Job summary
2 Posts Available
EIM Matron - AAU/SDEC/infusion unit
EIM Matron - COOP wards
We are seeking a highly motivated, experienced Nurse with a strong clinical background to lead and develop the Emergency and Integrated Medical wards /units , focusing on the provision of excellent, high-quality care and to make a real positive impact on the experiences of our patients.
We require the post holder to be enthusiastic, flexible and committed to the service. The post holder will need to have excellent organizational skills and demonstrate a commitment to your own professional practice and the delivery of high quality holistic care to all patients. You will enjoy working in a busy environment and be a true team player. Supporting cover to other EIM Matrons in their absence.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will operationally manage and clinically lead the nursing teams across wards in Emergency and Integrated Medicine. The post holder is expected to regularly undertake clinical care and act as a clinical leader providing advice and support. An essential component of the job is to support the teams in developing clinical skills, complex case management, clinical decision making and strategies, competent site management and timely patient discharges. S/he is the allocated budget holder for those nursing teams and is therefore expected to ensure that care provided is, as well as evidence based and in line with best practice, cost effective and productive. S/he is also expected to lead on particular areas of development in clinical practice and the service and to undertake other delegated tasks as agreed.
The post holder will take an active part in continuing to develop new ways of working across primary and secondary care within Whittington Health and be an active member of the nursing visible leadership programme.
About us
Working for your organisation should read: Whittington Health serves a richly diverse population and works hard to ensure that all our services are fair and equally accessible to everyone. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the way we look after our staff. We aim to employ a workforce which is as representative as possible of this population, so we are open to the value of differences in age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, and religion or belief. The Trust believes that as a public sector organisation we have an obligation to have recruitment, training, promotion and other formal employment policies and procedures that are sensitive to these differences. We think that by doing so, we are better able to treat our patients as well as being a better place to work.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Clinical Leadership
- To undertake clinical practice at an advanced level, across the wards, providing advice and leadership to the relevant nursing teams, colleagues and managers as requested.
- To work some routine out of hours and weekend shifts to ensure visible leadership, monitor clinical care and provide clinical support.
- To act as a role model in assisting to develop nursing roles according to service demand and evolving models of care.
- To ensure that the 6Cs are incorporated into the practice of nursing teams and to lead by example.
- To ensure that care provided is evidence based and productive at all times.
- To work with colleagues and users, to develop care pathways within Whittington Health and the population it serves, promoting practice that is dynamic, efficient, innovative and continuously improved in its relevance and responsiveness to the needs of clients and patients.
- To assist in developing initiatives to promote effective patient flow and timely patient discharge, the reduction in health inequalities, patient self management and integrated working with social services, district nursing, specialist nursing and primary/secondary care colleagues.
- To act as a champion for the nursing teams, proactively liaising with internal and external stakeholders ensuring that nursing provision is effective and responsive and that patients and clinicians experience a high standard of communication, care and continuity.
- To assist in ensuring that clinical risk is assessed and managed in line with professional and Whittington Health standards and to ensure that risk and adult safeguarding is appropriately managed within teams to ensure patient and staff safety.
- To ensure that adverse incidents are reported and investigated, with an open reporting and learning culture being fostered.
- To act as a role model for best infection control practice, nutritional standards and medication management, ensuring that a culture of best practice in these areas is intrinsic to care delivery.
- To act as a role model in pressure ulcer prevention strategies, ensuring that teams provide appropriate preventative care at all times, implement zero tolerance to avoidable pressure ulcers and following Whittington Health guidelines for pressure ulcer prevention and management.
- To regularly participate in clinical supervision and to act as a clinical supervisor to junior staff.
MANAGEMENT
- To directly manage the nursing teams in the wards allocated.
- To have direct responsibility for the safe running of the wards allocated, working closely with the Clinical Lead for the wards.
- To ensure that the patient environment is well maintained, clean and safe.
- To ensure that safe staffing levels and skill mix in line with local and national standards are maintained at all times and if these fall below the recommended benchmark to act on them and escalate to the Director of Operations and Associate Director of Nursing as required.
- To supervise and manage the wards on a daily basis to ensure high standards of care and effective patient flow across the hospital including in order to maintain the four hour ED target.
- To assist with conducting workforce and skill mix review as required.
- To be responsible, in consultation with the Director of Operations/Associate Director of Nursing, for ensuring that agreed performance management systems are in place, including taking appropriate action when there is a failure by the team to meet the specified standards.
- To manage the nursing team budgets ensuring that adequate and effective controls are in place on pay and non-pay spend, that stock levels are appropriately managed.
- To ensure that there are adequate systems in place to monitor and control spend on temporary (bank and agency) nursing staff.
- To agree with the team performance objectives to reflect both the Whittington Health clinical strategy and ICARE values and national strategies and priorities.
- To ensure that absence levels within the teams are monitored and managed.
- To ensure that individuals within those (and others when providing management support) teams are aware of and work within policies and procedures. To ensure that the care given meets the standards and policies meets the standards and policies set by Whittington Health.
- To ensure that agreed models of appraisal, one to one meetings and clinical supervision for staff within those teams are implemented in accordance with national and trust guidelines, through which the lifelong learning plans for all staff can be developed.
- To provide management support for other nursing teams in the absence of the Director of Operations and Associate Director of Nursing as needed.
- To work with the Director of Operations/Associate Director of Nursing to ensure that job descriptions and vacancies within the team are reviewed on a regular basis and ensure that the skill mix adapts to meet the changing patterns of service delivery from the team.
- To take responsibility for the selection and recruitment of team members across the teams as required and to take a proactive role in nurturing talent and retaining high quality staff.
- To facilitate and ensure the use of information technology and that relevant and up to date information on clinical and service developments are provided to agreed time-scales
- To ensure that there is a high standard of contemporaneous nursing documentation within the teams.
- To undertake delegated projects and management responsibilities as required.
- To develop and maintain effective and appropriate communication systems with staff and colleagues within the Trust.
- To take every reasonable step to see that the working environment is safe, healthy and hazard free for staff and users.
- To chair and lead meetings and working parties where appropriate, being a key member of the wards leadership and ICSU Boards.
QUALITY
- To be highly visible in undertaking regular rounds (daily) in clinical areas of responsibility and be accessible to nursing staff, patients and the public, ensuring open and honest communication and examining high standards of care.
- To work with the Associate Director of Nursing to ensure that care is evidence based and that continuous quality improvement programmes are in place that constantly challenge practice.
- To review, develop and maintain an appropriate nursing audit programme in conjunction with the Associate Director of Nursing and to contribute to the ICSU audit timetable and agenda.
- To assist on collation of data for the service key performance indicators and lead on collation for the nursing quality indicators, ensuring, in conjunction with the Associate Director of Nursing, that a plan is in place to continuously improve on results.
- To work closely with the Whittington Health PALS department and where necessary participate in investigating complaints and clinical incidents in line with policy, procedures and time scales, making recommendations about changes to practice and service that may result.
- To take a role in leading the patient experience strategy for the teams, ensuring that friends and family results are collated and acted upon and that creative ways of understanding patient feedback and involvement are implemented.
- To ensure that the teams follow appropriate and relevant procedures, guidelines and protocols, working with the Associate Director of Nursing to review these as needed.
- To assist the Associate Director of Nursing in benchmarking against other services and developing innovative practice and new ways of working which are productive and patient outcome focused.
- To lead on the nursing teams retention and development programme, ensuring that effective career pathways, competency frameworks and in house development and training opportunities are in place.
EDUCATION & TRAINING
- To promote a continuous learning environment for the relevant nursing teams ensuring that staff have access to information that enables them to practice safely and effectively.
- To collate information about the training and development needs of staff as identified through annual reviews and liaise with the professional development team to ensure these are met where appropriate.
- To ensure where appropriate that arrangements are made for educational evaluation and for staff to learn from the outcomes of quality reviews, audits, complaints and investigations.
- To undertake mandatory training as required for the role.
- To be aware of ones own continuous professional development needs and maintain an annual personal development plan.
RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT
- To participate in research projects and/or innovations following agreed policy and protocol, leading on these in certain areas as agreed with the Director of Operations/Head of Nursing.
- To contribute to the development of the Emergency and Integrated Medicine and wider Whittington Health nursing teams by participating in working parties, committees and planning and discussion groups as agreed with line manager.
PROFESSIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES
- To be aware of and act in accordance with agreed policy procedures, legislation and NMC standards.
- To adhere to policies and procedures at all times and ensure that all nursing teams are aware of their responsibilities in relation to thes
Job description
Job responsibilities
Clinical Leadership
- To undertake clinical practice at an advanced level, across the wards, providing advice and leadership to the relevant nursing teams, colleagues and managers as requested.
- To work some routine out of hours and weekend shifts to ensure visible leadership, monitor clinical care and provide clinical support.
- To act as a role model in assisting to develop nursing roles according to service demand and evolving models of care.
- To ensure that the 6Cs are incorporated into the practice of nursing teams and to lead by example.
- To ensure that care provided is evidence based and productive at all times.
- To work with colleagues and users, to develop care pathways within Whittington Health and the population it serves, promoting practice that is dynamic, efficient, innovative and continuously improved in its relevance and responsiveness to the needs of clients and patients.
- To assist in developing initiatives to promote effective patient flow and timely patient discharge, the reduction in health inequalities, patient self management and integrated working with social services, district nursing, specialist nursing and primary/secondary care colleagues.
- To act as a champion for the nursing teams, proactively liaising with internal and external stakeholders ensuring that nursing provision is effective and responsive and that patients and clinicians experience a high standard of communication, care and continuity.
- To assist in ensuring that clinical risk is assessed and managed in line with professional and Whittington Health standards and to ensure that risk and adult safeguarding is appropriately managed within teams to ensure patient and staff safety.
- To ensure that adverse incidents are reported and investigated, with an open reporting and learning culture being fostered.
- To act as a role model for best infection control practice, nutritional standards and medication management, ensuring that a culture of best practice in these areas is intrinsic to care delivery.
- To act as a role model in pressure ulcer prevention strategies, ensuring that teams provide appropriate preventative care at all times, implement zero tolerance to avoidable pressure ulcers and following Whittington Health guidelines for pressure ulcer prevention and management.
- To regularly participate in clinical supervision and to act as a clinical supervisor to junior staff.
MANAGEMENT
- To directly manage the nursing teams in the wards allocated.
- To have direct responsibility for the safe running of the wards allocated, working closely with the Clinical Lead for the wards.
- To ensure that the patient environment is well maintained, clean and safe.
- To ensure that safe staffing levels and skill mix in line with local and national standards are maintained at all times and if these fall below the recommended benchmark to act on them and escalate to the Director of Operations and Associate Director of Nursing as required.
- To supervise and manage the wards on a daily basis to ensure high standards of care and effective patient flow across the hospital including in order to maintain the four hour ED target.
- To assist with conducting workforce and skill mix review as required.
- To be responsible, in consultation with the Director of Operations/Associate Director of Nursing, for ensuring that agreed performance management systems are in place, including taking appropriate action when there is a failure by the team to meet the specified standards.
- To manage the nursing team budgets ensuring that adequate and effective controls are in place on pay and non-pay spend, that stock levels are appropriately managed.
- To ensure that there are adequate systems in place to monitor and control spend on temporary (bank and agency) nursing staff.
- To agree with the team performance objectives to reflect both the Whittington Health clinical strategy and ICARE values and national strategies and priorities.
- To ensure that absence levels within the teams are monitored and managed.
- To ensure that individuals within those (and others when providing management support) teams are aware of and work within policies and procedures. To ensure that the care given meets the standards and policies meets the standards and policies set by Whittington Health.
- To ensure that agreed models of appraisal, one to one meetings and clinical supervision for staff within those teams are implemented in accordance with national and trust guidelines, through which the lifelong learning plans for all staff can be developed.
- To provide management support for other nursing teams in the absence of the Director of Operations and Associate Director of Nursing as needed.
- To work with the Director of Operations/Associate Director of Nursing to ensure that job descriptions and vacancies within the team are reviewed on a regular basis and ensure that the skill mix adapts to meet the changing patterns of service delivery from the team.
- To take responsibility for the selection and recruitment of team members across the teams as required and to take a proactive role in nurturing talent and retaining high quality staff.
- To facilitate and ensure the use of information technology and that relevant and up to date information on clinical and service developments are provided to agreed time-scales
- To ensure that there is a high standard of contemporaneous nursing documentation within the teams.
- To undertake delegated projects and management responsibilities as required.
- To develop and maintain effective and appropriate communication systems with staff and colleagues within the Trust.
- To take every reasonable step to see that the working environment is safe, healthy and hazard free for staff and users.
- To chair and lead meetings and working parties where appropriate, being a key member of the wards leadership and ICSU Boards.
QUALITY
- To be highly visible in undertaking regular rounds (daily) in clinical areas of responsibility and be accessible to nursing staff, patients and the public, ensuring open and honest communication and examining high standards of care.
- To work with the Associate Director of Nursing to ensure that care is evidence based and that continuous quality improvement programmes are in place that constantly challenge practice.
- To review, develop and maintain an appropriate nursing audit programme in conjunction with the Associate Director of Nursing and to contribute to the ICSU audit timetable and agenda.
- To assist on collation of data for the service key performance indicators and lead on collation for the nursing quality indicators, ensuring, in conjunction with the Associate Director of Nursing, that a plan is in place to continuously improve on results.
- To work closely with the Whittington Health PALS department and where necessary participate in investigating complaints and clinical incidents in line with policy, procedures and time scales, making recommendations about changes to practice and service that may result.
- To take a role in leading the patient experience strategy for the teams, ensuring that friends and family results are collated and acted upon and that creative ways of understanding patient feedback and involvement are implemented.
- To ensure that the teams follow appropriate and relevant procedures, guidelines and protocols, working with the Associate Director of Nursing to review these as needed.
- To assist the Associate Director of Nursing in benchmarking against other services and developing innovative practice and new ways of working which are productive and patient outcome focused.
- To lead on the nursing teams retention and development programme, ensuring that effective career pathways, competency frameworks and in house development and training opportunities are in place.
EDUCATION & TRAINING
- To promote a continuous learning environment for the relevant nursing teams ensuring that staff have access to information that enables them to practice safely and effectively.
- To collate information about the training and development needs of staff as identified through annual reviews and liaise with the professional development team to ensure these are met where appropriate.
- To ensure where appropriate that arrangements are made for educational evaluation and for staff to learn from the outcomes of quality reviews, audits, complaints and investigations.
- To undertake mandatory training as required for the role.
- To be aware of ones own continuous professional development needs and maintain an annual personal development plan.
RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT
- To participate in research projects and/or innovations following agreed policy and protocol, leading on these in certain areas as agreed with the Director of Operations/Head of Nursing.
- To contribute to the development of the Emergency and Integrated Medicine and wider Whittington Health nursing teams by participating in working parties, committees and planning and discussion groups as agreed with line manager.
PROFESSIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES
- To be aware of and act in accordance with agreed policy procedures, legislation and NMC standards.
- To adhere to policies and procedures at all times and ensure that all nursing teams are aware of their responsibilities in relation to thes
Person Specification
Education / Qualifications
Essential
- Registered nurse (adult)
- Management qualification or equivalent experience at senior level
- Evidence of Continuing Professional Development (ability to work at Masters level/willingness to undertake Masters Degree)
Desirable
- Nurse Independent Prescribing Qualification (or willingness to undertake)
- Advanced physical assessment qualification (or willingness to undertake)
Knowledge and Abilities
Essential
- An understanding of team development and leadership
- Current knowledge of issues affecting the provision of health services
- An understanding of Quality and Assurance and monitoring systems
- Commitment to multi agency working and integrated approach
- An understanding and ability to support change management processes
- Able to work flexibly and contribute to the programme of change using advanced negotiating skills
- Ability to project plan and carry our clinical audit
- Time management skills
- Ability to work to deadlines and deliver agreed objectives
- Able to act appropriately in stressful situations
- Ability to develop practice and give feedback to clinicians and managers at all levels
Knowledge and Abilities
Essential
- Ability to challenge traditional views and work practices
- Awareness and understanding of changing acute and community nursing, local and national direction and priorities
Person Specification
Education / Qualifications
Essential
- Registered nurse (adult)
- Management qualification or equivalent experience at senior level
- Evidence of Continuing Professional Development (ability to work at Masters level/willingness to undertake Masters Degree)
Desirable
- Nurse Independent Prescribing Qualification (or willingness to undertake)
- Advanced physical assessment qualification (or willingness to undertake)
Knowledge and Abilities
Essential
- An understanding of team development and leadership
- Current knowledge of issues affecting the provision of health services
- An understanding of Quality and Assurance and monitoring systems
- Commitment to multi agency working and integrated approach
- An understanding and ability to support change management processes
- Able to work flexibly and contribute to the programme of change using advanced negotiating skills
- Ability to project plan and carry our clinical audit
- Time management skills
- Ability to work to deadlines and deliver agreed objectives
- Able to act appropriately in stressful situations
- Ability to develop practice and give feedback to clinicians and managers at all levels
Knowledge and Abilities
Essential
- Ability to challenge traditional views and work practices
- Awareness and understanding of changing acute and community nursing, local and national direction and priorities
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.
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
