Lead Matron for Community Hospitals | Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 19 March 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £62,215 - £72,293 per annum |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 25 April 2025 |
| Location: | Ashford, TN25 4AZ |
| Company: | Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7091656/846-7091656-CF |
Summary
Could you use your nursing skills and experience to support the NHS to deliver great patient care? Great patient care needs great people to support clinical teams. That’s where you come in.
The NHS is changing. More emphasis on community-based care means there’s never been a better time to join us.
We are recruiting 2 enthusiastic and organised Lead Matrons for Community Hospitals to join our professional team. We have one permanent position and one secondment opportunity available. These are newly developed roles, and we are looking for people who are professional, enthusiastic, responsive, and adaptable to join our Community Hospital team. This role is an important one as you’ll be using your nursing knowledge, experience and expertise to lead the quality agenda for the portfolio.
You will work closely with our service users, frontline teams, operational and corporate nursing teams to lead, develop, and deliver the quality assurance framework for our hospitals. You must have strong leadership skills, and the ability to deliver change through our Values into Action framework. We put patients first and we expect all of our colleagues to do the same, so you’ll need to share our passion for delivering excellent patient care, and keep that passion at the forefront of your professional activity at all times.
The challenges come thick and fast in this role but you’ll know that your input is contributing to the excellent experience our patients and service users have every day.
Further details / informal visits contact:
Name: Chloe Chalmers
Job title: PA to Assistant Director and Head of Service for Community Hospitals
Email address: chloe.chalmers2@nhs.net
Rated ‘outstanding’ by the CQC, we’ve got a passion for delivering high standards of patient care and excellent services to improve the health of our communities. To do this we need outstanding people who share our values compassionate Aspirational Responsive Excellent
We know a commitment to equity, diversity and inclusion leads to better patient care and a happier workforce. We pride ourselves in being diverse and welcome applications from people with varied backgrounds, perspectives and experiences
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As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want you to be able to work in a way that is best for us, for our patients and for you. Talk to us about a flexible working arrangement that won’t involve sacrificing time for personal interests or family commitments. We’ll support you to work flexibly in a way that will suits us both
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Job responsibilities
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This advert closes on Sunday 13 Apr 2025