Job overview
The Matron role is a senior nursing/midwifery role providing leadership and direction to nursing/midwifery staff within a designated service line across Queen’s and King George Hospitals, and other satellite sites.
You will work in a service line triumvirate with the Clinical Lead and the
Service Manager, with a particular focus on day-to-day management of
nursing/midwifery services across their areas of responsibility. You will be
responsible for ensuring provision of high quality, safe, well-governed, productive and cost- effective services which support the Trust in delivering its strategic objectives. You will practice at an advanced level demonstrating a high level of autonomy and decision-making; supporting the planning, provision and promotion of a comprehensive Oncology and Haematology Service at BHRUT.
Main duties of the job
This role along with triumvirate colleagues will provide compassionate and inclusive leadership to those within their areas of responsibility. In addition, there will be joint responsibility and accountability with the triumvirate for delivering, patient safety, financial targets, efficiencies, workforce planning and service delivery to improve safe patient flow within their areas of responsibility.
Recognising and celebrating our workforce demographics the postholder will be responsible for ensuring the service line operates in an inclusive and transparent way. Improving and maintaining staff experience within the service line is a key requirement for this role.
With guidance and direction from the Clinical Group triumvirate the postholder will contribute to and implement the Clinical Group strategy. This will include working with the Lead Cancer Nurse, Heads of Nursing and Senior Nurses to influence the development and delivery of excellent patient care.
Working for our organisation
We’re an organisation that is getting better and betterand ourimprovements are driven by a determination to deliver care we’re proud of and our patients are happy with.
They are benefitting from a new (we were the last acute trust in London to introduce one) and our maternity services have been by the Care Quality Commission.
We operate from two main sites – KGH in Goodmayes and Queen’s Hospital in Romford. We have two busy emergency departments with more than 346,000 people visiting them last year. We’re campaigning to secure the £35m we need to and get rid of corridor care.
We’re proud of our regional Neurosciences Centre, Radiotherapy Centre and Hyper Acute Stroke Unit. We’re also part of the.
We run a in Ilford; an in Hornchurch; and Community Diagnostic Centres (CDC) at and at. These CDCs are open 12 hours a day, 7 days a week.
The majority of our 8,400 staff – who come from 146 different countries - live in the three diverse London boroughs we serve and are from black, Asian and minority ethnic groups. Many can and more than 400 of them are on our Ofsted accredited. We’re proud to be a employer.
Some of the positive changes we’ve made are captured in .
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For further information on this role, please see the attached detailed Job Description and Person Specification.
The person specification listed below is not the full specification requirements for the role. Please ensure you review the full specification on the job description prior to submitting your application.
Applicants are advised to read all the information on the advert and the supporting information before completing and submitting an application. As you complete your application please ensure you clearly demonstrate how you meet the criteria in the person specification for this post by adequately completing the supporting information section of the application form.
All new staff appointed at the Trust are subject to a probationary period.
Person specification
Education / Qualifications
Essential criteria
1. •Registered General Nurse/Midwife on the Nursing and Midwifery Council with significant experience at senior level of cancer in clinical practice (Proven experience at band 7). Nurse Level 1
Desirable criteria
2. Master’s degree in nursing/midwifery or equivalent level of experience
3. Advanced communication skills training
Skills and Abilities
Essential criteria
4. Excellent managerial, leadership and organisational skills
Desirable criteria
5. Advanced Clinical Skills
Experience
Essential criteria
6. Demonstrates highly developed specialist knowledge across the spectrum of Oncology and Haematology
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.