Band 8a Clinical Inpatient Services Matron
Fixed Term: 12 Months
We are looking for an experienced midwife looking for a new and exciting challenge to join our existing team of matrons in leading our Inpatient maternity Service at our Basingstoke acute site.
If you are an existing band 8a looking for a change or a band 7 looking for your next role, we offer extensive training and development.
You should be experienced in managing a team and have held a previous role including line management duties.
You will be expected to contribute to the Matron on Call roster every 8 weeks.
The Clinical Matron for Inpatient Services (CM) has 24-hour accountability for the postnatal and antenatal ward. Within this remit they will provide clinical, professional, and managerial leadership positively impacting on the quality of care, culture of the workforce, staff engagement, efficiency, effectiveness and performance of their area.
The CM will be responsible for ensuring patients receive high quality, evidenced based compassionate care.
The CM will be responsible for ensuring that staff are supported and developed to deliver high quality care in accordance with the Trust values.
The CM will have enhanced clinical skills and provide clinical expertise both within their own clinical environment and across the organisation as necessary to support the Organisational Strategy in the achievement of professional, operational, and clinical governance objectives. This will involve being responsible for the development and implementation of service improvement and/or policies in their area of expertise.
Whilst working closely with the multi-disciplinary team you will provide a significant focus on improving the experience and care for women, be responsible for development and implementation of service improvement and have 24-hour accountability for all inpatient services and ward areas.
Our vision is to provide outstanding care for every patient. Patient care is at the heart of what we do at our three sites: Basingstoke and North Hampshire Hospital, Royal Hampshire County Hospital in Winchester and Andover War Memorial Hospital. Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides medical and surgical services to a population of approximately 600,000 people across Hampshire and parts of West Berkshire.
Our cultural ambition is to have a culture that places people at the heart of all we do, where we all belong, and where learning, improvement and excellence thrive.
We provide specialist services to people across the UK and internationally. We are one of only two centres in the UK treating pseudomyxoma peritonei (a rare form of abdominal cancer) and we are leaders in the field of tertiary liver cancer and colorectal cancer.
The trust employs more than 9,000 staff and has a turnover of over £500 million a year. As a Foundation Trust, we are directly accountable to our members through the governors. The Council of Governors represent the interests of their constituencies and influence the future plans of the Foundation Trust.
Please see attached job description and person specification for further details.
For questions or more information please contact Hayley Jones on Hayley.Jones@hhft.nhs.uk
This advert closes on Monday 24 Feb 2025
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