We are offering an exciting opportunity to work within the Trauma and Orthopaedics Directorate. Working along side the Senior matron and the Trauma and orthopaedic Team, you will need to develop a close working relationship with Staff, Consultants, Departments Directorates and Trust Managers across the Multi disciplinary Team. We are seeking An experienced healthcare professional to lead and develop the service and workforce to drive forward initiatives to enhance standards and transform practice. There will be a requirement to work across all UHD sites

This role requires an NMC Registration

Base Location: Royal Bournemouth and Poole Hospital

Interview Date: TBC

Main duties of the job

To provide clinical and professional leadership to assigned clinical wards and departments and specialist nursing/midwifery teams ensuring that action is taken at all levels to empower nurses/midwives/AHP's to provide high standards of care in a safe environment.

The right candidate will be given opportunities to lead on areas such as:

• monitoring of clinical standards
• sustainable safe staffing
• ensuring patient experience is of the highest quality
• promoting best practice in the prevention of infection
• elements of transformation work
• visible clinical leadership

About us

Our values define who we are as #TeamUHD. They underpin everything we do now and in the future. They define how we treat our patients, visitors, and each other, our valued teammates and colleagues.

UHD are investing in services across the Trust, with many being transformed and developed following merger and the New Hospital Programme.

This means that some services may move site this year or next, either temporarily or long term. Recruiting Managers interviewing for this role will be happy to answer any specific questions that you have about this at interview.

Job description

Job responsibilities

The Matron is responsible for delivering the Trusts Strategy and objectives, within their area of responsibility including:

• Ensuring the standardisation of services across all relevant areas to the best possible level, so that all patients experience equally high quality care
• Supporting the planning and managing services to ensure the best possible use of resources
• Supporting the development of a sustainable safe workforce that is fit for the future within area of responsibility
• Ensuring services are delivered in a culture where patient safety, high clinical quality, service improvement and financial accountability are paramount
• Transformation of the service in line with UHD objective

To understand the role in more detail please read the full job description and person specification documents which are attached to this advert.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• 1st Level Registered nurse/Midwife /AHP on relevant part of the Register
• First degree or equivalent.

Desirable

• Masters degree

Experience

Essential

• Proven track record of operational management in the acute healthcare setting managing a ward / service/ department. Including staff, financial/budgetary and change management
• Experience in the acute healthcare setting in clinical leadership/clinical management position

Knowledge

Essential

• Extensive knowledge of National and Local NHS care and N& M agenda
• Highly developed specialist knowledge for field of practice, underpinned by theory and experience

Employer details

Employer name

University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust

Address

University Hospitals Dorset - All Sites

Bournemouth

BH7 7DW

Any attachments will be accessible after you click to apply.

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