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Neonatal Matron

2 months ago

Preston, Lancashire, United Kingdom Lancashire Teaching Hospitals Full time
Job Overview

A rare opportunity has arisen for a 12-month secondment into the role of neonatal matron, providing clinical leadership to the neonatal unit, transitional care unit, neonatal outreach team, and newborn hearing screening team.

This provides an opportunity for a senior nurse to gain experience of senior operational clinical leadership and to experience working as part of a triumvirate within the divisional leadership structure.

Main Responsibilities
  • Provide professional leadership, guidance, development, and support for nurses and care staff, ensuring the provision of excellent care with compassion.
  • Monitor and improve the efficient and effective management of resources and the care environment, ensuring services and staff are organized to meet the needs of patients.
  • Lead and develop staff by being a visible, authoritative role model, providing clinical and managerial leadership, support, and direction.
  • Ensure clinical services are developed and delivered in line with national policy, trust priorities, available evidence, and patient care needs.
  • Contribute to the delivery of the trust and directorate safety, quality, and clinical governance priorities and associated work programs.
  • Ensure the productive operation of their areas through the monitoring and maintenance of the highest standards of clinical care, creating safe, clean, and organized services.
Person Specification

Qualifications & Education

  • Appropriate Professional Registration
  • Neonatal Qualified in Specialty qualification
  • Degree within healthcare/research
  • 1st Line management/leadership development course
  • Teaching and Assessing qualification
  • Evidence of Continuous Professional Development
  • Level 3 safeguarding training

Knowledge & Experience

  • Substantial and relevant post-registration experience in neonatal nursing
  • Significant experience of working in a senior nursing role, including nursing management or team leadership
  • Proven ability to flexibly manage manpower and other resources
  • Able to demonstrate a personal contribution to the continuing professional development of staff
  • Able to demonstrate a sound working knowledge of current issues within the NHS
  • Knowledge of Clinical Governance and Safeguarding and the relevance of these to practice
  • Experience of contributing to service developments and business planning
  • Awareness of budgetary management and control
  • Experience of managing and completing 'performance management' processes