A Vacancy at University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust.
University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust is delighted to offer a fantastic opportunity to work with us.
Please see below for a detailed job description of the role.
Open only to applicants from Hampshire & Isle of Wight NHS Integrated Care System, which is limited to:
Hampshire and Isle of Wight ICB, Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust, Isle of Wight NHS Trust, University Hospital Southampton FT, Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS FT, South Central Ambulance Service, or Hampshire Hospitals FT.
The Southampton Children's Hospital team are delighted to be able to offer a fantastic opportunity to join our team as Lead Matron.
If you are an experienced and dedicated individual looking to join a highly ambitious and caring team, then we would love to hearing from.
Southampton Children's Hospital supports families with emergency care needs, highly specialist treatments and pioneering care with an excellent national and international reputation.
We deliver our local and specialist services through 10 wards including a Paediatric Intensive Care Unit and High Dependency Unit, an Outpatient Department, Day Unit and Specialist Centre. We have a strong team of specialist nurses and advanced nurse practitioners. Educational development is key to our Hospital and we have a dedicated educational workforce to help us achieve this.
This role as Lead Matron has direct line management responsibilities which includes a team of Matrons and Specialist Nurses.
The role provides both strategic and clinical leadership for all of our Paediatric specialist surgical and medical services.
University Hospital Southampton is one of England's largest acute teaching Trusts, offering a wide range of learning and development opportunities to support your career aspirations.
Located on the south coast with an international airport and direct rail links to London, Southampton offers an ideal setting to live and work, with the New Forest, South Downs and Jurassic Coast.
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At UHSwe’re committed to providing a flexible working environment where possible. Whether you are balancing family, study, or your wellbeing with your career, we want to support you so you can help our patients.
At UHS, we proudly champion individuality, recognizing that outstanding care is only possible with a diverse, inclusive team. We’re committed to creating an anti-racist, anti-discriminatory environment where everyone feels valued, safe, and empowered to make a meaningful impact in our communities. We welcome applicants of all backgrounds, identities, and experiences to join us in building a healthcare community where everyone can belong, thrive, and contribute.
The successful applicant will Lead a team of Matrons working within the Children’s Hospital.
Each matron has their own responsibilities, focusing on upholding highest quality standards across the operational and clinical aspects of care we provide.
The Matrons work closely with the Divisional Head of Nursing and Professions to uphold the Trust values of Patients First, Working Together and Always Improving. As well as supporting the Care Group Manager and multi-professional teams to ensure high quality care is continually provided to our patients and their families.
Your key role will be to ensure the highest clinical quality standards are achieved consistently by providing inspirational and visible leadership to the nursing teams. Supporting them in the delivery of compassionate, high quality, safe and effective nursing care.
You should be able to demonstrate excellent interpersonal and communication skills and can forge and maintain relationships with a variety of clinical and non-clinical staff.
We are looking for a candidate educated to degree level or with relevant experience. You will need to have strong communication, analysis and organisational skills and be able to work autonomously as part of the senior leadership team.
This role includes contributing to the Matron on-call service and Matron of the day provision.
Main duties of the job:
• To provide clinical, professional and managerial leadership across the Care Group.
• To be the nursing/allied health professional lead, providing a strong clinical presence and developing nurses and nursing/allied health professional practice within the care group, assuring the provision of a safe, effective and evidence-based nursing service to patients.
• To be a core member of the Care Group Management team, supporting the Care Group and Division in achieving its plans, ensuring that the Care Group can meet its agreed targets within the available resources. Actively support the team objectives by developing services and leading Care Group or Divisional projects to influence service redesign. Lead and participate in projects and areas of work, which reflect clinical, professional and corporate objectives.
• To be the Care Group lead for Patient and Public Involvement
• To be accountable for all aspects of the nursing related budgets within the Care Group.
• To work in partnership with the designated lead clinician to ensure accountability on quality performance indicators.
This advert closes on Monday 17 Feb 2025