Job summary
The Matrons fundamental role is to improve patients experience and ensure high quality timely care to patients and their families. The post holder will do this through visible inclusive leadership and engagement with frontline staff, patients and relatives and senior management teams. This effective, accessible leadership to all clinical environments within their given area of responsibility, will enable the post holder and their teams to deliver high quality and safe patient care.
The Matrons role is the cornerstone of improving the quality of patient care. The post holder will be instrumental in promoting high standards of clinical care, reducing health inequalities, and improving workforce retention. In addition, staff education and development will be at the forefront of the Matrons priorities delivered in a compassionate and inclusive leadership style which will ensure patient safety. Matrons provide key assurance to the board, providing evidence that the organisation is delivering safe care and supporting and developing staff to fulfil their roles.
Reporting to the Assistant Deputy Director of Nursing, the Matron will contribute to, lead and support delivery of the corporate and divisional nursing / midwifery agendas, ensuring the delivery of an efficient, high-quality service where nursing / midwifery practice is evidence based and clinically effective, collaborating as appropriate with the user, carer, partner organisations and staff.
Main duties of the job
- Leadership professional standards and accountability
- Governance, patient safety and quality
- Workforce planning and resource management
- Patient experience and reducing health inequalities
- Performance and operational oversight
- Digital and information technology
- Education, training and development
- Research and development
- Collaborative working and clinical effectiveness
Financial management
- Resources and finance
- Service improvement and transformation
- Health and Safety
About us
We are an acute trust caring for over one million people in Wakefield and Kirklees. Our 10,000 staff members work in patients homes, the community, and our three hospitals in Pontefract, Dewsbury, and Pinderfields (Wakefield).
Committed to continuous improvement, we prioritise our people and values so we can deliver excellent patient experience. Our team is friendly, passionate and always seeking better ways to work through research and innovation.
We support work-life balance and foster a diverse, inclusive environment where everyone belongs. Our staff networks offer safe spaces for honest conversations and to share ideas, thoughts and concerns so we can increase awareness and appreciation of equality, diversity, and inclusion.
As a member of the team, you will have access to the NHS pension plan, a generous holiday allowance, employee health and wellbeing services and extensive benefits and support. These include onsite nurseries, childcare vouchers,home electronics schemes, working carers support, carer-friendly policies, and more.
If you value caring, high standards, improvement, and respect, join the MY team to make a difference every day.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- NMC Registered Nurse / Midwife
- First level degree or relevant experience
- Evidence of on-going CPD at relevant level, short course/specialist training.
- Holds an approved teaching and assessing qualification.
- Masters in a health-related subject or evidence of working at master’s level.
- Significant post registration community experience
- Proven experience at Band 7 level
- Evidence of previous resource and budget management experience
- Experience in research and audit. Including data collection, analysis, and evaluation
- Experience in investigation management
- Experience in complaints and conflict management
- Experience of managing difficult and complex personnel/people situations.
- Experience of report writing and presentation
- Experience of leading and delivering significant programmes of change within an NHS setting.
- Ability to work under pressure across competing demands.
- Able to demonstrate a personal contribution to the continuing professional development of staff
- Demonstrates an understanding of the role of the Matron.
- Knowledge of current NHS policy and their implication for services.
- Effective leadership and influencing skills.
- Demonstrates an understanding of accountability, responsibility, and authority.
- Knowledge of health and safety issues and processes
- Knowledge of governance and processes
- Demonstrates disability awareness and the need to make reasonable adjustments.
- Awareness of own limitations.
- Competent in IT and use of Microsoft office platforms.
- Knowledge of clinical governance and safeguarding and the relevance of these to practice.
- Clear and concise written skills
- Good numeracy skills
- Able to communicate effectively both verbally and in writing.
- Critical thinking skills
- Analytical skills
- Ability to manage own workload.
- Ability to talk to patients and relatives in a friendly manner.
- Able to command respect, confidence, and trust of multi-disciplinary teams.
- Ability to adapt behaviour to changing situations.
- Evidence of a flexible and innovative approach to service delivery.
- Has a caring, compassionate, and sympathetic nature
- Ability to work closely with work colleagues and within a team.
- Ability to discuss personal coping mechanisms for potentially stressful and sensitive situations i.e., patient deaths, acutely ill patients, and other difficult situations within a hospital.
- Demonstrates self-motivation, common sense, and organizational skills.
- Has stamina, is dependable, tidy, and punctual?
- Understands the need to work in a multicultural environment and non-discriminatory way.
- Excellent verbal briefing, communication and negotiating and skills.
- Well - developed report writing skills.
- Positive and enthusiastic
- Clinical Competence and capability.
- Influencing skills
- Demonstrates the Trust values
- Able to access all Trust sites.
- Good attendance record.
- Access to use of a vehicle and driving Licence.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- NMC Registered Nurse / Midwife
- First level degree or relevant experience
- Evidence of on-going CPD at relevant level, short course/specialist training.
- Holds an approved teaching and assessing qualification.
- Masters in a health-related subject or evidence of working at master’s level.
- Significant post registration community experience
- Proven experience at Band 7 level
- Evidence of previous resource and budget management experience
- Experience in research and audit. Including data collection, analysis, and evaluation
- Experience in investigation management
- Experience in complaints and conflict management
- Experience of managing difficult and complex personnel/people situations.
- Experience of report writing and presentation
- Experience of leading and delivering significant programmes of change within an NHS setting.
- Ability to work under pressure across competing demands.
- Able to demonstrate a personal contribution to the continuing professional development of staff
- Demonstrates an understanding of the role of the Matron.
- Knowledge of current NHS policy and their implication for services.
- Effective leadership and influencing skills.
- Demonstrates an understanding of accountability, responsibility, and authority.
- Knowledge of health and safety issues and processes
- Knowledge of governance and processes
- Demonstrates disability awareness and the need to make reasonable adjustments.
- Awareness of own limitations.
- Competent in IT and use of Microsoft office platforms.
- Knowledge of clinical governance and safeguarding and the relevance of these to practice.
- Clear and concise written skills
- Good numeracy skills
- Able to communicate effectively both verbally and in writing.
- Critical thinking skills
- Analytical skills
- Ability to manage own workload.
- Ability to talk to patients and relatives in a friendly manner.
- Able to command respect, confidence, and trust of multi-disciplinary teams.
- Ability to adapt behaviour to changing situations.
- Evidence of a flexible and innovative approach to service delivery.
- Has a caring, compassionate, and sympathetic nature
- Ability to work closely with work colleagues and within a team.
- Ability to discuss personal coping mechanisms for potentially stressful and sensitive situations i.e., patient deaths, acutely ill patients, and other difficult situations within a hospital.
- Demonstrates self-motivation, common sense, and organizational skills.
- Has stamina, is dependable, tidy, and punctual?
- Understands the need to work in a multicultural environment and non-discriminatory way.
- Excellent verbal briefing, communication and negotiating and skills.
- Well - developed report writing skills.
- Positive and enthusiastic
- Clinical Competence and capability.
- Influencing skills
- Demonstrates the Trust values
- Able to access all Trust sites.
- Good attendance record.
- Access to use of a vehicle and driving Licence.
Person Specification
Qualifications
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Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Please click "apply now" to view the full person specification (there is no obligation to submit an application).
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.
