Job summary
This role is only open to applicants that currently work within an NHS Trust within the Hampshire and Isle of Wight Integrated Care System (HIOW ICS).
An opportunity has arisen for an experienced and dedicated surgical nurse to join our team. Your leadership will guarantee the delivery of high quality care from admission to discharge. Within the principles of the Modern Matron framework, your key role will be to ensure clinical quality standards are consistently achieved, by providing inspirational and visible clinical leadership to both the emergency and elective surgical pathways and to the Business Unit, supporting them in assuring the delivery of a contemporary, high quality, safe, effective and evidenced based care. Working with other Clinical Matrons, colleagues and other key staff within the Division and across the Trust as the custodian of patient experience, you will ensure patients, staff and the Trust have confidence in your area of responsibility.
Main duties of the job
What we look for:
1. Relevant qualifications with sufficient experience of providing innovative leadership to creating an environment which is always improving and which puts the patient first.
2. High levels of organisational and prioritisation skills with a resourceful and professional approach to work.
3. Demonstration of excellent interpersonal and communication skills with the ability to develop and maintain relationships with a variety of clinical and non-clinical staff.
4. Compassionate leadership to ensure the development and sustainability of high performing teams.
5. Broad clinical understanding and experience to ensure breadth of knowledge enabling resourcefulness, resilience and clinical leadership.
6. Drive and ambition with a will to succeed.
The Clinical Matron will have enhanced surgical clinical skills and provide clinical expertise both within their own clinical environment and across the organisation as necessary to support the Organisational Strategy in the achievement of professional, operational and clinical governance objectives. This will involve being responsible for the development and implementation of service improvement and/ or policies in their area of expertise. The Clinical Matron will work closely with clinicians, OSMs and Divisional Chief Nursing team to provide day to day professional leadership with a significant focus on improving the experience and care for patients.
About us
Our vision is to provide outstanding care for every patient. Patient care is at the heart of what we do at our three sites: Basingstoke and North Hampshire Hospital, Royal Hampshire County Hospital in Winchester and Andover War Memorial Hospital. Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides medical and surgical services to a population of approximately 600,000 people across Hampshire and parts of West Berkshire.
Our cultural ambition is to have a culture that places people at the heart of all we do, where we all belong, and where learning, improvement and excellence thrive.
We provide specialist services to people across the UK and internationally. We are one of only two centres in the UK treating pseudomyxoma peritonei (a rare form of abdominal cancer) and we are leaders in the field of tertiary liver cancer and colorectal cancer.
The trust employs more than 9,000 staff and has a turnover of over £500 million a year. As a Foundation Trust, we are directly accountable to our members through the governors. The Council of Governors represent the interests of their constituencies and influence the future plans of the Foundation Trust.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Happy to Talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible and part time working will be considered.
Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached.
Person Specification
Training & Qualification
Essential
7. Up to date clinical professional registration
8. Leadership qualification
Desirable
9. Masters Degree
Skills & Ability
Essential
10. To work in partnership with the multidisciplinary team
11. Experience of managing a large team
12. Budget responsibility
13. Experienced Surgical Nurse - having held a B7 surgical position
Experience & Knowledge
Essential
14. Minimum of 5 years' experience post registration
15. Elective & Emergency surgery experience
16. Good understanding of quality, safety and risk management
Desirable
17. QI Course
Clinical experience in T&O
Essential
18. Significant experience in order to drive service improvement