Job summary
This matron role is part of our new Making Room for Dignity project which will reinvigorate our acute inpatient settings with newly purpose built and refurbished facilities. The role is a the key clinical leader within the adult acute service and essential to the delivery of high quality patient led care.
The successful candidate will work alongside two matron colleagues and the Heads of Nursing to ensure quality, performance and safety within these care environments and across the acute care division. This role will specifically work with the female acute inpatient wards across the Radbourne and Kingsway sites and include the new Audrey House Enhanced Care Unit.
This role provides visible clinical knowledge, expertise and leadership for nurses and other health professionals providing care in an inpatient setting to ensure safe, high quality and effective delivery of care.
The post holder will be accountable for the unit and ward based acute care teams, be visible and available to ward team staff, patients and carers and be responsive to their experiences of care and concerns about the ward environment.
In collaboration, the post-holder will collectively with respective matrons, clinical and practice leads across the urgent care pathway (assessment/community/inpatients) to ensure there is no silos working in the matrons dedicated area and ensure a collective leadership model is used across their area and the wider division.
Main duties of the job
The matron will provide clinical leadership and support for nursing staff to maintain clinical and non-clinical standards of care to include the implementation and sustainability of quality improvement. This includes ensuring that CQC standards are met and exceeded. They will demonstrate a level of healthy curiosity about safe care delivery and be actively engaged in the management of risk and associated care planning, management and treatment to ensure high standards are delivered and maintained. The individual will be highly visible and easily identifiable to staff, patients and their families and/or carers.
Broad examples of duties include:
- Leading by example
- Ensuring patients get quality care (positive patient experience, effective nursing care, patient safety)
- Ensuring staffing is appropriate to patient need.
- Empowering nurses to take on a wider range of clinical activities.
- Improving hospital cleanliness
- Improving wards for patients
- Making sure patients are treated with respect and dignity.
- Preventing hospital acquired infections.
The matron will undertake specific service improvement and development projects using continuous improvement and quality impact assessment methodologies. Part of this includesa responsibility to ensure the best use of the resources necessary to ensure safe, effective and positive inpatient experience and will be accountable for the oversight and management of the associated clinical leads.
About us
Join 'Team Derbyshire' and become part of a talented, compassionate and enthusiastic workforce committed to a vision of 'making a positive difference in people's lives'.
Benefits include:
Commitment to flexible working where this is possible
27 days annual leave/year plus bank holidays, increasing to 29 days after 5 years & 33 days after 10 years' service
Yearly appraisal and commitment to ongoing training
Generous NHS pension scheme
Good maternity, paternity and adoption benefits
Health service discounts and online benefits
Incremental pay progression
Free confidential employee assistance programme 24/7
Access to our LGBT+ network, BAME Network and Christian Network
Health and wellbeing opportunities
Structured learning and development opportunities
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please review the Job Description and Person Specification. To apply, please click APPLY FOR THIS JOB - this link will take you to the TRAC Recruitment Site. You will need to register if you do not already have an account.
The acute matron will focus on the clinical support and delivery of the clinical quality, safety and learning elements for our new and refurbished female inpatient wards in Derby.
Applicants must have extensive acute inpatient experience to ensure they have the knowledge, skills and clinical credibility to undertake the role, to ensure the guidance provided is accurate, up-to-date with national guidance and practicable for delivery within new ward environments.
The matron will lead the service working closely with the Area Service Manager for the wards, alongside ward managers and clinical leads to monitor clinical quality standards ensuring these are maintained for all patients.
As matron, the post holder is expected to ensure that service provision is responsive to patient need and that service planning involves patients and reflects the diverse population served. The post holder will work closely with ward managers, Heads of Nursing and ASM colleagues across the Trust the interest of patient care. Specifically:
- To work in partnership with the Senior Management Team to develop and deliver the divisional Integrated Business Plan and implement the Performance Assessment and Assurance framework. The role requires taking a lead role in performance assurance, activity monitoring and risk management, within the defined portfolio.
- To provide direct leadership for ward managers and senior nurses to ensure development of services and standards of cleanliness across the Adult Acute inpatient areas.
- Undertake delegated responsibilities for governance of standards (AIMs), ensuring systems are in place to effectively manage resources.
- Support the General Manager in developing capacity and capability to deliver local and national priorities within the defined service area.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please review the Job Description and Person Specification. To apply, please click APPLY FOR THIS JOB - this link will take you to the TRAC Recruitment Site. You will need to register if you do not already have an account.
The acute matron will focus on the clinical support and delivery of the clinical quality, safety and learning elements for our new and refurbished female inpatient wards in Derby.
Applicants must have extensive acute inpatient experience to ensure they have the knowledge, skills and clinical credibility to undertake the role, to ensure the guidance provided is accurate, up-to-date with national guidance and practicable for delivery within new ward environments.
The matron will lead the service working closely with the Area Service Manager for the wards, alongside ward managers and clinical leads to monitor clinical quality standards ensuring these are maintained for all patients.
As matron, the post holder is expected to ensure that service provision is responsive to patient need and that service planning involves patients and reflects the diverse population served. The post holder will work closely with ward managers, Heads of Nursing and ASM colleagues across the Trust the interest of patient care. Specifically:
- To work in partnership with the Senior Management Team to develop and deliver the divisional Integrated Business Plan and implement the Performance Assessment and Assurance framework. The role requires taking a lead role in performance assurance, activity monitoring and risk management, within the defined portfolio.
- To provide direct leadership for ward managers and senior nurses to ensure development of services and standards of cleanliness across the Adult Acute inpatient areas.
- Undertake delegated responsibilities for governance of standards (AIMs), ensuring systems are in place to effectively manage resources.
- Support the General Manager in developing capacity and capability to deliver local and national priorities within the defined service area.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Degree or professional qualification (RMN/RNLD)
- Evidence of continuing professional development
Desirable
- Relevant post registration qualification
Experience
Essential
- Demonstrate evidence of leading clinical/nursing strategic change initiatives
- Experience of leadership within an acute clinical setting
- Displays personal credibility and assertiveness to relate on terms of equality to senior medical and managerial staff.
- Experience of writing, developing or updating clinical policies and procedures
- Experience in clinical performance assurance, activity monitoring and risk management
Knowledge
Essential
- Ability to analyse problems and propose realistic solutions.
- Excellent verbal and written communication.
- Knowledge of governance of standards for Acute inpatient services
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Degree or professional qualification (RMN/RNLD)
- Evidence of continuing professional development
Desirable
- Relevant post registration qualification
Experience
Essential
- Demonstrate evidence of leading clinical/nursing strategic change initiatives
- Experience of leadership within an acute clinical setting
- Displays personal credibility and assertiveness to relate on terms of equality to senior medical and managerial staff.
- Experience of writing, developing or updating clinical policies and procedures
- Experience in clinical performance assurance, activity monitoring and risk management
Knowledge
Essential
- Ability to analyse problems and propose realistic solutions.
- Excellent verbal and written communication.
- Knowledge of governance of standards for Acute inpatient services
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).
