Modern Matron

We are recruiting for a Modern Matron Unplanned Care Division
- Acute Care group 2 who shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients.

You will be integral to the divisional management team; ensuring nursing input into strategic and operational decisions and providing visible professional leadership to the wards, Discharge lounge and the Unplanned Care Division. This is a pivotal role in our senior management structure to drive forward innovative service change in partnership with the senior team.

You will have day to day professional and managerial responsibility for the wards/departments under your auspices, supporting and providing assurance to the Deputy Divisional Director of Nursing and Divisional Management Team on the delivery of safe, high quality and cost effective care. You will also deputise for the Deputy Divisional Director of Nursing as required.

You will provide expert professional leadership, informed, objective and pragmatic nursing advice to the ward team and the Divisional senior team, ensuring there are robust systems and monitoring in place to support all matters relating to patient care and experience.

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

In this role you will have line and professional management for the ward managers for medicine as well as the Clinical Nurse Specialist Nurses aligned to that ward specialty. This will include supporting the ward managers with their budgetary responsibilities.

To provide regular updates to the Deputy Divisional Director of Nursing and Divisional Team about the performance of the services covered by this role.

Review workforce requirements with stakeholders and support the recruitment and retention, training and development of staff to create innovative ways to deliver care.

To support plan and manage resources together with line managers in a way which ward managers delivers the best possible healthcare within the available resources.

You will work with key stakeholders actively support the implementation of a Trust wide system for a variety of different areas such as Mental Health Capacity Act,Patient safety benchmarking, Patient experience measures, Productive ward / productive theatre and other areas detailed in the job description.

You will be responsible for will be responsible for the delivery, monitoring and recording of care episodes in line with national and local clinical quality standards for their speciality area, demonstrating compliance and assurance as required by specialist commissioning groups

At East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general and specialist services we provide and our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible and 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 and our staff and patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.

We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees. This means that any employee is entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns and we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made and considered formally, and 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.