Modern Matron

We are recruiting for a Modern Matron who shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients

**Our Acute Children's service includes**: a dedicated Children's Emergency Department and co-located Children's Assessment Unit, a 20 bed children's Inpatient Ward (Bluebell) and Children's Day Unit, which covers outpatients, day services and day surgery

You will be involved in influencing the future of service development for Children and Young People across acute and community services in East and North Hertfordshire, working closely with Trust Directors, ICS, Children's Commissioners and other Partners in ensuring services are delivered to high quality care.

Our Values are I nclude, R espect and I mprove. It is important that you understand and refer to our values during your recruitment process and beyond

The Matron for Acute Children’s Services has day to day professional and managerial responsibility for all of acute children's services including; CED and CAU, inpatient ward and children's day services.

Working alongside and in conjunction with the Senior Paediatric Nursing team and Divisional Management Team in delivering high quality, cost effective services.

You will ensure that the Division is appropriately supported to deliver their Quality Governance agenda. This will mean representation relating to the management and investigation of SIs, incident reporting, risk registers, complaints & claims, clinical audit plans and clinical effectiveness activity.

You will be a qualified Paediatric Nurse (RSCN or RN Child), have experience at a senior level within paediatric settings and be committed to leading staff in the delivery of quality effective, best value care and can expect to be supported to achieve their potential.

You will ensure the continued delivery of their clinical areas Workforce Strategy which enables the continued growth of the service through effective recruitment, development and deployment of the right skill mix of nursing staff appropriate to service requirements.

East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust, are proud of the range of general & specialist services we provide & our 6,000 plus dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible & innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.

**We run the following hospitals**:

- The Lister Hospital, Stevenage
- New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City
- Hertford County, Hertford
- Mount Vernon Cancer Centre (MVCC), Northwood

We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation; our staff & patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.

We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees.

Employees are entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns & we are committed to listen & consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made & considered formally, & will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.

Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification applicant pack for further detailed information regarding this role.