Matron Medicine, Wrh

1 week ago


Worcester, Worcestershire, United Kingdom Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust Full time

Key Duties:

Actively implement the standards set in the Trusts strategy for nurses and nursing acting as a role model for others to emulate, working alongside colleagues and exhibiting high standards of professional behaviour and dress including the wearing of uniform.

Advise Directorate Managers, clinical Directors and Chief Nursing Officer on professional nursing matters and specific speciality nursing issues.

Effectively manage the areas resources, both pay and non-pay, and ensure that actual or potential cost pressures are reported to your General Manager and Directorate Accountant.

Visit Departments within the area of responsibility daily to support Sisters and Charge Nurses, and ensure that the resources to Departmental Sisters/Charge Nurses are controlled and utilised effectively to ensure that value for money is demonstrated and high quality patient care delivered.


This will include ensuring that Department budgets are managed effectively and that costs relating to the use of Bank and secondary agency nurses are kept to a minimum.

Ensure that all Department sisters/charge nurses complete and progress and participate in nursing initiatives such as the Essence of Care programme and HIAs and the performance, benchmarking and action plans are implemented and monitored.

Identify opportunities to develop innovate roles for all nursing staff in order to meet the evolving needs of patients and new models of care within the Trust.

Ensure Department Managers take personal responsibility and accountability for Infection Prevention and Control practice within their sphere and responsibility.


Ensure Department managers take responsibility of standards of environmental cleanliness thereby cleanliness thereby influencing the reduction of hospital acquired infections.

To be actively involved in maintaining compliance with the NHSLA and CQC standards, ensuring all clinical areas are aware of their responsibilities and are adhering to Trust Policies and putting them into practice.

Ensuring that patient care is evidence based, monitored and evaluated, instituting appropriate improvement when required, in order to provide high standards of care to all patients.

Support and encourage multi-disciplinary working, which focuses upon patient pathways, ensuring the smooth transition of the patient through the care process including facilitating the movement of patients through care locations, to ensure patients are cared for within an optimum time frame.


Take an active role in managing disciplinary issues as necessary, ensuring quality outcomes that can be shared as a means of learning across the Trust.

Be responsible for and take appropriate actions to performance manage staff as necessary, (including Human Resource and attendance management), and ensure that Departmental Sisters/Charge Nurses are empowered to manage staff who are responsible to them in the same way.

Ensure they and the staff within their sphere of responsibility receive training in the protection of vulnerable adults, are alert to potential indicators of abuse or neglect of vulnerable adults and know how to act on their concerns in line with the Trust policy.

Education, Training and Development.


To act as ab expert resource and provide advice on nursing care in relation to clinical interventions, policies, service development and delivery.

Develop own and others knowledge and practice across professional and organisational boundaries.

Empower Departmental Sisters/Charge Nurses supporting the development of their role through enabling them to acquire and maintain appropriate management skills, which enable them to discharge their responsibilities effectively.

Be acknowledged as an expert professional leader, act as a role model and provide, clinical supervision where applicable to clinicians within the directorate and wider organisational boundaries.

Create innovative training and educational opportunities in partnership with professional development department and higher education institutes.

Ensure that an appropriate learning environment is provided for students and liaise with colleagues to optimise student nurse placements, to ensure good quality education and support to all student in the clinical area.

Ensure that a training and development plan. Based on need, is produced and reviewed annually.


Participate in the PDR process and undertake annual PDR for all staff for whom the post-holder has line managerial responsibility, and ensure that PDR arrangements are in place for all nursing staff within the sphere of responsibility, in order to address training and development needs within your team.

Contribute to the experience of learners and to ensure delivery of mentorship requirements meeting NMC standards for nursing/midwifery students. Facilitate the development of other nurses within the area of responsibility ensuring appropriate succession planning arrangements are in place. Ensure that induction packs are orientation programmes are in

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