Job Opportunity: Matron
An opportunity has arisen for a matron to work within our current team. The role includes ensuring the highest standards of safe clinical care through effective leadership and management of clinical staff.
1. Leadership and Management: Demonstrate a consistent leadership style that engages, enables, and empowers others. Use coaching to promote ownership of learning and quality improvement, and facilitate team working and collaboration within teams, departments, and across organisational boundaries.
2. Presence and Support: Provide a visible, accessible, and authoritative presence in the hospital environment. Ensure patients, their families, and multidisciplinary team members can gain assistance, advice, and support.
3. Clinical Standards and Care: Set clear clinical standards and work clinically with teams to ensure these are met.
4. Quality and Safety: Coordinate with departments such as Infection Control, Catering, and Nutrition/Dietetics to improve patient food quality, environment, and reduce cross-infection risks.
5. Patient Experience: Deal with concerns, actively problem-solve to improve patient experience, investigate incidents, and respond to complaints within target timescales.
6. Organisation and Service Development: Lead professional and clinical development for wards and departments, contributing to clinical governance and service re-organisation, emphasizing patient-focused pathways of care.
7. Performance and Collaboration: Advise on and contribute to achieving performance targets, work with partner organisations, and develop services impacting patient care.
8. Education and Role Modelling: Provide education and training for a broad range of health professionals and staff. Act as a role model and encourage staff recruitment and retention.
9. Clinical Practice Development: Facilitate clinical practice development through leadership and coordination of meetings with patients, relatives, and complainants, acting as a mediator to resolve issues and concerns.
This advert closes on Tuesday 13 May 2025.
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