Job overview
Matron – Children & Obstetric Theatres and Children’s Surgery
Barts Health are delighted to offer the opportunity to work within the Children’s Division of the Royal London Hospital as Matron for Children’s and Obstetric Theatres and surgery. Working within our World Class Children’s hospital, you will be responsible for the leadership and development of our world renowned surgical and theatre departments, including our new high dependency step down area and our large day care unit.
We are committed to providing an excellent place to work. You will be supported by a diverse matron and senior nurse peer group and have opportunities to develop your professional leadership skills as part of our well-established learning and development department.
Barts Health NHS Trust is one of the largest acute and community practices in the UK. We recognise the growing needs of the children from the vibrant part of East London and are committed to delivering excellence in specialist treatment, research, education, and care for children. We offer a wide range of acute and specialist services.
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Main duties of the job
The post holder will have overall accountability for the day-to-day management of the nursing/midwifery service across all the departments they are responsible for. The post holder will practice at an advanced level demonstrating a high level of autonomy and clinical decision-making. They will work as a highly specialised member of the interprofessional team to ensure that the needs of the patient are always met, and that staffing is at an appropriate level to meet patient needs. They will be accessible and visible to staff, patients and visitors, providing professional and clinical leadership within Children and Young People’s Services at RLH. This includes Children’s and Obstetric Theatres, Children’s Surgery, Children’s Recovery, Children’s Pre-operative Assessment Unit, Children’s Day care Ward 6B and 7F ward including the Monitored Bay.
Working for our organisation
Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain’s leading healthcare providers.
The Barts Health group of NHS hospitals is entering an exciting new era on our improvement journey to becoming an outstanding organisation with a world-class clinical reputation. Having lifted ourselves out of special measures, we now have the impetus and breathing space to chart a fresh course in which we are continually striving to improve all our services for patients.
Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time. It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.
We strive to live by our WeCare values and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. For both documents, please view the attachment/s below.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
1. Registered nurse [Child]
2. Degree / masters or equivalent experience
3. Degree/diploma/experience in relevant health area
4. mentorship course
5. Evidence of knowledge of managing people and services acquired through training and experience.
6. Knowledge of service improvement methodologies.
7. Evidence of continued professional. Development.
Desirable criteria
8. Leadership Course/Development Programme
Experience & Skills
Essential criteria
9. The ability to provide nursing leadership and advice within the service and to lead and motivate staff.
10. Skills in conducting research
11. The ability to hold staff to account for the quality of care delivered to patients.
12. The ability to apply flexibility to working practice to meet needs of service users and changes in service models.
13. Ability of effective caseload management, incorporating planning and prioritising workload of self and others.
14. The ability to monitor and evaluate the quality-of-service provision using performance data and implement necessary changes.
15. Ability to lead, prepare agendas, chair, communicate decisions and information whilst working effectively within a multi-professional multi-agency environment.
16. The ability to promote collaborative working partnerships with other agencies, problem solving and resolving conflict when needed.
17. The ability and motivation to work creatively and positively with practitioners from other disciplines and agencies.
18. Ability to review current service delivery and identify opportunities to minimise waste and ineffectual working practices.
19. Skills in IT and maintaining accurate data.
Desirable criteria
20. Can translate the trusts strategic objectives into tangible objectives for teams.
Personal & people development & leadership
Essential criteria
21. Demonstrates a commitment to encourage others to get the best of team members to achieve the best results.
22. Can empathise whilst considering the needs and feelings of others, whilst identifying their and your own emotions, prejudices, and behaviours.
23. Is confident in own ability-particularly in relation to decision making and is resilient when dealing with complex situations.
24. Engages with others proactively to achieve objectives and get results.
25. Actively creates opportunities to enable everyone to learn from each other and from external good practice.
26. Can value respect and promote equality and diversity and understands the requirements of equality and diversity within the service area.
27. Has experience of clinically supervising and appraising staff whilst absorbing and dealing constructively with criticism and seek support as necessary.
28. Can meet own responsibilities and commitments to a consistently high standard.
29. Can identify own emotions, prejudices and understand how these can affect their judgement and behaviour.
30. Can meet their responsibilities and commitments to a consistently high standard.
31. Can absorb and deal constructively with criticism and seek support as necessary.
Specific Requirements
Essential criteria
32. Clinical skills and knowledge obtained through experience of working within a busy Children’s Department.
33. Developed communication skills, both verbal, written and presentation.
Other
Essential criteria
34. Willingness to always personally develop and further research.