Acute Matron

This matron role is part of our new Making Room for Dignity project which will reinvigorate our acute inpatient settings with newly purpose built and refurbished facilities. The role is a the key clinical leader within the adult acute service and essential to the delivery of high quality patient led care. The successful candidate will work alongside two matron colleagues and the Heads of Nursing to ensure quality, performance and safety within these care environments and across the acute care division. This role will specifically work with the female acute inpatient wards across the Radbourne and Kingsway sites and include the new Audrey House Enhanced Care Unit. This role provides visible clinical knowledge, expertise and leadership for nurses and other health professionals providing care in an inpatient setting to ensure safe, high quality and effective delivery of care. The post holder will be accountable for the unit and ward based acute care teams, be visible and available to ward team staff, patients and carers and be responsive to their experiences of care and concerns about the ward environment. In collaboration, the post-holder will collectively with respective matrons, clinical and practice leads across the urgent care pathway (assessment/community/inpatients) to ensure there is no silos working in the matrons dedicated area and ensure a collective leadership model is used across their area and the wider division., The matron will provide clinical leadership and support for nursing staff to maintain clinical and non-clinical standards of care to include the implementation and sustainability of quality improvement. This includes ensuring that CQC standards are met and exceeded. They will demonstrate a level of healthy curiosity about safe care delivery and be actively engaged in the management of risk and associated care planning, management and treatment to ensure high standards are delivered and maintained. The individual will be highly visible and easily identifiable to staff, patients and their families and/or carers. Broad examples of duties include:

• Leading by example
• Ensuring patients get quality care (positive patient experience, effective nursing care, patient safety)
• Ensuring staffing is appropriate to patient need.
• Empowering nurses to take on a wider range of clinical activities.
• Improving hospital cleanliness
• Improving wards for patients
• Making sure patients are treated with respect and dignity.
• Preventing hospital acquired infections.
The matron will undertake specific service improvement and development projects using continuous improvement and quality impact assessment methodologies. Part of this includesa responsibility to ensure the best use of the resources necessary to ensure safe, effective and positive inpatient experience and will be accountable for the oversight and management of the associated clinical leads.

Join 'Team Derbyshire' and become part of a talented, compassionate and enthusiastic workforce committed to a vision of 'making a positive difference in people's lives'.

Commitment to flexible working where this is possible 27 days annual leave/year plus bank holidays, increasing to 29 days after 5 years & 33 days after 10 years' service Yearly appraisal and commitment to ongoing training Generous NHS pension scheme Good maternity, paternity and adoption benefits Health service discounts and online benefits Incremental pay progression Free confidential employee assistance programme 24/7 Access to our LGBT+ network, BAME Network and Christian Network Health and wellbeing opportunities Structured learning and development opportunities