Rotational Senior Clinical PharmacistBand 7 - Surrey, United Kingdom - Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust

Description

Job overview

Clinical Matron - Acute Medical Unit

Through strong clinical leadership the Matron will support the ward to promote excellence in nursing care to maintain and improve clinical standards. The post holder will ensure that all patients are treated with compassion, dignity and respect.

Main duties of the job

Clinical Matron-Acute Medical Unit

We have a clear and ambitious vision to provide outstanding patient care and to become the best: we would like you to be part of our success.

We are really excited about the Clinical Matron roles that we have developed for our wards. As part of our ambitious agenda and on-going development of the ward, we are seeking to appoint an exceptional candidate into the ward matron role, for acute medicine.

Our successful candidate will be someone who is highly engaged, with a desire to lead from the bedside and to set the tone for exceptional and high-quality nursing care. We are looking for an experienced and ambitious nurse who is able to lead, motivate and inspire and who is able to champion compassionate, high quality and dignified patient care.

Working for our organisation

Welcome to the Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust. We offer an extensive range of services, including cancer, pathology, surgery, and gynecology to over 490,000 people in south west London and north east Surrey. We operate two busy general hospitals, Epsom Hospital and St Helier Hospital, and run services from other locations, including Sutton Hospital. We are also part of two innovative integrated care partnerships - Sutton Health and Care and Surrey Downs Health and Care. St Helier Hospital is home to the South West Thames Renal and Transplantation Unit and Queen Mary's Hospital for Children, while Epsom Hospital is home to the South West London Elective Orthopaedic Centre (SWLEOC). Both Epsom and St Helier hospitals have Accident and Emergency departments (A&E) and Maternity services (Obstetrics). With nearly 900,000 people coming to our hospitals for care and treatment every year, our almost 5,000 staff and 500 volunteers work around the clock to keep our busy hospitals running smoothly.

As teaching hospitals, we play a key role in the education and training of tomorrow's doctors, nurses and other health professionals. Both sites work in partnership with St George's Hospital and St George's Medical School in south London to deliver high quality education and research.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see the attached supporting document which contains more information about the Clinical Matron, Nursing role at Epsom and St Helier.

Person specification

Qualifications and Training

Essential criteria

Up to date clinical professional registration

Evidence of continuous professional practice and education, clearly recorded in current professional profile.

Educated to master's degree level or able to demonstrate equivalent knowledge a

Desirable criteria

Demonstration of Leadership or management experience

Independent prescriber /advanced physical assessment qualification

Advanced practice qualification

Experience

Essential criteria

Substantial experience post registration

Experience of staff supervision and mentorship including management of performance, conduct, sickness absence and training needs analysis

Undertaking audits within the clinical area, participating in peer reviews and experienced in constructive feedback in a supportive way to ensure improvements are made.

Ability to demonstrate service improvement skills and delivering on change management projects

Desirable criteria

Experience of project management

Research and Development and regularly contributes to both within the local and national level.

Skills and abilities

Essential criteria

Passionate about the provision of excellent patient care.

Able to produce and manage reports as required

Ability to lead and work in partnership with the multidisciplinary team

Personal Attributes

Essential criteria

Passion and commitment to delivering high standards of care, ensuring delivery of the 6Cs at all times.

Commitment to continuing professional and personal development

Your application : Please ensure that you have read the job description and person specification and that your supporting statement reflects these, as your application will be assessed and scored against these criteria.

References : You will be required to provide 3 years of employment/educational history. We do not accept references from personal email addresses such as Hotmail, Gmail etc. therefore please ensure you are providing professional working email addresses within your application form. If you are unable to provide professional email addresses and are invited to an interview, please ensure you advise the interviewers of this - otherwise, this may delay your pre-employment checks.

Closing date : In order to streamline recruitment within our Trust, we reserve the right to expire vacancies prior to the advertised closing date once we have received a sufficient number of applications.

Shortlisting : You will only be contacted via e-mail/SMS by the SWL Recruitment Hub if you are successfully shortlisted for this post. Please ensure that you check your Trac registered e-mail regularly.

DBS : We are committed to safeguarding children and adults who are at risk of abuse. As such, if this post will have access to children or vulnerable adults, you will be required to undertake an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check. However, all employees have a responsibility for safeguarding children and vulnerable adults in the course of their duties and for ensuring that they are aware of the specific duties relating to their role.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Documents to download

Further details / informal visits contact

NameGemma WrightJob titleHead of Nursing - Acute and Emergency MedicineEmail addressTelephone number