Quality Matron

5 months ago


Manchester, United Kingdom Northern Care Alliance NHS Group Full time

**Job overview**:
Are you looking for a healthcare career in quality and safety? As a registered health care practitioner, with a passion for perioperative care and a proven track record of senior leadership providing quality and safety to perioperative patients, then we are looking to recruit you to our Quality Matron position within Perioperative care at Salford Care Organisation.

Working with the wide range of theatre teams including scrub, anaesthesia, anaesthesia, post operative care, admission and discharge areas you will lead on quality auditing, development of safe systems and quality agendas in line with national and local priorities. Engaging the wider community such as education you will support the development of health care providers in safety and quality through the Theatre Assessment & Accreditation System (TAAS) and the Theatre Excellence Programme (TEP). This role is an exciting role that brings together our teams for safe delivery of care in our clinical areas.

**Main duties of the job**:
Provide effective leadership in the perioperative environment with key responsibilities to support and enhance the safe and quality delivery of care

provide assurance through audit process to the directorate senior leadership team that the care provided in theatres and associated areas is safe and of quality

Support positive patient experience through design and pathway management of perioperative patients

Be an expert in infection control matters providing high levels of leadership in cleanliness and professional clinical standards

**Working for our organisation**:
The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) provides hospital and integrated health and social care services to over one million people living across Greater Manchester. Our 20,000 colleagues care for people in hospital and in the community, working across Bury, Rochdale, Oldham and Salford, to save and improve lives.

As a large NHS trust we are committed to enhancing the health of our local population by delivering consistently high standards of care and working closely with local authorities and key partners. We believe in our power and potential to **make a difference** and we’re always looking for people who demonstrate our three core values - **care**, **appreciate** and **inspire** - to join our team.

In return, we can offer you a job role with purpose and flexibility. The size and scale of the NCA means we can provide more challenge and opportunities so your career can always be moving in the right direction. By joining us you can also access a competitive benefits package, including, a fantastic annual leave allowance, flexible working opportunities and protected hours for health and wellbeing activities, helping you to achieve more personal downtime and a better work-life balance.

**Detailed job description and main responsibilities**:
This vacancy is open to those who have a current NMC PIN to practice as an Registered Nurse or Midwife in the UK, or those who are currently enrolled on a course which means they expect to receive their full NMC PIN within the next 3 months. Please note an NMC PRN PIN is not a full NMC PIN and would not fulfil the essential criteria for this role.

**Person specification**:
**professional registration**:
**Essential criteria**:

- Registered on NMC or HCPC

**Qualifications**:
**Essential criteria**:

- Assessor/supervisor experience

**Desirable criteria**:

- Degree or degree level study
- IPC Qualification
- Leadership Qualification/study

**Knolwedge training & experience**:
**Essential criteria**:

- Evidence of leading change successfully
- Evidence of involvement in the development of programmes of care, protocols and audit
- Evidence of effective communication/negotiation skills
- Evidence of influencing people effectively
- Evidence of the ability to make operational judgments involving complex facts/situations
- Has the ability to manage conflicting views and reconciles inter and intra professional differences of opinion
- Evidence of political awareness
- Evidence of persuasive and strong influencing skills and the ability to manage conflict
- Evidence of effective people management and leadership skills
- Able to demonstrate assertiveness, tact and diplomacy appropriately.
- Demonstrates ability to make operational judgements involving highly complex facts/situations
- Has the ability to manage conflicting views and reconciles inter and intra-professional differences of opinion

**Desirable criteria**:

- Theatre experience at band 7 level

**skills and abilities**:
**Essential criteria**:

- Evidence of persuasive and strong influencing skills and the ability to manage conflict.
- Evidence of effective people management and leadership skills
- Able to demonstrate assertiveness, tact and diplomacy appropriately.
- Demonstrates ability to make operational judgements involving highly complex facts/situations.
- Has the ability to manage conflicting views and reconciles int


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