Job summary
As part of the new clinical operating model there are exciting future plans for Cardiac Surgery, and we have a new opportunity to introduce a Matron post for Cardiac Surgery, within the Specialist Division.
The Cardiac Surgery Matron based at the Royal Sussex County Hospital in Brighton will be involved in the exciting new opportunities and expansion in Cardiac Surgery including moving into the new Louisa Martindale Building as part of the Trusts 3T's project. Despite the role being in Cardiac Surgery you will also be expected to work alongside the Cardiology Matron on the Brighton site and will provide cross cover for each other when required.
The Matron will be a highly visible, accessible and authoritative presence in clinical areas to which patients, their families and others can turn for leadership, assistance, advice and support. The post holder will be part of the Divisional Nursing Leadership team with specific responsibility for a designated area/groups of departments.
You will work with a high level of autonomy to ensure that you and your team achieve and exceed the many demands made of you.
You will need to be a strong communicator to deliver change in an engaging way and articulate our vision of becoming an outstanding trust, delivering excellent healthcare in our hospitals. This will enable us to build a service providing excellent quality care to our local community in which we serve.
Experience within the relevant specialities and/or matron role is essential.
Main duties of the job
The successful candidate will work closely with the Cardiology Matron/ Head of Nursing to:
- Provide professional nursing support to the Surgical ward, Cardiac ICU, Cardiac Theatres, and the Cardiac Surgical Pre- assessment team.
- Provide direct line management to the unit managers and leads of the UHSx staffed areas.
- Monitor and maintain clinical best practice standards.
- Uphold effective multi-disciplinary team relationships with medical, nursing and admin teams across the directorate, wider division, Trust and network.
- Play a key role in both managing risk and governance across the directorate and lead on operational and strategic elements , ensuring patient safety and quality care.
The successful candidate will also:
- Have on-going working relationships with operational managers and clinical site team to ensure patient flow through the hospital.
- To participate in the senior management on-call rota
As an experienced senior nurse, the post holder will be expected to focus on providing a clean, safe environment for patients in line with the highest clinical care and infection control standards ensuring patients are treated with dignity and respect.
In conjunction with the Head of Nursing, the post holder will address CQC standards, risk management, review critical incidents, identify/review key clinical service indicators/audit outcomes and implement information governance requirements.
The post holder will be required to deputise for the Head of Nursing when required.
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Job description
Job responsibilities
The Matrons role will focus on:
- Inclusive leadership, professional standards and accountability.
- Governance, patient safety and quality.
- Workforce planning and resource management.
- Patient experience and reducing health inequalities.
- Performance and operational oversight.
- Digital and information technology.
- Education, training and development.
- Research and development.
- Collaborative working and clinical effectiveness.
- Service improvement and transformation.
Main Duties and Responsibilities
Inclusive leadership, professional standards and accountability
- Uphold and display the Trust values of Commitment, Care & Quality.
- Demonstrate compassionate, inclusive, visible and authoritative leadership to Ward/Department Managers in order to ensure high quality patient centred clinical care is delivered.
- Ensure nursing practice reflects current clinical developments and is evidence based.
- Enhancement of own role and that of team members.
- In conjunction with the Senior Nurse Leadership Team actively embed the Trusts Nursing & Midwifery Strategy locally within areas of responsibility.
- Lead on the improvement of nursing standards by promoting Essence of Care and Best Practice nursing care.
- Participate in the development, use and evaluation of integrated care pathways.
- Work as part of a local multi-disciplinary team, in developing models of care.
- Demonstrate and maintaining clinical credibility by acting regularly as a clinical practitioner in own areas of expertise.
- Work collaboratively in developing, leading and facilitating a seamless patient pathway through the service.
- Represent the Division at designated meetings.
- Deputise for the Head of Nursing as required.
- Be the Line Manager for the Ward/Department within defined areas of responsibility.
- To participate in the senior management on-call rota.
Governance, patient safety and quality
- In partnership with the Divisional Director of Nursing and the Head of Nursing, implement a Divisional Clinical Governance Strategy.
- Within clinical areas develop a culture to ensure that Nurses actively contribute to the development of Clinical Governance (incorporating Health & Safety, Patient Safety & Risk).
- Be actively involved in relevant audits/risk managing.
- Participate in shared governance forums to provide shared best practice and drive quality care provision within the Trust.
- Ensure that the information governance agenda is embedded within the clinical areas.
- In consultation with the Divisional Director of Nursing and the Head of Nursing, investigate accidents and incidents identifying clinical risks and implementing corrective action where necessary.
- Co-ordinate relevant audit and monitoring data to assess standards of clinical care, staffing issues and patient activity providing assurance that services are delivering safe, high-quality care.
- Facilitate the Trusts complaints procedure, both formal and informal and respond proactively to patients/relatives concerns.
- Lead debriefing and learning from practice to stop and reflect after challenging situations.
- Ensure that all Wards/Departments/Clinical Areas have accurate patient information on the PAS system and that this is checked and reviewed at least weekly.
- Ensure safeguarding practices and standards are followed, at all times.
Environmental cleanliness and Infection prevention and Control
- In conjunction with the Ward/Department Managers actively support the Ward Housekeeper role in all relevant clinical areas.
- Apply the hygiene code to ensure a clean and safe environment, liaising with the Facilities and Estates Teams in reviewing and improving the environmental infrastructure.
- Establish effective administrative and support services for designated areas, including cleaning, laundry and catering services, in liaison with relevant managers.
- Be responsible and accountable for delivering a safe and clean care environment.
- In conjunction with colleagues (i.e. Director of Facilities and Estates and Chief Nurse) be responsible for updating the Matrons Charter Action Plan and producing quarterly Matron Infection Control/Cleanliness Reports for consideration by the Trust Board.
- In conjunction with the Director of Nursing, Director of Facilities and Estates and Director of Patient Safety be involved in setting initial service quality and standards and in the monitoring of contracts and service level agreements.
- Produce infection control and related reports as requested by the Divisional Director of Nursing and the Chief Nurse/Director of Infection Prevention and Control.
- In conjunction with the Divisional Management Team, actively participate in the implementation of the Code of Practice for the Prevention and Control of Healthcare Associated Infections.
Patient experience and reducing health inequalities
- Support nursing staff to ensure that patients are always treated with dignity and respect and that the patient experience is appropriate to their individual needs.
- Be highly visible and accessible to patients, relatives and staff in order to provide immediate assistance, advice and support, in liaison with Patient Advocacy and Liaison Service.
- Promote the full implementation of the Patient Experience Strategy.
- Ensure the care of the dying person and their family is culturally sensitive and is the best it can be.
- Utilise the results of the National Audit for Care at the End of Life to develop service improvement plans.
- Support the promotion of personalised care and the wider personal care agenda.
Performance and operational oversight.
- Have on-going operational management of defined designated clinical areas, which include enabling ward/Department Managers in budget setting and control, recruitment and retention, close monitoring of temporary staff usage, professional development and patient management.
- Actively participate in supporting the achievement of performance targets and Divisional Performance meetings.
- Supporting patient flow through the hospital.
- Have sound knowledge and experience of finance, budget and business planning processes and monitor these actively.
- Work with the finance team to monitor and manage finance and activity targets.
- Be engaged in setting budgets and activity.
Digital and information technology
- Participate within the Division in embracing the power of technology and supporting a digital-ready workforce to deliver a digital healthcare service.
- Keep abreast of the technological and digital solutions such as those indicated in the Topol Review (2019).
- In conjunction with Ward/Department Managers, ensure that staff access electronic communications such as e-update
Please see attached Job Description for full details.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The Matrons role will focus on:
- Inclusive leadership, professional standards and accountability.
- Governance, patient safety and quality.
- Workforce planning and resource management.
- Patient experience and reducing health inequalities.
- Performance and operational oversight.
- Digital and information technology.
- Education, training and development.
- Research and development.
- Collaborative working and clinical effectiveness.
- Service improvement and transformation.
Main Duties and Responsibilities
Inclusive leadership, professional standards and accountability
- Uphold and display the Trust values of Commitment, Care & Quality.
- Demonstrate compassionate, inclusive, visible and authoritative leadership to Ward/Department Managers in order to ensure high quality patient centred clinical care is delivered.
- Ensure nursing practice reflects current clinical developments and is evidence based.
- Enhancement of own role and that of team members.
- In conjunction with the Senior Nurse Leadership Team actively embed the Trusts Nursing & Midwifery Strategy locally within areas of responsibility.
- Lead on the improvement of nursing standards by promoting Essence of Care and Best Practice nursing care.
- Participate in the development, use and evaluation of integrated care pathways.
- Work as part of a local multi-disciplinary team, in developing models of care.
- Demonstrate and maintaining clinical credibility by acting regularly as a clinical practitioner in own areas of expertise.
- Work collaboratively in developing, leading and facilitating a seamless patient pathway through the service.
- Represent the Division at designated meetings.
- Deputise for the Head of Nursing as required.
- Be the Line Manager for the Ward/Department within defined areas of responsibility.
- To participate in the senior management on-call rota.
Governance, patient safety and quality
- In partnership with the Divisional Director of Nursing and the Head of Nursing, implement a Divisional Clinical Governance Strategy.
- Within clinical areas develop a culture to ensure that Nurses actively contribute to the development of Clinical Governance (incorporating Health & Safety, Patient Safety & Risk).
- Be actively involved in relevant audits/risk managing.
- Participate in shared governance forums to provide shared best practice and drive quality care provision within the Trust.
- Ensure that the information governance agenda is embedded within the clinical areas.
- In consultation with the Divisional Director of Nursing and the Head of Nursing, investigate accidents and incidents identifying clinical risks and implementing corrective action where necessary.
- Co-ordinate relevant audit and monitoring data to assess standards of clinical care, staffing issues and patient activity providing assurance that services are delivering safe, high-quality care.
- Facilitate the Trusts complaints procedure, both formal and informal and respond proactively to patients/relatives concerns.
- Lead debriefing and learning from practice to stop and reflect after challenging situations.
- Ensure that all Wards/Departments/Clinical Areas have accurate patient information on the PAS system and that this is checked and reviewed at least weekly.
- Ensure safeguarding practices and standards are followed, at all times.
Environmental cleanliness and Infection prevention and Control
- In conjunction with the Ward/Department Managers actively support the Ward Housekeeper role in all relevant clinical areas.
- Apply the hygiene code to ensure a clean and safe environment, liaising with the Facilities and Estates Teams in reviewing and improving the environmental infrastructure.
- Establish effective administrative and support services for designated areas, including cleaning, laundry and catering services, in liaison with relevant managers.
- Be responsible and accountable for delivering a safe and clean care environment.
- In conjunction with colleagues (i.e. Director of Facilities and Estates and Chief Nurse) be responsible for updating the Matrons Charter Action Plan and producing quarterly Matron Infection Control/Cleanliness Reports for consideration by the Trust Board.
- In conjunction with the Director of Nursing, Director of Facilities and Estates and Director of Patient Safety be involved in setting initial service quality and standards and in the monitoring of contracts and service level agreements.
- Produce infection control and related reports as requested by the Divisional Director of Nursing and the Chief Nurse/Director of Infection Prevention and Control.
- In conjunction with the Divisional Management Team, actively participate in the implementation of the Code of Practice for the Prevention and Control of Healthcare Associated Infections.
Patient experience and reducing health inequalities
- Support nursing staff to ensure that patients are always treated with dignity and respect and that the patient experience is appropriate to their individual needs.
- Be highly visible and accessible to patients, relatives and staff in order to provide immediate assistance, advice and support, in liaison with Patient Advocacy and Liaison Service.
- Promote the full implementation of the Patient Experience Strategy.
- Ensure the care of the dying person and their family is culturally sensitive and is the best it can be.
- Utilise the results of the National Audit for Care at the End of Life to develop service improvement plans.
- Support the promotion of personalised care and the wider personal care agenda.
Performance and operational oversight.
- Have on-going operational management of defined designated clinical areas, which include enabling ward/Department Managers in budget setting and control, recruitment and retention, close monitoring of temporary staff usage, professional development and patient management.
- Actively participate in supporting the achievement of performance targets and Divisional Performance meetings.
- Supporting patient flow through the hospital.
- Have sound knowledge and experience of finance, budget and business planning processes and monitor these actively.
- Work with the finance team to monitor and manage finance and activity targets.
- Be engaged in setting budgets and activity.
Digital and information technology
- Participate within the Division in embracing the power of technology and supporting a digital-ready workforce to deliver a digital healthcare service.
- Keep abreast of the technological and digital solutions such as those indicated in the Topol Review (2019).
- In conjunction with Ward/Department Managers, ensure that staff access electronic communications such as e-update
Please see attached Job Description for full details.
Person Specification
Qualification
Essential
- Registered General Nurse
- Post registration qualification
- Masters level qualification (or working towards it) or equivalent professional knowledge acquired through degree/diploma supplemented by specialist training or equivalent experience to masters level
- Certificate in Teaching and Assessing Clinical Practice (or equivalent) Mentorship
- Leadership or management qualification (or equivalent).
Desirable
- Evidence of excellent managerial, leadership and organisational skills
- Cardiac Surgery or Cardiology nursing qualification
Experience
Essential
- Experience working in an acute hospital/Trust
Desirable
- Prior experience of working as a ward manager / unit leader
- Cardiac Surgery/ Cardiac Intensive care experience
- Previous experience of being a matron
Person Specification
Qualification
Essential
- Registered General Nurse
- Post registration qualification
- Masters level qualification (or working towards it) or equivalent professional knowledge acquired through degree/diploma supplemented by specialist training or equivalent experience to masters level
- Certificate in Teaching and Assessing Clinical Practice (or equivalent) Mentorship
- Leadership or management qualification (or equivalent).
Desirable
- Evidence of excellent managerial, leadership and organisational skills
- Cardiac Surgery or Cardiology nursing qualification
Experience
Essential
- Experience working in an acute hospital/Trust
Desirable
- Prior experience of working as a ward manager / unit leader
- Cardiac Surgery/ Cardiac Intensive care experience
- Previous experience of being a matron
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).
