Job summary
This role is home based with regular travel to units in our North East region. Please download our terms and conditions document for the full list.
Are you an experienced Adult Nurse or Midwife looking for a new
challenge?
Do you have experience of working across organisational
and professional boundaries whilst providing abortion and sexual health
services?
We're looking for a Quality Matron to come and join our
clinical department at BPAS. Reporting into the Quality and Patient Experience Lead, the Quality Matron will be responsible for ensuring BPAS maintains and delivers high quality care in accordance with its policies and National
Guidance.
You will
identify areas of improvement and support BPAS in implementing national
initiatives and maintaining CQC registration through the inspection process. Working
with other Quality Matrons, the main areas of responsibility across the
organisation will be medicine management, infection prevention and control,
audit, learning and development and ensuring a competent clinical workforce.
This is a full time role working 36 hours a week over Monday-Friday. Based at home with regular travel required across our North East units -Doncaster, York, Leeds, Dewsbury, Bradford, Middlesbrough, Newcastle, South Shields, Nottingham West, and Nottingham City.
Main duties of the job
About You
You'll be a registered Adult Nurse or Midwife who has sound clinical knowledge & experience of delivering high quality, safe patient care as well as having practical experience of providing abortion and sexual health services. You'll be an innovator, with a positive can do attitude & be highly motivated & resourceful, with a practical approach to problem solving.
You'll also bring:
- Experience of the management of change and carrying out audit and monitoring standards of care
- Excellent negotiating and influencing skills to manage difficult/stressful situations and conversations
- Knowledge and understanding of clinical governance and risk management
- Able to assimilate, analyse and present complex
problems and data, identify necessary action, make recommendations, and ensure
actions are followed up.
Key Responsibilities:
Support the
development of quality improvement skills across nursing and midwifery.
Take an active role in the investigation and
reporting of clinical incidents (including Serious Untoward Incident
Investigations) and the development of strategies and tools to ensure lessons
are learned and practice improved.
Work closely with staff to provide
practical guidance and training to ensure consistent application of new and
existing guidelines, policies and procedures as well as service developments.
To ensure BPAS
maintains the standards of medicines management across the organisation and
supports Lead Nurses/Midwives in monitoring standards and investigating
errors.
About us
British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS) is the UK's largest independent women's reproductive healthcare charity. We work mainly on behalf of the NHS across the country providing abortion, contraception, STI testing & treatment. We specialise in evidence-based, not-for-profit care reproductive healthcare.
Working with us:
Alongside a supportive and friendly working environment, BPAS has generous benefits:
- Life assurance cover at 3 times salary
- 34 days annual leave per year
- A defined contribution pension scheme.
- You will have access to our employee benefits programme through BHSF which includes special health & wellbeing services & lifestyle offers for you & your family. This includes various salary sacrifice schemes, counselling services & free private GP appointments.
BPAS is committed to safeguarding & promoting the welfare of vulnerable adults, children & young people through a safer recruitment framework. This includes a thorough selection process & a number of pre-employment checks.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The full job description and salary information can be found in the documents section and is available for you to download and review.
Further Information:
Shift Pattern: 36 hours per week | Monday to Thursday 09:00-17:00 and Friday 09:00-15:30
Salary: £52,650 to 58,650 per annum, depending on skills, qualifications and experience. Plus an additional £5100 Car Allowance.
Location: Home based, however this role will involve extensive travel to others sites,
including some overnight stays, and working additional hours as necessary.
This role is covering our North East region -Doncaster, York, Leeds, Dewsbury, Bradford, Middlesbrough, Newcastle,
South Shields, Nottingham West, and Nottingham City.
________________________________________________________
Interested so far? Don't delay, apply today!
This job advert may close before the advertised closing date if sufficient applications have been received. Please apply for this job as soon as you can, if interested.
The Small Print: All applicants must be pro-choice.
If you do not hear from us within 2 weeks of the closing date, unfortunately you will not have been shortlisted on this occasion.
References: All offers of employment are conditional based on satisfactory pre-employment checks. We require applicants to provide 3 years of employment references including information on reasons for leaving and any gaps in employment.
COVID-19: BPAS encourages all applicants to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 and we invite you to share evidence of your vaccination status. This is in addition to the requirement to provide evidence of vaccination/immunity against the following conditions of Tuberculosis, Hepatitis B, MMR and Varicella for clinical roles directly involved in patient care.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The full job description and salary information can be found in the documents section and is available for you to download and review.
Further Information:
Shift Pattern: 36 hours per week | Monday to Thursday 09:00-17:00 and Friday 09:00-15:30
Salary: £52,650 to 58,650 per annum, depending on skills, qualifications and experience. Plus an additional £5100 Car Allowance.
Location: Home based, however this role will involve extensive travel to others sites,
including some overnight stays, and working additional hours as necessary.
This role is covering our North East region -Doncaster, York, Leeds, Dewsbury, Bradford, Middlesbrough, Newcastle,
South Shields, Nottingham West, and Nottingham City.
________________________________________________________
Interested so far? Don't delay, apply today!
This job advert may close before the advertised closing date if sufficient applications have been received. Please apply for this job as soon as you can, if interested.
The Small Print: All applicants must be pro-choice.
If you do not hear from us within 2 weeks of the closing date, unfortunately you will not have been shortlisted on this occasion.
References: All offers of employment are conditional based on satisfactory pre-employment checks. We require applicants to provide 3 years of employment references including information on reasons for leaving and any gaps in employment.
COVID-19: BPAS encourages all applicants to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 and we invite you to share evidence of your vaccination status. This is in addition to the requirement to provide evidence of vaccination/immunity against the following conditions of Tuberculosis, Hepatitis B, MMR and Varicella for clinical roles directly involved in patient care.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Adult Nurse level 1 / Registered Midwife (practising)
- Active NMC registration and valid PIN
Desirable
- First level degree
- Teaching and assessing qualification
- Recognised management/leadership qualification (or working towards)
Experience
Essential
- Sound clinical knowledge and experience of delivering high quality, safe patient care
- Practical experience of providing abortion and sexual health services
- Practical experience of the management of change
- Experience of undertaking and carrying out audits (including infection control) and monitoring standards of care
- Experience of working at or above the level of a Lead Nurse/Midwife or equivalent Agenda for Change Band 7
Knowledge and Skills
Essential
- Knowledge of Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare, especially abortion care
- Knowledge and understanding of clinical governance and risk management
- Knowledge of infection control and medicine management
- Highly developed negotiating and influencing skills to manage difficult/stressful situations and conversations
Desirable
- Knowledge of root cause analysis methodology for incident investigation
General
Essential
- Do you support a woman's right to choose abortion?
- Please state your Professional body and membership e.g. NMC Midwives (RM)
- Please state your Membership/Registration number along with your expiry/renewal date
- This role is home based with regular travel across our North East units. Can you commit to travelling to these units which may include overnight stays and working additional hours as necessary?
- Are you a friend or family member of a current BPAS employee?
Desirable
- Please list any further information you wish to add in support of your application for this role.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Adult Nurse level 1 / Registered Midwife (practising)
- Active NMC registration and valid PIN
Desirable
- First level degree
- Teaching and assessing qualification
- Recognised management/leadership qualification (or working towards)
Experience
Essential
- Sound clinical knowledge and experience of delivering high quality, safe patient care
- Practical experience of providing abortion and sexual health services
- Practical experience of the management of change
- Experience of undertaking and carrying out audits (including infection control) and monitoring standards of care
- Experience of working at or above the level of a Lead Nurse/Midwife or equivalent Agenda for Change Band 7
Knowledge and Skills
Essential
- Knowledge of Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare, especially abortion care
- Knowledge and understanding of clinical governance and risk management
- Knowledge of infection control and medicine management
- Highly developed negotiating and influencing skills to manage difficult/stressful situations and conversations
Desirable
- Knowledge of root cause analysis methodology for incident investigation
General
Essential
- Do you support a woman's right to choose abortion?
- Please state your Professional body and membership e.g. NMC Midwives (RM)
- Please state your Membership/Registration number along with your expiry/renewal date
- This role is home based with regular travel across our North East units. Can you commit to travelling to these units which may include overnight stays and working additional hours as necessary?
- Are you a friend or family member of a current BPAS employee?
Desirable
- Please list any further information you wish to add in support of your application for this role.
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.
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
