Clinical Matron

Job summary

Hours per week

An exciting secondment opportunity has arisen for a Clinical Matron to join our Digestive Diseases, Urology and General Surgery are seeking a highly motivated individual with a proven track record of progressive, transformational leadership, to drive a culture of quality care to improve outcomes and experience for patients who use our services.

The successful candidate will hold responsibility for ensuring the efficient and effective day to day running of nursing/midwifery within their designated area of responsibility, to deliver key quality, performance and financial plans, achieving key service improvements and line management to designated staff.

Main duties of the job

The successful candidate will be somebody who encompasses our Trust Values and will work with staff, to ensure that our services are safe and effective.

You must possess excellent interpersonal, communication and organisational skills; you should be able to demonstrate your experience of developing a culture of high performance and excellence.

You will be responsible for ensuring effective, day to day management of nursing in your area, to achieve safe staffing levels, deliver key quality, performance and financial plans and achieve service improvements. You will also be expected to participate in supporting the wider operational and strategic management of the Trust. Leadership experience in this specialty would be advantageous but is not essential.

About us

Leadership and Improvement Training

South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust offers leadership and improvement training to all new staff. This training programme has been designed to support our leaders in developing their understanding of leadership and management skills. You will be expected to attend the following training sessions

Your Leadership Impact

Leading your Team to Success

Leading Into the Future

Service Improvement for Beginners

Developing your Service Improvement Skills

Lean Practitioner

The leadership and improvement programme aims to:

Explore leadership within the NHS Promote Trust values and behaviours Develop your leadership effectiveness and skills Equip staff with the necessary knowledge and skills to lead and complete service improvements within the scope of your role.

After you complete these six and a half days of training you will be able to explore further leadership and improvement training opportunities. We also offer a range of additional in-house and externally provided courses and bitesize programmes through our Leadership and Improvement Team.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see the full job description and person specification document(s) for main responsibilities of the role.

Person Specification

Knowledge and Skills

Essential

Management and clinical skills with well-developed leadership, influencing skills and the ability to engage, influence and motivate Knowledge and a proven track record of recent operational and clinical nursing/midwifery management and the ability to be intellectually flexible and to look beyond existing structures and ways of working Knowledge and demonstrable capability of service improvements, strategies for infection control and transformational leadership Knowledge and experience of contributing to and effectively implementing the Nursing/midwifery Strategy. To have a working knowledge of the Mental Capacity Act

Qualifications and Training

Essential

Degree or diploma in a relevant subject A Masters level Degree or equivalent demonstrable experience First level registered nurse/midwife Evidence of recent relevant professional development

Experience

Essential

Evidence and experience of positive leadership skills and the ability to transform and lead a team to work effectively together Evidence and experience of relevant continuing professional development and developing clinical practice Recent experience and evidence of a track record of effective management of change.

Personal Attributes

Essential

Team Leadership - Has the ability to create and communicate a clear vision and direction in order to create a motivated and engaged team and foster an environment where groups and individuals can achieve high performance. Customer Focused - Builds and manages stakeholder relationships and exceeds patient and commissioner expectations by accurately assessing patient needs Business Aware - Demonstrates a working knowledge of the current market environment in order to assist in the development of the Centre business and improve performance. Team worker - Builds personal networks, recognises the value of other team members in enhancing overall performance and encourages and enables contributions from all other team members. Good Communicator - Communicates in a clear and concise manner in the language of the audience and checks that communicated messages have been received and understood. Knowledge Sharing - Seeks applies and shares knowledge both internally and externally by making use of the knowledge and experience of other team members and colleagues in order to improve clinical performance. Personal Development - Manages personal and professional development seeks opportunities for further development and skill enhancement and solicits constructive feedback in order to improve performance.

Desirable

Attendance at the leadership and development and improvement programme ( days)

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