Clinical Matron

1 week ago

Exeter, United Kingdom Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust Full time

Role Summary

The Perinatal Matron will collaborate with the Senior Leadership Team on the following:

Ensure that appropriate operational workforce planning ensures adequate staffing to deliver the highest standard of care

Meet the national commitment to achieve staffing establishment levels and fill rates by 7/ for midwifery and neonatal nursing staff.

Develop staff retention improvement action plans to identify and address local training opportunities and retention issues.

Implement the core competency framework that will guide local mandatory training programs to keep staff’s skills relevant to their roles up to date.

Ensure all perinatal staff have the opportunity for continuous professional development by taking responsibility for assessing training and learning needs by planning, implementing and evaluating the education and training across the service.

Strategically and operationally work within the perinatal team to promote the teaching, training, and ongoing development of midwifery and nursing staff.

Ensure that the non-registered workforce’s personal, professional, and practice development is an active process within Perinatal Services.

Provide leadership and management expertise.

About the Role

For more information on the Job Description and Responsibilities please click the link below.

More detail about the role:

A fantastic opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic individual to our existing team at Royal Devon University Health Care NHS Foundation Trust as Perinatal Matron. The primary objective of this team is to adopt a perinatal approach to delivering safer, more personalised, and equitable care at RDUH, as set out in the Three-Year Delivery Plan for Maternity and Neonatal Services. The Perinatal Matron will be an experienced individual who is passionate about driving transformational change in healthcare and will work side by side and in collaboration with the current midwifery and children’s matrons. The post holder will serve as an expert midwifery or neonatal nursing practitioner and role model to develop a workforce capable of providing safe and high-quality care standards.

Working Pattern: hours, Monday to Friday with a slot on the on-call senior nurse rota.

Interview Date: To be confirmed, however likely to be week of th September 4

Pay: The salary advertised for this position reflects the Agenda for Change 4-5 rates, inclusive of a pay award implemented from October 4. If you join before this date, the pay award will be backdated to April 4 or your start date, whichever is later. Until then, remuneration will be based on the 3-4 pay bandings (Pay scales for 3/ | NHS Employers).

For further information please contact: Angela Bellamy, Director of Midwifery, an inclusive employer, the Royal Devon values diversity and is committed to creating a culture of inclusivity where everyone can be themselves and reach their full potential. We believe in fostering a sense of belonging and actively encourage applications from individuals of all backgrounds, cultures, and abilities. We recognise the advantages of having a diverse workforce that reflects the communities we serve.

Preference will be given to staff with ‘Priority’ and 'At Risk' status including NHS At Risk staff throughout Devon.

The Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust reserves the right to close vacancy when sufficient applications have been received.

The Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust was established in April 2, bringing together the expertise of both the Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust and Northern Devon Healthcare NHS Trust.

About Us

Stretching across Northern, Eastern and Mid Devon, we have a workforce of over , staff, making us the largest employer in Devon. Our core services, which we provide to more than , people, cover more than 2, square miles across Devon, while some of our specialist services cover the whole of the peninsula, extending our reach as far as Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly.

We deliver a wide range of emergency, specialist and general medical services through North Devon District Hospital and the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital (Wonford). Alongside our two acute hospitals, we provide integrated health and social care services across a variety of settings, including community inpatient hospitals, outpatient clinics, and within people’s own homes. We also offer primary care services, a range of specialist community services, and Sexual Assault Referral Centres (SARC).

Our state-of-the-art equipment, leading technologies and strong links to local universities put us at the forefront of research and innovations, enabling us to provide world-class care to our local communities.

Our values are at the heart of everything we do, click here to find out more

It has never been a more exciting time to join the Royal Devon, as you will help to shape our services as we continue along our integration journey.

Benefits

Looking after you is important to us.

We strive to help our staff create a healthy work-life balance through flexible working schemes and our family friendly policies.

If you are starting out in the NHS, you’ll start with days paid annual leave (plus bank holidays), rising to days plus bank holidays.

You will benefit from access to our own comprehensive occupational health services, including counselling, onsite wellbeing activities and groups.

We will work together to maintain a culture that develops and supports you and your team.

This might include funding for a care certificate, a degree or leadership qualifications. Or it might include days off to study, engage in CPD or rotational placements to help you hone your skills. Wherever you are heading in the NHS, we will help you get there.

Salary is not the only financial benefit

You will have access to an extensive range of staff discounts on shopping, fitness and leisure options and you can spread the cost of technology and home appliance purchases from major retailers. You will also have access to other benefits including:

National discount services such as the Blue Light Card and Health Service Discounts. Salary sacrifice options including our OFSTED rated outstanding nursery onsite at Exeter Car lease schemes. The NHS Pension scheme (one of the most generous and comprehensive in the UK). Cycle to work scheme

These are just a few of the benefits available – if the role is something you are interested in, we would love to hear from you.

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