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Matron | The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 24 January 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £53,755 - £60,504 per annum |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 23 February 2025 |
| Location: | 317 01 Freeman Hospital, NE7 7DN |
| Company: | The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | 6962475/317-2025-04-090 |
Summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a temporary Matron post within Surgical and Associated Specialties Clinical Board, working predominantly within ENT and the Institute of Transplantation. This is a diverse clinical area and the post holder will have the opportunity to directly influence and improve the care of patients in both in patient and busy specialist outpatient settings. In addition you will mange and lead a number of Clinical Nurse Specialists and Nurse Practitioners , supporting them to develop the services they provide.
We are looking for an innovative and enthusiastic, highly visible nursing leader who is passionate about providing professional and clinical leadership for all the clinical teams, ensuring the delivery of patient focused high quality standards of care.
To undertake this challenging but exciting role you will need to have extensive experience in leading and managing nursing teams and have the ability to work collaboratively with multidisciplinary teams The successful candidate will be proactive and ensure that service needs and patient experience are met to the high standards we aspire to
You will work with a supportive leadership team who will encourage your professional development and provide the opportunities for you to thrive in this role.
Demonstrate effective highly visible leadership, setting, monitoring and maintaining professional standards.
Working collaboratively with a range of professionals and lead the nursing contribution for clinical governance at specialty/department level. Ensuring robust processes are in place to share learning from complaints and clinical incidents and to use this knowledge to influence and improve practice.
Be an integral member of the leadership/management team providing nursing advice, manage specialty nursing teams and contribute innovative solutions to the development of clinical pathways.
Monitor clinical standards are practice.
To provide a visible, accessible clinical presence to enable staff, patients and their families to access appropriate advice and support.
• Interview date: Thursday 27 February 2025
• 37 hours 30 minutes/week
• You will be redirected to Trac to apply for the vacancy. Please expand the job details section and read all of the information before applying for the vacancy.
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Our staff oversee over 6,500 patient contacts every day, delivering high standards of healthcare from the following sites:
• Freeman Hospital
• Royal Victoria Infirmary (RVI)
• Health Innovation Neighbourhood (on the former Newcastle General Hospital and Centre for Ageing and Vitality site)
• Newcastle Dental Hospital
• Newcastle Fertility Centre
• Northern Centre for Cancer Care, North Cumbria
• Northern Genetics Service
• Cramlington Manor Walks
These include a range of flagship services which deliver cutting-edge care (supported by state-of-the-art diagnostic services in both radiology and pathology) and are a catalyst for innovation to support pioneering clinical practice in the NHS.
We also have offices at Regent Point in Gosforth and community sites.
Please see attached information on what Staff Benefits we have to offer at our Trust under ‘Documents to download’ or ‘Supporting documents’.
For further information on The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust please visit:Careers | Newcastle Hospitals | NHS | Newcastle HospitalsandNewcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
• The Matron has 24 hour accountability for the wards and departments in their Directorate.
• They must ensure appropriate systems and processes are in place to ensure the continuity of safe and effective care at all times.
• Deputies for Directorate Manager as required / appropriate and is part of Directorate Management Team.
Please note it is a requirement of The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust that all successful candidates who require a DBS for the post they have been offered pay for their DBS certificate. The method of payment is a salary deduction from your first month’s pay.
As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.
This advert closes on Thursday 6 Feb 2025
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