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An exciting opportunity to gain experience working within the Surgery Division in a secondment as a Matron. The secondment will be for 6 months.
For this role we are looking for an experienced senior nurse who would like to increase their skills and knowledge to provide leadership across the surgical wards to oversea the delivery of safe compassionate high-quality care and to ensure quality standards are achieved.
The Matron role is key to an effective, high performing, fully engaged team. The breadth of the role requires excellent communication, management, leadership, as well as education and teaching skills.
The successful applicant will support an experienced team of Band 7 Senior Sisters and Clinical Nurse Specialists working with the Critical Care, Outpatient and Theatre Matrons to support the Divisional and Deputy Heads of Nursing for Surgery.
If you would like further information and to discuss this secondment opportunity please contact Bernie Dunn – Divisional Head of Nursing ext. 2802 or Katie Ransby Deputy Divisional Head of Nursing ext. 3539
Main duties of the job
The post holder will be accountable to the Head of Nursing for ensuring the highest standard of clinical care is provided within wards and departments for which they are responsible, delivery of the Matrons 10 key responsibilities, and ensuring the principles of clinical governance and quality improvement are implemented at a local level.
Please see attached Job description and person specification for full details of roles and responsibilities.
Working for our organisation
Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust (SFT) is an innovative hospital with a proud heritage and over 250 years of experience behind us. Here we’re driven to deliver an outstanding experience for everyone and have been well regarded for the quality of care and treatment we continue to provide for our patients and also our staff.
We are an acute Trust, rated “Good” by the CQC, with a track record of high performance providing regional and super regional specialist services such as: Burns, Plastics & Reconstructive Surgery, Wessex Regional Genetics Laboratory, Wessex Rehabilitation, Spires Cleft Centre and the Duke of Cornwall Spinal Treatment Centre. We have about 470 beds and employ over 4000 staff.
We support flexible working and will consider requests taking into account the needs of the service. We think working here is pretty rewarding. You can access a range of NHS discounts, receive a minimum of 35 days paid holiday (pro rata), and we offer a generous pension scheme. On-site benefits include car parking (fee applies), leisure centre, day nursery and holiday play scheme.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see attached Job description and person specification for full details of roles and responsibilities.
Person specification
Qualifications
* Registered Nurse
* 2 years at a senior level in nursing ( band 7)
* Experience in a senior clinical role within last 3 years
* First Degree in Nursing or subject related to health care
* Masters level study or willing to undertake this level of study
* Experience in organisational leadership, leading change and service improvement
* Experience in contribution to strategic service planning
We offer excellent benefits that help make SDH a great place to work. These include but aren't limited to:-
* Holiday starting at 27 days plus Bank Holidays rising to 29 days after 5 years and 33 days after 10 years for Agenda for Change staff
* Holiday entitlement for Medical and Dental staff starts at 27 days for Junior/Senior Clinical Fellows, Specialty Doctors and rises to 32 days after 5 years. Consultant entitlement starts at 32 days and rises to 34 days after 7 years
* An additional day's leave to celebrate your birthday (after 12 months & non contractual) pro rata
* Access to a career average revalued earnings pension scheme
* Life assurance if a member of the pension scheme
* An extensive Health and Wellbeing offer to help you deal with life's challenges
* Exclusive deals and discounts websites saving you money on everyday purchases, treats for the family, eating out and utility bills for home
* Cycle to work scheme
* Uniform provided (where required)
* On site Day Nursery and Holiday Play scheme
* On site health and fitness club
* On site car parking (fee's and restrictions apply)
* Opportunities to get on - take advantage of our ongoing learning opportunities and training, to help you achieve the job and career you want.
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