Senior Matron

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. To proactively manage and lead the designated matrons and clinical nurse specialists providing support, guidance and direction to achieve optimal effectiveness, clinical and financial outcomes To champion strong collaboration across clinical pathways and support other care groups to maintain flow across the hospital and wider local system. To play a lead role within the Cancer care directorate in the care group, ensuring the governance structure and processes are in place, that appropriate risk management and shared learning takes place, and that assurance of quality are provided to the care group. This will include being responsible for contributing to the strategic direction and implementation of the corporate objectives within the care group To contribute to the delivery of Care Quality Commission (CQC) standards and to work with the Care Group Management Team to move the services to a continuously improving CQC rating To understand the role in more detail please read the full job description and person specification documents which are attached to this advert.