Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen at Liverpool University Hospital Foundation Trust (LUHFT) for a theatre matron who will play a key role in managing the theatre departments at the Royal Liverpool Hospital site. This post will require a forward thinking and enthusiastic individual who will help to shape and embed the theatre model in the New Hospital.
As part of the management team within the theatres and anaesthesia care group your role will be fundamental in developing an integrated Theatre service for LUHFT. This role will be pivotal in the planning, implementation and delivery of an integrated service. You will provide visionary supportive and challenging leadership to enthusiastic and experienced multi professional teams.
Main duties of the job
The Matron role is pivotal in supporting the delivery of our vision. Working within the framework of the modern matron principles, your key role will be to ensure clinical quality standards are achieved. This will be demonstrated through inspirational and visible clinical leadership to the nursing teams working within the care group. Working with a number of colleagues you will be responsible for leading the teams and department managers and assuring delivery of a modernised, high quality, safe, effective, evidence based nursing service.
About us
Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust was created on 1 October 2019 following the merger of two adult acute Trusts, Aintree University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and the Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust.
The merger provides an opportunity to reconfigure services in a way that provides the best healthcare services to the city and improves the quality of care and health outcomes that patients experience.
The Trust runs Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital, Liverpool University Dental Hospital and the Royal Liverpool University Hospital.
It serves a core population of around 630,000 people across Merseyside as well as providing a range of highly specialist services to a catchment area of more than two million people in the North West region and beyond.
To hear more about our achievements click herehttps://www.liverpoolft.nhs.uk/media/13089/1606-annual-report-booklet_final.pdf
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Job description
Job responsibilities
Accountable to Chief Nurse the post holder will be an integral member of the speciality management team for designated specialities within the Care Group.
The post holder will provide support to the Care Groups senior leadership team by ensuring that the highest quality of care and clinical excellence is achieved and maintained in a range of wards and departments. Working collaboratively with teams within their Care Group and Division and also across the other clinical Divisions.
The post holder will also work closely with external partners, patients, patient representatives, relatives, and carers.
The post holder will provide strong clinical leadership on the quality of care provided, and cleanliness of the environment and will role model a quality driven, and caring and compassionate leadership style, upholding the standards and values of the Nursing/AHP profession at all times.
The Matron will ensure that operational plans and performance are closely managed, by proactively leading and providing solutions to resolve difficult operational issues, in accordance with agreed Trust objectives, targets, quality standards and resource constraints, promptly escalating issues which are unable to be resolved.
The Matron will have significant experience in leading teams, and will possess leadership skills to deal competently with difficult issues ensuring that policy is implemented, and performance managed on behalf of the senior leadership team.
Working under direction the post holder will implement patient centred clinical and Nursing/AHP operational strategy and plans, ensuring that systems and processes are in place to comply with relevant legislation and governance requirements, including linking with external bodies such as commissioners when required, utilising the expertise and skills of the wider Divisional team.
As a member of the management team, the Matron contributes to strategic direction and policy setting for the Care Group, forming an essential two-way communications link between the Care Group and staff in the wards and departments, ensuring that key messages, team brief etc. are shared and discussed.
They will demonstrate a coaching style of leadership, ensuring that staff and stakeholder engagement is in place, and action taken to address issues.
The post holder will have line management responsibility for Ward Managers and/or Band 7 Clinical AHPs/Specialist Nurses.
There will also be a requirement for the post holder to deputise for the lead nurse as and when required.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Accountable to Chief Nurse the post holder will be an integral member of the speciality management team for designated specialities within the Care Group.
The post holder will provide support to the Care Groups senior leadership team by ensuring that the highest quality of care and clinical excellence is achieved and maintained in a range of wards and departments. Working collaboratively with teams within their Care Group and Division and also across the other clinical Divisions.
The post holder will also work closely with external partners, patients, patient representatives, relatives, and carers.
The post holder will provide strong clinical leadership on the quality of care provided, and cleanliness of the environment and will role model a quality driven, and caring and compassionate leadership style, upholding the standards and values of the Nursing/AHP profession at all times.
The Matron will ensure that operational plans and performance are closely managed, by proactively leading and providing solutions to resolve difficult operational issues, in accordance with agreed Trust objectives, targets, quality standards and resource constraints, promptly escalating issues which are unable to be resolved.
The Matron will have significant experience in leading teams, and will possess leadership skills to deal competently with difficult issues ensuring that policy is implemented, and performance managed on behalf of the senior leadership team.
Working under direction the post holder will implement patient centred clinical and Nursing/AHP operational strategy and plans, ensuring that systems and processes are in place to comply with relevant legislation and governance requirements, including linking with external bodies such as commissioners when required, utilising the expertise and skills of the wider Divisional team.
As a member of the management team, the Matron contributes to strategic direction and policy setting for the Care Group, forming an essential two-way communications link between the Care Group and staff in the wards and departments, ensuring that key messages, team brief etc. are shared and discussed.
They will demonstrate a coaching style of leadership, ensuring that staff and stakeholder engagement is in place, and action taken to address issues.
The post holder will have line management responsibility for Ward Managers and/or Band 7 Clinical AHPs/Specialist Nurses.
There will also be a requirement for the post holder to deputise for the lead nurse as and when required.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Clinical Professional Qualification & registration. Degree level or equivalent
- Post-graduate/registration Management or Training qualification /equivalent
Experience
Essential
- Demonstrable experience as a clinical manager, with responsibility for clinical quality, people management, budget responsibility and successful delivery of performance targets and quality standards within strict financial controls.
Knowledge
Essential
- Understanding and appreciation of diversity
- Key issues and pace of change facing the NHS nationally and locally,assess and describe impact on nursing/clinical professional service.
Desirable
- Principles and impact of the NHS Constitution
- Knowledge and understanding of computerised financial, management, budgetary management and workforce information systems
- Knowledge and understanding of governance arrangements and standards in the NHS and the wider health and social care economy
Skills
Essential
- Coaching & values led leadership style, encouraging engagement and empowerment amongst staff and stakeholders, and in developing high performing teams
- A high level of communication skills, to include but not exclusively, mediation, negotiation, consultation, facilitation, presentation, training and coaching skills using well developed interpersonal skills to influence, inform, reconcile differences and resolve conflicts
- Solve difficult problems, using a solution focused approach demonstrating competent persuasive and influencing skills
- Analyse data and information, including preparing responses to issues, weighing risks and forming judgements often within tight timescales.
- Competently implement business plans, business cases and project plans in order to deliver the Clinical Service Strategy for the area
- Coordinate area day to day clinical operational activity to meet challenging performance targets within tight financial controls
- Implement policy and implementation plans to deliver the clinical strategy and plans ensuring successful implementation
- Demonstrate competent project management skills
- Cope with competing priorities and a demanding workload
- Deal with uncertainty in a political environment
- Work in an environment with frequent interruptions, and within stressful, unpredictable situations including responding to and solving urgent and emergency situations day to day.
Desirable
- Research information and use audit skills to applying findings to influence practice and develop business cases/plans.
- IT literate and able to use standard office software and bespoke systems
- Imaginative and innovative in developing new ways of working in meeting patient care and service needs
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Clinical Professional Qualification & registration. Degree level or equivalent
- Post-graduate/registration Management or Training qualification /equivalent
Experience
Essential
- Demonstrable experience as a clinical manager, with responsibility for clinical quality, people management, budget responsibility and successful delivery of performance targets and quality standards within strict financial controls.
Knowledge
Essential
- Understanding and appreciation of diversity
- Key issues and pace of change facing the NHS nationally and locally,assess and describe impact on nursing/clinical professional service.
Desirable
- Principles and impact of the NHS Constitution
- Knowledge and understanding of computerised financial, management, budgetary management and workforce information systems
- Knowledge and understanding of governance arrangements and standards in the NHS and the wider health and social care economy
Skills
Essential
- Coaching & values led leadership style, encouraging engagement and empowerment amongst staff and stakeholders, and in developing high performing teams
- A high level of communication skills, to include but not exclusively, mediation, negotiation, consultation, facilitation, presentation, training and coaching skills using well developed interpersonal skills to influence, inform, reconcile differences and resolve conflicts
- Solve difficult problems, using a solution focused approach demonstrating competent persuasive and influencing skills
- Analyse data and information, including preparing responses to issues, weighing risks and forming judgements often within tight timescales.
- Competently implement business plans, business cases and project plans in order to deliver the Clinical Service Strategy for the area
- Coordinate area day to day clinical operational activity to meet challenging performance targets within tight financial controls
- Implement policy and implementation plans to deliver the clinical strategy and plans ensuring successful implementation
- Demonstrate competent project management skills
- Cope with competing priorities and a demanding workload
- Deal with uncertainty in a political environment
- Work in an environment with frequent interruptions, and within stressful, unpredictable situations including responding to and solving urgent and emergency situations day to day.
Desirable
- Research information and use audit skills to applying findings to influence practice and develop business cases/plans.
- IT literate and able to use standard office software and bespoke systems
- Imaginative and innovative in developing new ways of working in meeting patient care and service needs
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).
