Overview
UHS is seeking an experienced and compassionate nursing leader to join our Critical Care, Care Group as General ICU Matron - this will be a co - lead role of the 40 Bedded Adult General Intensive Care Unit (GICU)/ Surgical High Dependency (SHDU).
The role is pivotal in providing visible, professional leadership across our critical care services, ensuring the delivery of safe high-quality and patient centred care.
As matron you will, be working with a broad multi-disciplinary team supporting your staff to care for emergency and elective patients, ensuring the clinical area is safe, effective, and responsive. You will be a leader who is accountable for co-ordinating safe, high-quality care to improve and maintain our patients NHS experience.
Working in partnership with your critical care matron colleagues, across the care group and other key staff in the Division and across the Trust, as the custodian of the patient experience, you will ensure patients, staff and the Trust have confidence in your areas of responsibility.
You will maintain a visible presence where patients, staff and visitors can turn for assistance and upon whom they can rely on to ensure fundamental and specialist aspects of care are met.
University Hospital Southampton is one of England's largest acute teaching Trusts, offering a wide range of learning and development opportunities to support your career aspirations.
Located on the south coast with an international airport and direct rail links to London, Southampton offers an ideal setting to live and work, with the New Forest, South Downs and Jurassic Coast.
Responsibilities
* You will be co- responsible for coordinating safe, high-quality care across the 40 bedded GICU/SHDU and related units, with a focus on patient experience and clinical governance.
* Provide visible, professional leadership to a broad multi-disciplinary team supporting both emergency and elective patients.
* Lead and develop services and care group and divisional projects to influence service redesign.
* Ensure the clinical area is safe, effective, and responsive through active management and collaboration with colleagues.
* Partner with critical care matron colleagues, care group, Division, and Trust staff to maintain confidence in areas of responsibility.
* Maintain a visible presence for patients, staff, and visitors and ensure fundamental and specialist aspects of care are met.
* Oversee day-to-day operations of the 70 bedded adult CC footprint and contribute to strategic planning and service development.
* Attend and participate in on-call duties to cover the duty matron and staffing hub role as per an agreed rota.
Qualifications
* Applicants must be a registered nurse with extensive acute experience at a senior nurse level.
* Demonstrate high-level organisational skills and a resourceful, professional approach to work.
* Ability to lead, collaborate, and forge relationships with a variety of staff; excellent inter-personal communication skills.
* Experience supporting service redesign and leading Care Group and Divisional projects.
* Evidence of contributing to strategic planning and service development within critical care settings.
* Experience managing budgets (co-responsible for a £13 million budget).
About working at UHS
In return we can offer opportunities to enhance your skills and be part of a forward thinking and supportive multi professional team. It is situated for strategic planning and development and supports and oversees day to day operations in the Critical Care footprint. We are committed to providing a flexible working environment where possible and to promoting a diverse, inclusive, anti-racist, and anti-discriminatory workplace.
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