Matron, Band 8a- Gastroenterology

7 months ago


Gloucester, United Kingdom Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Full time

The Matron will be an inclusive, transformational, autonomous professional at the same time as being a quality advocate and clinical leader. Responsible to the Trust for multiple clinical services. The post holder will have strategic responsibility with the General Manager and Specialty Director to ensure business plans, budgets, workforce and continual staff development with an ethos of continual listening and engaging are in place to deliver quality of service for the division and Trust. The Matron will report on a day to day basis to the Specialty Director and be line managed by the Deputy Divisional Director of Quality & Nursing. They will have responsibility to ensure all clinical, quality, safety, financial and workforce targets are agreed and delivered upon and be professionally accountable to the Divisional Director of Quality & Nursing for Medicine.

The Post Holder is required to hold either a valid 1st level registration with the Nursing and Midwifery Council or HCPC registration and maintain standards in accordance with the UK law, the NMC/HCPC, Trust and EU guidelines and with extensive years relevant experience.

1. Provide transformational leadership by facilitating all specialities in their portfolio to follow the Pathway to Excellence® principles and in turn deliver structural empowerment, continual exemplary professional practice along with innovation & improvements.

2. To work in alignment with the Matron handbook

3. To provide compassionate leadership through being visible, accessible, authoritative and influential. They will be a presence to who staff, patients, families and carers can rely, to ensure the fundamentals of care are delivered effectively and efficiently.

4. To promote a workforce environment where staff feel they are autonomous, in control with a sense of belonging as well as the competence to deliver safe and quality clinical care.

5. Provide professional and inclusive leadership to nurses, midwives and ward managers, acting as a role model within the Division and the Trust ensuring that competence in managerial and clinical practice is both developed and maintained as well as offering opportunities to all.

6. Provide assurance to the Divisional Director of Quality and Nursing that there is continuous quality improvement (QI) in the delivery of clinical services and are tailored to the needs of the patients using digital information and systems to develop care delivery.

7. Provide clear clinical leadership for nursing and take responsibility and accountability for specific clinical services, wards and departments within the Division of Medicine and wider Trust

Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is the largest employer in the county and with over 8,000 staff, we are one of the largest NHS trusts in the UK. We offer a generous annual leave allowance, excellent bank rates, access to the excellent NHS Pension Scheme, discounts for local shops, restaurants and services, access to our health and well-being hub, access to our two on-site nurseries, flexible working options, discounted public transport, reward and recognition schemes, exercise and activity classes and membership to our popular hospital choir.

Provide clear clinical leadership for nursing and take responsibility and accountability for specific clinical services, wards and departments within the Division of Medicine and wider Trust including safe staffing levels and an overall workforce to deliver care 24/7.

Support the development of advanced health care practice skills in all aspects of the role.

Work in partnership and collaboration with other Matrons and General Managers within the Division, leading on clinical governance and risk agendas for specific services, ensuring dovetailing of strategic and operational roles and responsibilities.

Provide nursing leadership, set and maintain professional nursing standards, provide professional nursing advice and direction to the Specialty Director, General Manager and to other colleagues within their Division. The Matron will be professionally and managerially responsible for the named ward/department sisters/charge nurses.

KEY RESULT AREAS

Patient care

1. Demonstrate and promote a patient and family centred style of clinical practice that works to go above and beyond to deliver continual outstanding patient care.

2. To use best evidence, clinical reasoning skills and techniques to assess, plan, implement and evaluate patient care and progress. This will include patients with diverse or complex presentations/multi-pathologies in individual or group therapy sessions.

3. Manage operational and strategic issues together with direct care nursing staff relating to length of hospital stay, reducing bed days and facilitating timely discharge and pathways of care. Participate in supporting ward teams with complex Multi-Disciplinary Team (MDT) meetings to aid effective patient care, which will include taking an active role in team meetings, case confe


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