Job summary
- Main area
- Outpatients
- Grade
- Band 8b
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Includes working lates and weekend to support matron rota)
- Job ref
- 153-SP03399-A
- Employer
- University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- University Hospitals Dorset - All Sites
- Town
- Bournemouth
- Salary
- £62,215 - £72,293 pa
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 08/12/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Senior Matron - Outpatients, Gynae and Radiology
Band 8b
As University Hospitals Dorset we are a three site acute trust with ‘university hospital’ status through our partnership with Bournemouth University, working with an annual budget of £730m.
We offer highly regarded health services, employing some 10,000 staff. Our ambitious £250m estates programme is well on the way to delivering state-of-the-art facilities over the next two years to meet the current and future healthcare needs of the populations we serve.
In an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty with over seven miles of sandy beaches you’ll find inspirational opportunities to achieve your perfect work/life balance. With the New Forest and the Purbecks on our doorstep, we’re also less than three hours from London by road or train. The thriving towns of Poole, Bournemouth and Christchurch give way to idyllic villages and unspoilt landscapes just minutes from our hospitals.
We believe that having a diverse workforce, and allowing people to be themselves, is essential in ensuring we offer an inclusive, welcoming and productive place to work.
We especially welcome applications from minority groups in the community who may be underrepresented in our workforce.
At UHD our active staff network groups are the Women's Network, Black Asian Minority Ethnic Group (BAME), Pride Network, European (EU), Pro Ability Staff Network, and the Armed Forces Support Group.
As a Trust we are proudly signed up to the Disability Confident and Armed Forces Covenant guaranteed interview schemes.
Job overview
An opportunity has arisen at University Hospital Dorset for an motivated and experienced nurse to fulfil the role of Senior matron for Outpatients, Gynaecology and Radiology. The 3 Outpatient services are across the 4 hospital sites, Royal Bournemouth Hospital, Christchurch Hospital, Poole Hospital and Beales (Poole town centre).
The Outpatient, Gynaecology and Radiology Directorates are part of the Women’s, Children’s, Cancer care and Support services care group. Outpatient services are based across 4 sites and include the Outpatients service, treatment centre at Poole hospital and phlebotomy across inpatient wards and outpatient settings. Gynaecology is based at Bournemouth and Poole hospital, with nursing teams leading and supporting in Early pregnancy and Emergency gynae clinic, Colposcopy, outpatient procedure clinics, Uro-gynae services, gynae- oncology service, menopause and endometriosis clinics. Radiology directorate have a teams of nurses who support radiology procedures and the interventional radiology service.
Additional contact information: Sara Curtin General Manager on [email protected]
Location: This job will require cross site working - includes Poole Hospital, Beales, Churchfield House, Royal Bournemouth and Christchurch Hospital
Interview Date: TBC
Main duties of the job
- The post holder will work closely with the Directorate general managers, their Deputy general managers, Matron for Outpatients, nursing teams including specialist nurses.
- The post holder takes the nursing lead in the directorate triumvirate with the general manager and clinical director sharing leadership responsibility for the operational and strategic leadership of the Outpatient directorate.
- To lead, develop, and continuously improve clinical care and services within the Outpatient directorate, Gynaecology Directorate, and radiology Directorate in the Womens, Childrens, Cancer and Support Services Care group, providing leadership and expertise to strategically influence and assure the provision of high quality, safe, and effective care to nursing staff, patients and the public.
- To provide clinical and professional leadership to assigned Matrons and specialist nursing/midwifery teams ensuring that action is taken at all levels to empower nurses/midwives to provide high standards of care in a safe environment.
Working for our organisation
· To proactively manage and lead the designated matrons and clinical nurse specialists providing support, guidance and direction to achieve optimal effectiveness, clinical and financial outcomes.
· To play a lead role within the Outpatient care directorate in the care group, ensuring the governance structure and processes are in place, that appropriate risk management and shared learning takes place, and that assurance of quality are provided to the care group. This will include being responsible for contributing to the strategic direction and implementation of the corporate objectives within the care group.
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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
As part of the senior nursing management team, the Senior Matron will:
· To contribute to the strategic direction of the care group, working in partnership with the directorate triumvirate and care group management team to ensure Trust objectives are met; aligned with the Trust values and behaviours in relation to workforce, service delivery, clinical quality and safety, and financial control.
· Lead on nursing care delivery for a designated directorate within the care group, bringing together all component parts to ensure improved patient experience, patient safety and clinical outcomes, target compliance and financial balance.
· To use tools and techniques to optimise use of resources against acuity and patient dependency models, making sure that establishments meet patient need to promote the best possible clinical and performance outcome and workforce safeguarding.
· Lead the quality governance portfolio within the designated directorate, supporting the improvement and strengthening of quality of care by working closely with local governance leads. This will include:
- Clinical and non-clinical risk
- Staff and patient complaints
- Patient and user feedback and involvement/engagement-CQC compliance
· Support the Head of Nursing and Professions to implement the strategic nursing vision by ensuring nursing processes and decisions facilitate a 'patient first' philosophy and incorporate all aspects of the identified corporate nursing values.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Registered Nurse with NMC
- Relevant Masters degree or equivalent
- Accredited management/leadership training or evidence of practical application of expertise at this level
- Expert specialist knowledge related to Outpatients services/ Gynaecology and Radiology
Desirable criteria
- Degree or Masters level leadership programme
Experience
Essential criteria
- Proven track record of operational management in the acute healthcare setting managing a ward / service/ department. Including staff, financial/budgetary and change management.
- Extensive experience in the acute healthcare setting in clinical leadership/clinical management position
- Experience of being accountable for the delivery of a Outpatient service
- Can demonstrate involvement in standard setting and Clinical Governance (includes research, audit and quality improvement)
- Ability to collaborate constructively with internal and external partners to create the conditions for successful partnership working
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of delivering complex change involving wide engagement.
- Experience of working with external partners including ICS.
Technical Skills Competencies
Essential criteria
- Detailed knowledge of current Outpatients services issues.
- Ability to analyse complex information and provide a range of options to share information to the wider team.
- Can demonstrate a strong sense of personal and team accountability coupled to a clear understanding of the boundaries around delegated authority, responsibility and accountability.
Desirable criteria
- Ability to write effective business cases
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Extensive knowledge of National and Local NHS care and Nursing & Midwifery agenda
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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
- Marie Miller
- Job title
- Head of Nursing & Professions
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07789650847
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