Job summary
- Main area
- Medicine
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 319-7148151SC
- Employer
- Northumbria Healthcare - NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital
- Town
- Cramlington
- Salary
- £53,755 - £60,504 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 13/05/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Matron
NHS AfC: Band 8a
Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work for an organisation that was voted the best acute and combined acute and community trust in the country, based on the experience of its staff (NHS Staff Survey 2022). Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn’t, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare and, this is…the Northumbria Way!
What the Northumbria Way means for you:
- Extensive staff health and well-being programme including access to our specialist Wellbeing Hub
- Support and connection through a variety of Staff Network groups
- A range of flexible working opportunities
- Generous annual leave and pension scheme
- Access to lease car and home electronics scheme (qualifying criteria applies)
- Opportunities to improve your professional development through our vast training programmes
- On-site nursery places via salary sacrifice
- Access to savings scheme via salary sacrifice with Northumberland Community Bank
We are proud to be one of the country’s top performing NHS trusts – rated ‘outstanding’ overall by the Care Quality Commission (CQC). We provide a range of health and care services to support more than 500,000 people living in Northumberland and North Tyneside across the largest geographical area of any NHS Trust in England. Our teams deliver care from hospitals, a range of community venues and people’s homes. Our hospitals include a specialist emergency care hospital (the first of its kind in England), three general hospitals and community hospitals. In the community we deliver a wide range of community and public health services.
We lead in innovation and quality, having opened the Northumbria Healthcare Manufacturing and Innovation Hub during the Covid-19 pandemic and have recently launched our Community Promise – a pledge to make a real impact not just in healthcare but on the wider factors that affect people’s lives, such as education, employment and the economy.
If Northumbria Healthcare sounds like somewhere you could belong we would love to hear from you. Visit our website to catch up on our latest news.
Whilst Northumbria Healthcare are a highly innovative organisation, the use of Third Party Artificial Intelligence (AI) presents a risk to the integrity of our Recruitment & Selection processes. If you use AI, and it poses a risk to the integrity your individual recruitment process, we may withdraw your application at any stage of the process.
Job overview
An opportunity has arisen for a matron to work within the current team. the role includes ensuring the highest standard of safe clinical care through the provision of effective leadership and management of clinical staff.
Demonstrating a consistent leadership style which engages, enables and empowers others, uses coaching to promote ownership of learning and quality improvement and facilitates team working and collaboration within teams / departments and across organisational boundaries.
To provide visible, accessible and authoritative presence in the hospital environment. Ensuring patients and their families and members of the multidisciplinary team can gain assistance, advice and support. Setting clear clinical standards and working clinically with the teams to ensure these are met.
Please note we reserve the right to close this vacancy prior to the closing date once the required number of suitable applications have been received.
Main duties of the job
Responsible to the Deputy head of nursing under the Matrons Charter, for coordinating with ward colleagues, Infection Control Department, Catering Department and Nutrition/Dietetics Department to improve the quality of patient food and the patient’s environment and to reduce the risk of cross infection.
To provide visible, accessible and authoritative presence in the hospital environment. Ensuring patients and their families and members of the multidisciplinary team can gain assistance, advice and support.
Deal with concerns and actively problem solve to improve the patient experience, investigate and respond to incidents and complaints within target timescales.
Working for our organisation
We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, in addition to our state-of-the-art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. We also care for people in their homes and provide services from facilities in local communities such as health centres. We give people greater choice and control over their care to help them to live independently at home and avoid hospital admission where appropriate. High quality patient care is at the heart of everything we do and we strive to ensure every single patient and service user has an exceptional experience with us. We have one of the most extensive patient experience programmes of any trust in England.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To provide professional and clinical leadership to a group of wards and departments, including provision of supportive advice and to understand the activity associated with patient care.
To take responsibility for various components of the Clinical Governance agenda including achieving those NHSLA Standards relevant to the areas.
To liaise with clinical colleagues in the continued development and re-organisation of services emphasising a patient focused approach utilising pathways of care.
Professionally responsible for the delivery of a high quality safe service for patients and carers.
To advise on and actively contribute to the achievement of national and local performance targets within area.
To work with partner organisations and advise on service developments that affect patient care.
Provide education and training that is accessed by a broad range of health professionals and by employees.
To act as a role model for all ward and departmental teams and to encourage the recruitment and retention of staff.
Facilitation of the development of clinical practice by providing clinical and nursing leadership.
Co-ordinate and chair meetings with patients/relatives/complainants who are emotionally upset, angry, aggressive and potentially abusive. Acting as a mediator to resolve potential complaints helping to resolve issues/concerns negotiating and implementing action plans.
Person specification
Qualifications and Registration
Essential criteria
- 1st Level live NMC (RG) RN(C) OR RN(MH) depending on specialty)
- Registered Mentor
- PP126/127 or equivalent teaching/assessing D32/33 qualification
- Degree in Nursing or related subject or equivalent level of knowledge through indepth experience
- Leadership qualification/course/extensive and in-depth experience
Desirable criteria
- Management course
Experience and Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Appropriate experience at Band 7
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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
- Jayne Redpath
- Job title
- Head of Nursing
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07775010479
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