Matron - Outpatients

The Matron is responsible for delivering the Trust's Strategy and objectives, within their area of responsibility including:

• Ensuring the standardisation of services across all relevant areas to the best possible level, so that all patients experience equally high-quality care;
• Supporting the planning and managing services to ensure the best possible use of resources;
• Supporting the development of a sustainable safe workforce that is fit for the future within area of responsibility;
• Ensuring services are delivered in a culture where patient safety, high clinical quality, service improvement and financial accountability are paramount.

Additional contact information

Base Location:
Royal Bournemouth, Poole Hospital or Outpatients Assessment.

Interview Date:

TBC

• To provide clinical and professional leadership to assigned departments and specialist nursing/midwifery teams ensuring that action is taken at all levels to empower nurses/midwives to provide high standards of care in a safe environment.
• To act as a professional role model, demonstrating the trust vision and values and ensuring that staff work within regulatory, legal and trust policies and procedures in maintaining and improving standards utilising resources available.
• To be highly visible, accessible and an authoritative nursing/midwifery presence providing compassionate and professional assistance or advice to patients, carers and the workforce, spending at least 50% of rostered time in clinical practice.
• Take responsibility for overall monitoring of clinical standards within teams or services including overall responsibility for safe staffing, standards of clinical practice and the setting clear objectives for development, ensuring agreed programmes of work are running to plan, and promptly escalating any cause for concern through appropriate communication channels.

Our values define who we are as #TeamUHD. They underpin everything we do now and in the future. They define how we treat our patients, visitors, and each other, our valued team mates and colleagues.

To understand the role in more detail please read the full job description and person specification documents which are attached to this advert.

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