Lead Matron for Community Hospitals
- NHS
- Full Time
- Kennington
- 62215.00 - 72293.00 a year
Job Description
Job summary
Could you use your nursing skills and experience to support the NHS to deliver great patient care? Great patient care needs great people to support clinical teams. That's where you come in.
The NHS is changing. More emphasis on community-based care means there's never been a better time to join us.We are recruiting 2 enthusiastic and organised Lead Matrons for Community Hospitals to join our professional team. We have one permanent position and one secondment opportunity available. These are newly developed roles, and we are looking for people who areprofessional, enthusiastic, responsive, and adaptable to join our Community Hospital team. This role is an important one as you'll be using your nursing knowledge, experience and expertise to lead the quality agenda for the portfolio.
Main duties of the job
You will work closely with our service users, frontline teams, operational and corporate nursing teams to lead, develop, and deliver the quality assurance framework for our hospitals. You must have strong leadership skills, and the ability to deliver change through our Valuesinto Action framework. We put patients first and we expect all of our colleagues to do the same, so you'll need to share our passion for delivering excellent patient care, and keep that passion at the forefront of your professional activity at all times.The challenges come thick and fast in this role but you'll know that your input is contributing to the excellent experience our patients and service users have every day.
Further details / informal visits contact:Name: Chloe ChalmersJob title: PA to Assistant Director and Head of Service for Community HospitalsEmail address: chloe.chalmers2@nhs.net
About us
Rated 'outstanding' by the CQC, we've got a passion for delivering high standards of patient care and excellent services to improve the health of our communities. To do this we need outstanding people who share our values compassionate Aspirational Responsive Excellent
We know a commitment to equity, diversity and inclusion leads to better patient care and a happier workforce. We pride ourselves in being diverse and welcome applications from people with varied backgrounds, perspectives and experiences
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The data we collect helps us to ensure we are attracting diversity in our applicants, that all our colleagues have equitable access to career opportunities and supports us on our journey to being a Great Place to Work
As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want you to be able to work in a way that is best for us, for our patients and for you. Talk to us about a flexible working arrangement that won't involve sacrificing time for personal interests or family commitments. We'll support you to work flexibly in a way that will suits us both
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Job responsibilities
Job responsibilities
The job description and person specification gives you all the information you need about this role. Please look carefully at the criteria in the person specification and tell us what you have done that shows you meet this in your application. If you need an application form in an alternative format please let our recruitment team know. All information you supply on your application should, to the best of your knowledge, be true and accurate.
Still have questions? The recruiting manager would love to hear from you, their contact details can be found in the job advert.
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At KCHFT we strongly encourage colleagues in clinical and non-clinical roles who have direct or social contact with patients to be fully vaccinated. In this way we will be doing all we can to ensure your safety and that of your colleagues and the patients we serve.
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Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Nurse
- 1st Degree level or equivalent experience
- Evidence of Continuing Professional Development in a portfolio
- Masters' Degree level or working towards
- Demonstrate significant postgraduate experience
- Management qualification
- Leadership qualification
- Evidence of relevant post graduate clinical education
- Trained in facilitated learning for under-graduate practice placements - student training
Desirable
- Project Management qualification
Experience
Essential
- Significant management experience
- Change management experience
- Experience of working in more than one speciality within the Health care environment, including inpatient care / hospitals
Knowledge
Essential
- Good knowledge of the NHS plan and the Governments Modernization agenda - able to relate to Trust and departmental policy
- Good understanding of finance and budget management
- Good understanding of operational management
Skills and abilities
Essential
- Excellent managerial and leadership skills
- Able to teach effectively
- Able to plan departmental workloads and supervise all staff and assistants providing effective feedback on performance
- Ability to effectively manage significant budgets as a delegated budget holder.
- Excellent problem solving and decision-making skills
- Advanced communication skills both verbal and written all levels and disciplines and including staff, patients and families
- Able to audit practice and make recommendations for change
- Good business planning skills - able to plan service developments relative to Services
- Good I.T. skills
- Able to cope with an unpredictable work pattern, working under pressure and to timescales
- Able to chair and facilitate meetings across a range of departments
- Ability to influence / manage highly complex situations
- Ability to use interpretation, analysis, assessing and comparison skills to make judgements on situations which may be conflicting and involve a range of highly complex facts / events and problems or information isn't available and there is no obvious solution.
- Able to plan, organise and deliver a broad range of complex activities, i.e. Initiation of programs which impact across or within departments & services, including situations requiring coordinating activities with other professionals.
Desirable
- Root Cause Analysis
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details
Employer name
Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Trinity House
Ashford
TN25 4AZ
