Matron

Supporting people living with dementia, mental health issues and behaviours that may challenge

• The Matron is responsible for delivering high quality evidence-based practice

• The Matron is responsible for providing, receiving, and acting upon highly complex, highly sensitive and contentious information from a variety of sources including key stakeholders, both internal and external

• The Matron is accountable for the clinical care of the people we support at Towerview Care

• The Matron is the lead for Infection Prevention Control measures across the home

• The Matron will ensure that the quality of the people we support experience is improved by providing front line employees with the necessary guidance, mentoring and hands on support to prevent or to remedy shortcomings or failings in practice

• The Matron is responsible for developing and implementing NICE quality standards across the service by strengthening professional clinical leadership at team and organisational level

• The Matron will work with the Registered Manager, Qualified Nurses and Carers to monitor, challenge and improve the quality of care across the service

• They will be responsible for driving forward and sustaining meaningful changes to clinical care pathways enabling Towerview Care to become a Centre of Excellence with an important role in leading and co-ordinating the service improvement objectives of the services, taking into account the strategic aims and objectives of the Company.

• The Matron will be accountable for ensuring that effective communication pathways exist for the people we support, their relatives and friends and all members of the multi-disciplinary team, both internal and external to ensure the best possible experience is provided while accessing the service of Towerview Care.

• To participate in Towerview Care on call service.

• To deputise in the absence of the Registered Manager.

• To undertake clinical focussed investigations as requested