Clinical Matron Medical Assessment Unit

Job summary

Are you interested in taking the next steps in your nursing career, working as a Clinical Matron for HHFT leading our Acute Assessment Unit and Medical SDEC at Basingstoke Hospital?

The Clinical Matron has 24-hour accountability in a leadership role for quality, staff, finance and performance of their area. As the Clinical Matron you will practice as an autonomous senior within the boundaries of your scope of practice.

Main duties of the job

As a Clinical Matron you 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.

About us

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.