Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
We are seeking an experienced and dynamic Matron to join UEC team within the Medicine Division at Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. This is an exciting opportunity for a dedicated leader to shape the future of Emergency Care within our progressive team.
As Matron, you will provide clinical, professional, and managerial leadership, ensuring the highest standards of patient care across our services. You will lead and support nursing and allied health professional teams, oversee service delivery, and drive quality improvement initiatives to enhance patient outcomes.
If you have the knowledge, experience, and determination to help shape the future of Emergency Care at our Trust, we want to hear from you. This is your chance to make a real impact--join us in delivering outstanding care and exemplary patient experiences.
Additional working pattern: Choice to work a 9 day fortnight
Main duties of the job
1. Provide transformational leadership by facilitating all specialities in their portfolio to follow the Pathway to Excellence principles and in turn deliver structural empowerment, continual exemplary professional practice along with innovation & improvements.
2. To work in alignment with the Matron handbook (NHS England and NHS improvement 2020) ensuring focus on all elements outlined in this document Matron's Handbook.
3. To provide compassionate leadership through being visible, accessible, authoritative and influential. They will be a presence to who staff, patients, families and carers can rely, to ensure the fundamentals of care are delivered effectively and efficiently.
4. To promote a workforce environment where staff feel they are autonomous, in control with a sense of belonging as well as the competence to deliver safe and quality clinical care.
5. Provide professional and inclusive leadership to nurses, midwives and ward managers, acting as a role model within the Division and the Trust ensuring that competence in managerial and clinical practice is both developed and maintained as well as offering opportunities to all.
About us
Here at Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and within the Medical Matron team, our patients and staff are at the heart of everything we do. We will provide you with a supportive environment which allows you to professionally develop and contribute to exemplary professional practice.
In addition, you will work in partnership with a key range of stakeholders to enhance your understanding of the team and how your role supports local and organisational strategies.
Job responsibilities
For a comprehensive list of responsibilities and duties, please kindly refer to the Job Description and Person Specification by downloading the JD and PS attachment in the advert.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Active registration with the NMC
* Evidence of ongoing professional development though maintenance of professional portfolio and registration revalidation
* United Kingdom recognised Degree in Nursing
* Masters Level Study or willingness to undertake
Qualities/Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
* Able to prioritise own workload and that of others as appropriate
* Personally resilient and able to manage complexity and work in an ambiguous or changing environment.
* Excellent presentational, communication and interpersonal skills
* Demonstrates ability to maintain and contribute to the development of standards of practice, conduct or decision making in conjunction with team, senior nurses, Specialty and Divisional Triumvirate
* Demonstrates ability to use clinical reasoning skills and techniques to assess, plan, deliver and evaluate patient care.
* Acts as a role model, lead by example to ensure the Trust's values and behaviours are reinforced throughout their area of practice.
* Able to supervise non-registered and less experienced staff to ensure effective service and care delivery.
* Able to effectively and appropriately escalate concerns to reduce risk and promote patient safety
* Demonstrates ability to keep up to date with professional issues that influence nursing practice relating to area of clinical practice, management, education and research.
* Able to contribute to the development, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of policies/protocols/guidelines relevant to area of practice.
* Demonstrates ability to question and challenge nursing practice in a constructive way so that standards of patient care are continually evaluated and improved.
* Tenacity to pursue goals energetically and succeed despite resistance
* Strong, professional leadership qualities, assertive and self-confident individual
* Ability to lead, manage and motivate all staff within sphere of responsibility
* Self-motivated and able to work under own initiative and prioritise workload
* Enthusiastic and self-aware
* Creative and Flexible
* Team focused
* Reliable, Adaptable and Dependable
Experience
* Significant experience of working in Emergency Department
* Band 7 leadership role within Acute medicine or Emergency Department
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.
Salary: £53,755 to £60,504 a year (pro rata if part time)
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