Matron AHP / Nursing-Education & Workforce-Theatres

Promote nursing/ AHP leadership that is safe, caring, and responsive.

Lead and manage the development of nurse/ AHP staffing practices, strategies, and innovations in order to enhance patient care.

Lead and manage in collaboration with the Theatre teams timely responsiveness to patient safety related incidents.

Support the Assistant Director of Nursing (ADN) & DADN (Deputy Assistant Director of Nursing) in the delivery of the nursing/AHP staffing quality agenda, ensuring local and national quality and clinical standards initiatives are embedded into practice across the Division- primarily focussing on theatres.

Support the ADN & DADN in the Trust wide strategic development of the Theatre nursing/ AHP workforce, ensuring the workforce is fit for the future to deliver safe, high quality and cost-efficient care.

Develop new nursing/ AHP roles in collaboration with the Assistant Director of Nursing (ADN) and Deputy Director of Nursing (DADN) to support the development of a modern nursing/ AHP theatre work force.

Support the ADN to develop & review policies to drive safe nurse/ AHP staffing, retention, new workforce models and recruitment. Responsive to patient safety incidents. Support the ADN & DADN to develop & review policy and processes to drive safe nurse/ AHP Ensure nursing/ AHP staff have the required skills, knowledge, and competency to deliver safe & effective high quality clinical care.

Main duties of the job

Work alongside Workforce and Human Resources to advise and support in building an effective nursing/ AHP and midwifery workforce strategy.

Influence and lead staff to embrace change using negotiation and change management skills.

Analyse and present results from audits / research or from information systems to all stakeholders and support the DADN, ADN to develop new strategies and innovations to develop nursing/ AHP theatre workforce.

Deliver a communication plan that will be well received and revise as required, making recommendations where necessary.

Work with the divisional communications team to ensure that staff are updated with all information pertaining to nurse staffing, and work with external agencies to share best practice and promote the Trusts- Theatres nurse/ AHP staffing agenda.

Attend and contribute to internal and external meetings, ensuring any key points are raised, recommendations made, and actions taken, complex and varied issues and information are relayed in a clear concise way, with relevance to the audience it is being delivered to.

Ensure any changes to working practice and/or job roles involve the necessary consultation with HR, managers, staff, and their representatives.

This has to be done in line with the Trusts policies and procedures, employment law and impact on the staff.

We are an acute trust caring for over one million people in Wakefield and Kirklees. Our 10,000 staff work in patients homes, the community, and our three hospitals in Pontefract, Dewsbury, and Pinderfields (Wakefield). We prioritise our people and values so we can deliver the best possible care to patients. Our team is friendly, passionate, and innovative, always seeking better ways to work.

We support work-life balance and foster a diverse, inclusive environment where everyone belongs. Our staff networks offer safe spaces to share ideas and concerns so we can increase awareness and appreciation of equality, diversity, and inclusion. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and especially encourage members of the LGBTQ+ community, ethnic minority groups, and people with disabilities or neurodivergence to apply, as they are currently underrepresented in the Trust.

If you value caring, high standards, improvement, and respect, join the MY team to make a difference every day.