Job summary
- Main area
- Children's Hospital
- Grade
- Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 164-7254037
- Employer
- Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Nottingham Children's Hospital, Queens Medical Center
- Town
- Nottingham
- Salary
- £53,755 - £60,504 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 13/07/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Matron - Nottingham Children's Hospital
Band 8a
Job overview
Your skills and talents as a Leader will help ensure our children, young people and families receive the unparalleled quality care they deserve and in return, you’ll find a rewarding career full of opportunity. When you work at NUH, you’re not just helping families – you’re part of one too. As an applicant for the Matron role you must be able to demonstrate multidisciplinary team working; exhibit strong communication and leadership skills. You should have some experience of leading larger scale change, innovation, staff and service development in line with our Children’s Hospital Nursing strategy, to deliver outstanding care, every time.
Nottingham Children's Hospital were the first Children's Hospital across Europe to be accredited with Pathway to Excellence. This is an exciting time to become a pivotal member of our team.
This role is for a Matron to lead our surgical wards and pathways within the newly restructured Children's Hospital. If you are looking for the next challenge in your career, this is an exciting opportunity for you.
Main duties of the job
In addition to the below summary you need to familiarize yourself with full Job Description and Person Specification documents attached to this advert.
As a Matron across Nottingham Children's’ Hospital, you will provide day-to-day operational, clinical, professional leadership and support for nursing, maintaining quality focused standards as well as linking with other healthcare professionals throughout the services to ensure we continue to provide excellent care to our Children, Young People and their Families / Carers.
We are seeking an experienced, dynamic, and highly motivated individual with experience in leading and managing children and young people's surgical pathways.
Working for our organisation
‘With over 19,000 staff, we are one of the biggest employers in the city with a central role in supporting the health and wellbeing of our local population. We play a leading role in research, education and innovation.
We particularly welcome applications from people who identify as Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic, or Disabled, as we are striving to be better represented at NUH.’
Nottingham Children's Hospital were recently designated the first Children's Hospital across Europe to be accredited with Pathway to Excellence. This is an exciting time to become a pivotal member of our team as we move onwards with our journey of care excellence. You will be supported in your role by the Lead Nurse for Nottingham Children's Hospital, the Deputy and Divisional Nurse for Family Health.
As well as delivering the highest standards of care to children, young people, their families and carers, Nottingham Children's Hospital are committed to developing and investing in you and your personnel and professional development, giving individual staff access and choices to progress in leadership, specialist, clinical academic and other roles. You will be joining a team of highly skilled professionals with a positive work ethic and great team ethos.
If you’re thinking of joining us and would require support with relocating please contact us for a discussion.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please note this is an overview and not an exhaustive list of the job description and main responsibilities
Provide responsive, compassionate, inclusive leadership and management to promote the highest standards of clinical care, patient safety and experience.
Ensure compliance with prevention and control of infections, monitoring cleaning of the environment.
Workforce management, finance and budgeting
Ensuring the highest quality education and development of nursing staff across the services.
To act as a resource , providing advice on professional nursing issues in relation to clinical interventions, policies and protocols, service delivery and service development
To ensure that appropriate resources are in place to support the delivery of high quality services within areas of responsibility
Person specification
Commitment to Trust Values
Essential criteria
- Must be able to demonstrate behaviours consistent with the Trust's "We are here for you" behavioural standards
Training & Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Registered with appropriate regulatory body (NMC. HPC, GMC)
- First degree or equivalent in health-related subject
- Evidence of CPD
- Management qualification or relevant experience
- Recognised teaching qualification
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of leading and delivering programmes of change
- Experience of working with patient groups
- Significant post registration experience including management and leadership experience
- Able to provide specialised advice concerning patient care
- Knowledge of budgets/financial control
Desirable criteria
- Project management experience
- Involvement in business planning
- Clinical governance
- Knowledge of complaints management
- Patient Partnership working
Communication/relatonship skills
Essential criteria
- Excellent communications skills, written and oral
- Ability to build successful teams
- Ability to influence and motivate staff to deliver challenging targets
- Strong leadership qualities
- Demonstrates negotiation skills
- Able to motivate and support others and encourage effective team working
- Understands the importance of confidentiality and dealing with sensitive information
Analytical/Judgement skills
Essential criteria
- Excellent problem solving skills using team when appropriate
- Able to present and receive complex information within the multi professional team
- Experience of audit and audit tools
Planning/organisational skills
Essential criteria
- Ability to prioritise own workload and maintain consistent standards
- Demonstrates strong organisational skills and abilities
- Ability to work on own initiative but also as part of a team
- Ability to plan strategies which impact positively across the service.
- Understanding of pro-active performance management within a large clinical area
Physical Skills
Essential criteria
- IT skills to manage and report on complex performance management information
- Adaptable and flexible
- Positive, enthusiastic and motivated
- Confident
Other Role Requirements
Essential criteria
- Ability to travel across sites
- Ability to participate on a on call rota
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Rebecca Thurlow
- Job title
- Lead Nurse
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07812275328
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