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.
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.
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 and will be expected to participate in the Operational Matron of the Day rota, providing advice and support to Clinical and Operational Teams.
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.
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