Job summary
Paediatric Matron- Band 8a
Now Recruiting for our new Midland Metropolitan University Hospital (MMUH)!
Are you a Paediatric Nurse with substantial experience at a senior level looking for the next step in your career?
Are you passionate about providing and developing excellent services for babies, children and young people?
If so Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust are looking to appoint an ambitious, compassionate and determined Paediatric Matron to ensure that children and young people get the best possible care and treatment when accessing services.
Main duties of the job
You will:
- Be highly visible
- Be clinically credible
- Be committed to developing and transforming services
- Work collaboratively with multi-disciplinary teams across acute and community settings.
For the areas you lead and manage you will be accountable for:
- Ensuring safe, effective, responsive, high-quality services
- Workforce management
- Finance and budgeting
- Education and development
- Patient flow
- Performance management
- Digital technology
- Evidence based Practice and Research
About us
Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust (SWBT) is an integrated careorganisation with a budget of approximately £600 million and over 7,000 staff. Diversity and social care is at the core of what we do as the Trust provides Community and Acute Services to over half a million people in an urban centre that demands massive regeneration and has substantial premature mortality.
Our new acute hospital, the Midland Metropolitan University Hospital (MMUH), opens in 2024 and will provide care to our local population from first class, purpose-built premises.As a result, the base of this role may change to MMUH from 2024 (or beyond). If this is applicable to your role, you will be informed during the recruitment process and continuing your application with this understanding.The development of the new hospital will play an important role in the regeneration of the wider area and in improving the lives of local people and reducing health inequalities.
We have three newly emerging strategic objectives:
- Our People - to cultivate and sustain happy, productive and engaged staff
- Our Patients - to be good or outstanding in everything we do
- Our Population - to work seamlessly with our partners to improve live
Job description
Job responsibilities
Acute and Community Paediatrics is an integrated Directorate that sits within the Women & Childrens Group.
This is an exciting time to join our team as we prepare to move to our new Acute Hospital The Midland Metropolitan University Hospital (MMUH) in October 2024. The new hospital has 40 paediatric beds over a dedicated PAU alongside, 2 wards which includes 6 HDU and 6 Adolescent beds. The first UK clinical skills lab will be embedded within MMUH allowing emphasis on education within the department. The new state of the art acute hospital in Grove Lane, Smethwick will bring together all acute services onto one site.
If you possess strong leadership and management qualities, would like to work in a welcoming and supportive environment where you will be well supported and given the opportunity to develop to fulfil your potential and build the carer you want, we welcome an application from you.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Acute and Community Paediatrics is an integrated Directorate that sits within the Women & Childrens Group.
This is an exciting time to join our team as we prepare to move to our new Acute Hospital The Midland Metropolitan University Hospital (MMUH) in October 2024. The new hospital has 40 paediatric beds over a dedicated PAU alongside, 2 wards which includes 6 HDU and 6 Adolescent beds. The first UK clinical skills lab will be embedded within MMUH allowing emphasis on education within the department. The new state of the art acute hospital in Grove Lane, Smethwick will bring together all acute services onto one site.
If you possess strong leadership and management qualities, would like to work in a welcoming and supportive environment where you will be well supported and given the opportunity to develop to fulfil your potential and build the carer you want, we welcome an application from you.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- RNC
- Registration with NMC
Desirable
Experience
Essential
- Extensive post-graduate and post-competency experience working with children in a variety of settings inclusive of an acute setting.
- Experience of participating in clinical service development in response to local and national priorities involving research, audit and user feedback.
- Experience of managing and prioritising clinical workloads and effective roster management.
- Experience of participating in the delivery and development of training to a variety of recipients, both professional and nonprofessional.
- Evidence of management training
Knowledge
Essential
- Knowledge & experience of managing budgets, including planning, forecasting and prioritising
- Knowledge & experience of service-wide performance management, including undertaking supervisions and appraisals
- Experience of leading a team and highly developed leadership skills
- Excellent written skills for the purposes of report writing and contributing to policy documentation.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- RNC
- Registration with NMC
Desirable
Experience
Essential
- Extensive post-graduate and post-competency experience working with children in a variety of settings inclusive of an acute setting.
- Experience of participating in clinical service development in response to local and national priorities involving research, audit and user feedback.
- Experience of managing and prioritising clinical workloads and effective roster management.
- Experience of participating in the delivery and development of training to a variety of recipients, both professional and nonprofessional.
- Evidence of management training
Knowledge
Essential
- Knowledge & experience of managing budgets, including planning, forecasting and prioritising
- Knowledge & experience of service-wide performance management, including undertaking supervisions and appraisals
- Experience of leading a team and highly developed leadership skills
- Excellent written skills for the purposes of report writing and contributing to policy documentation.
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
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).
