Clinical Matron - Elderly Care

Job summary

The Clinical Matron (CM) has 24-hour accountability for quality, staff, finance and performance of their area. The Clinical Matron will be responsible for ensuring patients receive high quality, evidenced based compassionate care.

The Clinical Matron will be responsible for ensuring that staff are supported and developed to deliver high quality carein accordance with the Trust values.

The Clinical Matron will have enhanced clinical skills and provide clinical expertise both within their own clinical environment and across the organisation as necessary to support the Organisational Strategy in theachievement of professional, operational and clinical governance objectives. This will involve being responsible for the development and implementation of service improvement and/or policies in their areaof expertise.

The Clinical Matron will work closely with the named consultant to provide day to day professional leadership with a significant focus on improving the experience

Main duties of the job

• 24-hour accountability in leadership role or quality, staff, finance and performance of the ward.
• Responsible for ensuring patients receive high quality, evidenced based compassionate care.
• Lead on the complex patient assessment, requiring high level analysis and interpretation skills and the comparison of a range of options to achieve effective treatment or discharge planning.
• Provide effective visible leadership that fosters a culture of professionalism, compassion, excellence and the development of effective team working

About us

Our vision is to provide outstanding care for every patient. Patient care is at the heart of what we do at our three sites: Basingstoke and North Hampshire Hospital, Royal Hampshire County Hospital in Winchester and Andover War Memorial Hospital. Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides medical and surgical services to a population of approximately 600,000 people across Hampshire and parts of West Berkshire.

Our cultural ambition is to have a culture that places people at the heart of all we do, where we all belong, and where learning, improvement and excellence thrive.

We provide specialist services to people across the UK and internationally. We are one of only two centres in the UK treating pseudomyxoma peritonei (a rare form of abdominal cancer) and we are leaders in the field of tertiary liver cancer and colorectal cancer.

The trust employs more than 9,000 staff and has a turnover of over £500 million a year. As a Foundation Trust, we are directly accountable to our members through the governors. The Council of Governors represent the interests of their constituencies and influence the future plans of the Foundation Trust.

Tackling Climate Change:Hampshire Hospitals aims to embed sustainability and net zero carbon principles into the delivery of care across all its services. To find out more, searchHHFT Climate Actionor [email protected].

Job responsibilities

Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached.

Person specification

Training & Qualifications

Essential

• Degree or equivalent level of experience
• Up to date clinical professional registration
• Evidence of continuous professional practice and education clearly recorded in current professional profile.

Desirable

• Demonstration of Leadership or management experience and study
• Educated to master's degree level or able to demonstrate equivalent knowledge and expertise gained through any combination of alternative study and/or work experience
• Advanced practice qualification

Experience & Knowledge

Essential

• Ability to provide inspirational leadership in a clinical team in keeping with Trust values
• Be able to undertake Root Cause Analysis and investigations and provide meaningful outcomes
• Good evidence of staff supervision and mentorship including management of performance, conduct, sickness absence and training needs analysis
• Ability to work autonomously, demonstrating a high level of professional and personal credibility, inspiring confidence in others

Desirable

• Experience of managing a budget and delivering on this
• Experience of project management
• Evidence of the ability to demonstrate service improvement skills and delivering on change management projects

Skills & Ability

Essential

• Understanding of effective clinical governance, audit, performance and quality indicators
• Ability to manage conflicting priorities
• Ability to make informed and measured decisions in all circumstances