Cambridge University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
An excellent opportunity has become available at Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust to join our Team as a Band 8a Matron.
The post covers the Adult and Paediatric Emergency Departments and Urgent Treatment Centre. You will work with a team of three Matrons supported by the Senior Management Team.
We seek a highly skilled leader with a background in Emergency Care and Clinical Leadership. The candidate should be a positive and visible role model who can influence best practices in the Emergency Department.
The ability to lead a team through challenging situations will be an asset while ensuring safe, high-quality, cost-effective care, supporting compliance with emergency care standards, and maintaining patient flow at the divisional and Trust levels.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will:
1. Provide daily professional and managerial leadership, ensuring safe, high-quality, cost-effective care while maintaining compliance with emergency professional standards.
2. Demonstrate expert clinical knowledge by being visible and accessible and using appropriate clinical skills within the workplace.
3. Share our vision to provide consistently exemplary service and outstanding care to our patients.
4. Hold Senior Sisters/Charge Nurses accountable for their assigned responsibilities.
5. Work with the Divisional Senior Management and Operations Manager Team to ensure effective and efficient management to meet agreed targets.
6. Be responsible for supporting the flow and capacity management across the ED and the department/trust initiatives.
7. Ensure a robust monitoring and evaluation system is in place to meet the fundamental and specialist aspects of care to achieve key performance indicators goals. This includes ensuring a safe waiting room and that long-stay patients receive basic care.
8. Ensure the services provided meet the diverse needs of the population.
9. Provide leadership coverage of the adult and paediatric Emergency Departments.
10. Consistently demonstrate the Trust's core values of Safe, Kind and Excellent.
About us
Come Nurse with us...
Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest teaching Trusts in the country. It comprises Addenbrooke's Hospital and the Rosie Hospital. We provide accessible high-quality healthcare for the local people of Cambridge and regional and national specialist services. It's a great place to nurse, work and live.
You will work on a vibrant hospital campus with a friendly community feel; we have excellent facilities to practice your skills and abilities to support your career pathway and development. Our values of Together - Safe, Kind, Excellent support the delivery of outstanding care. We have a fully electronic patient record system that is improving healthcare quality; this is transforming services, improving patient safety and clinical outcomes.
Why choose Cambridge University Hospitals?
* Our values and reputation for outstanding care
* Opportunities to experience a range of specialties
* Career and development opportunities
* Preceptorship and mentoring programmes delivered by a dedicated clinical education support team
* Research experience and opportunities
* Lovely location and quality of life
* Excellent schools/colleges and transport links (road, rail and air)
Job responsibilities
Please see the attached Applicant Information Pack (combined Job Description and Person Specification) for key duties and responsibilities.
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This vacancy will close at midnight on 23 January 2025. Interviews are due to be held on 4 February 2025.
Benefits to you
At Cambridge University Hospitals, we want to do all we can to support good working days. We offer development opportunities and a wide range of benefits, including on-site leisure facilities, shopping concourse and day nurseries. Our good work programme currently includes providing reduced cost Stagecoach bus travel to and from Cambridge University Hospital site. Park and Ride bus journeys between Babraham Road and Trumpington sites are free, as is the route to and from Cambridge train station and our hospitals. We also subsidise the cost of parking on site for eligible staff.
On CUH campus, hot food is available 24/7 and at a reduced cost for colleagues. Recently we launched the first of our staff pod break spaces. Located in the Deakin Centre, we have a purpose-created colleague-only café, with free tea and coffee, a break space and private outside area for colleagues to rest, refuel and recharge. Just one of the ways we are working hard to support good working days at CUH.
CUH is committed to assisting employees in achieving a good work-life balance irrespective of role or personal circumstances. Flexible arrangements may include, but are not limited to, part-time working, job-share, term-time working and flexible start and finish times.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Current and relevant NMC registration
* First level registered nurse
* Teaching and assessing qualification
* Degree in health-related subject
* Evidence of continuous professional development
* Evidence of masters level study
* Recent attendance on leadership programme
Experience
* Significant experience managing a ward/unit
* Broad senior clinical and managerial experience relevant to the post
* Success in working collaboratively across professions and services
* Demonstrable success in managing change
* Experience with the introduction of evidence-based practice
* Project management
* Emergency Department Experience.
* Experience obtained in more than one clinical setting
* Research experience
Knowledge
* Clinical practice and demonstrable knowledge of developments in nursing policy and practice
* Good understanding of risk and clinical governance
* Understanding of the political context for UK healthcare, including active long term plans for the NHS
* Workforce planning, recruitment and retention
* Ability to operationalise strategies
Skills
* Highly effective leadership skills and ability to motivate
* Excellent communications skills (interpersonal, negotiation, liaison, written and presentation skills)
* Budget management
* Developing and implementing policies, guidelines and projects from initiation to completion
* Computer literate in basic programmes, i.e. word, PowerPoint and excel
* Ability to prioritise, meet tight deadlines and work independently
* Commitment to openness, honesty and integrity in undertaking the role
Additional Requirements
* The ability to understand and behave at all times, towards patients, visitors and colleagues according to the Trust values of safe, kind, excellent.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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