Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Are you passionate about providing high quality care to babies and their families? Do you want to drive improvements and new initiatives? If yes, then this might be the role for you.
The proposed interview date is 21st January.
Main duties of the job
An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the Neonatal team at Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. As Matron, you will have clinical responsibility for the Neonatal Unit and will be an inclusive, transformational, autonomous leader who will play a pivotal role in the quality agenda and the delivery of care to babies and their families.
You will also have strategic responsibility with the General Manager and Specialty Director to ensure business plans, budgets, workforce, and continual staff development with an ethos of continual listening and engaging to deliver quality of service for the division and Trust. Together, you will have responsibility to ensure all clinical, quality, safety, financial, and workforce targets are agreed and delivered upon, and be professionally accountable to the Divisional Director of Quality & Nursing for Women and Children.
About us
We take pride in placing people at the centre of everything we do, working together as a united team. Driven by a shared ambition to continually grow, develop, and learn, we recognise and value every contribution. By combining our experience and skills, we not only support our vibrant, diverse communities, but also support one another. Working here, you will benefit from the support of an experienced, friendly, and enthusiastic team committed to the delivery of brilliant services to our service users and staff. The post holder will work closely with the Divisional senior management.
With a team of over 9,000 employees, we are proud to be the largest employer in Gloucestershire and rank among the top 10 largest Trusts in the South West region. By joining our Trust, you will benefit from an excellent package that includes exclusive benefits, flexible working opportunities, and the chance to gain valuable experience in one of our innovative hospitals. As well as a generous annual leave allowance, access to the excellent NHS pension scheme, competitive bank rates, discounts at local shops and restaurants, access to two on-site nurseries, discounted public transport, reward and recognition, and a range of health and wellbeing initiatives to support you.
Job responsibilities
1. Demonstrate and promote a patient and family centred style of clinical practice that works to go above and beyond to deliver continual outstanding patient care.
2. Ensure best evidence, clinical reasoning skills, and techniques to assess, plan, implement, and evaluate patient care and progress. This will include patients and families with diverse or complex presentations/multi-pathologies.
3. Manage operational and strategic issues together with direct care nursing staff and other clinical services such as Transitional care/Maternity to minimise the need for admission and length of hospital stay, reduce cot days, and facilitate timely discharge and pathways of care. Participate in supporting ward teams with complex Multi-Disciplinary Team (MDT) meetings to aid effective patient care, which will include taking an active role in team meetings, case conferences, and specialist interest group meetings.
4. Act as an expert professional clinical resource within the areas of responsibility utilising highly specialist knowledge, underpinned by theory and practice experience.
5. Lead on and facilitate complex care, discharge, or patient care issues or complaints using analytical skills to problem solve and find solutions to ensure best practice and best patient care outcomes are achieved. To ensure that services are continually developed and reviewed, this will include meeting with patients and their representatives to learn from patient experience, manage and resolve issues.
6. Provide clear vision and motivation, by utilising enhanced leadership and communication skills, ensuring that nursing teams and individuals have clear objectives for developing nursing care provision in line with national and local objectives.
7. Be a transformational leader and promote and represent nursing at a local and corporate level if required, while working to ensure nursing has a sustainable workforce for the future.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Active registration with the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC)
* United Kingdom recognised Degree in Nursing
* Masters Level Study or willingness to undertake
* Evidence of ongoing professional development through maintenance of professional portfolio and registration revalidation
* Qualified in Specialty (QIS) Neonatal
Experience
* Substantial experience of a clinical/management position (band 7 or above)
* Experience of working in neonatal/paediatric/adult acute clinical environment
* Experience of leading and managing teams, including managing conflict
* Experience of working in neonatal unit
Knowledge
* Able to prioritise own workload and that of others as appropriate
* Demonstrates ability to use clinical reasoning skills and techniques to assess, plan, deliver and evaluate patient care.
* Able to act as a role model, leads by example to ensure the Trust's values and behaviours are reinforced.
* Able to supervise non-registered and less experienced staff to ensure effective service and care delivery.
* Demonstrates ability to keep up to date with professional issues that influence nursing practice relating to area of clinical practice, management, education and research.
Qualities
* Child/family focused with ability to act as a champion
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.
Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Divisional Director of Quality & Nursing W&C
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