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Job overview
Band 8a Clinical Inpatient Services Matron
Fixed Term: 12 Months
We are looking for an experienced midwife looking for a new and exciting challenge to join our existing team of matrons in leading our Inpatient maternity Service at our Basingstoke acute site.
If you are an existing band 8a looking for a change or a band 7 looking for your next role, we offer extensive training and development.
You should be experienced in managing a team and have held a previous role including line management duties.
You will be expected to contribute to the Matron on Call roster every 8 weeks.
Main duties of the job
The Clinical Matron for Inpatient Services (CM) has 24-hour accountability for the postnatal and antenatal ward. Within this remit they will provide clinical, professional, and managerial leadership positively impacting on the quality of care, culture of the workforce, staff engagement, efficiency, effectiveness and performance of their area.
The CM will be responsible for ensuring patients receive high quality, evidenced based compassionate care.
The CM will be responsible for ensuring that staff are supported and developed to deliver high quality care in accordance with the Trust values.
The CM will have enhanced 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.
Whilst working closely with the multi-disciplinary team you will provide a significant focus on improving the experience and care for women, be responsible for development and implementation of service improvement and have 24-hour accountability for all inpatient services and ward areas.
Working for our organisation
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.
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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see attached job description and person specification for further details.
For questions or more information please contact Hayley Jones on Hayley.Jones@hhft.nhs.uk
Person specification
Training and Qualifications
Essential criteria
* Registered Midwife
* Evidence of CPD
* Mentorship qualification or equivalent (i.e. PS/PA)
* Quality Improvement training at Bronze level (or equivalent)
Desirable criteria
* Educated to Masters level
* Leadership qualification
* Quality Improvement training at Silver level (or equivalent)
Experience and Knowledge
Essential criteria
* Minimum of 5 years post registration experience
* Previous experience of leading a team
* Previous experience of quality improvement
Desirable criteria
* Experience of managing a team
* Experience of managing a budget
Skills and Ability
Essential criteria
* Passionate about the provision of excellent patient care with the ability to ensure that the delivery of care by all staff is of the highest standard and appropriate in meeting the needs and expectations of the patients and their relatives
* To work in partnership with the multidisciplinary team
* Advanced clinical expertise in chosen field with the proven ability to fully understand the context in which complex problems arise and to co-ordinate multi-disciplinary unit wide interventions, often looking at problems from a unique or different angle
* Understanding of effective clinical governance, audit, performance, and quality indicators
Our commitment to you:
We are committed to equality and diversity in both the provision of our services and how we recruit and manage our staff. Applications are encouraged from everyone with the necessary attributes for the job, irrespective of age, disability, gender reassignment, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity.
Happy to Talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible and part time working will be considered.
The paperwork:
* HHFT is committed to putting the safety and care of our patients first - as well as helping us to protect you and your colleagues. Therefore, we would recommend that you are vaccinated against COVID-19 and that you understand that we are treating COVID-19 positive patients within our services.
* Shortlisted candidates will be contacted at least 5 working days before the scheduled interview date. Applications will be submitted directly into our preferred third party recruitment system (Trac). All subsequent information regarding your application will be generated from apps.trac.jobs via email - please ensure to check your junk/spam folders.
* All new staff will be subject to a probationary period covering their first six months in post.
* In compliance with Part 7 of the Immigration Act 2016, all applicants must be able to communicate fluently in English to an appropriate standard which will be assessed as part of the selection process.
* This vacancy may close before the current listed closing date. If you intend to apply you are advised not to delay submitting your completed application.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
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.
Documents to download
* Inpatient Matron (PDF, 568.7KB)
* HHFT Employee Rewards & Benefits (PDF, 723.8KB)
* Tackling Climate Change at Hampshire Hospitals (PDF, 4.9MB)
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