Main area: Quality & Safety (Nurse/Midwife/AHP)
Grade: Band 8a
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week (37.5 hours over 5 shifts)
Job ref: 205-6637860
Site: Royal Stoke University hospital
Town: Stoke-on-Trent
Salary: £53,755 - £60,504 Per Annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 28/10/2024 23:59
Job overview
Reporting directly to the Head of Nursing Quality, Safety and Compliance, the Matron – Quality and Safety will be proactively involved with the Deputy Chief Nurse, Divisional Nurse Directors (DND’s) and Divisional Heads of Nursing (HoN’s), for the development and delivery of the Trust Quality Strategy and Care Excellence Framework. This will involve working with teams to ensure a sustained reduction of hospital acquired harm, particularly harm associated with lapses in care related to pressure ulcers, falls, hospital associated thrombosis (HAT’s), poor nutrition and catheter associated infections.
Main duties of the job
The Matron – Quality and Safety will work with other matron colleagues, Senior Sisters and Charge Nurses, Quality Nurses, Clinical Leads and other colleagues to champion and lead clinical quality and patient safety improvements, inspiring and enabling medical, nursing and allied health professionals as well as managerial colleagues to develop and maintain quality and safety measures and sustain improvements. They will work closely with the Head of Nursing Quality, Safety and Compliance to ensure that comprehensive mechanisms are in place to manage and measure quality, its assurance and improvement, enabling the Trust to excel in achieving best practice and continuous improvement against national and local standards and ensure that appropriate training is provided to clinical and managerial teams, as necessary.
Working for our organisation
The post holder will support the Deputy Chief Nurse and Head of Nursing - Quality, Safety and Compliance to develop and maintain strong working relationships with other health care providers, Integrated Care Board (ICB) Quality leads, CQC relationship managers and other organisations relevant to the work of the Trust within the patient safety and risk management agenda.
The post holder will deputise for the Head of Nursing – Quality, Safety and Compliance as required.
The post holder will be expected to participate in the Operational Matron of the Day rota, providing advice and support to Clinical and Operational Teams.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The Matron – Quality and Safety will support the Head of Nursing – Quality, Safety and Compliance to play a key role in supporting the Divisions to deliver their agreed objectives, targets and quality standards within the set resource controls and constraints and in line with the Trust wide vision and strategy. They will ensure that where nursing and midwifery practice standards fall short, appropriate plans and support are in place to secure improvements. The Matron – Quality and Safety will lead on the implementation, monitoring and delivery of the Trust Care Excellence Framework ensuring the framework supports the Trust to maintain high quality, safe patient care in line with the CQC quality statements.
Person specification
Education and Qualifications
* NMC/HCPC registered Nurse/AHP
* Educated to Masters level or equivalent experience
* Evidence of professional development
* Leadership course, module or qualification
Experience
* Experience of patient safety improvement projects in an acute provider setting
* Practical experience of change management or safety improvement
* Project Management Experience
Skills, ability and knowledge
* Compassionate leadership skills which promotes credibility with clinical teams
* Highly developed negotiating and influencing skills
* Knowledge of service improvement methodology/tools
Important information about your application
* All correspondence will be sent to you via the email address you applied from. Please ensure you check your emails regularly.
* References - please ensure you provide email addresses for all referees for the last three years of employment.
* We are committed to equality of opportunity and welcome applications from everyone regardless of ethnicity, disability, gender, age, faith or sexual orientation. Appointment will be based on merit alone.
* Flexible working will be considered in line with Trust policies.
* New recruits are required to pay for their Disclosure and Barring Service check (and admin fee) prior to starting if the role requires a DBS check.
University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust (UHNM) has been awarded the Gold Award for proudly supporting those who serve. We actively encourage applications from the Armed Forces community.
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.
Name: Rebecca Ferneyhough
Job title: Head of Nursing Quality, Safety and Compliance
Email address: Rebecca.Ferneyhough@uhnm.nhs.uk
Telephone number: 07881330921
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