Theatre Matron

To provide support/deputise as required for the Senior Clinical Matron and to provide strong clinical leadership and management of both registered and unregistered staff. The job holder will have excellent communication skills, demonstrate that they are skilled in difficult, contentious and sensitive conversation with all stakeholders they engage with, provide confidentiality and professionalism at all times.

To manage a team of anaesthetic team leads and practitioners.A key responsibility is to ensure that the patient experience is of the highest quality, inspiring patient and public confidence. This will be achieved through high visibility, accessibility and surveillance ensuring the principles of clinical governance are implemented at local level. Commitment to the clinical area, valuing the contribution of all team members, encouraging a positive and creative working environment, ensuring staff well being is a priority. The job holder will have management responsibility for commonly held resources and shared budget and support the SCM in managing departmental budgets. The job holder will support specialty team leaders to ensure consistency of operational delivery, optimal use of resources between specialities and overall delivery of all required activity. To lead on absence management, ensuring all teams monitor their sickness and complete sickness meetings as per UHNT policy.

A strong clinical background in scrub is essential and experience at working at a senior level in Anaesthetics is essential.

At North Tees & Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust our main priority is, and always will be, to provide safe and high quality care to our patients every day; the kind of care we would want for ourselves and our loved ones. We want our organisation to be the best place to work with the right staff, in the right roles, at the right time, to ensure we deliver exceptional patient care and experience.

We will support staff through providing an inclusive and supportive workplace with health and well-being initiatives, staff benefits and opportunities for personal and professional development. Staff recognition is very important to us; as well as performance reviews and appraisals, we recognise staff through Star and Team of the month, colleague recognition - a note of thanks, Managers Awards, Shining Stars and Service Awards.

We recruit for values and “Together we are North Tees & Hartlepool”
- To provide support and deputise as required for the Senior Clinical Matron
- To provide strong clinical leadership and effective management of registered and unregistered staff
- The job holder will have excellent communication skill, demonstrate that they are skilled in difficult, contentious and sensitive conversation with all stakeholders they engage with, provide confidentiality and professionalism at all times
- A key responsibility is to ensure that the patient experience is of the highest quality, inspiring patient and public confidence. This will be achieved through high visibility, accessibility and surveillance ensuring the principles of clinical governance are implemented at a local level
- Commitment to the clinical area, valuing the contribution of all team members, encouraging a positive and creative working environment, ensuring staff well being is a priority
- The job holder will have management responsibility for commonly held resources and shared budget and support the SCM in managing departmental budgets
- The job holder will support specialty team leaders to ensure consistency of operational delivery, optimal use of resources between specialities and overall delivery of all required activity
- To lead on absence management, ensuring all teams monitor their sickness and complete sickness meetings as per UHNT policy
- The job holder will support the SCM with the implementation of service improvement projects and other initiatives within the Directorate and with other stakeholders
- The job holder will be easily identifiable through strong leadership and have a visible presence within the department
- The job holder will support the Patient Experience Team being a focal point for advice to patients and carers and local resolution of complaints
- To coordinate the theatre suite and ensure staffing, skill mix is safe and effective
- Commitment to collaborative team working across disciplines, specialities, teams and Trust wide
- Promote a culture of learning, inclusivity, equality and quality improvement in the clinical areas
- Ensure audits and compliance of key essential policies is embedded in the theatre culture