Matron - Trauma, Plastics and Orthopaedics

**Matron for surgery**: Trauma Orthopaedics & Plastics - six month secondment
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced, highly motivated, enthusiastic individual to join the Surgery directorate as Matron at Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospital. We are looking for an innovative and passionate nurse who can lead the delivery of excellent nursing care for our Trauma, Orthopaedic and Plastic wards.
The role is based at St Thomas Hospital and covers emergency trauma surgery and plastic surgery. We have a dedicated hand trauma unit with its own minor surgery theatre and a brand new fracture clinic.
**Closing Date**: 7th October 2024
**Interview Date**: 14th October 2024
The role also supports flow and operational activity through the bed base ensuring admission processes are clearly and appropriately communicated and managed and responding proactively to any staffing or patient safety concerns
- Provide direct line management to the ward/department managers & some specialist nurses
- Monitor and maintain clinical best practice standards within in-patient and outpatient areas
- Ensure excellent patient experience by responding swiftly to any concerns and working closely with the Surgical Matrons the QIPS team and MDT
- Uphold effective multi-disciplinary team relationships with medical, nursing and admin teams across the wider directorate and network.
- Play a key role in both managing risk and governance across our wards and lead on operational and strategic elements of this, ensuring patient safety and quality care.

Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust comprises five of the UK’s best known hospitals - Guy’s, St Thomas’, Evelina London Children’s Hospital, Royal Brompton and Harefield - as well as community services in Lambeth and Southwark, all with a long history of high quality care, clinical excellence, research and innovation.
We are among the UK’s busiest, most successful foundation trusts. We provide specialist care for patients including heart and lung, cancer and renal services as well as a full range of local hospital and community services for people in Lambeth and Southwark.
We have a long tradition of clinical and scientific achievement and - as part of King’s Health Partners - we are one of England’s eight academic health sciences centres, bringing together world-class clinical services, teaching and research. We have one of the National Institute for Health Research’s biomedical research centres, established with King’s College London in 2007, as well as dedicated clinical research facilities.
We have around 22,700 staff, making us one of the largest NHS Trusts in the country and one of the biggest employers locally. We aim to reflect the diversity of the communities we serve and continue to develop new and existing partnerships with local people, patients, neighbouring NHS organisations, local authorities and charitable bodies and GPs.
Through strong clinical leadership the Matron will support the Ward and Departmental Sisters/Charge Nurses to promote excellence in nursing and midwifery care to maintain and improve clinical standards. The post holder will ensure that all patients are treated with compassion, dignity and respect placing value on the diversity of the local community and beyond. He/she will promote best practice in the prevention of infection through ensuring a clean and safe environment.
The Matron’s 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. The post holder will be expected to work clinically for 75% of their time and where required will be a specialist in their clinical area.
Each Clinical Directorate is led by a Directorate Management Team including the Clinical Director, General Manager and the Head of Nursing supported by Deputy Head of Nursing and Deputy General Manager. The Matrons report to the Head of Nursing who have overarching responsibility for the operational management and strategic direction of nursing.

**Responsibilities**:
**1. Performance management**:
To manage the delivery of all nursing aspects of the agreed outputs for their area of responsibility, as set out in the Performance Contract, by:

- Holding Ward/Departmental Sister/Charge Nurse to account for delivery of their objectives in clinical areas.
- Ensuring effective action is taken where nursing performance is at risk of falling below expected levels and standards are not maintained.
- Ensuring that the Trust’s Nursing and Midwifery priorities are implemented locally.

**2. Risk & clinical governance**:
Ensure patients are cared for in a clean and safe environment taking remedial action if standards are not maintained.
Be champions for driving the infection prevention and control agenda and challenging poor practice.
Manage and respond to complaints and adverse incidents.
Undertake root cause analysis