Matron Clinical Services Division Critical Care

3 weeks ago


Liverpool, United Kingdom Liverpool Heart & Chest Hospital NHS Foundation Trust Full time

An exciting opportunity has arisen to develop your career at LHCH as the Matron for the Clinical Services Division within Critical Care. The Matron role has been developed with specific responsibility for ensuring our patient and family care and experience is of the highest quality.

Our Critical Care Unit consists of 30 beds 19 post operative Critical Care Beds, 11 Intensive Care beds.

We are a highly motivated team delivering patient centered care, with emphasis on quality and patient safety. We pride ourselves on being innovative in our thinking and ways of working; we want staff to be fully engaged in our development of services and are constantly looking at enhancing our service provision for our patient groups.

The post holder will need to be highly organised, motivated, enthusiastic individual and be an experienced nurse with proven influencing, leadership, and management skills.

The Matron role - has been developed with specific responsibility for ensuring our patient and family care and experience is of the highest quality which will be achieved through high visibility, accessibility, and surveillance of care delivery.

The Matron will provide professional, effective, clinical nursing leadership to the nursing teams within POCCU and ITU, ensuring that high standards of excellent, compassionate, and safe care are delivered. Support the nursing team in assessing and delivering complex healthcare enabling them to review and evaluate treatments and care provided, ensuring that the privacy and dignity of patients is always protected. Have a strong, visible and accessible presence in the areas (leading by example) in order that patients, families and staff are communicated with and supported.

As the largest single site specialist heart and chest hospital in the UK, we, at Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital, have a clear vision 'to be the best cardiothoracic integrated healthcare organisation'.

We provide specialist services in cardiothoracic surgery, cardiology, respiratory medicine both in the hospital and out in the community.

We serve a catchment area of 2.8 million people, spanning Merseyside, Cheshire, North Wales and the Isle of Man, and increasingly we receive referrals from outside these areas for highly specialised services such as aortics.

Our reputation for strong performance is important in delivering the best care for our patients and high quality clinical services. This is underpinned by a culture of research and innovation, delivered in modern estate and our encouragement of flexible working in a variety of forms.

Clinical

Act as a resource/advisor to all staff in the delivery of nursing care, ensuring that specialised needs of patients are met.

Develop methods for identifying, maintaining, and improving the quality of patient care through facilitation of best practice and clinical benchmarking.

Maintain patient records in accordance with NMC, Trust and Divisional standards.

Ensure effective communication with staff, patients, and their family/carers

Liaise with nursing, medical and other colleagues to ensure that all aspects of the patient’s care is covered.

Ensure effective communication with families, community nursing staff, other hospitals and local agencies to facilitate the smooth transfer and after-care of patients/clients

Ensure and oversee that due regard is given to the customs, values and spiritual beliefs of patients/clients.

Ensure that nursing care is based on sound, current research, encouraging and initiating nursing audit and research, assisting with the implementation of findings where appropriate.

Ensure adherence to Trust and local policies, local guidelines, and current legislation in relation to Critical Care

Keep Divisional Director of Nursing and Quality and Lead Nurse informed of changes in patient/staff circumstances which may affect the delivery of care

Attend meetings as directed and feedback information as appropriate, ensuring robust ward/departmental communication strategies are in place.

Monitoring of standards within Critical Care.

Explore and undertake extended practice to optimise patient care in accordance with Trust policies.

M anagerial/Leadership

Take the lead for nursing in Critical Care working directly for the Lead Nurse reporting to the Divisional Director of Nursing for Clinical Services.

Support patient and family engagement within the Trust, identifying and supporting change within LHCH.

Develop services in conjunction with the Divisional Director of Nursing and the senior nursing team, initiating and implementing any service improvements.

Participate in recruitment and selection of staff.

To attend operational and professional meetings on a regular basis as required.

Provide leadership when addressing improvements in care across the complete patient pathway, influencing patient centred individualised and holistic care.

Assist with the implementation of the Trust Nursing Strategy within wards/departments.

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