure that quality data is triangulated and validated.
• The post holder will seek to work with others to maximise digital solutions where possible.
• To be part of manager on call rota

Come and work with us in the Garden of England where we combine exceptional professional development opportunities with a tremendous quality of life.

We are Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust (KMPT), providing mental health, learning disability and specialist services, serving 1.8 million people in Kent and Medway, as well as specialist services for adults in Sussex and Surrey. We are rated Good overall by the CQC.

Each year we care for over 2,000 people in our hospitals and 54,000 people in the community.

We are proud to employ over 3,800 people from 66 nationalities, and to serve an increasingly diverse range of communities across rural and urban areas.

You will be joining friendly, passionate colleagues, rich in their diversity, who are committed to providing excellent care to our service users and their loved ones.

The nature of our work attracts kindness and compassion as standard and everyone from our cleaners and porters to the chief executive and chairman are recognised as playing a vital role in providing an exemplary service.

Our strategy

Our mission is what we set out to do every day
We deliver brilliant care through brilliant people

Our vision is where we want to be in the future
To provide outstanding care and to work in partnership to deliver this in the right place, for every service user, every time.

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The community matron is a crucial role to the success of the Trust. The post holder will ensure that the following fundamental and underlying activities are achieved:
• Leading by example & securing and assuring the highest standard of clinical care
• Ensuring staffing is appropriate to service user needs
• Ensuring service users’ physical health needs are met
• Empowering nurses to take on a wider range of clinical tasks
• Ensuring and improving the service user environment

At KMPT, we are serious about diversity and inclusion, and we are working hard to build this into our DNA. We warmly welcome applications for any of our roles from people from diverse backgrounds, and we are proactively encouraging applications from under-represented communities for our more senior roles, like this one.



What is High Cost Area Allowance?

The High-Cost Area (HCA) allowance, also referred to as London Weighting is a payment made to employees who work in London and the surrounding areas.

As this post is based in Dartford the successful applicant will receive an additional payment each month.
• 5% of basic salary, subject to a minimum payment of £1,258 per year and a maximum payment of £2,121 per year (the agreed annual amount will be divided into 12 equal amounts and paid monthly)

The salary listed is inclusive of the High-Cost Area Allowance.


This advert closes on Sunday 8 Jun 2025

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