Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Matron - Band 8a Emergency

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Job summary

Great care can change everything. Like you, at the Gloucestershire Hospital NHS Trust we want to deliver outstanding care. With two Emergency Departments across Gloucestershire this Matron will lead nursing to continually strive and improve care for our patients' experience and outcomes.

The Matron for Emergency Departments is an exciting role within a dynamic working environment and works closely with the Deputy Divisional Director of Quality & Nursing for Unscheduled Care and the wider ED team and Trust Matron Team.

The Matron would join the team at an exciting time as we start estates works to expand our ED dept. at GRH as well as going live with Electronic Patient Records (EPR) across both sites. This is a substantive post but secondments are considered. There will be opportunity for mentoring to be provided. The Matron will be at the heart of these significant developments while bringing a truly professional and advanced and modern approach to Nursing.

Main duties of the job

The Post Holder is required to hold either a valid 1st level registration with the Nursing and Midwifery Council registration and maintain standards in accordance with the UK law, the NMC, Trust and EU guidelines.

The Matron we are looking for is a compassionate, transformational and inclusive leader. Essential to our Pathway to Excellence Journey! We are looking to build a place where staff feel autonomous with a sense of belonging and competence. The Divisional Nursing Director is keen to build a team of truly compassionate leaders who lead from the front at the same time as facilitating and growing others to deliver quality care across the division together. The Matron will ensure all clinical, quality, safety, financial and workforce delivery. This is a substantive post (secondments considered).

About us

Working here, you will benefit from the support of an experienced, friendly and enthusiastic multi-professional team committed to the delivery of brilliant patient care. The post holder will be working closely with the ward teams, Divisional Matron team, site team and Divisional leadership team.

Details

Date posted

03 November 2022

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 8a

Salary

£48,526 to £54,619 a year pa

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

318-22-R10162-A

Job locations

Trustwide

Gloucester, Cheltenham

GL1 3NN


Job description

Job responsibilities

Job Purpose;

1. To work in alignment with the Matron handbook (NHS England and NHS improvement 2020) ensuring focus on all elements outlined in this document.

2. To provide visible, accessible, authoritative and influential presence on whom staff, patients, families and carers can rely, to ensure the fundamentals of care are delivered effectively and efficiently

3. Provide professional leadership to nurses, midwives and ward managers, acting as a role model within the Division and the Trust ensuring that competence in managerial and clinical practice is both developed and maintained.

4. Provide assurance to the Divisional Director of Quality and Nursing that there is continuous improvement in the delivery of clinical services and are tailored to the needs of the patients.

5. Provide clear clinical leadership for nursing and take responsibility and accountability for specific clinical services, wards and departments within the Medical Division and wider Trust.

6. Support the development of advanced health care practice skills in all aspects of the role.

7. Work in partnership and collaboration with other Matrons and General Managers within the Division, leading on clinical governance and risk agendas for specific services, ensuring dovetailing of strategic and operational roles and responsibilities.

8. Provide nursing leadership, set and maintain professional nursing standards, provide professional nursing advice and direction to the Specialty Director, General Manager and to other colleagues within their Division. The Matron will be professionally and managerially responsible for the named ward/department sisters/charge nurses.

N.B further detail in Job description and personal specification

Job description

Job responsibilities

Job Purpose;

1. To work in alignment with the Matron handbook (NHS England and NHS improvement 2020) ensuring focus on all elements outlined in this document.

2. To provide visible, accessible, authoritative and influential presence on whom staff, patients, families and carers can rely, to ensure the fundamentals of care are delivered effectively and efficiently

3. Provide professional leadership to nurses, midwives and ward managers, acting as a role model within the Division and the Trust ensuring that competence in managerial and clinical practice is both developed and maintained.

4. Provide assurance to the Divisional Director of Quality and Nursing that there is continuous improvement in the delivery of clinical services and are tailored to the needs of the patients.

5. Provide clear clinical leadership for nursing and take responsibility and accountability for specific clinical services, wards and departments within the Medical Division and wider Trust.

6. Support the development of advanced health care practice skills in all aspects of the role.

7. Work in partnership and collaboration with other Matrons and General Managers within the Division, leading on clinical governance and risk agendas for specific services, ensuring dovetailing of strategic and operational roles and responsibilities.

8. Provide nursing leadership, set and maintain professional nursing standards, provide professional nursing advice and direction to the Specialty Director, General Manager and to other colleagues within their Division. The Matron will be professionally and managerially responsible for the named ward/department sisters/charge nurses.

N.B further detail in Job description and personal specification

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Active registration with the NMC
  • United Kingdom recognised Degree in Nursing
  • Evidence of ongoing professional development through maintenance of professional portfolio and registration revalidation

Desirable

  • Masters Level Study or willingness to undertake

Experience

Essential

  • Significant experience of working in Emergency Department

Desirable

  • Band 7 leadership role within Acute medicine or Emergency Department

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities

Essential

  • Able to prioritise own workload and that of others as appropriate
  • Acts as a role model, lead by example to ensure the Trust's values and behaviours are reinforced throughout their area of practice.
  • Able to supervise non-registered and less experienced staff to ensure effective service and care delivery.
  • Able to effectively and appropriately escalate concerns to reduce risk and promote patient safety
  • Demonstrates ability to keep up to date with professional issues that influence nursing practice relating to area of clinical practice, management, education and research.
  • Able to contribute to the development, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of policies/protocols/guidelines relevant to area of practice.
Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Active registration with the NMC
  • United Kingdom recognised Degree in Nursing
  • Evidence of ongoing professional development through maintenance of professional portfolio and registration revalidation

Desirable

  • Masters Level Study or willingness to undertake

Experience

Essential

  • Significant experience of working in Emergency Department

Desirable

  • Band 7 leadership role within Acute medicine or Emergency Department

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities

Essential

  • Able to prioritise own workload and that of others as appropriate
  • Acts as a role model, lead by example to ensure the Trust's values and behaviours are reinforced throughout their area of practice.
  • Able to supervise non-registered and less experienced staff to ensure effective service and care delivery.
  • Able to effectively and appropriately escalate concerns to reduce risk and promote patient safety
  • Demonstrates ability to keep up to date with professional issues that influence nursing practice relating to area of clinical practice, management, education and research.
  • Able to contribute to the development, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of policies/protocols/guidelines relevant to area of practice.

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

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).

Employer details

Employer name

Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Trustwide

Gloucester, Cheltenham

GL1 3NN


Employer's website

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

Employer details

Employer name

Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Trustwide

Gloucester, Cheltenham

GL1 3NN


Employer's website

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

Employer contact details

For questions about the job, contact:

Ward Manager

Sue Macklin

s.macklin@nhs.net

03004222222

Details

Date posted

03 November 2022

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 8a

Salary

£48,526 to £54,619 a year pa

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

318-22-R10162-A

Job locations

Trustwide

Gloucester, Cheltenham

GL1 3NN


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