This matron role is part of our new Making Room for Dignity project which will reinvigorate our acute inpatient settings with newly purpose built and refurbished facilities. The role is a the key clinical leader within the adult acute service and essential to the delivery of high quality patient led care.

The successful candidate will work alongside two matron colleagues and the Heads of Nursing to ensure quality, performance and safety within these care environments and across the acute care division. This role will specifically work with the female acute inpatient wards across the Radbourne and Kingsway sites and include the new Audrey House Enhanced Care Unit.

This role provides visible clinical knowledge, expertise and leadership for nurses and other health professionals providing care in an inpatient setting to ensure safe, high quality and effective delivery of care.

The post holder will be accountable for the unit and ward based acute care teams, be visible and available to ward team staff, patients and carers and be responsive to their experiences of care and concerns about the ward environment.

In collaboration, the post-holder will collectively with respective matrons, clinical and practice leads across the urgent care pathway (assessment/community/inpatients) to ensure there is no silos working in the matrons dedicated area and ensure a collective leadership model is used across their area and the wider division.

Main duties of the job

The matron will provide clinical leadership and support for nursing staff to maintain clinical and non-clinical standards of care to include the implementation and sustainability of quality improvement. This includes ensuring that CQC standards are met and exceeded. They will demonstrate a level of healthy curiosity about safe care delivery and be actively engaged in the management of risk and associated care planning, management and treatment to ensure high standards are delivered and maintained. The individual will be highly visible and easily identifiable to staff, patients and their families and/or carers.

Broad examples of duties include:

• Leading by example
• Ensuring patients get quality care (positive patient experience, effective nursing care, patient safety)
• Ensuring staffing is appropriate to patient need.
• Empowering nurses to take on a wider range of clinical activities.
• Improving hospital cleanliness
• Improving wards for patients
• Making sure patients are treated with respect and dignity.
• Preventing hospital acquired infections.

The matron will undertake specific service improvement and development projects using continuous improvement and quality impact assessment methodologies. Part of this includesa responsibility to ensure the best use of the resources necessary to ensure safe, effective and positive inpatient experience and will be accountable for the oversight and management of the associated clinical leads.

About us

Join 'Team Derbyshire' and become part of a talented, compassionate and enthusiastic workforce committed to a vision of 'making a positive difference in people's lives'.

Benefits include:

Commitment to flexible working where this is possible

27 days annual leave/year plus bank holidays, increasing to 29 days after 5 years & 33 days after 10 years' service

Yearly appraisal and commitment to ongoing training

Generous NHS pension scheme

Good maternity, paternity and adoption benefits

Health service discounts and online benefits

Incremental pay progression

Free confidential employee assistance programme 24/7

Access to our LGBT+ network, BAME Network and Christian Network

Health and wellbeing opportunities

Structured learning and development opportunities

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please review the Job Description and Person Specification. To apply, please click APPLY FOR THIS JOB - this link will take you to the TRAC Recruitment Site. You will need to register if you do not already have an account.

The acute matron will focus on the clinical support and delivery of the clinical quality, safety and learning elements for our new and refurbished female inpatient wards in Derby.

Applicants must have extensive acute inpatient experience to ensure they have the knowledge, skills and clinical credibility to undertake the role, to ensure the guidance provided is accurate, up-to-date with national guidance and practicable for delivery within new ward environments.

The matron will lead the service working closely with the Area Service Manager for the wards, alongside ward managers and clinical leads to monitor clinical quality standards ensuring these are maintained for all patients.

As matron, the post holder is expected to ensure that service provision is responsive to patient need and that service planning involves patients and reflects the diverse population served. The post holder will work closely with ward managers, Heads of Nursing and ASM colleagues across the Trust the interest of patient care. Specifically:

• To work in partnership with the Senior Management Team to develop and deliver the divisional Integrated Business Plan and implement the Performance Assessment and Assurance framework. The role requires taking a lead role in performance assurance, activity monitoring and risk management, within the defined portfolio.
• To provide direct leadership for ward managers and senior nurses to ensure development of services and standards of cleanliness across the Adult Acute inpatient areas.
• Undertake delegated responsibilities for governance of standards (AIMs), ensuring systems are in place to effectively manage resources.
• Support the General Manager in developing capacity and capability to deliver local and national priorities within the defined service area.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Degree or professional qualification (RMN/RNLD)
• Evidence of continuing professional development

Desirable

• Relevant post registration qualification

Experience

Essential

• Demonstrate evidence of leading clinical/nursing strategic change initiatives
• Experience of leadership within an acute clinical setting
• Displays personal credibility and assertiveness to relate on terms of equality to senior medical and managerial staff.
• Experience of writing, developing or updating clinical policies and procedures
• Experience in clinical performance assurance, activity monitoring and risk management

Knowledge

Essential

• Ability to analyse problems and propose realistic solutions.
• Excellent verbal and written communication.
• Knowledge of governance of standards for Acute inpatient services

Employer details

Employer name

Derbyshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Radbourne Unit

Uttoxeter Road,

Derby

DE22 3WQ

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383-ACA-5240-24