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A healthcare provider in mental health is seeking a skilled Modern Matron in Bristol to lead a team and enhance service quality. This role requires proven leadership in mental health environments, particularly in forensic settings. Responsibilities include providing operational leadership, ensuring compliance with care standards, and fostering staff development. Ideal candidates will possess NMC registration and a management qualification. This position offers a competitive salary and the opportunity to make a significant impact in mental health services.
Employer Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust Employer type NHS Site Blackberry Hill Hospital Town Bristol Salary £55,690 - £62,682 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 17/02/2026 23:59
Are you looking for a new challenge? A new opportunity has come up in Secure Services, we are looking for a new Matron to join the team. Are you a great leader, hardworking and motivated to development our Forensic Mental Health service? Then this is the job for you.
This is a fantastic opportunity to further enhance the quality of the service delivered. We are looking for someone with knowledge and experience of leading a team, who can work creatively with staff to ensure an excellent service user journey/experience and work closely with Nursing and Quality. You need to be committed to looking at and supporting innovative ways of working, which includes quality improvement projects.
Applications are invited from motivated Mental Health Nurses at Band 7 and above to join Secure Services as a Modern Matron (Band 8A), promoting and supporting the provision of high quality mental health nursing care, excellent service user experience and development of outstanding nursing practice. This post offers a rare opportunity for someone to develop their experience/career in Forensic Mental Health.
The Modern Matron provides clinical and operational leadership, promoting the safe delivery of high quality and safe care, compliance with key performance indicators, regulatory compliance; supporting staff to achieve outstanding care through effective compassionate management. You will support best practice in Adult Safeguarding, working with the Multidisciplinary team, service users and carers to maintain a safe, person centred environment. You will be involved in projects, meetings and reviews.
Reporting to the Service Manager, you will also provide support and advice, as required, to the Head of Operations and Clinical Lead . You will liaise with other senior managers and professionals across the service as well as partnership agencies, other services within and outside of AWP as required.
To support you in this role, you will have regular supervision with the Service Manager. You will be supported to create a personal development plan.
This post will be responsible for 4 clinical areas within the MSU and LSU.
The service consists of two inpatient units: Fromeside has 81 beds across seven medium secure wards including 12 female beds and 8 LD/ASD places. Wickham has three wards with a total of 31 Low Secure beds. There is also a Primary Care Centre and a Central Security team. There are three community services: Specialist Community Forensic Team (SCFT), Forensic Intellectual Neuropsychiatric and Development Disorders (FIND) Team and Secure Community Social Care Team.
We are AWP (Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust) a diverse organisation with over 5,000 dedicated staff providing inpatient and community-based mental health care.
We provide services from a range of locations to approximately 1.8 million people living in Bath and North East Somerset (B&NES), Bristol, North Somerset, South Gloucestershire, Swindon, across the county of Wiltshire and in parts of Dorset.
Our outstanding people promote mental health and wellbeing. The expertise and resources within AWP are dedicated to a person-centred approach for those who use our services and for all employees. We recognise that happy and fulfilled employees give better care.
At AWP we actively encourage applicants from all backgrounds; we are particularly keen to encourage applications from people from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds, those with disabilities and from the LGBTQ+ community. We want people to bring their unique blend of experiences, backgrounds, perspectives and knowledge to AWP, as diversity makes us stronger.
To play a key leadership role in the delivery of high quality care for their area of responsibility, resolving operational issues, focusing on service user safety and quality improvement by:
Being visible, accessible, showing strong clinical leadership and being a positive role model.
Support Ward Managers in their role and 24 hours accountability, coaching and supervising and identifying areas for development
Work with Ward Managers to identify appropriate staffing levels to meet changing needs ensuring balanced resource management
Ensuring effective action is taken where nursing performance is at risk of falling below expected levels and standards are not maintained.
Ensure systems and processes are followed to ensure the continuity of safe and effective care at all times contributing to review and development of local policies an protocols
Drive infection prevention and control agenda and challenge poor practice
Manage and respond to complaints and adverse incidents as required ensuring teams receive appropriate support/debrief
Support Ward Managers through staff sickness and disciplinary processes
Carry out a root cause analysis following a serious incident, developing action plans alongside the Ward Manager
Provide reports to Senior Management team as required, undertake root cause analysis and develop and action plans
Through established meetings and processes, maintain effective communication with patients, relatives and staff to contribute to the active resolution of potentially complex situations, conflicts and issues
In conjunction with the Senior Leadership/Management Teams, participate in monitoring and maintaining excellent clinical standards within clinical teams
See Job Description for full details
We are proud to be fostering a diverse workforce that reflects our communities. A key commitment to this is improving staff representation from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic communities, those from the LGBTQ+ communities, people with ‘lived-experience’ of mental health conditions and people living with disabilities,– we are a ‘Disability Confident Employer’ offering a guaranteed interview to Disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria. This includes people with a variety of disabilities and neurodivergent conditions (for example autism, ADHD, sensory, physical and learning disabilities).
We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service users.
Please apply to join us, we would love to hear from you. Any personal details you supply to us are kept safe in line with the General Data Protection Regulations.
Adverts normally close for application a few minutes before midnight on the closing date and we will let you know if we are offering you an interview by email via our recruitment system ‘TRAC’. We contact all applicants within 4 weeks after the closing date, so please check your emails regularly once you have submitted your application; you are welcome to contact us, via the TRAC system, if you have any queries about your application.
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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.
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Name Becky Wood Job title Service Manager Email address becky.wood5@nhs.net Telephone number 0117 3784017 Additional information
If you would like to find out more or arrange an informal visit please contact Becky Wood, Service Manager on 0117 3784017 or at becky.wood5@nhs.net