Matron - Theatres and Recovery

Barts Health NHS Trust; London; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player in healthcare is seeking experienced practitioners to lead their Theatre service at the Royal London Hospital. This role offers an exciting opportunity to inspire a safe and efficient peri-operative service while managing one of the largest trauma centres in London. Ideal candidates will possess strong leadership and people management skills, alongside clinical expertise in a complex theatre environment. Join a dynamic multidisciplinary team committed to delivering high-quality patient care and be part of a forward-thinking organization dedicated to continuous improvement and excellence in healthcare services.

Benefits

Pension scheme

Leisure and entertainment discounts

Parental leave and childcare support

Career development opportunities

Apprenticeships at all levels

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse/Registered Operating Department Practitioner with leadership experience.
• Evidence of continued professional development and relevant qualifications.

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic oversight for Theatres and Recovery at The Royal London Hospital.
• Deliver high standards of nursing care and manage nursing resources effectively.

Skills

Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Negotiating and influencing skills

Clinical governance and risk management

Audit skills

Ability to interpret and present complex data

Education

Degree level registered nurse

Relevant mentorship/teaching qualification

Educated to masters level or equivalent

Job description

All our hospitals have their own unique identities while sharing the same standards and values

You can shape your story with us.

Whether you’re looking to gain experience in a large, fast-paced hospital or get out into the community, we have a range of opportunities that allows you to build your entire career in one trust.

For us, every day is different. We provide care to a diverse population of 2.5 million across east London – that’s 6,000 people every day, speaking over 60 different languages. Our patients are at the heart of everything we do, and we are committed to ensuring that people living in east London live healthy lives.

Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country and one of Britain’s leading healthcare providers.

The Barts Health group of NHS hospitals is entering an exciting new era on our improvement journey to becoming an outstanding organisation with a world-class clinical reputation. Having lifted ourselves out of special measures, we now have the impetus and breathing space to chart a fresh course in which we are continually striving to improve all our services for patients.

Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time. It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.

Barts Health supports the Pregnancy Loss Pledge and commits to supporting their staff through the distress of miscarriage.

Job overview

We are excited to launch an expansion in our team leadership within our Theatre service at the Royal London Hospital. We are seeking experienced practitioners to join a unique opportunity to lead one of our 21 elective and emergency theatres at one of the largest trauma centres in London.

We are seeking highly motivated applicants who can demonstrate examples of well-developed leadership, people management, financial management, organisational skills and strategic planning. In your supporting statement, please provide us some examples of your experience of delivering these.

Our state-of-the-art theatres service elective and emergency specialties and complex procedures, including hepatobiliary, complex ENT, trauma & orthopaedics, reconstructive orthopaedics, neurosurgery, complex vascular surgery, interventional radiology, maxillofacial surgery, robotic procedures, renal transplants, plastic reconstructive surgery, urology and ophthalmic surgery. We also offer paediatric expertise to the major trauma service for Southeast England.

This is an exciting opportunity to be a key part of our leadership, inspiring a safe and efficient peri-operative service. If you are a Nurse or Operating Department Practitioner with NMC or HCPC registration, with experience in a complex theatre environment and are looking to become a leader within our dynamic multidisciplinary team, we would welcome an application from you.

Main duties of the job

This role provides key strategic oversight for Theatres and Recovery at The Royal London Hospital. The post holder provides innovative clinical and professional leadership to nursing at all levels within the service group, ensuring nursing care is delivered to a high standard and the nursing resource is managed effectively. This will be achieved by the post holder supporting theatres band 7 team, in running the directorate theatres, recovery and the PDN’s. The post holder will be required to work collaboratively with the other Matrons within both Peri-operative medicine and the wider division and be supportive of nursing leads in these areas in their delivery of safe and compassionate care. The post holder is responsible for maintaining the standards as identified by the Care Quality Commission and other regulatory bodies are maintained supporting quality improvement projects with the ward sister/charge nurse and support the multidisciplinary team to take forward the directorates quality and safety agenda. This post combines clinical expertise, leadership and educational/research skills with managerial and professional responsibilities.

Working for our organisation

Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country and one of Britain’s leading healthcare providers.

We strive to live by our WeCare values and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience, and knowledge required. For both documents, please view the attachment/s below.

Person specification

Experience

• Registered Nurse/Registered Operating Department Practitioner
• Degree level registered nurse
• Relevant mentorship/teaching qualification i.e. ENB 998 or equivalent
• Evidence of continued professional development
• Post-registration qualification in a relative area of practice
• Knowledge of clinical governance systems in the acute setting
• Comprehensive knowledge of acute nursing
• Knowledge of safeguarding policies and procedures
• Ability to study at Masters level (or working towards)
• Leadership/management course

Skills

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Promotes, monitors and maintains best practice in health, safety and security
• Skills in negotiating and influencing
• Clinical governance and risk management
• Audit skills
• Ability to interpret, analyse and present complex data and findings

Knowledge

• Up to date knowledge of NHS organisational challenges and developments
• Extensive previous experience at Band 7 level or above in a theatre department
• Recent clinical experience in the relevant areas of practice.
• Experience of leading a team to develop and deliver on action plans related to external organisations assessment (e.g. CQC)
• Experience of change management and service improvement
• Experience of collaborating with a multi-professional team
• Knowledge of organisational funding flows and the complexities of reporting in a complex organisation

Qualifications

• Educated to masters level or equivalent

As an Equal Opportunities Employer, we actively support applications from individuals who apply under the Guaranteed Interview Scheme and will process your application as appropriate.

We reserve the right to expire vacancies prior to the advertised closing date once a sufficient number of applications has been received and we regret that we are unable to provide notification if your application is unsuccessful.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

You’ll have access to a range of benefits including one of the best pension schemes in the UK, leisure and entertainment discounts and parental leave and childcare support schemes we’re really proud of.

We're also committed to ensuring that you are supported in gaining and developing the skills and knowledge needed to carry out your work safely and effectively, and to achieve your full potential. We offer a range of apprenticeships at all levels, as well as an extensive range of career development opportunities.