Modern Matron

Job overview

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 Include, Respect and Improve. It is important that you understand and refer to our values during your recruitment process and beyond

Main duties of the job

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

Working for our organisation

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.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification applicant pack for further detailed information regarding this role.

Person specificationQualifications/TrainingEssential criteria

• Registered Nurse.
• Post Graduate level achievement or equivalent experience
• Management qualification or equivalent experience
• Has continued own professional development

Previous ExperienceEssential criteria

• Substantial NHS experience in an acute environment. Demonstrable achievements in improving patient care, being forward thinking and innovative
• Financial management
• Leading development and implementation and evaluation
• Working effectively across professional boundaries
• Line management experience of groups of staffing

SkillsEssential criteria

• Able to communicate and work effectively and co- operatively with a wide range of people of different backgrounds and viewpoints
• Able to build professional and personal credibility to gain support, express ideas persuasively within a range of settings and environments
• Able to express ideas clearly and succinctly in speech or writing
• Able to demonstrate leadership in others across the Trust and in complex organisational circumstances
• Able to grasp quality issues nationally and locally and achieve implementation of solutions to such issues

KnowledgeEssential criteria

• Have an in-depth understanding of nursing and midwifery policy and its implications for the workforce and future health care delivery
• Understanding of national policy and future impact on acute organisations
• Have a good awareness of equality issues affecting a wide range of individuals and groups
• Understand workforce planning issues facing nursing and the wider Trust and health economy
• Have a thorough understanding of the NHS improvement and performance management agenda

Other requirementsEssential criteria

• Experience and evidence of engagement around the equality, diversity and inclusion agenda. Able to actively support the development of a culture that recognizes and promotes equality, values diversity, and actively leads by example in deploying these qualities. Understands the impact on equality, diversity and inclusion issues in all aspects of service delivery and planning
• Role model our Trust values every day

Our values

We want our staff to believe in, demonstrate and live our values in everything we do.

Include
We value the diversity and experience of our community colleagues and partners, creating relationships and climates that provide an opportunity to share, collaborate and grow together.

Respect
We create a safe environment where we are curious of the lived experience of others, seek out best practice and are open to listening and hearing new ideas.

Improve
We are committed to consistently delivering excellent services and continuously looking to improve through a creative workforce that feels empowered to act in service of our shared purpose.

Committed to our Community

East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust is committed to equality, diversity and inclusion for all job applicants, staff, patients and the wider community. We want to create a workforce which represents the communities we serve. We are on a journey to become a more inclusive organisation and we welcome applications from everyone regardless of their background. In particular we encourage applications from candidates with disabilities, and candidates from Black, Asian and Minority ethnic (BAME) backgrounds who are currently under-represented in various parts of our workforce .

We understand the importance of balancing work and home life. We are committed to support flexible working for our staff wherever possible and all our employees are given the opportunity to discuss potential for flexible working.

We are proud to be a Disability Confident employer and achieved our status in 2019.

We will remove barriers that prospective candidates might face at any stage of our recruitment process. If you have a disability and would like the advert in an alternative format, or would like to talk about how we can adjust the interview process to best support you, please contact us by emailing resourcing.enh-tr@nhs.net

We are also proud to support our UK armed forces by supporting Reservists, Cadet Instructors, Veterans and military spouses/partners into employment and offering supportive policies that value their contribution to the community and to our Trust.

We are committed to being a carer-friendly environment, addressing the complex needs of families with caring responsibilities. In partnership with Carers in Hertfordshire, all our working carers have access to support from recruitment. We are also a member of Carers UK, providing resources to make balancing work and caring easier. Our approach is inclusive, recognizing diverse challenges and creating a supportive environment where carers feel valued.

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