Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust

Matron- Emergency Department

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Job summary

This is an exciting and challenging time within the Acute Emergency Medicine Division with Lewisham and Greenwich Healthcare trust.An opportunity has arisen for a Matron for the Emergency Department within the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Site. This is a full time post

Main duties of the job

We are seeking an experienced, passionate, dynamic and forward thinking individual to work in collaboration with the Senior Matron and Head of Nursing.The Matron's role is to ensure the quality and safety of all patients within the department and to ensure that a high standard of clinical care is delivered by the entire multidisciplinary team at all times.The ED is very high paced and requires a leader with good time management skills. The successful candidate will need to be passionate about ensuring that the work force you lead delivers the highest standards of care to all patients and ensuring the patient experience is positive.

About us

Our people are our greatest asset. When we feel supported and happy at work, this positivity reaches those very people we are here for, the patients. Engaged employees perform at their best and our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) initiatives contribute to cultivate a culture of engagement. We have four staff networks, a corporate EDI Team and a suite of programmes and events which aim to insert the 5 aspirations:

  1. Improving representation at senior levels of staff with disabilities, from black, Asian, and ethnic minorities background, identify as LGBTQ+ and women, through improved recruitment and leadership development
  2. Widening access (anchor institution) and employability
  3. Improving the experience of staff with disability
  4. Improving the EDI literacy and confidence of trust staff through training and development
  5. Making equalities mainstream

Details

Date posted

04 February 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 8a

Salary

£53,755 to £60,504 a year per annum plus HCA

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

197-AO6404

Job locations

Queen Elizabeth Hospital

Stadium Road

Woolwich

SE18 4QH


Job description

Job responsibilities

You will be required to demonstrate effective and sustainable leadership and management skills.Effective communication, a strong collaborative approach and the ability to engage the nursing workforce and multidisciplinary team within an ever changing, ever challenging environment is essential.You will have to confidently juggle and deliver on priorities and projects, understanding how the divisions operational priorities fit within the trusts strategic plans.

Job description

Job responsibilities

You will be required to demonstrate effective and sustainable leadership and management skills.Effective communication, a strong collaborative approach and the ability to engage the nursing workforce and multidisciplinary team within an ever changing, ever challenging environment is essential.You will have to confidently juggle and deliver on priorities and projects, understanding how the divisions operational priorities fit within the trusts strategic plans.

Person Specification

Qualifications and Training

Essential

  • Registered nurse qualification
  • Degree or equivalent clinical/advanced practice
  • Minimum 5 years post registration
  • Master's Degree or working towards

Desirable

  • Evidence of post registration/ qualification
  • Management/Leadership qualification

Experience

Essential

  • Clinical expertise relevant to the post
  • Experience of managing staff
  • Minimum of 3 years' experience working at Band 7 or equivalent in an acute setting.
  • Leadership of clinical governance and patient safety
  • Achievement of high quality patient care through evidence based practice
  • Management of finances within a budget, including delivery of cost improvements
  • Management/Clinical Leadership experience
  • Experience of successfully leading and implementing change
  • Experience in analysing complex problems and implementing workable solutions
  • Ability to think and plan strategically, operationally and creatively and to prioritise work programs in the face of competing demands

Knowledge

Essential

  • A good understanding of the changing NHS environment
  • Ability to be intellectually flexible and to look beyond existing structures, ways of working, boundaries and organisations to produce more effective and innovative service delivery and partnerships

Desirable

  • Ability to work on service development projects
Person Specification

Qualifications and Training

Essential

  • Registered nurse qualification
  • Degree or equivalent clinical/advanced practice
  • Minimum 5 years post registration
  • Master's Degree or working towards

Desirable

  • Evidence of post registration/ qualification
  • Management/Leadership qualification

Experience

Essential

  • Clinical expertise relevant to the post
  • Experience of managing staff
  • Minimum of 3 years' experience working at Band 7 or equivalent in an acute setting.
  • Leadership of clinical governance and patient safety
  • Achievement of high quality patient care through evidence based practice
  • Management of finances within a budget, including delivery of cost improvements
  • Management/Clinical Leadership experience
  • Experience of successfully leading and implementing change
  • Experience in analysing complex problems and implementing workable solutions
  • Ability to think and plan strategically, operationally and creatively and to prioritise work programs in the face of competing demands

Knowledge

Essential

  • A good understanding of the changing NHS environment
  • Ability to be intellectually flexible and to look beyond existing structures, ways of working, boundaries and organisations to produce more effective and innovative service delivery and partnerships

Desirable

  • Ability to work on service development projects

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).

Employer details

Employer name

Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust

Address

Queen Elizabeth Hospital

Stadium Road

Woolwich

SE18 4QH


Employer's website

https://www.lewishamandgreenwich.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details

Employer name

Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust

Address

Queen Elizabeth Hospital

Stadium Road

Woolwich

SE18 4QH


Employer's website

https://www.lewishamandgreenwich.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer contact details

For questions about the job, contact:

Head of Nursing

Tracey Toomey

traceytoomey@nhs.net

07342066993

Details

Date posted

04 February 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 8a

Salary

£53,755 to £60,504 a year per annum plus HCA

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

197-AO6404

Job locations

Queen Elizabeth Hospital

Stadium Road

Woolwich

SE18 4QH


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