Matron - Community Services - Preston, United Kingdom - Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

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Preston, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Your dynamic, confident and motivated nature is just what we need in this fab new role.

Leading our recently opened Community Healthcare Hub, this is a chance to really make your mark and influence the development and evolution of this new service which is already starting to make an impact - this is your time to shine.

We are looking for someone as passionate as we are about providing the best care possible to our residents and patients, with the ability to challenge current practice and to support and help ensure we are continually meeting our Trust values.

That passion coupled with all your attributes and skills will ensure you lead from the front, taking it all in your stride and inspiring the whole team.

This is a senior and key role in ensuring we have safe, effective, and robust systems to provide assurance, monitor quality and safety so you will appreciate that we are looking for the right person.

We need someone who can deliver against key objectives in a fast paced and ever-changing environment, as well as someone who enjoys collaborative working and is committed to continuous quality improvement and patient safety.

Is that you?

It goes without saying you will be supported in the progression of your career as part of a forward-thinking team with strong clinical leadership.

You will be supported by the Head of Community Services so will always have a point of contact to bounce ideas off as well as agree the changes necessary to drive the service forward.

As well as being driven to develop yourself, you will lead from the front and have a passion for developing staff and using patient feedback to improve care for both patients and our current residents within the unit.

You will have the ability to work as a key decision maker alongside the multi professional team, ensuring the safe implementation of nursing strategy within the department, in accordance with research, policy, national standards and the NMC Code.

This is an opportunity to join our new team at our Community Healthcare Hub where you will be supported to learn, grow and flourish, nurtured and developed in a supportive environment from a multi professional team and within a structured leadership framework.

We are aiming to create a team where we really value the personal skills, experience and qualities that every member of our team bring to us, creating a diverse, knowledgeable and very supportive team who feel motivated and able to influence the future direction of the service.

We will invest such a lot in you and your development by promoting and supporting you, ensuring you stay up keep up to date with all clinical competencies.

We do really need the best and most flexible people for this team, and we make no apologies for that - to succeed you will have proven leadership skills and experience, highly effective and influential communication skills, the ability to challenge professionally and move things forward by engaging all your colleagues.

You will be a role-model for the whole team too.

Main Responsibilities:

Is responsible for the provision of Excellent Care with Compassion
Is responsible for ensuring that the nursing team and care support team are adequately resourced and organised in order to deliver excellent care with compassion
Is responsible for ensure the nursing team and care support team are adequately supported and developed to deliver excellent care with compassion
Ensure clinical services are developed anddelivered in line with national policy, trust priorities, available evidence and patient care needs
Is responsible for leading and developing the ward nursing team and the ward administration and support teams by being a visible and strong role model providing leadership and direction to the team, capitalising on research and development opportunities, providing clinical supervision and advice for staff and students in order to support them in reaching their full potential
Is responsible for ensuring the productive operation of the ward through the monitoring and maintenance of standards that create a safe, clean and organised environment and by using processes designed to increase the time nurses spend in therapeutic contact with patients
Within specific area of responsibility ensure robust financial controls are in place, resources are effectively utilised and relevant financial targets are achieved
Safeguards people and promotes equality in care and practice by recognising, respecting and meeting the needs and choices of individuals
Overall responsibility for vacancy / talent management, ensuring all vacancies are recruited to in a timely manner and in line with the our recruitment and selection policy
Where there are difficult to fill roles solutions are found to ensure the department has sustainable staffing structures at substantive spend, which may be achieved through different marketing solutions or different structural arrangements