Main area Community Care Coordination (Single Point of Access)
Grade Band 8a
Contract Permanent
Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week (On call requirement)
Job ref 225-Div3-6718016-A
Employer The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust
Employer type NHS
Site University of Wolverhampton Science Park
Town Wolverhampton
Salary £53,755 - £60,504 per annum
Salary period Yearly
Closing 26/02/2025 23:59
Matron
Band 8a
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has become available within the specialty of Community Care Coordination - the Single Point of Access for Adult Community Services.
We are seeking a Matron to lead and ensure delivery of safe and effective services. Working across community and acute services providing support in the development of robust safe pathways and ensuring patients have the right access to right services at the right time.
The role will offer an opportunity to be integral to the ever growing transformation and redesign of community services to meet the needs of our population and looking at new ways to support people to be cared for in the community. You will need to have a passion for avoiding unnecessary hospital admissions and a drive to work with stakeholders across the system to develop services.
You will need to demonstrate proven managerial and leadership skills, strategic thinking, and quality improvement experience. You will be working in an established leadership team within a Community Directorate and have access to development opportunities, including a supportive environment to help you harness your potential.
Main duties of the job
1. To lead one of the community services portfolios and further evolve the team in line with the NHS long term plan, winter planning, place workstreams and hospital avoidance agenda.
2. The Matron/ Clinical Lead will be expected to work collaboratively with multiple internal and external stakeholders to further enhance the service and team as a whole.
3. Ensure the team functions to the highest standard ensuring safe and high quality care is delivered in a responsive way.
4. Ensuring performance and governance is maintained effectively at all times.
Working for our organisation
The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust is one of the largest NHS trusts in the West Midlands providing primary, acute and community services and we are incredibly proud of the diversity of both our staff and the communities we serve. We are building a workforce that can help us to fulfil our values, improve the quality of care for patients, and solve the health care problems of tomorrow. We’re passionate about the value that diversity of thinking and lived experience brings in enabling us to become a learning organisation and leader in delivering compassionate care for our patients.
We are delighted that we have been rated as “Good” by CQC. We have achieved numerous awards; The Nursing Times Best Diversity and Inclusion Practice and Best UK Employer of the Year for Nursing Staff in 2020.
The Trust is a supportive working environment committed to creating flexible working arrangements that suit your needs and as such will consider all requests from applicants who wish to work flexibly.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please refer to job description and person specification for a full detail of role and responsibilities.
Person specification
Driving licence
* Driving Licence & Car
Leadership Experience
* Substantial experience in a leadership role
* Community Experience
* Leadership modules
Qualifications
Please be advised that if the post that you are applying for requires any level of qualification (e.g. A-Levels, Degree etc) or Professional Registration (e.g. Nursing and Midwifery Council, General Medical Council etc) you will be required to provide proof as part of the pre-employment process. By submitting your application you are giving the Trust permission to check the qualification certificates provided back to the source provider. Please note that a sample of all applicant’s qualifications will be checked with the educational institution or provider.
Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. As of 1 January 2021, free movement ended and the UK introduced a points-based immigration system.
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.
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