Locality Matron

Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust; Whitby; On-site; CAD 85,000 - 105,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare trust in the UK is seeking a Locality Matron for community services, focusing on leadership within Whitby Community ward and nursing team. The ideal candidate will have a passion for improving patient care, a Master’s level education, and strong communication skills. This full-time role offers flexibility for part-time hours and requires a candidate committed to quality care and effective team leadership.

Benefits

Enhanced leave package

Health and wellbeing support

Qualifications

• Current Adult Nursing registration and be on the NMC/HCPC live register.
• Educated to a Master's level or have significant advanced knowledge/experience.
• Successful completion of non-medical prescribing course if required.

Responsibilities

• Provide clinical leadership to aligned clinical services.
• Support the leadership team in delivering the trust strategy.
• Ensure high professional standards are maintained.

Skills

Effective communication skills

Ability to lead and motivate staff

Sound knowledge of Trust policies

Interest in quality improvement

Education

Current Adult Nursing registration

Educated to Masters Level

Teaching qualification

Job description

We are offering a secondment opportunity pending the completion of a substantive recruitment process. We are looking for a nurse with a passion for community services support as Locality Matron for community services and supporting Whitby Community ward.

Main duties of the job

The locality matron will provide clinical leadership to the aligned clinical services including Whitby community ward and Whitby community nursing team. The post holder will report to the divisional clinical lead and provide visible leadership across a service settings, monitoring and ensuring high professional standards are maintained.

The post holder needs to be an innovative and dynamic practitioner committed to improving the patient experience, improving standards of care and services, whilst supporting the leadership team in delivering the trust strategy and values. They will ensure that services are using evidence to support safe and effective service delivery and contribute to the delivery of the patient safety and quality agenda.

The post holder will be an integral member of the senior leadership team providing support to implement and monitor progress on delivery of strategic objectives to ensure the provision of high-quality care.

The post is full time but we would consider part time hours for the right candidate.

About us

We are an award winning and CQC rated good health and social care Trust delivering integrated services across Hull, East and North Yorkshire. Find out more on our website

We are a forward thinking and dynamic Trust with a real commitment to staff development. We value our colleagues and invest in them to ensure they have the right skills to deliver outstanding care.

We are proud to score above or equal to the average for all NHS People Promise theme areas demonstrating our commitment to improve the experience of working in the NHS for everyone. Wherever you work we know you will receive a warm welcome and all the support you'll need to get you started.

We recognise the positive value of diversity and promotes equality whilst challenging discrimination. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds.

Work life balance is about having influence and flexibility over when, where and how you work. If the work pattern for this role does not meet your needs, we welcome an application and are happy to discuss working arrangements that differ from those advertised.

We offer a unique range of benefits that go above and beyond other NHS Trusts including an enhanced leave package and health and wellbeing support.

From city to countryside, market towns to moors you'll find a place to call home including some of the most affordable places to live in the UK.

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Job responsibilities

For further information with regard to this vacancy please see the attached job description and person specification.

Person Specification

Qualifications, education and training

• Current Adult Nursing registration and be on the NMC/HCPC live register
• Educated to Masters Level or Masters level/Post Graduate modules plus significant advanced knowledge/ experience
• Prepared to undertake or hold a recognised non-medical pre
• Be on the live register of mentors if required for the service area
• Successful completion of non-medical prescribing course if required
• Teaching qualification
• Specialist Practice - District Nursing

Knowledge and experience

• Full understanding of relevant policy, legislation, drivers and their application to clinical and service area
• Full understanding/application of relevant clinical practice/standards/audit within identified clinical area
• Standard IT skills with working knowledge of IT systems relevant to own area of work
• Evidence of leadership and organisational development issues that have had a positive impact on service delivery
• Experience of successful clinical policy implementation and change
• Evidence of professional development work that has impacted on practice and demonstrates a higher level of communication/planning/change that impacts beyond own area of work
• An interest in quality improvement and methodologies
• Evidence of sound post-registration professional practice
• Evidence of continuing professional development, relevant to the service area
• Proven leadership experience at an advanced level which has had a positive impact/created change within service delivery/practice
• Organisational networking locally, regionally, nationally
• Be able to effectively Chair meetings
• Ability to work across organisational boundaries, developing and maintaining multi-professional and multi-agency partnerships
• Member of organisational group/network, locally/regionally/nationally
• A breadth of clinical practice including clinically specialising in the field where the post is held

Skills and competencies and personal qualities

• Able to demonstrate effective communication skills at all levels i.e. strategically and locally
• Work within the culture of improving working lives and working time directive
• Ability to lead and motivate staff to embrace change
• Sound experience/knowledge of Trust policies and procedures in order to effectively lead and manage others
• Ability to demonstrate ethical values and attitudes within a culture of equality and diversity
• Ability to effectively commute between the organisations various sites

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.