The Matron role works with the Heads of Nursing and Operational Managers to provide clinical and operational leadership to the respective clinical area. A key element of the role will be setting the tone and modelling collective and compassionate leadership behaviours that build positive staff engagement and ensure that our patients experience the best and safest care with us.

We are looking for nurse leaders who can support teams across the area of responsibility to further build their clinical capability and confidence. We are really interested, not just in your clinical excellence, but also your ability to be a visible, optimistic, and compassionate leader who will develop staff by understanding their needs and aspirations, bringing your ideas, and actively contributing to further improve collaborative working across the clinical areas.

Main duties of the job

We believe that a greater combination of difference in our teams will bring more openness, energy, and discussion to make a real difference to the experience at work of our diverse staff.

If you believe that you have the relevant skills, experience, and values we are seeking, we look forward to receiving your application.

Royal Papworth Hospital is proud to employ a diverse workforce who is encouraged to use their individuality to provide exceptional and personalised patient care. We believe that our strength as an organisation relies on our ability to foster an environment which encourages using our differences as a strength.

About us

Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is the UK's leading heart and lung hospital, delivering care to more than 50,000 patients a year in its new state-of-the-art hospital in Cambridge. We perform the most heart and/or lung transplants in the UK and carried out the UK's first successful heart transplant in 1979. It also offers emergency heart attack treatment, sleep centre care and is one of just five centres nationally for those in severe respiratory failure.

Based on the Cambridge Biomedical Campus the largest centre of medical research and health science in Europe the Trust is at the heart of treatments of the future. Royal Papworth became the first hospital trust in the country to be rated outstanding in all five areas assessed by the Care Quality Commission - a rating it still holds today. The Trust holds its values of compassion, excellence & collaboration at its core, and all colleagues joining the team are expected to uphold these in their day-to-day roles & interactions. Royal Papworth is proud of its diverse workforce and encourages people to embrace their individuality.

The Trust values difference and welcomes all applications irrespective of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy & maternity, race, religion & belief, sex and sexual orientation. Providing they meet the minimum post criteria, applicants with disabilities will be offered an interview.

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Job description

Job responsibilities

On this page you will find a Role Profile which provides information about the hospital and full details about the role. We recommend that you review this and refer to it as you complete your application. Please include how you will meet the Trust Values Compassion, Excellence and Collaboration. If you would like more information about the role or working at Royal Papworth Hospital, please get in touch with the contact for this role.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Current registration with NMC
• Master's degree in nursing or working towards a Master's degree or willingness to undertake, or equivalent
• Leadership and management training/ qualification

Desirable

• Teaching or mentorship qualification
• Budget training

Experience

Essential

• Proven track record (through feedback from peers, other colleagues, and patients) that you can lead staff in a compassionate and collective way, empowering them to develop and lead within their areas of responsibility and ensuring that their health and wellbeing are a priority
• Experience in managing change
• Experience in staff development- mentorship, coaching, and supervision
• Ability to collaborate effectively with multi-disciplinary teams to improve patient care and experience and to build strong staff engagement
• Proven experience in undertaking audits, Serious Untoward incidents, and change management skills
• Experience in writing and implementing Standard Operating Procedures in own area of practice
• Ability to work autonomously
• Experience at Band 7 or above
• Give honest and professional feedback to colleagues
• Ability to prioritise own work
• IT skills -- good working knowledge of MS Office applications
• Able to facilitate and support learning
• Effective communication and interpersonal skills

Desirable

• Operational leadership

Additional Criteria

Essential

• Please provide evidence of your commitment to uphold the Trust's values: Compassion, Excellence, Collaboration
• Ability to deal with many conflicting priorities
• Flexibility: Ability to cope with new and changing demands and emotionally demanding situations e.g. dealing with distressed patients and sometimes challenging visitors and staff

Employer details

Employer name

Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Royal Papworth Hospital

Papworth Road

Cambridge Bio Medical Campus

Cambridge

CB2 0AY

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