Quality Matron - London/South East
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Job summary
This role is home based with regular travel to units in our London/South East region.
Are you an experienced Adult Nurse or Midwife looking for a new challenge?
Do you have experience of working across organisational and professional boundaries whilst providing abortion and sexual health services?
We're looking for a Quality Matron to come and join our clinical department at BPAS. Reporting into the Senior Quality Matron, the Quality Matron will be responsible for ensuring BPAS maintains and delivers high quality care in accordance with its policies and National Guidance.
You will identify areas of improvement and support BPAS in implementing national initiatives and maintaining CQC registration through the inspection process. Working with other Quality Matrons, the main areas of responsibility across the organisation will be medicine management, infection prevention and control, audit, learning and development and ensuring a competent clinical workforce.
This is a full time role working 36 hours a week over Monday-Friday. Based at home with regular travel required across our London/South East units. More details can be found in the further information section below.
Main duties of the job
About You
You'll be a registered Adult Nurse or Midwife who has sound clinical knowledge & experience of delivering high quality, safe patient care as well as having practical experience of providing abortion and sexual health services. You'll be an innovator, with a positive can do attitude & be highly motivated & resourceful, with a practical approach to problem solving.
You'll also bring:
- Experience of the management of change and carrying out audit and monitoring standards of care
- Excellent negotiating and influencing skills to manage difficult/stressful situations and conversations
- Knowledge and understanding of clinical governance and risk management
- Able to assimilate, analyse and present complex problems and data, identify necessary action, make recommendations, and ensure actions are followed up.
Key Responsibilities:
Support the development of quality improvement skills across nursing and midwifery.
Take an active role in the investigation and reporting of clinical incidents (including Serious Untoward Incident Investigations) and the development of strategies and tools to ensure lessons are learned and practice improved.
Work closely with staff to provide practical guidance and training to ensure consistent application of new and existing guidelines, policies and procedures as well as service developments.
To ensure BPAS maintains the standards of medicines management across the organisation and supports Lead Nurses/Midwives in monitoring standards and investigating errors.
About us
British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS) is the UK's largest independent women's reproductive healthcare charity. We work mainly on behalf of the NHS across the country providing abortion, contraception, STI testing & treatment. We specialise in evidence-based, not-for-profit care reproductive healthcare.
Working with us:
Alongside a supportive and friendly working environment, BPAS has generous benefits: life assurance cover at 3 times salary, 34 days annual leave per year & a defined contribution pension scheme. You will have access to our employee benefits programme through BHSF which includes special health & wellbeing services & lifestyle offers for you & your family. This includes various salary sacrifice schemes, counselling services & free private GP appointments.
For our clinical roles, a full clinical training package will be provided along with comprehensive support. Nursing & midwifery colleagues will have the opportunity to train in 1st & 2nd trimester sonography scanning, contraception fitting & STI testing. For surgical units you will gain experience in conscious sedation & general anaesthetic treatment in our operating departments.
BPAS is committed to safeguarding & promoting the welfare of vulnerable adults, children & young people through a safer recruitment framework. This includes a thorough selection process & a number of pre-employment checks.
Details
Date posted
22 September 2023
Pay scheme
Other
Salary
£50,000 to £56,000 a year depending on skills & experience
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-time, Home or remote working
Reference number
B0201-QM-LSE-36
Job locations
B P A S
Romford Road
London
E15 4BZ
B P A S
4 Cardiff Road
Luton
LU1 1PP
Norwich Community Hospital
Bowthorpe Road
Norwich
NR2 3TU
British Pregnancy Advisory Service
121 London Street
Reading
RG1 4QA
Stroud Green Clinic
Upper Tollington Park
London
N4 3EL
B P A S
Dammas Lane
Swindon
SN1 3EF
B P A S
Broadway Court
Peterborough
PE1 1RP
15 - 16 The Polygon
London
SW4 0JG
Employer details
Employer name
British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS)
Address
B P A S
Romford Road
London
E15 4BZ
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Employer contact details
For questions about the job, contact:
The Recruitment Team
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