Ashford & St. Peter's Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
We are seeking a matron for General Surgery within the GSAC division.
The individual will join an established matron team led by the Divisional Chief Nurse and supported by a Head of Nursing. We are looking for someone with excellent management, communication, clinical, and leadership skills to support the workforce in GSACT.
In return, we can offer you a supportive leadership team and division where you can build your skills and gain further experience.
Main duties of the job
1. Support the Divisional Chief Nurse to integrate both corporate and divisional nursing plans focusing on quality and safety of nursing care, patient experience, and service improvement.
2. Be a visible, accessible senior leader in clinical areas, professionally representing the Division at all times.
3. Work alongside clinical teams as a senior nurse and provide experienced advice to ensure quality patient care and team support.
4. Focus on efficient, safe, and timely patient discharge, eliminating delay and inconvenience to patients, next of kin, and care discharge destinations.
5. Ensure all patients are treated with privacy, respect, and dignity throughout their stay, ensuring safety issues are prioritized and adhered to at all times.
6. Provide effective clinical leadership, expertise, advice, and support to the clinical teams and ensure best practice and the provision of high-quality care to patients, families, and carers.
7. Lead, support, develop, and strengthen the role of the unit/department managers and ensure that appropriate time is allocated to ward improvement, improving ward metrics and overseeing the management of staff and work rotas.
8. Ensure that practice standards are adhered to and that mandatory compliance is achieved and maintained.
About us
Ashford and St. Peters Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust serves a population of more than 410,000 people living in North-West Surrey, parts of Hounslow, and beyond.
Over 3,700 highly trained doctors, nurses, midwives, therapists, healthcare scientists, and other support staff make up our workforce, providing a wide range of services across our two hospital sites, Ashford, Surrey, and St Peter's, Chertsey, Surrey.
We also run many specialist clinics in the community and local community hospitals and other healthcare facilities.
Our vision is to be one of the best healthcare Trusts in the country. There has never been a better time to join us in the NHS at Ashford & St Peters Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust with our strong commitment to staff health and wellbeing. We are committed to providing continuous professional development, staff benefits, and flexibility to shape our workforce around our patient care.
Although it isn't the Trust's normal practice, adverts may close early, so applicants are encouraged to submit an application as soon as possible.
Job responsibilities
1. To be a highly competent, knowledgeable, and visible practitioner within the specialty ensuring that the provision of excellent evidence-based nursing care is available for patients, families, and carers.
2. Have daily contact with staff and undertake rounds to assess and respond to clinical priorities, patient and staff concerns.
3. To ensure that patients are assessed on a daily basis by a qualified nurse, and that their care is planned, implemented, and evaluated in negotiation with the family, and that this is accurately documented.
4. To work alongside all members of the team to identify new ways of working that ensure high quality of care is delivered by an educated team of nurses and Nurse Educators.
5. Accountable for achieving rigorous adherence to infection control safety practices including hand hygiene and universal precautions.
6. Liaise with clinical, non-clinical, and facilities staff in order to maintain a safe, friendly, and welcoming environment for patients, visitors, and staff.
7. To communicate complex and sensitive information effectively to patients and their families/carers, and other staff, overcoming barriers to understanding and providing support during distressing or emotional events.
8. Ensure effective communication between all members of the multidisciplinary team, other hospital departments, relatives, and visitors.
9. In conjunction with the Divisional Chief Nurse, Divisional Director, and Associate Director of Operations to identify, develop and monitor clinical and non-clinical performance standards, taking action as required.
10. To develop and maintain clinical skills and knowledge necessary to provide holistic, evidence-based nursing care. This includes completion of the Trust's clinical skills competency framework and expanded role responsibilities following appropriate training.
Person Specification
Attitude, Behaviour and Values
* Seeks out and takes opportunities for improving the service offered.
* Flexible in their attitudes and behaviours to support team working and delivery of objectives.
* Respects, values, and cares for others.
* Takes pride in their work and their team.
Qualifications and Further Training
* NMC Registered Nurse.
* Evidence of ongoing dynamic continuing professional development linked to demonstrable clinical competencies and academic studies.
* Possession of a relevant Honours degree or in the process of obtaining or working towards higher education.
* Leadership or management training.
* Assessing and mentoring qualification.
EXPERIENCE
* Post-registration experience within relevant clinical environment including time at Band 7 level.
* Experience of taking charge of a department and leading and managing a team.
* Previous experience of budget and financial management.
* Experience of handling clinical incidents and complaints.
KNOWLEDGE
* Trust vision, values, strategic objectives.
* Understanding of resource management, health and safety, clinical risk, and quality issues.
* Awareness of equality and diversity.
* Must be able to demonstrate that you have knowledge of your professional code of conduct and guidance issued by your professional body and that you adhere to these.
SKILLS
* You have a good understanding of their communication, physical & emotional needs; can identify their individual needs and preferences, their changing needs, and recognise and promote their independence.
* Excellent up to date clinical skills; excellent managerial, leadership, and organisational skills.
* Able to work across professional teams and organizational boundaries.
* Interviewing and appraisal skills.
* Ability to initiate, manage, and sustain change.
OTHER
* Ability to deal with conflict situations.
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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