Senior Nursing Matron - Lead Quality & Patient Care

Royal Cornwall Hospitals Trust; Truro; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust is seeking a Clinical Matron at West Cornwall Hospital in Penzance to provide strategic nursing leadership within the Trust. The role focuses on delivering high-quality patient care, overseeing clinical governance and driving workforce development in a busy acute hospital setting.

You will work as part of the Senior Leadership Group, shaping the professional agenda and ensuring alignment with Trust strategies across nursing, midwifery and allied health

Qualifications

• Registered healthcare professional with NMC or HCPC registration.
• Post registration CPD demonstrated.
• Leadership and management qualifications desirable.
• Education/teaching certificates desirable.

Responsibilities

• Maintain own professional registration and practice within the respective professional body's code.
• Provide visible, accessible and authoritative leadership within the speciality's wider Group; champion professional practice standards and performance manage against them.
• Work with Service Managers and Specialty Leaders to develop services, enhance patient management and experience.
• Support and supervise Ward/Department Sisters and Charge Nurses to empower clinical practice and decision making.
• Lead development of non-medical clinical workforce roles and implement Trust's Nursing, Midwifery and AHP Vision.

Skills

Leadership

Management

Organisational skills

Strategic thinking

Communication skills

Clinical governance

Change management

Education

Registered Healthcare Professional (NMC or HCPC)

MSc or willingness to undertake

Leadership qualification

Education / teaching certificate

Post registration CPD

Job description

Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust is seeking a Clinical Matron at West Cornwall Hospital in Penzance to provide strategic nursing leadership within the Trust. The role focuses on delivering high-quality patient care, overseeing clinical governance and driving workforce development in a busy acute hospital setting.

You will work as part of the Senior Leadership Group, shaping the professional agenda and ensuring alignment with Trust strategies across nursing, midwifery and allied health