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Job summary

An established healthcare provider is seeking a Matron to lead their Theatres and Critical Care services. This role offers a unique opportunity to provide high standards of patient care while working within a supportive multidisciplinary team. The Matron will play a crucial role in governance, patient safety, and workforce planning, ensuring the delivery of outstanding care. Join a forward-thinking organization that values kindness, integrity, and teamwork, and take your career to the next level in a dynamic and rewarding environment.

Benefits

Employee Assistance Programme

Counselling Service

Fast Track Physiotherapy

Staff Recognition Awards

Health and Wellbeing Initiatives

Professional Development Opportunities

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse with management experience required.
• Evidence of post-registration development at degree level is essential.

Responsibilities

• Lead and inspire a multidisciplinary team in Theatres and Critical Care.
• Focus on patient safety, quality governance, and service improvement.

Skills

Leadership

Clinical Nursing Practice

Patient Safety

Resource Management

Education and Training

Governance

Digital and Information Technology

Education

Registered Nursing or AHP

Post Registration Development at Degree Level

Master's Degree

Job description

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Client:

Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust

Location:

Harrogate, United Kingdom

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Posted:

26.04.2025

Expiry Date:

10.06.2025

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Job overview

Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust cares for the population surrounding Harrogate and the local area as well as across North Yorkshire. We also provide children’s services in the North East in County Durham, Darlington, Middlesbrough, Stockton-On-Tees, Gateshead and Sunderland.

Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust is one of only two trusts in Yorkshire and Humber to be awarded Health Service Journal’s Top 100 Best Places to Work. We believe in Our People Plan ‘At our Best’ Making HDFT the Best Place to Work and this is reflected in what we value Kindness, Integrity, Teamwork and Equality. Our national staff survey results improve year on year, which supports the work we are undertaking across the organisation.

Theatre and Critical care services are growing within Harrogate with a new theatre complex about to start being built, providing two new theatres and procedure rooms. A successful business case has seen a one million pound investment in our critical care staffing which is being introduced in stages.

Are you an experienced highly motivated individual who is passionate about Theatres and Critical Care services and wants to provide high standards of care? We are recruiting a Matron to join our friendly team where we have a dedicated and supportive multidisciplinary team who pride themselves on providing the highest quality patient focused care.

If you are looking for a new challenge and wish to lead and inspire others then please apply.

Main duties of the job

The Matron will be a highly visible, accessible and authoritative presence in clinical areas to which patients, their families and others can turn for leadership, assistance, advice and support.

The Matron’s role will focus on:

• Inclusive leadership, professional standards and accountability.
• Governance, patient safety and quality.
• Workforce planning and resource management.
• Patient experience and reducing health inequalities.
• Performance and operational oversight.
• Digital and information technology.
• Education, training and development.
• Research and development.
• Collaborative working and clinical effectiveness.

Service improvement and transformation

Working for our organisation

At Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust we provide outstanding care to both our patients and our staff. We support staff through benefits, health and wellbeing initiatives and opportunities for personal and professional development.

· An inclusive and supportive culture our Trust encourages staff to bring their whole selves to work and active Staff Networks identify areas for improvement.

· Staff Recognition - as well as regular appraisals, we recognise staff with our Making a Difference, Team of the Month Awards & Colleague Recognition Awards

· Employee Support and wellbeing - we have a comprehensive Employee Assistance Programme, counselling service and fast track physiotherapy service for employees.

· Staff Benefits - We have a range of staff benefits and schemes to support staff health, engagement, wellbeing and inclusion.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The Planned and Surgical Care Directorate is responsible for delivering high quality and effective Medical and Nursing Care to patients within the hospital base, outpatients and community settings.

This includes patients within the following specialties which this role is responsible for:

· Multiple Specialities within the Trust related to surgery

· Main Theatres

· Pain management

· Critical Care Unit

· Critical Care Out-Reach

· Theatre Admissions

· Pre-Operative Assessment

· Wharfedale Theatres

Main theatre comprises of 5 elective theatres and 1 emergency obstetric theatre, providing high quality care to a range of patients undergoing surgical procedures, operating 24hours 7 days a week covering acute, trauma, elective and obstetric surgery.

Day surgery theatres comprises of 3 elective theatres, providing high quality care to adults and children undergoing surgical procedures Monday – Saturday.

Includes a day ward unit to facilitate day case surgery.

Pre-assessment is a team of nurse led practitioners providing high quality pre-operative assessment for patients awaiting surgery.

Critical Care comprises of level 3 and level 2 high quality care for patients who require medical and surgical care.

The Critical Care outreach team support the organisation and the unit.

The PSC directorate is responsible for:

• Identifying their strategic direction within the boundaries of the Trust strategic direction
• The implementation of the strategic direction
• The management of all resources within their remit both human and material
• The risk management arrangements
• The monitoring of quality of care arrangements
• Delivering on action plans to improve performance, patients safety or financial balance
• The performance against key performance indicators and activity plans
• Delivery of the financial plan

To work as part of the PSC Management Team, the post holder is expected to work independently and flexibly to manage his or her own workload and that of the department.

Person specification

Qualifications

• Registered Nursing or AHP
• Evidence of post registration development at degree level
• Management Experience
• ENB 998 or equivalent teaching qualification
• Master’s Degree

Experience

• Experience and knowledge of clinical nursing practice in Theatre and or Critical Care setting
• Experience in influencing internal/external activities
• Experience across the scope of the Matron’s ten key roles with potential to do all

Knowledge

• Experience at Band 7 or equivalent
• Current knowledge of clinical nursing practice in Theatres and or Critical care setting
• Experience of working in partnership with multi-disciplinary team members
• Implementing complex change in a clinical setting