Job summary
We are seeking to appoint a proactive, dynamic and motivated Gynaecology Matron with leadership experience who will motivate and empower teams to ensure high standards of care are set and delivered for gynaecological patients.
Working with the Multi-Disciplinary team across Gynaecology and Early Pregnancy Assessment Unit, Gynaecology Outpatients and working collaboratively with Surgical Inpatient teams , the Matron will ensure excellence in clinical practice and nursing care via robust assurance and governance processes.
The promotion of excellence in patient experience and ensuring all patients are treated with dignity and respect is pivotal to the role; a robust understanding of local and national gynaecology drivers and how these interact with the populations across Mid Yorkshire Teaching Trust's 3 sites is essential.
The post holder will be a proactive advocate for quality and safety improvements and consistent in the leadership of robust governance processes to ensure a safe culture with a proactive response to understanding, identifying and dealing with risk.
The Gynaecology Outpatient Department provides diagnostic and therapeutic services that include oncology, colposcopy, hysteroscopy and urogynaecology with a range of Consultant and Nurse Led clinics.
The Gynaecology Assessment Unit is an acute assessment area for the review of patients presenting with gynaecological problems and includes early pregnancy assessment.
Main duties of the job
The Gynaecology Matron will make a proactive
contribution to planning for and improving future services, and take an active
lead in project management. Through clinical leadership, knowledge of the Trusts core values and utilisation of effective management skills he/she will ensure that the department teams are informed, trained and developed to enable care to be delivered to patients.
The
matron will promote and ensure a positive risk culture that ensures safety and
positive patient experience every time and ensure Governance processes are in
place and monitored across Gynaecology.
The matron will lead the quality and standards of care agenda within gynaecology,
particularly providing assurance around compliance with regulatory and internal
standards of care.
The Matron will ensure effective processes are in place in both the inpatient
and outpatient setting to enhance patient flow and ensure quality patient care,
experience and outcomes.
About us
We provide care and support to over a million people in
Wakefield and Kirklees in their homes, community settings and across our
three hospital sites at Pontefract, Dewsbury and Pinderfields (Wakefield).
Always striving for excellence, we are at the forefront of
innovation and research, and we invest in teaching and the development of our
workforce.
We live by our values of caring, improving, being respectful
and maintaining high standards. We listen and learn because we aim to make Mid
Yorkshire the best place to work and receive care.
We value diversity and welcome talent and enthusiasm
irrespective of age, disability, neurodivergence, sex, gender identity and
gender expression, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation,
or other personal circumstances including providing unpaid carers support to
someone with a health and care need. As ethnic minority groups, members of the
LGBTQ+ community, and people with a disability/neurodivergence are currently
under-represented across the organisation, we encourage applications from
members of these groups. We have policies and procedures to ensure all
applicants are treated fairly and consistently.
We are proud of our staff networks - who offer valuable
guidance and feedback from those with lived experience.
We have a clear vision and you could be part of this! If
you share our values and you want to make a difference to the lives of our
patients and their families and carers, we would love to hear from you.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Demonstrates clinical credibility
and acts as a role model in the delivery of patient care.
Advocates for staff and encourages
them to take their concerns and new ideas forward.
Monitors and assesses clinical
areas against CQC standards and key lines of enquiry, ensuring appropriate
timely action if improvement is required.
Supports the department teams in
the collating of audit data, communicating the results effectively and leading
appropriate actions to maintain standards and ensure improvements are actioned
where necessary.
Acts as a lead for Safeguarding
issues, providing advice, support and education for nurses in this aspect of
care.
Assists and supports the nursing
and clinical teams in working towards achieving optimal patient care.
Provides a visible, accessible
and authoritative presence in clinical settings to whom patients and their families can
turn for assistance, advice and support.
Works with consultant colleagues
in reviewing patient safety and clinical effectiveness data highlighting lessons to be learned where
improvement is required.
Takes responsibility for the
governance of complaints and risk incidents to ensure lessons are learned, capturing
any identified themes or issues and ensuring they feed into department level
actions for improvement.
Is able to design and lead projects
which may be commissioned to support innovations in practice.
Participates in policy review and
development to ensure safe systems of practice are in place.
By participating in Trust wide
nursing quality work-streams, identifies opportunities for working in new ways
that will improve the patient experience and works with relevant colleagues to
ensure quality requirements are met.
Works closely with the Deputy Head of midwifery to ensure all formal and informal feedback about patient experience is used to continuously improve services.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Demonstrates clinical credibility
and acts as a role model in the delivery of patient care.
Advocates for staff and encourages
them to take their concerns and new ideas forward.
Monitors and assesses clinical
areas against CQC standards and key lines of enquiry, ensuring appropriate
timely action if improvement is required.
Supports the department teams in
the collating of audit data, communicating the results effectively and leading
appropriate actions to maintain standards and ensure improvements are actioned
where necessary.
Acts as a lead for Safeguarding
issues, providing advice, support and education for nurses in this aspect of
care.
Assists and supports the nursing
and clinical teams in working towards achieving optimal patient care.
Provides a visible, accessible
and authoritative presence in clinical settings to whom patients and their families can
turn for assistance, advice and support.
Works with consultant colleagues
in reviewing patient safety and clinical effectiveness data highlighting lessons to be learned where
improvement is required.
Takes responsibility for the
governance of complaints and risk incidents to ensure lessons are learned, capturing
any identified themes or issues and ensuring they feed into department level
actions for improvement.
Is able to design and lead projects
which may be commissioned to support innovations in practice.
Participates in policy review and
development to ensure safe systems of practice are in place.
By participating in Trust wide
nursing quality work-streams, identifies opportunities for working in new ways
that will improve the patient experience and works with relevant colleagues to
ensure quality requirements are met.
Works closely with the Deputy Head of midwifery to ensure all formal and informal feedback about patient experience is used to continuously improve services.
Person Specification
Personal Attributes
Essential
- Act as professional role model.
- Professional attitude.
- Positive attitude to change.
- Able to work autonomously and as part of a team.
- Ability to work as team member.
- Ability to use own initiative, but know when to seek guidance as appropriate.
- To be enthusiastic, motivated, honest and reliable.
- The duties of this post will require travelling throughout the District on a weekly basis; therefore the post holder must be independently mobile with access to a vehicle for business use.
Experience
Essential
- Extensive post registration experience with considerable experience at senior level.
- Extensive Experience of Clinical Governance processes.
- Ability to establish good working relationships and networks.
- Proven leadership/ management experience.
- Demonstrate recent experience of managing change in either processes and/or service development.
- Ability to represent the service and contribute effectively at external meetings.
Desirable
- Evidence of Leading Change.
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Nurse and/or Midwife with a Degree.
- Mentorship Qualification.
- Educated to Masters Degree level or equivalent experience.
Desirable
- Leadership Qualification.
- Quality Improvement Qualification.
Knowledge and Awareness
Essential
- Expert clinical skills/knowledge.
- Leadership skills.
- Expert understanding of risk, incident reporting and ongoing investigation processes in the identification and management of issues directly affecting patient and staff safety and quality of care.
- Able to apply HR policies/processes relevant to managing a team.
- Effective interpersonal and communication skills.
- Up to date mandatory training.
- Experience of critiquing clinical evidence.
- Able to manage conflict situations in a team or with clients.
- Computer literate.
- Recruitment and interviewing skills.
- Complaints training.
- Team building skills.
- Knowledge of IT/electronic patient record/ admin systems.
- Aware of the current national, regional and local midwifery agenda.
Skills and Abilities
Essential
- Excellent communication skills.
- Demonstrate confidence and ability in written and verbal reporting
- Actively contribute to the development of services.
- Interpret guidelines and policy and implement into practice.
- Understanding and experience of interagency working and services available within primary/secondary care.
- Evidence of ability to act on own initiative and work autonomously.
- Leadership skills.
- Organisational skills.
Desirable
- Presentation skills.
- Computer literate.
- Financial management skills and knowledge.
- Appraisal training.
- Experience in clinical governance processes.
Person Specification
Personal Attributes
Essential
- Act as professional role model.
- Professional attitude.
- Positive attitude to change.
- Able to work autonomously and as part of a team.
- Ability to work as team member.
- Ability to use own initiative, but know when to seek guidance as appropriate.
- To be enthusiastic, motivated, honest and reliable.
- The duties of this post will require travelling throughout the District on a weekly basis; therefore the post holder must be independently mobile with access to a vehicle for business use.
Experience
Essential
- Extensive post registration experience with considerable experience at senior level.
- Extensive Experience of Clinical Governance processes.
- Ability to establish good working relationships and networks.
- Proven leadership/ management experience.
- Demonstrate recent experience of managing change in either processes and/or service development.
- Ability to represent the service and contribute effectively at external meetings.
Desirable
- Evidence of Leading Change.
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Nurse and/or Midwife with a Degree.
- Mentorship Qualification.
- Educated to Masters Degree level or equivalent experience.
Desirable
- Leadership Qualification.
- Quality Improvement Qualification.
Knowledge and Awareness
Essential
- Expert clinical skills/knowledge.
- Leadership skills.
- Expert understanding of risk, incident reporting and ongoing investigation processes in the identification and management of issues directly affecting patient and staff safety and quality of care.
- Able to apply HR policies/processes relevant to managing a team.
- Effective interpersonal and communication skills.
- Up to date mandatory training.
- Experience of critiquing clinical evidence.
- Able to manage conflict situations in a team or with clients.
- Computer literate.
- Recruitment and interviewing skills.
- Complaints training.
- Team building skills.
- Knowledge of IT/electronic patient record/ admin systems.
- Aware of the current national, regional and local midwifery agenda.
Skills and Abilities
Essential
- Excellent communication skills.
- Demonstrate confidence and ability in written and verbal reporting
- Actively contribute to the development of services.
- Interpret guidelines and policy and implement into practice.
- Understanding and experience of interagency working and services available within primary/secondary care.
- Evidence of ability to act on own initiative and work autonomously.
- Leadership skills.
- Organisational skills.
Desirable
- Presentation skills.
- Computer literate.
- Financial management skills and knowledge.
- Appraisal training.
- Experience in clinical governance processes.
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).
