Matron

Your key role will be to ensure clinical quality standards are achieved by providing inspirational and visible clinical leadership to the Nursing teams within the Directorate which comprises of nine inpatient wards across two hospital sites. You will be supporting the Head of Nursing in fulfilling the nursing quality agenda by reinforcing and strengthening the nursing quality assurance processes. Experience in Medicine would be advantageous but not essential.

The role of Matron is intrinsic to the success of the patient care pathway in influencing and working with the multidisciplinary and management teams and leading the highly skilled nursing teams to provide a high quality care.

You will need to be flexible, enthusiastic and passionate about the delivery of innovative safe patient focused care. To carry out this challenging role you must have proven current management and leadership experience at band 7 or above within the acute hospital setting and be able to demonstrate ability to implement effective change within an Acute Trust. You will also need strong interpersonal, negotiation and decision making skills with the ability to challenge personnel and advanced nursing practice.

**As Matron you will be**:

- a visible nurse leader and role model for a number of clinical areas with the responsibility and accountability for professional standards
- professionally accountable and maintain the standards of professional practice as set by the appropriate regulatory body applicable to your profession or role
- accountable for identifying and ensuring improvements in patient safety, patient experience and effectiveness of service
- In conjunction with the Clinical Director & Group Directorate Manager, lead the implementation and delivery of the clinical service improvement plan
- providing expert advice to the Group Directorate on all nursing matters
- ensuring effective contribution to the delivery of the organisations objectives
- providing line management for Senior Sisters / Charge Nurses ,Clinical / Advanced Nurse Specialists and Consultant Nurses
- managing a devolved budget for a number of clinical areas ensuring efficient and effective use of resources
- required to contribute to the planning and execution of cost improvement programmes ensuring the quality of care is risk assessed and managed appropriately

The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust is one of the largest NHS trusts in the West Midlands providing primary, acute and community services and we are incredibly proud of the diversity of both our staff and the communities we serve. We are building a workforce that can help us to fulfil our values, improve the quality of care for patients, and solve the health care problems of tomorrow. We’re passionate about the value that diversity of thinking and lived experience brings in enabling us to become a learning organisation and leader in delivering compassionate care for our patients.

We are delighted that we have been rated as “Good” by CQC. We have achieved numerous awards; The Nursing Times Best Diversity and Inclusion Practice and Best UK Employer of the Year for Nursing Staff in 2020.

The Trust is a supportive working environment committed to creating flexible working arrangements that suit your needs and as such will consider all requests from applicants who wish to work flexibly.

Ensuring safe and effective clinical practice
- Work with the Clinical Director to embed systems to deliver high quality person-centred care with compassion, dignity and respect and good health outcomes
- Monitor and ensure Ward Sisters / Charge Nurses deliver on-going improvements in standards of nursing / midwiferies and nursing / midwifery services through the development of effective systems and processes
- Implement agreed systems across the Group/Directorate to evidence and monitor the nursing contribution to national and local standards of care
- Identify risks relating to nursing, developing & implementing action plans to mitigate them as well as alerting the Clinical Director and Head of Nursing / Midwifery and ensuring they are recorded on the appropriate risk register
- Lead the development of nursing research agenda within the Directorate(s)
- Engage in clinical practice to develop the skills of others
- Monitor complaints about nursing and incidents related to nursing within the Group Directorate, ensuring appropriate responses and implementation of action plans effectively resolve issues identified
- Implement agreed systems to identify opportunities for learning and sharing good practice
- Take timely action when professional standards fall short of those acceptable
- Implement agreed systems to deliver patient safety and prevention of harm assurance
- Ensure the implementation and monitoring of practice standards that meet all Infection Prevention standards
- Ensure learning from the root cause analyses of incidents, complaints and claims are translated into learning and improvement within desig