Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen within the Medicine Division for an enthusiastic, motivated senior nurse to join the leadership team in Emergency Medicine.

This Matron position seeks a Senior Nurse with significant post-registration qualification experience in Leadership and Staff Management. The post holder will be required to strike an effective balance between management and clinical responsibilities. The post provides the opportunity to lead on patient safety and experience with additional focus on nursing and service development.

The successful candidate will be patient focused and have enhanced strengths in communication, taking a compassionate and ultimately professional approach to the delivery of high quality, safe patient care at all times.

You will need to be an innovative individual who possesses excellent communication skills, putting the patient at the centre of all you do. You will need excellent organisational and leadership skills in addition to possessing the ability to work cohesively within a multi-disciplinary team

If you have what it takes to lead a dynamic team of nurses within a dynamic service we would like to hear from you.

Main duties of the job

The Matron’s role is the cornerstone of improving the quality of patient care within the Division; through visible inclusive leadership and engagement with patients and families, frontline staff senior management teams, the Trust and its key stakeholders. The Matron forms an equal part of the Triumvirate leadership for the services they manage along with the Clinical Director and Service Manager.

The Matron’s role is instrumental in promoting high standards of clinical care, reducing health inequalities and promoting equality for all; as well as supporting workforce retention and recruitment; staff education and development; compassionate, inclusive leadership and patient safety. It is an integral part of the Matrons role to maintain clinical competence by working in their areas providing support, guidance, leadership and clinical advice to staff. The post holder should have a full awareness and understanding of the Matron’s Handbook (NHS England & NHS Improvement January 2020).

Working for our organisation

North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Hospital Trust (NMUH) is one of London’s busiest healthcare providers, providing hospital care and community services for the 350,000 people living in Enfield, Haringey and beyond.

Our specialist services include HIV, cardiology, blood disorders, diabetes, fertility, sickle cell and thalassemia. In addition to a full range of cancer diagnosis and treatment services, the Helen Rollason Cancer Support Centre is based on-site and provides services to support cancer patients’ wellbeing.

We also provide community services and have a dedicated 0-19 service for children and young people in Enfield so that they can get the best possible start in life. This includes health visitors and school nurses who are delivering the national Healthy Child Programme, which provides a structured framework for the delivery of key interventions to support the health and wellbeing of children and families from 0 to 5 and school aged children from 5-19. The 0-19 service aims to improve pathways and partnerships with services in the hospital and deliver excellent care for the children and families.

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Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Through compassionate and inclusive leadership – Lead and influence your staff to deliver high quality care for patients by:

Being a visible leader and providing an authoritative presence, using strategic thinking to spread understanding of the organisation’s aims and demonstrating organisational values and behaviours through role modelling and being available to support staff and patients and advancing equality and opportunity for all Display clinical and professional credibility through enabling and empowering staff and acting as an advocate, within areas of responsibility on a regular basis, through working clinically alongside the teams in your Educate other professionals and members of the public about the Matron’s role and share knowledge, develop individual and team skills and seek out creative opportunities, as well as standardising practice Ensure a professional appearance and maintain professional standards, lead by example and be aware of their own leadership style, using self-awareness, being open to receiving and learning from feedback and being aware of unconscious biases Be able to understand local policies, practice and frameworks and participating in national andregional initiatives, keeping up to date with the national agenda such as the CNO’s strategy, which includes raising the profile of nursing and speaking with one voice Build trust in the workforce by helping to achieve personal, team and organisational objectives and ensuring consistent practice by implementing and embedding local and national standards of Demonstrate respect to all patients and carers and involving them in decisions about their care – respecting their diverse needs and reducing inequalities of access to care and care delivered

Person specification

Education and Qualifications

Essential criteria

Registered Nurse/RSCN Evidence of continued professional development Operational management experience Management Qualification Advanced Emergency Nursing Qualification

Desirable criteria

Masters level study ALS ATNC EPALS

Skills and Abilities

Essential criteria

Leadership abilities developed through experience and training both formal and informal Able to demonstrate change management skills Maintain clinical competence in ED nursing Able to demonstrate organisational skills Knowledge of current changes and developments within the NHS Clinical Governance Budget Management Clinical nursing expertise Skill-mix and Workforce Planning including effective Healthroster management

Experience

Essential criteria

Clinically wide-ranging in the field of Emergency Nursing Proven ability of working within a multi-disciplinary team and evidence of team development Experience of implementation of service developments Experience of managing Nursing establishments and Skill Mix reviews Staff management

Personal Attributes

Essential criteria

Ability to motivate and coach others Sensitive and compassionate Clarity of thought and articulate in presenting ideas and opinions Ability to work as part of a team Role model Negotiating skills

Trust Values

Essential criteria

Demonstrable ability to meet Trust values

We reserve the right to expire vacancies prior to the advertised closing date once a sufficient number of applications have been received.

You will only be contacted by the Recruitment Team via email if you are shortlisted for this post. Please ensure therefore that you check your e-mail account regularly.

Please note in order to progress your application, your data will be processed by our 3rd party recruitment providers – North London Partners Shared Service, (NLPSS) who conduct recruitment activities on behalf of NMUH.

If you are offered a role with one of the NLPSS partner trusts, as part of pre-employment checks your  identity and right to work documentation will be verified remotely (in most circumstances), using a certified identity verification service provider TrustID. You will be asked to capture an image of the relevant documents as well as a “selfie” using your smartphone/tablet (if available) for facial matching. TrustID will also perform a digital address check using Trunarrative and Equifax, which is a soft check and does not leave a footprint on your credit rating. For more information, visit

NMUH uses identification scanning technology to confirm the authenticity of documents; all prospective employees of NMUH will have their original documents verified using this technology.

By applying for this post you are agreeing to NMUH transferring the information contained in this application to its preferred applicant management system. All subsequent information regarding your application will be generated from apps.trac.jobs. You will not be able to track the progress of your application or receive messages through the NHS Jobs website, and as an employer, we will not be able to respond to any e-mails sent to us via the NHS Jobs website. If you are offered a job, information will also be transferred into the national NHS Electronic Staff Record (ESR) system and other secure, internal NHS workforce systems.

By applying for this role, you accept in the event you are successful that your personal data may be transferred from the Trust to another NHS organisation where your employment transfers within the NHS. This is in accordance with the streamlining programme which is aimed at saving you time and improving efficiencies within the NHS when your employment transfers. Therefore we want you to complete your e-learning modules prior to joining our organisation.

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