Matron - Nottingham Children's Hospital - Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust

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Description
Band 8a


Main area

  • Children's Hospital
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Grade

  • Band 8a
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Contract

  • Permanent
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Hours

  • Full time hours per week
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Job ref
A
Site

  • Nottingham Children's Hospital, QMC
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Town

  • Nottingham
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Salary
- £48,526 - £54,619 per annum
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Salary period

  • Yearly
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Closing

  • 05/04/2023 23:59Job overview

Calling all Children's Nurse Leaders - we're expanding our outstanding team and have 2 Matron posts to offer


Come and join us in this historical city, a great place to live, work and enjoy the rich culture that Nottingham has to offer.

Do you want a career with growth, progression and empowerment? There has never been a more exciting time to join our Children's Hospital as we expand our senior nursing team with two Matron posts to offer (areas of work to be discussed).


Your skills and talents as a Leader will help ensure our children, young people and families receive the unparalleled quality care they deserve and in return, you'll find a rewarding career full of opportunity.

When you work at NUH, you're not just helping families - you're part of one too.

As an applicant for the Matron roles you must be able to demonstrate multidisciplinary team working; exhibit strong communication and leadership skills.

You should have some experience of leading larger scale change, innovation, staff and service development in line with our Children's Hospital Nursing strategy, to deliver outstanding care, every time.

Nottingham Children's Hospital were recently designated the first Children's Hospital across Europe to be accredited with Pathway to Excellence.

This is an exciting time to become a pivotal member of our team as we move onwards with our journey of care excellence.

If you are looking for the next challenge in your career, this is an exciting opportunity for you.

Main duties of the job


In addition to the below summary you need to familiarize yourself with full Job Description and Person Specification documents attached to this advert.


As a Matron across Nottingham Childrens' Hospital, you will provide day-to-day operational, clinical, professional leadership and support for nursing, maintaining quality focused standards as well as linking with other healthcare professionals throughout the services to ensure we continue to provide excellent care to our Children, Young People and their Families / Carers.

Working for our organisation

Nottingham Children's Hospital were recently designated the first Children's Hospital across Europe to be accredited with Pathway to Excellence.

This is an exciting time to become a pivotal member of our team as we move onwards with our journey of care excellence.

You will be supported in your role by the Lead Nurse for Nottingham Children's Hospital, the Deputy and Divisional Nurse for Family Health.


As well as delivering the highest standards of care to children, young people, their families and carers, Nottingham Children's Hospital are committed to developing and investing in you and your personnel and professional development, giving individual staff access and choices to progress in leadership, specialist, clinical academic and other roles.

You will be joining a team of highly skilled professionals with a positive work ethic and great team ethos.

If you're thinking of joining us and would require support with relocating please contact us for a discussion.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities


Please note this is an overview and not an exhaustive list of the job description and main responsibilities
Provide responsive, compassionate, inclusive leadership and management to promote the highest standards of clinical care, patient safety and experience.

Ensure compliance with prevention and control of infections, monitoring cleaning of the environment.

Workforce management, finance and budgeting

Ensuring the highest quality education and development of nursing staff across the services.

To act as a resource, providing advice on professional nursing issues in relation to clinical interventions, policies and protocols, service delivery and service development

To ensure that appropriate resources are in place to support the delivery of high quality services within areas of responsibility

Person specification

Commitment to Trust Values

Essential criteria

  • Must be able to demonstrate behaviours consistent with the Trust's "We are here for you" behavioural standards
Training & Qualifications

Essential criteria

  • Management qualification or relevant experience
  • ENB 998 or equivalent teaching course
  • Registered childrens nurse
Desirable criteria

  • APLS provider
Experience

Essential criteria

  • Experience of leading and delivering programmes of change within an acute NHS setting
  • Post registration experience including management and leadership experience
  • Knowledge of budgets/financial control
Communication/relatonship skil

Essential criteria

  • Excellent communications

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