Clinical Matron

Job summary

Location: Winchester Hospital

This is an exciting opportunity open to all Nursing and Allied Health Professionals (AHP). You will be given support to develop your skills to advanced level practice. Please get in contact if you want to speak to us or other nurses or AHP's who are working in this role.

The Clinical Matron (CM) has 24-hour accountability for quality, staff, finance and performance of their area. The Clinical Matron will be responsible for ensuring patients receive high quality, evidenced based compassionate care.

The Clinical Matron will be responsible for ensuring that staff are supported and developed to deliver high quality carein accordance with the Trust values.

The Clinical Matron will have enhanced clinical skills and provide clinical expertise both within their own clinical environment and across the organisation as necessary to support the Organisational Strategy in theachievement of professional, operational and clinical governance objectives. This will involve being responsible for the development and implementation of service improvement and/or policies in their areaof expertise.

The Clinical Matron will work closely with the named consultant to provide day to day professional leadership with a significant focus on improving the experience and care for patients.

Main duties of the job

We have an exciting opportunity for you for to develop yourself and our elderly care ward service, you will be supported by a dynamic Multi professional team. You will grow your new team to ensure patient safety and experience whilst ensuring personal and team development.

As aClinical Matron, you will be working alongside your team from a clinical and a leadership perspective. As a senior leader, you will have the freedom to make your own decisions about how patients are cared for in your area.

You will be part of themedical division at Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and we will ensure that your experience working with us mirrors the trust values of CARE.

What we are looking for:

• A dynamic individual.
• A desire to extend your experience within an rehabilitation setting, working with community services and developing your skill set.
• Experience working in a busy and often pressurised environment.

About us

Full induction and orientation to the trust will be provided for all successful candidates ensuring you are fully supported so you can deliver the best experience for our patients.

We believe in offering training and development opportunities and recognise outstanding performance and celebrate this.

The trust is also committed to supporting you with re-validation and appraisal and offer expertise for continuing professional development.

Your life outside HHFT is important and the Trust are happy to consider applications with flexible working patterns that cater to individual requirements; this can be discussed at interview

Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (HHFT) provides hospital services to around 570,000 people living in Hampshire and parts of West Berkshire, and specialist services to patients from all over the country. We deliver a full range of district hospital services in a variety of locations.