Matron for Uec Trust Wide - Lincoln, United Kingdom - United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust

United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust
United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust
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Lincoln, United Kingdom

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Are you a motivated, passionate individual who has the skills and ability to be a professional lead with a proven track record of the delivery of high quality patient care?

An opportunity has arisen for a secondment/fixed term into the post of Matron for UEC for 12 months.

The successful applicant will be fully supported by the Lead Nurse for UEC and the medicine leadership team.


Applications are encouraged from individuals who can:

  • Provide strong, visible, clinical leadership, whilst inspiring and empowering nurses and other clinical staff in pursuit of a shared vision
  • Ensure the effective and safe delivery of services within their area of responsibility.
  • Be accountable for the efficient and effective operational management of the nursing workforce
  • Be a strong clinical leader, easily identifiable, highly visible and accessible to patients, carers and staff
  • Work closely with the leadership team to ensure collaborative working and achievement of Trust objectives, particularly safe patient care.


As a key member of the specialty triumvirate team you are jointly responsible with the clinical lead and Clinical Service Manager / Operational Service Manager for the provision of safe, effective and efficient services within your area of responsibility.


As a Senior Nurse within the specialty leadership team your specific portfolio as Matron will be accountable for the efficient and effective operational management of the nursing workforce, guaranteeing provision of high quality evidence based nursing practice, which will be delivered within a hospital.

The Matron will be a strong clinical leader, easily identifiable, highly visible and accessible to patients, carers and staff.

They will have a particular responsibility to support the developments of Clinical Governance and Service Improvement, to modernise patient services and ensure the active involvement of patients and carers in the way services are developed, delivered and evaluated.

The Matron will provide strong clinical leadership within the Services and be highly visible and accessible to patients.

Leading by example they will drive up standards of clinical care and have the authority to get the essential components of care right for patients - clean wards and departments, quality care, ensuring patients are treated with dignity and respect, resolving problems for patients and relatives and ensuring high standards are maintained throughout the Services.


Our Trust is situated in the beautiful county of Lincolnshire and is one of the biggest acute hospital trusts in England, serving a population of more than 700,000 people.

We provide acute and specialist services to people in Lincolnshire and neighbouring counties. We have an annual income of £643 million (20/21) and we employ nearly 8,500 people.


Our Board have recently agreed a new vision statement - "Outstanding Care Personally Delivered" - stating their ambition for our Trust to be among the best.


We also have a five year Integrated Improvement Plan setting out how we will achieve our strategic objectives, for patients, services, people and partners, the last recognising that our future success depends on our ability to ensure the Lincolnshire healthcare system is successful in achieving its ambition to help people live healthier lives and provide care closer to where people live.

Our latest CQC report increased our ratings for being effective and well-led from 'Requires Improvement' to 'Good'. Our rating for caring remained as 'Good'.


This is in recognition of the huge amount of work that our amazing staff have done to improve the quality of care for our patients in recent years.

We are committed to helping our staff balance their work and home lives and ensure they feel supported, valued and appreciated

This post is an exciting opportunity to join an established team of medical matrons at ULHT. In medicine we are passionate about delivering high quality safe care and strive for outstanding in everything we do.

The secondment opportunity will provide an ideal opportunity to learn a new role and will offer an excellent opportunity to further develop leadership skills.


The post holder is expected to treat patients, service user's staff and carers with courtesy, care and compassion at all times, treating each person as an individual by offering a personalised service.

Trust staff will adopt behaviours and attitudes, which promote, supports and respects privacy and dignity in accordance with the Trust Dignity policies and dignity in care pledges.

Staff are expected to challenge poor practice in relation to dignity and treat each other with respect.


United Lincolnshire Hospitals Trust is committed to providing consistently excellent and safe patient-centred care for the people of Lincolnshire, through highly skilled, committed and compassionate staff working together.

We do this by putting our patients at the centre of all that we do and providing the best qua
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