Matron – Emergency Department

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Full time
Location: Aylesbury
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Job offered by: NHS
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Are you an enthusiastic, dynamic, and innovative senior nurse looking for the next challenge in your nursing career?

Are you interested in developing your role in Emergency Care and attracted to joining a progressive team who have a vision of developing new pathways across the 'Emergency Floor'?

Do you have the drive and determination to ensure that the Emergency Care team strive to consistently deliver outstanding care and exemplary experiences to their patients?

Are you knowledgeable in Emergency Care and have the experience and skills needed to provide professional clinical guidance and support the team through visible leadership, to deliver safe, high quality and cost-effective care, whilst also maintaining compliance with emergency care standards?

Could you be the ideal candidate to be our new Emergency Department Matron? If so, we would like to hear from you.

Main duties of the job

Provide senior clinical leadership.

Identify new ways of working and influence others, whilst considering various perspectives.

Able to respect the feelings of others and can be responsive to both individuals and organisational needs.

Provide specialist clinical knowledge and expertise in their related field.

Provide a positive visible role model; influencing best practice from the clinical base.

Work closely and supportively with the Department/ Service Managers in the allocated area, to develop and improve nursing practice.

Job responsibilities To provide senior clinical leadership by being creative with both human and physical resources; can look at new ways of working, highlighting new possibilities and can influence others, having the ability to see and understand situations from various perspectives.

The post holder needs to be able to respect the feelings of others and can be responsive to both individuals and organisational needs, having the ability to be supportive of others particularly when experiencing change management.

The post holder will need to provide specialist clinical knowledge and expertise in their related field. They will be a driver of qualitative, innovative, productive, safe evidence-based nursing care which promotes best practice and best outcomes for patients.

Outcomes will be based on direct and indirect patient feedback, internal and external audits, peer reviews, Matrons rounds, and corporate quality targets for both patients and staff.

The role is one that is 50% clinical and 50% managerial. The post holder will provide a positive visible role model; influencing best practice from the clinical base; challenging, encouraging, coaching, and mentoring appraisal needs of staff as they become apparent.

The post holder will work closely and supportively with the Department/ Service Managers in the allocated area, to develop and improve nursing practice, improve staff morale, resolve problems for patients and their relatives efficiently and effectively, ensuring that the workforce levels and skill mix are safe and appropriate.

Person Specification Eduction, Qualifications & Training

RN or AHP

Degree in related field (or equivalent experience)

Significant related experience in a clinical area

Teaching and Assessment recognised qualification

Completion of appropriate management and leadership programme

Working towards Masters in related subject or willing to complete

Experience

Significant experience at a senior nursing level within related field.

Proven track record in change management, team leadership, performance management.

Previous experience to teaching, lecturing large audiences

Skills, Abilities, & Knowledge

Excellent communication and interpersonal skills

Ability to demonstrate appropriate non antagonistic behaviour in stressful situations.

Evidence of participation in audit, research, and development of staff

Proven track record when dealing with human resource issues.

Proven ability to utilise word, power point and excel to a level of producing documents, reports

Proven ability to analyse highly complex problems and to develop and successfully implement practical and workable solutions to address them

Special Circumstances

Good team worker

The post holder is required to work across all sites and will be required to travel between the sites in a timely manner.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

£53,755 to £60,504 a year per annum pro rata

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