Senior Matron

4 weeks ago

Colchester, United Kingdom East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust Full time

Job overview

Are you an existing experienced matron within Urgent and Emergency care? Do you have proven leadership experience of strategic vision and team collaboration to drive individual and collective success? Are you ready to embark on a transformative journey with a senior leadership opportunity?

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced leader to join our division in a senior clinical position as Senior Matron for our division.

The senior matron post holds an important professional role for the delivery of services providing strong and inspirational leadership to help influence and change the development of these services for the patients.

We are looking for a highly motivated, dynamic and passionate individual with proven leadership experience who has the energy to support and coach staff to ensure best practice across services. You will be required to be an exceptional communicator, problem solver and able to build positive and effective relationships.

Main duties of the job

You will work as an integral member of the management team to lead the development and delivery of service provision within the Division; with a strong focus on patient safety and improving patient experience. 

This post will support with patients having a seamless experience through our Urgent and Emergency care pathways. In addition we are looking to support and re-energise our workforce and have efficient processes to ensure timely emergency flow.

You will provide managerial, professional and clinical leadership to nursing and support staff, ensuring the professional contributions of these staff is maximised to achieve the Trusts objectives and strategic goals in accordance with user needs, and national and local professional standards.

Working for our organisation

One of the largest Trust’s in East Anglia, East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust (ESNEFT) provide hospital and community health services to people living across a wide geographical area. We deliver care from two main hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, six community hospitals and in patients’ own homes. You will be joining a team of almost 12,000 amazing colleagues providing care to approximately a million people. 

Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals we offer a generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments (if applicable), 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata) and access to a range of NHS discounts. Our Staff Health and Wellbeing programme offer a variety of services. We offer a range of flexible working opportunities. 

Our philosophy is that Time Matters to everyone. Across the Trust, we concentrate on improving the things we do and removing those which do not work or cause time delays for our staff and patients. 

To support our employees to achieve their career aspirations you may be eligible to obtain a qualification via an apprenticeship. All successful applicants will be required to undertake a skills review to facilitate this. For full details please see the attached Apprenticeship Handbook. 

If you are passionate about patient care and want to develop your skills and knowledge then we are keen to hear from you. 

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Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For full details of the responsibilities and duties of this role please see the attached job description.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

Evidence of academic pathway equivalent to Degree in Nursing or Health Related study Masters Degree in relation to health management or equivalent Professional nursing qualification Demonstration and evidence of personal professional development

Desirable criteria

Masters Degree or working toward/unit/departments Masters Degree level education Management Leadership Qualification, which has been tested in a management post

Experience

Essential criteria

Proven experience at senior nurse level and proven recent experience as Band 8a or above with highly developed and detailed knowledge and experience of the following: Current health policy and its impact on the management and development of acute health services Experience of effective budgetary management Significant experience of effective staff management Providing complex advice to specialist and non-specialist staff

Desirable criteria

Evidence of effective working relationships both inside and outside the organisation Leadership Facilitator Experience of leading strategic/cross Trust changes Experience in preparing business cases

Skills

Essential criteria

Heightened awareness of national nursing and midwifery initiatives Excellent communication skills, including the ability to liaise & negotiate Proven ability to lead teams effectively, exercising sound judgement Ability to think & plan strategically, tactically & creatively and prioritise work programmes in the face of competing demands The ability to work co-operatively with senior staff within the Trust & to develop effective working relationships across the Divisions Strong quality focus with an innovative approach & the ability to solve complex problems

Desirable criteria

Experience of working to a strategic direction and have contributed to this. Developed Business Cases and successfully delivered change Carried out clinical changes in light of changing evidence base

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