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Kensington, SW5 0TU (5 mins walk from Earls Court underground or 7 mins walk from Gloucester Road underground)
Permanent Full Time
We make health happen.
At the Cromwell Hospital, you can be the nurse you want to be. With the autonomy to use your skills and strong benefits to support you, patient care can be your top priority. Building a nursing career in London has never been easier, with good hours, you can live a balanced, healthy lifestyle.
How you’ll help us make health happen.
The Deputy Matron for Medicine is an influential role and recognised as being crucial to the delivery of Cromwell Hospital’s Strategy.
You’ll support the Modern Matron with their key responsibilities and will manage the nurses across their areas, supporting the Team Leaders to provide safe staffing levels and high-quality nursing care. You will be a role model to your staff, highly visible in your areas ensuring a high level of professionalism is maintained.
What you’ll do:
1. Manage the ward/department, Team Leaders, and clinical nurse specialists in assessing the clinical skills required to deliver a safe and quality service.
2. Lead on identifying deficits and implement programmes to address the issues.
3. Using your knowledge and experience to work with the matron, drive up the standards of clinical care.
4. Provide strong leadership to your teams and ensure senior clinical presence on the ward/unit.
5. Manage quality improvement initiatives to drive up high quality clinical care.
6. Investigate complex incidents and identify and implement corrective action.
7. Act as a change agent and innovator, promoting an effective change culture within nursing teams.
8. Work with the Matron in the financial management of the service being aware of budgets and working within them.
Key Skills / Qualifications
1. Registered Nurse Adult/ RN (essential)
2. Teaching/assessing qualification (essential)
3. Evidence of significant clinical experience in medical area and ability to function at level required (essential)
4. Knowledge of NMC Codes and guidelines and their implications for practice
5. Management qualification or working towards obtaining one.
Our benefits are designed to make health happen for our people. Viva is our global wellbeing programme and includes all aspects of our health – from mental and physical, to financial, social, and environmental wellbeing. We support flexible working and have a range of family friendly benefits.
Joining Bupa in this role you will receive the following benefits and more:
1. Payment of Professional Registration fees
2. Equivalent to 25 days holiday per year, increasing through length of service, with option to buy or sell.
3. Bupa health insurance as a benefit in kind
4. An enhanced pension plan and life insurance
5. Support with travel costs via a season ticket loan or cycle2work
6. Discounted access to online gym sessions through Gympass
7. Various family friendly benefits
8. Free onsite massages as a recognition for your hard work
9. Opportunity to participate in our annual awards ceremony.
Why Bupa?
We’re a health insurer and provider. With no shareholders, our customers are our focus. Our people are all driven by the same purpose – helping people live longer, healthier, happier lives and making a better world. We make health happen by being brave, caring, and responsible in everything we do.
We encourage all our people to “Be you at Bupa”, we champion diversity, and we understand the importance of our people representing the communities and customers we serve. That’s why we especially encourage applications from people with diverse backgrounds and experiences.
Bupa is a Level 2 Disability Confident Employer. This means we aim to offer an interview/assessment to every disabled applicant who meets the minimum criteria for the role. We’ll make sure you are treated fairly and offer reasonable adjustments as part of our recruitment process to anyone that needs them.
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