Job summary
- Main area
- surgery
- Grade
- Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Mon - Sun)
- Job ref
- 197-LC6018-A
- Employer
- Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Lewisham Hospital
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £53,755 - £60,504 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 21/01/2025 12:00
Employer heading
Matron – Lewisham Surgical Centre
Band 8a
Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust, (LGT), is a community-focused provider of local and acute care, delivering high-quality services to over one million people living across the London boroughs of Lewisham, Greenwich, and Bexley. We provide whole-life care and are here to support our communities to live healthier lives as well as taking care of them when they need us the most.
Employing almost 7,500 colleagues, affectionately known as Team LGT, we provide services at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Woolwich, University Hospital Lewisham, and at over a dozen community settings in Lewisham. We also provide some services at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Sidcup.
We have recently launched our new vision and values to mark the LGT10 – the tenth anniversary of our Trust forming in 2013. Our trust vision is to be exceptional. In the quality of our patient care; our support for colleagues; and in the difference we make through our partnerships and in our communities.
To achieve this we value Respect, Compassion, and Inclusion; Being accountable over staying comfortable; Listening over always knowing best; and Succeeding together over achieving alone. You can read more about our visions and values here
Our hospitals and community sites provide a wide range of inpatient and outpatient services, as well as emergency and planned care. The Trust is rated as “good” or “outstanding” in over three-quarters of the services inspected by the Care Quality Commission.
Every year our work includes performing 10,000 procedures in our theatres; bringing seven and a half thousand new lives into the world; carrying out 570,000 visits to patients in their homes or communities and providing emergency care for more than 300,000 patients arriving in our busy Urgent and Emergency Departments.
LGT is a centre for the education and training of medical students enrolled with King’s College London’s GKT School of Medical Education. We are a training centre for nurses, midwives and allied health professionals. We are pioneering new roles that will support the changing needs of our patients and are one of the largest employers of physician associates in the country.
We are committed to working with our partners to deliver the best outcomes for our local communities. This means playing an active role in the South East London Integrated Care System (ICS), and in formal partnerships including the South East London Acute Provider Collaborative, provider partnerships with our local mental health trusts and borough-based boards of the ICS in Bexley, Greenwich and Lewisham.
Job overview
This is your opportunity to truly shape and contribute to the future of healthcare in South East London by taking on this crucial role as Matron of the forthcoming Lewisham Surgical Centre (LSC) for Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust (LGT).
The Centre, currently under construction at the heart of University Hospital Lewisham, is set to be a cutting edge facility, serving all of south east London and running a high volume of Ear, Nose and Throat (ENT) day case procedures.
ENT procedures currently have one of the largest waiting lists of any specialty in the country. As such, this will be a fast-paced, highly rewarding role based around two brand-new theatres running six days per week, 10 hours per day, delivering six all-day lists, 48 weeks per year. The centre would be 12 all days extended lists as two theatres.
So who are we looking for?
The successful applicant will have a high level of clinical expertise, but we are looking for that special person that has been proven to thrive working in such a fast-paced environment – so if you feel that this is a core part of your skillset but you don’t quite have expert-level ENT experience, please do not be put off from applying.
If successful, you will be a strong leader and line manager for a team of our clinical nurse specialists and work with other members of TeamLGT, like consultants and our external partners, as you pioneer this new service at Lewisham Surgical Centre.
Main duties of the job
To provide strong clinical leadership to ensure the smooth and effective running of the surgical centre and strive for continuous productivity improvements to achieve national elective best practice standards
To ensure that the surgical centre activities focus on supporting patient care within available resources and in line with the strategic direction of the SEL Acute Provider Collaborative and the Trust
To ensure the delivery of excellent, patient focused and cost-effective services which are responsive to the needs of patient’s, carers and General Practitioners and are in line with the Trust’s strategic direction and service plans.
Undertake root cause and trend analyses for complaints and incidents relating to relate to nursing/ODP , and participate in SI investigations.
Identify risks within the area of responsibility and identify, plan, implement and evaluate strategies to reduce and manage risk.
To influence strategic development to advance quality of care and enhance the patient experience.
Utilise research findings, as applicable, in the delivery of specialist patient care, disseminating relevant information to colleagues
Contribute to the development of research / evidence-based practice within the team.
Working for our organisation
Our people are our greatest asset. When we feel supported and happy at work, this positivity reaches those very people we are here for, the patients. Engaged employees perform at their best and our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) initiatives contribute to cultivate a culture of engagement. We have four staff networks, a corporate EDI Team and a suite of programmes and events which aim to insert the 5 aspirations:
- Improving representation at senior levels of staff with disabilities, from black, Asian, and ethnic minorities background, identify as LGBTQ+ and women, through improved recruitment and leadership development
- Widening access (anchor institution) and employability
- Improving the experience of staff with disability
- Improving the EDI literacy and confidence of trust staff through training and development
- Making equalities mainstream
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To provide strong clinical leadership to ensure the smooth and effective running of the surgical centre and strive for continuous productivity improvements to achieve national elective best practice standards through
Capped Utilisation of 85% or above through starting on time, minimising turnaround times and avoidable on the day cancellations.
-A minimum of 85%-day case procedures through the surgical centre
- 97.6 % of surgical patients successfully discharged home on the day of surgery (British Association of Day Surgery BADS)
- Performs in line with established activity levels, and particularly Getting it Right First Time (GIRFT) specialty average case volumes per theatre session (BADS) - To ensure that the surgical centre activities focus on supporting patient care within available resources and in line with the strategic direction of the SEL Acute Provider Collaborative and the Trust
- To ensure the delivery of excellent, patient focused and cost-effective services which are responsive to the needs of patient’s, carers and General Practitioners and are in line with the Trust’s strategic direction and service plans.
Where appropriate, support the Clinical Directorate and Surgical Centre Management team to represent the Trust , and with partner organisations, to work closely with them to institute integrated work in in the best interests of patient care, to ensure appropriate public and patient involvement in assessing service quality and improvements.
To undertake advanced clinical care, interventions and procedures commensurate and as required within the specialty.
To provide expert evidence based advice to patients, carers and other healthcare professionals.
Employ effective decision making skills to address complex, distressing and sensitive issues and use effective change management skills to complement them.
Undertake comprehensive assessment of patient health needs.
Assess, monitor and evaluate disease activity and drug therapy of patients where necessary by initiating and interpreting clinical data, explaining treatment goals and managing side effects.
To act as the point of contact for the service.
To act as an advocate to empower patients, their families and other carers to participate in decisions regarding their care.
Engage patients and carers/families in the planning and delivery of care and the development of services to enhance the patient experience.
To participate in the business planning process for the service participating in the formation of business cases.
Lead the nursing service review and redesign of pathways ensuring consistency across the organisation and parity of access.
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Person specification
Qualifications and Training
Essential criteria
- Degree Registered nurse [Part 1] / or theatres Practitioner Post registration qualification or equivalent experience in theatres specialty
- Master’s degree in relevant discipline or in process of studying to Masters level or equivalent experience
- Teaching and assessing qualification
Desirable criteria
- Change or human factor training
Experience
Essential criteria
- Proven experience of working in surgical specialities and theatres including high volume and/or day surgery
- Senior clinical experience within speciality.
- Partnership/multi-professional working.
- Managing staff
- Developing and implementing service development initiatives. Demonstrate experience of change management
- Developing and implementing educational programmes for patients and staff.
- Research and audit.
- Proven track record of staff development and team working
Desirable criteria
- effective budget management
- Service/professional presentations to a wide group.
Knowledge and Skills
Essential criteria
- Advanced nursing skills relevant to specialty
- Advanced verbal, written and interpersonal communication skills
- Experience of managing and leading a team.
- Working with and within a diverse community
- Demonstrates innovative thinking.
- Facilitation skills. Understanding of the health and social care agenda and commissioning processes in the current political environment.
Desirable criteria
- Presentation and publishing experience.
- Finance and resource management. Knowledge base of research methodology
- Project management skills.
- IT skills word/excel
- Keyboard skills
Personal Qualities
Essential criteria
- Leadership qualities
- Facilitative working style. Sensitivity to emotional situations
- Able to use own initiative.
- Ability to deal with stressful situations and to manage conflicting priorities.
- Able to cope with interruptions and adapting workload to service need.
- Ability to work autonomously and as a member of a multidisciplinary team
- Good attendance record. Flexible and able to work on any hospital site, or community sites.
Desirable criteria
- Presentation and publishing experience. Finance and resource management
- Knowledge base of research methodology. Project management skills.
- IT skills word/excel.
- Keyboard skills
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
- Branita Jane Mills
- Job title
- Head of Nursing
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07533446206
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