Job summary
37.5 Hours per week
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Clinical Matron to join our James Cook Cancer Institute and Specialist Medicine collaborative. The role involves close working with the consultant and specialist nurse / advanced practitioner teams.
We are seeking a highly motivated individual with a proven track record of progressive, transformational leadership, to drive a culture of quality care to improve outcomes and experience for patients who use our services.
Please note that this vacancy will close when we receive sufficient completed applications.
This post is for internal candidates to South Tees Trust. If you are not currently working within the trust your application will not be reviewed and automatically rejected at shortlisting stage. Please be aware of this when submitting your application.
Main duties of the job
The successful candidate will be somebody who encompasses our Trust Values and will work with staff, to ensure that our services are safe and effective.
You must possess excellent interpersonal, communication and organisational skills; you should be able to demonstrate your experience of developing a culture of high performance and excellence.
You will be responsible for ensuring effective, day to day management of nursing in your area, to achieve safe staffing levels, deliver key quality, performance and financial plans and achieve service improvements. You will also be expected to participate in supporting the wider operational and strategic management of the Trust. Leadership experience in this specialty would be advantageous but is not essential.
About us
South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust offers leadership and improvement training to all new staff. This training programme has been designed to support our leaders in developing their understanding of leadership and management skills. You will be expected to attend the following training sessions
Your Leadership Impact
Leading your Team to Success
Leading Into the Future
Service Improvement for Beginners
Developing your Service Improvement Skills
Lean Practitioner
The leadership and improvement programme aims to:
- Explore leadership within the NHS
- Promote Trust values and behaviours
- Develop your leadership effectiveness and skills
- Equip staff with the necessary knowledge and skills to lead and complete service improvements within the scope of your role.
After you complete these six and a half days of training you will be able to explore further leadership and improvement training opportunities. We also offer a range of additional in-house and externally provided courses and bitesize programmes through our Leadership and Improvement Team.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see the full job description and person specification document(s) for main responsibilities of the role.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see the full job description and person specification document(s) for main responsibilities of the role.
Person Specification
Knowledge and Skills
Essential
- Management and clinical skills with well-developed leadership, influencing skills and the ability to engage, influence and motivate
- Knowledge and a proven track record of recent operational and clinical nursing/midwifery management and the ability to be intellectually flexible and to look beyond existing structures and ways of working
- Knowledge and demonstrable capability of service improvements, strategies for infection control and transformational leadership
- Knowledge and experience of contributing to and effectively implementing the Nursing/midwifery Strategy.
- To have a working knowledge of the Mental Capacity Act
Qualifications and Training
Essential
- Degree or diploma in a relevant subject
- A Masters level Degree or equivalent demonstrable experience
- First level registered nurse/midwife
- Evidence of recent relevant professional development
Experience
Essential
- Evidence and experience of positive leadership skills and the ability to transform and lead a team to work effectively together
- Evidence and experience of relevant continuing professional development and developing clinical practice
- Recent experience and evidence of a track record of effective management of change.
Personal Attributes
Essential
- Team Leadership - Has the ability to create and communicate a clear vision and direction in order to create a motivated and engaged team and foster an environment where groups and individuals can achieve high performance.
- Customer Focused - Builds and manages stakeholder relationships and exceeds patient and commissioner expectations by accurately assessing patient needs
- Business Aware - Demonstrates a working knowledge of the current market environment in order to assist in the development of the Centre business and improve performance.
- Team worker - Builds personal networks, recognises the value of other team members in enhancing overall performance and encourages and enables contributions from all other team members.
- Good Communicator - Communicates in a clear and concise manner in the language of the audience and checks that communicated messages have been received and understood.
- Knowledge Sharing - Seeks applies and shares knowledge both internally and externally by making use of the knowledge and experience of other team members and colleagues in order to improve clinical performance.
- Personal Development - Manages personal and professional development seeks opportunities for further development and skill enhancement and solicits constructive feedback in order to improve performance.
Desirable
- Attendance at the leadership and development and improvement programme (4.5 days)
Person Specification
Knowledge and Skills
Essential
- Management and clinical skills with well-developed leadership, influencing skills and the ability to engage, influence and motivate
- Knowledge and a proven track record of recent operational and clinical nursing/midwifery management and the ability to be intellectually flexible and to look beyond existing structures and ways of working
- Knowledge and demonstrable capability of service improvements, strategies for infection control and transformational leadership
- Knowledge and experience of contributing to and effectively implementing the Nursing/midwifery Strategy.
- To have a working knowledge of the Mental Capacity Act
Qualifications and Training
Essential
- Degree or diploma in a relevant subject
- A Masters level Degree or equivalent demonstrable experience
- First level registered nurse/midwife
- Evidence of recent relevant professional development
Experience
Essential
- Evidence and experience of positive leadership skills and the ability to transform and lead a team to work effectively together
- Evidence and experience of relevant continuing professional development and developing clinical practice
- Recent experience and evidence of a track record of effective management of change.
Personal Attributes
Essential
- Team Leadership - Has the ability to create and communicate a clear vision and direction in order to create a motivated and engaged team and foster an environment where groups and individuals can achieve high performance.
- Customer Focused - Builds and manages stakeholder relationships and exceeds patient and commissioner expectations by accurately assessing patient needs
- Business Aware - Demonstrates a working knowledge of the current market environment in order to assist in the development of the Centre business and improve performance.
- Team worker - Builds personal networks, recognises the value of other team members in enhancing overall performance and encourages and enables contributions from all other team members.
- Good Communicator - Communicates in a clear and concise manner in the language of the audience and checks that communicated messages have been received and understood.
- Knowledge Sharing - Seeks applies and shares knowledge both internally and externally by making use of the knowledge and experience of other team members and colleagues in order to improve clinical performance.
- Personal Development - Manages personal and professional development seeks opportunities for further development and skill enhancement and solicits constructive feedback in order to improve performance.
Desirable
- Attendance at the leadership and development and improvement programme (4.5 days)
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).
