Matron - Specialist Ambulatory Services
2 weeks ago
Job overview
4 Month Secondment
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a 4 month secondment in the Specialist Ambulatory Services Directorate for an enthusiastic and forward-thinking leader to join our friendly team as an Outpatient Matron at Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospital. If you are passionate about patient care and wish to influence and develop nursing leaders for the future, come and join us.
We seek a passionate, highly motivated, and proactive individual who enjoys working within a busy environment, alongside a large MDT caring for Dermatology and community dermatology outpatient services. The successful candidate will need to demonstrate evidence of Senior Nursing leadership, excellent communication skills, transformation skills and a willingness to develop the surgical oncology inpatient and outpatient services.
The successful candidate will work closely with the Head of Nursing and Deputy Head of Nursing and be instrumental in delivering on all aspects of clinical governance. You will actively participate and contribute to the ongoing development of clinical practice, research and standards of care within the directorate, as well as policies, protocols, guidelines and service developments.
Visible leadership is key in this role and the successful candidate will be someone who encompasses our Trust values.
Closing date: 24th May 2024
Interview date: 29th May 2024
Main duties of the job
Through strong clinical leadership the Matron will support the Departmental Sisters/Charge Nurses to promote excellence in nursing 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.
The successful candidate will also have key working relationships with other senior nursing colleagues across the integrated specialist medicine.
Working for our organisation
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
Detailed job description and main 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 and develop action plans, ensuring that this leads to change in practice.
Lead on the implementation of patient safety strategies such as Standards Took Kit, Saving Lives and Clinical Indicators.
3. Professional leadership and staff management:
Be a visible leader who is accessible to patients, visitors and staff.
Provide professional and clinical leadership.
Take forward and develop the specialist contribution nursing and midwifery can make in the designated areas.
Develop Ward/Departmental Sister/Charge Nurse in leadership and management.
4. Departmental & staff organisation:
Work in collaboration with the clinical teams on a daily basis. Monitor and action decisions in relation to clinical areas ensuring an appropriate nursing skill mix in relation to activity and acuity. Manage and report any risk issues to the Head of Nursing in a timely manner.
The Matron will:
Review skill mix and deployment of staff within the area of responsibility, working closely with other Matrons within the Directorate.
Ensure nurse rostering meets service demands and is cost effective and adheres to Trust guidelines.
Review and agree bank and agency requirements and usage and control bank and agency spend.
Oversee recruitment processes and ensure they are adhered to in a timely manner.
Please see attached job description for full details.
Person specification
Qualifications Education
Essential criteria
First Level Register Nurse Evidence of equivalent knowlege and experience to master level A proven track record of operation management at a senior level in an acute hospital
Previous experience
Essential criteria
Demonstrates previous success in delivering and leading change Ability to think and plan strategically, tactically and creatively A good understanding of the changing NHS environment
Skills / knowledge/ ability
Essential criteria
Well developed leadership and influencing skills A demonstrable commitment to improving patient servicesGuy’s and St Thomas’ celebrates, respects and values the diversity of its staff and patients. We review our policies, procedures and practices to ensure that all employees, patients and carers are treated equitable according to their needs. We are actively committed to ensuring that no one who applies for a job, works or study’s at the Trust, or accesses our services is discriminated against on the grounds of race, ethnicity, nationality, disability, religion or belief, age, gender identity , gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity/paternity, or marital/civil partnership.
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