Job summary
- Main area
- Emergency Department
- Grade
- Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 180-C-257006
- Employer
- Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Addenbrookes Hospital-Division C
- Town
- Cambridge
- Salary
- £53,755 - £60,504 p.a. pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 23/01/2025 23:59
- Interview date
- 04/02/2025
Employer heading
Matron - Emergency Department
Band 8a
Job overview
An excellent opportunity has become available at Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation trust to join our Team as a Band 8a Matron.
The post covers the Adult and Paediatric Emergency Departments and Urgent Treatment Centre. You will work with a team of three Matrons supported by the Senior Management Team.
We seek a highly skilled leader with a background in Emergency Care and Clinical Leadership. The candidate should be a positive and visible role model who can influence best practices in the Emergency Department.
The ability to lead a team through challenging situations will be an asset while ensuring safe, high-quality, cost-effective care, supporting compliance with emergency care standards, and maintaining patient flow at the divisional and Trust levels.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will:
Provide daily professional and managerial leadership, ensuring safe, high-quality, cost-effective care while maintaining compliance with emergency professional standards.
Demonstrate expert clinical knowledge by being visible and accessible and using appropriate clinical skills within the workplace.
Share our vision to provide consistently exemplary service and outstanding care to our patients.
Hold Senior Sisters/Charge Nurses accountable for their assigned responsibilities.
Work with the Divisional Senior Management and Operations Manager Team to ensure effective and efficient management to meet agreed targets.
Be responsible for supporting the flow and capacity management across the ED and the department/trust initiatives.
Ensure a robust monitoring and evaluation system is in place to meet the fundamental and specialist aspects of care to achieve key performance indicators goals. This includes ensure a safe waiting room and that long-stay patients receive basic care.
Ensure the services provided meets the diverse needs of the population.
Provide leadership coverage of the adult and paediatric Emergency Departments.
Consistently demonstrate the Trust's core values of Safe, Kind and Excellent.
Working for our organisation
Come Nurse with us…
Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest teaching Trusts in the country. It comprises Addenbrooke’s Hospital and the Rosie Hospital. We provide accessible high-quality healthcare for the local people of Cambridge and regional and national specialist services. It’s a great place to nurse, work and live.
You will work on a vibrant hospital campus with a friendly community feel; we have excellent facilities to practise your skills and abilities to support your career pathway and development. Our values of Together – Safe, Kind, Excellent support the delivery of outstanding care. We have a fully electronic patient record system that is improving health-care quality; this is transforming services, improving patient safety and clinical outcomes.
Why choose Cambridge University Hospitals?
• Our values and reputation for outstanding care
• Opportunities to experience a range of specialities
• Career and development opportunities
• Preceptorship and mentoring programmes delivered by a dedicated clinical education support team
• Research experience and opportunities
• Lovely location and quality of life
• Excellent schools/colleges and transport links (road, rail and air)
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the attached Applicant Information Pack (combined Job Description and Person Specification) for key duties and responsibilities.
Due to Home Office immigration rules, a full time permanent vacancy cannot be filled by individuals on a Student visa. Therefore, please be advised that if you are a Student visa holder, we will not be able to offer you a full time permanent contract unless you have:
- applied for a Graduate visa
- or you will have successfully completed your course and have applied for a Graduate visa before the anticipated start date of your employment
- or the Trust has agreed that they will Sponsor you as a Skilled Worker and you will complete your studies within 3 months of the anticipated start date of employment
If you require sponsorship for a Visa to work in the UK, to avoid disappointment, please check you are not applying from a Red list country - Code of practice for the international recruitment of health and social care personnel in England - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
This vacancy will close at midnight on 23 January 2025
Interviews are due to be held on 4 February 2025
Benefits to you
At Cambridge University Hospitals, we want to do all we can to support good working days. We offer development opportunities and a wide range of benefits, including on-site leisure facilities, shopping concourse and day nurseries. Our good work programme currently includes providing reduced cost Stagecoach bus travel to and from Cambridge University Hospital site. Park and Ride bus journeys between Babraham Road and Trumpington sites are free, as is the route to and from Cambridge train station and our hospitals. We also subsidise the cost of parking on site for eligible staff.
On CUH campus, hot food is available 24/7 and at a reduced cost for colleagues. Recently we launched the first of our staff pod break spaces. Located in the Deakin Centre, we have a purpose-created colleague-only café, with free tea and coffee, a break space and private outside area for colleagues to rest, refuel and recharge. Just one of the ways we are working hard to support good working days at CUH.
CUH is committed to assisting employees in achieving a good work-life balance irrespective of role or personal circumstances. Flexible arrangements may include, but are not limited to, part-time working, job-share, term-time working and flexible start and finish times.
Please note if you would like to discuss the required hours of this role further, you should approach the contact given. In some cases, alternative working hours will be considered.
We welcome applications from the Armed Forces.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Current and relevant NMC registration
- First level registered nurse
- Teaching and assessing qualification
- Degree in health related subject
- Evidence of continuous professional development
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of masters level study
- Recent attendance on leadership programme
Experience
Essential criteria
- Significant experience managing a ward / unit
- Broad senior clinical and managerial experience relevant to the post
- Success in working collaboratively across professions and services
- Demonstrable success in managing change
- Experience with the introduction of evidence based practice
- Project management
Desirable criteria
- Emergency Department Experience.
- Experience obtained in more than one clinical setting
- Research experience
- Audit experience
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Clinical practice and demonstrable knowledge of developments in nursing policy and practice
- Good understanding of risk and clinical governance
- Understanding of the political context for UK healthcare, including active long term plans for the NHS
- Workforce planning, recruitment and retention
Desirable criteria
- Ability to operationalise strategies
Skills
Essential criteria
- Highly effective leadership skills and ability to motivate
- Excellent communications skills (interpersonal, negotiation, liaison, written and presentation skills)
- Budget management
- Developing and implementing policies, guidelines and projects from initiation to completion
- Computer literate in basic programmes, i.e. word, PowerPoint and excel
- Ability to prioritise, meet tight deadlines and work independently
- Commitment to openness, honesty and integrity in undertaking the role
Additional Requirements
Essential criteria
- The ability to understand and behave at all times, towards patients, visitors and colleagues according to the Trust values of safe, kind, excellent.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Martha Saroop
- Job title
- Interim Deputy Head of Nursing
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07926071514
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