Matron

The opportunity has arisen to be part of our professional nursing leadership team within Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust. We are recruiting a Matron for a 3 month period to support the development of the Bishops Castle Community Hospital (BCCH) in-patient team.

The post holder is responsible for the dynamic leadership and management to ensure safe, high quality, responsive, efficient, and effective delivery of in-patient care in the unit., Providing senior professional nurse leadership, the post holder is accountable for the patient experience and the delivery of high-quality services within the Community Hospital wards, ensuring efficient and effective management of all resources to deliver safe and effective patient care in an environment of continuous improvement.

The post holder is responsible for ensuring the achievement of operational and strategic objectives within their area of responsibility, with particular emphasis on the quality of care, the patient experience, infection control, the care environment, patient nutrition, patient and public involvement, clinical service improvement and health education and promotion.

The post holder will work with SCHT colleagues to deliver the Trust's overall strategic objectives, ensuring that the patient experience is a key priority. The post holder is expected to assess and deliver direct patient care to maintain professional competence, authority, and credibility.

Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust provides community-based health services for adults and children in Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin, and some services in surrounding areas too. These range from district nursing, health visiting and running four community hospitals through to providing very specialist community care through talented and dedicated staff.

Patients, carers and the public play a vital role in helping us to develop and improve our services and we are constantly looking for ways to work with local communities, patients and the public to innovate and improve. Have a look at the Have Your Say section of our website to find out how you can feed back your experiences and help us to continually improve.

Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust is an exciting place to work. It offers a wide range of employment opportunities for many people.

Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust positively encourages applications from all areas of the community, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation or religious beliefs. We are committed to ensuring people who work for the community trust have a good working life - and a good work life/home life balance.