Emergency Department Matron – Charing Cross and St Mary’s Hospitals

Job overview

Join our dynamic team of senior nurses as an Emergency Department Matron!

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a new Matron position in each of the Emergency Departments at Charing Cross Hospital and in the Adult Emergency Department at St Mary’s Hospital in Paddington.  This will increase the number of Band 8a matrons to two in each of our Adult Emergency Departments.

We are committed to building a positive practice environment with shared-decision councils, a focus on staff wellbeing, and a culture of recognition and professional development.  We have also embedded a renewed focus on staff wellbeing by building a culture of recognition and professional development into the hospital's ways of working.

As an Emergency Department Matron, you will be responsible for delivering high-quality care, implementing new ways of working, and collaborating with the wider MDT to enhance patient outcomes.

The post holder should demonstrate clinical expertise in the nursing care of patients, as well as excellent patient assessment skills and have sound management knowledge. The post holder should also demonstrate the ability to provide strong, consistent leadership and maintain good interpersonal relationships with their colleagues.

The post holder will be professionally accountable for standards of care, patient experience, workforce, and the well-being of staff.

Please ensure that you include your departmental preference in your supporting statement.

Main duties of the job

• To provide professional leadership and clinical role modelling in order to inspire the nursing team in the Emergency Department.
• To provide a clear focus for clinical leadership, providing a highly visible and authoritative presence, in order to facilitate the provision of high quality care, ensuring that the needs of the patient are placed at the centre of care delivery.
• To support the Lead Nurse / Business Service Manager in the delivery of a high quality patient focused care which contributes to the patient’s overall experience.
• To deputise as required for the Lead Nurse or Business Service Manager to develop and embed procedures, guidelines and protocols to support the development of a safe and efficient service.
• To monitor the level of service provided by the support services through regular audit and take remedial action as necessary.
• To supervise the professional development and appraisal of staff through their line management structure.
• To take responsibility for clinical standards of care Monitoring of Quality Indicators, infection control prevention and patient experience.
• To foster a culture of incident reporting and responding to incidents, reflection, equal opportunity, openness, mutual respect between the professions and professional development within the unit.
• To support the development of nursing research and audit.
• To ensure that mechanisms are in place for the collection and submission of appropriate data in respect to service delivery.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. For both overviews please view the Job Description attachment with the job advert.