Employer: Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Aintree
Town: Liverpool
Salary: £53,755 - £60,504
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 30/12/2024 23:59
Band 8a
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced nurse leader to join the medicine leadership team as Matron for Gastroenterology. We are looking for an enthusiastic, forward-thinking senior nurse with a passion for quality and safety and the drive and commitment to lead in accordance with the Trust values.
You will be joining a passionate, cohesive, and supportive team with areas of outstanding practice in a busy, fast-paced environment offering the opportunity to lead, innovate, and showcase.
This opportunity is a 3-month secondment in the first instance. Applicants will require the support of their line manager prior to application.
We are keen to appoint immediately, and therefore the ability to join the team without delay is required. Please note, there is a requirement for the successful candidate to commence in post by the start of December - please consider this and ensure this is supported before applying.
Main duties of the job
You will join the Medicine Divisional Leadership Team as Matron and be accountable for overseeing the performance of your wards and departments against key indicators and measures of quality, safety, people, finance, and clinical effectiveness.
You should be a Registered Nurse with demonstrable leadership experience at Band 7. You should have a keen interest in leading your teams in providing high-quality, harm-free, patient-centered care in a busy, fast-paced, ever-changing, and often challenging environment.
For this role, you will need to demonstrate excellent communication skills and possess the ability to lead teams effectively. As a Matron, you must display a positive and professional manner, have a non-judgmental attitude, and be flexible and open to change.
You will also participate in the Matron of the day and Clinical Management rotas (after a period of support and shadowing) and play an active role in patient flow, Governance, and financial management for your areas of responsibility.
In return, you will receive support to develop personally and professionally and gain invaluable leadership and management experience.
Working for our organisation
Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust comprises Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital & Royal Liverpool University Hospital. We are part of NHS University Hospitals of Liverpool Group, formed on 1 Nov 2024 from the coming together of LUHFT and Liverpool Women’s NHS Foundation Trust. The Group was born from a shared aim to improve the care we provide our patients.
UHLG is one of the largest employers in the region, with over 16,800 colleagues dedicated to caring for our communities - from birth and beyond. For the 630,000 people across Merseyside, we are their local NHS. We provide general and emergency hospital care, alongside highly specialized regional services for more than two million people in the North West.
Aintree University Hospital is the single receiving site for adult major trauma patients in Cheshire and Merseyside and hosts a number of regional services including an award-winning stroke facility. Broadgreen Hospital is home to elective surgical, diagnostic and treatment services, together with specialist patient rehabilitation. Liverpool Women’s Hospital specializes in the health of women and babies, delivering over 7,200 babies in the UK’s largest single-site maternity hospital each year. The Royal Liverpool University Hospital is the largest hospital in the country to provide inpatients with 100% single bedrooms and focuses on complex planned care and specialist services.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For the main responsibilities, please see the job description and person specification attached to this vacancy.
Person specification
Qualifications
* Clinical Professional Qualification. Degree level or equivalent
* Significant evidence of post-registration continued professional development, working towards a master's
* Evidence of Leadership development
* Post-graduate/registration Management or Training qualification /equivalent
Experience
* Demonstrable extensive experience as a clinical manager, with responsibility for clinical quality, people management, budget responsibility, and successful delivery of performance targets and quality standards within strict financial controls
* Demonstrate the ability to maintain high standards of care and team management over a sustained period.
Knowledge
* Key issues and pace of change facing the NHS nationally and locally assess and describe impact on Nursing/clinical professional service.
* Knowledge and understanding of the NHS policy and regulatory policy
* Understanding and appreciation of diversity
* Knowledge and understanding of computerized financial, management, budgetary management, and workforce information systems
* Knowledge and understanding of governance arrangements and standards in the NHS and the wider health and social care economy
Skills
* Coaching & values-led leadership style, encouraging engagement and empowerment among staff and stakeholders, and in developing high-performing teams
* A high level of communication skills, to include but not exclusively, mediation, negotiation, consultation, facilitation, presentation, training, and coaching skills using well-developed interpersonal skills to influence, inform, reconcile differences, and resolve conflicts.
* Demonstrate the ability to lead and implement quality improvement strategies.
* Solve difficult problems, using a solution-focused approach demonstrating competent persuasive and influencing skills
* Research information and use audit skills to apply findings to influence practice and develop business cases/plans.
* Analyze data and information, including preparing responses to issues, weighing risks, and forming judgments often within tight timescales
* Competently implement business plans, business cases, and project plans in order to deliver the Clinical Service Strategy for the area
* Coordinate area day-to-day clinical operational activity to meet challenging performance targets within tight financial controls
* Implement policy and implementation plans to deliver the clinical strategy and plans ensuring successful implementation
* IT literate and able to use standard office software and bespoke systems.
* Imaginative and innovative in developing new ways of working in meeting patient care and service needs
* Cope with competing priorities and a demanding workload
* Deal with uncertainty in a political environment
* Work in an environment with frequent interruptions, and within stressful, unpredictable situations including responding to and solving urgent and emergency situations day to day
* Demonstrate competent project management skills
Please ensure you check the email account (including junk/spam boxes) from which you apply regularly as we will use this to contact you regarding your application.
Posts advertised to ‘internal staff’ are open to employees of hospitals within University Hospitals of Liverpool Group and you should confirm your employment within your application form.
Only those applicants who demonstrate clearly how they meet our person specification will be shortlisted for interview.
The Trust is committed to promoting a healthy work-life balance and achieve fair, equitable, and consistent practice. We welcome flexible working requests and will consider a variety of flexible working arrangements from day one of your employment. Not all roles are suitable for every flexible working opportunity all of the time. Flexible working options may include reduced hours, compressed hours, fixed shifts, time back in lieu, and home working.
The Trust is committed to promoting equality and diversity; we value the contribution of individual talent, skills, knowledge, and experience and aim for a workforce demography representative of the local community. We encourage applicants from the following groups that are currently under-represented in our workforce: black, Asian and minority ethnic, lesbian, gay, bisexual and Transgender (LGBTQ+), disabled, male and age 16-24.
The Trust reserves the right to close any vacancies from further applications when we have received a minimum number of applications from which to make a shortlist. Please ensure you apply without delay if you wish to be considered for this role.
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