Modern Matron

Job overview

A credible senior leader with managerial responsibility for both nursing and allied health professionals within Outpatients, ensuring services are responsive to patient needs.  Working as a visible lead within the group management structure, demonstrating and developing collaborative working within and across the MDT. The Modern Matron has a pivotal role in creating the best experiences and opportunities for our staff to become local, national, and international leaders in healthcare with the patient at the centre of everything we do.

Successful applicants will be required to provide an immunisation and vaccination report, from either their current UK occupational health provider or their UK GP.

Main duties of the job

The Matron’s role focuses on the 10 key responsibilities outlined in the Matrons Handbook (2019)

• Inclusive leadership, professional standards and accountability.
• Governance, patient safety and quality.
• Workforce planning and resource management.
• Patient experience and reducing health inequalities.
• Performance and operational oversight.
• Digital and information technology.
• Education, training, and development.
• Research and development.
• Collaborative working and clinical effectiveness.
• Service improvement and transformation.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• To be a visible leader, ensuring a physical presence, providing professional nurse leadership and demonstrating, through personal behaviours, the core values of UHCW NHS Trust. Ensuring a professional appearance, maintaining professional standards, and leading by example.
• To visit and be present within areas of responsibility and to be accessible to staff via face to face or other forms of communication, ensuring time is provided to staff to discuss concerns, inequalities or clinical issues that may affect clinical effectiveness.
• To conduct planned gemba walks or rounding in their areas of responsibility in order to support their teams and improvement opportunities, potential issues and waste.
• To act as an expert resource, providing advice on nursing issues in relation to policies, protocols, service delivery and the adoption of the organisation’s aims.
• To demonstrate inclusive leadership, embedding local and national standards to ensure the delivery of safe care, working collaboratively with the wider MDT.
• To act as an influence on maintaining cleaning standards, maintaining environmental cleanliness, infection prevention and control compliance locally, ensuring that IPC is everyone’s responsibility.

For further details of the role please see the attached job description.