Quality & Safety Matron - Neonatology

Job overview

We are seeking an experienced and motivated Neonatal Nurse to join our Directorate as a Quality & Safety Matron. This is a pivotal leadership role supporting the delivery of high-quality, safe, and effective care across our Neonatal services at St. Mary's Hospital and Queen Charlottes and Chelsea Hospital.

Working closely with the Directorate leadership team, you will lead and coordinate the governance and patient safety agenda, driving continuous improvement and ensuring robust systems of assurance across all sites.

This role is ideally suited to a nurse with a passion for quality improvement, patient safety, and service development, who thrives in a dynamic environment and is confident influencing practice at both operational and strategic level.

Main duties of the job

• Coordinates and supports the directorate risk agenda, ensuring appropriate action is taken in relation to the risks identified, which are allocated to the correct person and implemented.
• Coordinates and supports the directorate incident agenda, ensuring appropriate actions are agreed and are allocated to the correct person and implemented.
• Coordinates and supports the directorate audit agenda, ensuring appropriate actions are agreed and are allocated to the correct person and implemented.
• Coordinates and supports the directorate complaints process, ensuring appropriate actions are agreed and are allocated to the correct person and implemented.
• Ensures incidents are reported onto the incident reporting system and investigated as per Trust policy.
• Ensures the duty of candour process is effectively completed, within set timescales and assists clinicians to effectively complete this process.
• Undertakes investigations, under the supervision of the Lead Nurse.

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.