Job summary
This is an exciting opportunity for a Registered Practitioner to join the Senior Clinical Leadership team within Medicine in a Matron role. The post is ideal for an individual with a strong commitment to patient experience, quality and safety, who is keen to broaden their leadership portfolio.
This full-time role offers the opportunity to support the senior leadership team in the leadership and management of clinical areas across the Medicine Division, contributing to high-quality, safe and effective care.
We are seeking a compassionate and enthusiastic leader who can demonstrate progress towards the standards and competencies outlined in the Matrons' Handbook. The successful candidate will provide inclusive, compassionate leadership and champion consistently high standards of clinical care.
Key areas of responsibility include:
- Governance and risk management, ensuring safe, high-quality care
- Infection prevention and control, maintaining compliance and best practice
- Operational performance monitoring, supporting effective service delivery
- Workforce planning, promoting safe staffing and team development
You will join a fast-paced, supportive leadership team committed to helping you develop professionally. This role offers an excellent opportunity to expand your leadership experience, develop new skills and make a meaningful contribution to the Medicine Division.
Main duties of the job
To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.
About us
We are an award-winning NHS Foundation Trust working alongside health and social care colleagues across the county to provide acute and community healthcare services to more than 420,000 people across Mansfield, Ashfield, Newark and Sherwood, and parts of Derbyshire and Lincolnshire.
We put the patient at the heart of everything that we do and it is our aim to make sure that every patient is treated as we would want a member of our own family to be treated. At the same time, we expect our staff to be caring, kind and courteous to each other and to look out for each other. We believe that we are truly a clinically-led organisation.
We are proud that our Trust colleagues have voted us the best acute Trust to work for in the East Midlands for seven years running in the National NHS Staff Survey, while the Care Quality Commission has rated our Trust as 'outstanding' for care and our King's Mill Hospital as the only 'outstanding' NHS-run hospital in the East Midlands.
Not all of our roles are eligible for visa sponsorship. To find out which roles are eligible, please refer to the shortage occupation list found here:
Skilled Worker visa: eligible healthcare and education jobs - GOV.UK
Home Office guidance has changed as of 9th April. Anyone that requires switching visa type may not be eligible for sponsorship even if the role is on the shortage occupation list.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- RN registration with the NMC
- First level degree or equivalent knowledge
- Demonstration of on-going professional development
- Qualification in teaching and assessing
- Additional professional/management qualifications
Desirable
- Working towards Masters qualification or equivalent
Experience
Essential
- Extensive senior nursing experience within a complex organisation/NHS
- Proven track record in leadership and management
- Evidence of participating in and leading organisational change that has led to changes in quality
- Experience of operating and communicating effectively with clinicians and Directors
- Experience of working with external agencies and influencing internal change
- Experience of initiating, conducting and evaluating risk assessments and investigations
- Experience of leading and managing staff
Desirable
- Experience of working towards Care Quality Commission and the National Health Service Litigation Authority standards
- Complaints Management
- Experience of service improvement methodologies
Analytical & Judgement Skills
Essential
- Able to assimilate, analyse and present complex problems and data, identify necessary actions, make recommendations and ensure actions are taken
- Able to manage difficult/stressful situations and conversations
- Clinically credible with the ability to communicate at all levels
- Able to analyse and interpret data and present to all levels of Trust personnel
Planning & Organisational Skills
Essential
- Excellent presentation and teaching skills
- Excellent standard of report writing and action planning
- Ability to work under pressure
- Computer literate especially Word, Excel and Powerpoint
- The ability to concentrate for long periods of time due to the varied and unpredictable work pattern
- Ability to prioritise workload and that of others, in the regular event of competing on going activities
- Highly refined problem solving skills
Desirable
- Sound general management experience - budget management skills, business case preparation, staff management
Knowledge
Essential
- Proven knowledge of the broader nursing, education and professional issues
- Good working knowledge of contemporary health care issues and professional standards
- Understanding of the complex dynamics of a multi-professional environment.
Desirable
- Evidence of operational and strategic development of patient safety initiatives and strategies
- Experience in education and professional development.
Physical & Mental Skills
Essential
- The ability to communicate very sensitive and complex condition related information to multiple disciplines, patients and relatives
- Team player
- Individual credibility
- Influencing skills
- Stamina and Drive
- Ability to contribute effectively as a member of a multi-disciplinary team
- Has natural authority and gains respect of others
Other Requirements
Essential
- Highly motivated and resourceful with a proactive approach to innovation
- Ability to act autonomously with minimal supervision
- Exposure to clinical areas and patient contact will be required
- Required to participate on silver on call rota
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- RN registration with the NMC
- First level degree or equivalent knowledge
- Demonstration of on-going professional development
- Qualification in teaching and assessing
- Additional professional/management qualifications
Desirable
- Working towards Masters qualification or equivalent
Experience
Essential
- Extensive senior nursing experience within a complex organisation/NHS
- Proven track record in leadership and management
- Evidence of participating in and leading organisational change that has led to changes in quality
- Experience of operating and communicating effectively with clinicians and Directors
- Experience of working with external agencies and influencing internal change
- Experience of initiating, conducting and evaluating risk assessments and investigations
- Experience of leading and managing staff
Desirable
- Experience of working towards Care Quality Commission and the National Health Service Litigation Authority standards
- Complaints Management
- Experience of service improvement methodologies
Analytical & Judgement Skills
Essential
- Able to assimilate, analyse and present complex problems and data, identify necessary actions, make recommendations and ensure actions are taken
- Able to manage difficult/stressful situations and conversations
- Clinically credible with the ability to communicate at all levels
- Able to analyse and interpret data and present to all levels of Trust personnel
Planning & Organisational Skills
Essential
- Excellent presentation and teaching skills
- Excellent standard of report writing and action planning
- Ability to work under pressure
- Computer literate especially Word, Excel and Powerpoint
- The ability to concentrate for long periods of time due to the varied and unpredictable work pattern
- Ability to prioritise workload and that of others, in the regular event of competing on going activities
- Highly refined problem solving skills
Desirable
- Sound general management experience - budget management skills, business case preparation, staff management
Knowledge
Essential
- Proven knowledge of the broader nursing, education and professional issues
- Good working knowledge of contemporary health care issues and professional standards
- Understanding of the complex dynamics of a multi-professional environment.
Desirable
- Evidence of operational and strategic development of patient safety initiatives and strategies
- Experience in education and professional development.
Physical & Mental Skills
Essential
- The ability to communicate very sensitive and complex condition related information to multiple disciplines, patients and relatives
- Team player
- Individual credibility
- Influencing skills
- Stamina and Drive
- Ability to contribute effectively as a member of a multi-disciplinary team
- Has natural authority and gains respect of others
Other Requirements
Essential
- Highly motivated and resourceful with a proactive approach to innovation
- Ability to act autonomously with minimal supervision
- Exposure to clinical areas and patient contact will be required
- Required to participate on silver on call rota
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
