Job overview
Do you have a passion for Critical Care? Are you a natural leader who can inspire others while striving for the best care possible? If so, we would love to hear from you.
Due to the expansion of our Critical Care services and bed capacity we are looking for an exceptional candidate to join our senior nursing team for Critical Care at BHRUT. This is an opportunity to help shape the direction of one of the largest ITU facilities in North East London.
You will join a large multi-site Critical Care Service providing care across the Queen's Hospital and King George Sites, including a specialist Neuro Intensive Care Unit, emergency and elective surgical patient pathways and with line management for the Critical Care Outreach Service. Under the guidance of the head of nursing for critical care, the successful candidate will work closely with the senior team of critical care matrons providing operational support as well as assisting in the strategic direction of an essential service.
The role is a mixture of clinical and managerial responsibilities with a strong focus on delivering first class care that is safe and of high quality. This role incorporates both the day to day delivery of services as well as the strategic delivery of a sustainable and efficient service, whilst fostering a safe working environment where nursing teams can grow and flourish. To enable cohesive and collaborative working the successful candidates will rotate across the units within the service on an annual basis as well as support the service with bed and staffing coordination when required.
Main duties of the job
The Matron holds 24- hour responsibility for ensuring the day-to-day running of nursing within BHRUT Critical Care.
This will include:
• delivering safe, efficient, and effective patient care
• providing professional leadership to all nursing staff
• line managing designated staff
• meeting key quality and performance indicators
• taking forward and achieving service improvements
• meeting financial plans
The postholder will provide professional and management leadership to all nursing staff within BHRUT Critical Care. The Matron will work across organisational boundaries to achieve the Trust’s objectives, and to deliver relevant local, regional and national standards and strategies. In conjunction with key stakeholders the postholder will lead and develop the Critical Care across both sites with anticipated increase in bed numbers and complexity.
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.
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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. Adult Registered Nurse
2. Degree in related field (critical care)
3. MSc in relevant subject (evidence of working towards)
Experience/ Knowledge
Essential criteria
4. Nursing Leadership experience at a senior level
5. Demonstrable successful management of patient flow.
Skills/ Abilities
Essential criteria
6. Excellent interpersonal communication skills
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.