Special Care Baby Unit Ward Matron - Stockton-on-Tees, United Kingdom - North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust

North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust

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Stockton-on-Tees, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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We have a development opportunity for the Ward Matrons position on the Special Care Baby Unit at North Tees on a permanent basis

The special care baby unit works closely with both maternity and paediatric services to deliver high quality, safe care and shared working on many local, regional and national improvement projects.

To have responsibility for the management and provision of high quality, safe care delivery on the special care baby unit at all times through effective clinical leadership.

You will provide expertise and advice in neonates to the senior nursing team as part of paediatric service development and in collaboration with obstetrics, working and leading on a number of quality improvement projects.

At North Tees & Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust our main priority is, and always will be, to provide safe and high quality care to our patients every day; the kind of care we would want for ourselves and our loved ones.

We want our organisation to be the best place to work with the right staff, in the right roles, at the right time, to ensure we deliver exceptional patient care and experience.

We will support staff through providing an inclusive and supportive workplace with health and well-being initiatives, staff benefits and opportunities for personal and professional development.

Staff recognition is very important to us; as well as performance reviews and appraisals, we recognise staff through Star and Team of the month, colleague recognition - a note of thanks, Managers Awards, Shining Stars and Service Awards.

We support the Making Every Contact Count approach to behaviour change in the promotion of health and wellbeing of individuals and communities.

We recruit for values and "Together we are North Tees & Hartlepool"

Please see the attached job description and person specification but duties to include:
Day to day management of unit
- clinical expertise

Ensure safe staffing cover and absence management

Recruitment/retention of staff

Appraisals/1:1s, staff development and supervision

Facilitate change and service improvements

Patient safety, investigate safety events and ensure learning is shared and implemented

Audits, guidelines and SOPs renewal and development

Promote good quality care

Budget and financial management

Complaints and complements

Staff welfare and wellbeing