An opportunity has arisen at University Hospital Dorset for an motivated and experienced nurse to fulfil the role of Senior matron for Outpatients, Gynaecology and Radiology. The 3 Outpatient services are across the 4 hospital sites, Royal Bournemouth Hospital, Christchurch Hospital, Poole Hospital and Beales (Poole town centre).
The Outpatient, Gynaecology and Radiology Directorates are part of the Women’s, Children’s, Cancer care and Support services care group. Outpatient services are based across 4 sites and include the Outpatients service, treatment centre at Poole hospital and phlebotomy across inpatient wards and outpatient settings. Gynaecology is based at Bournemouth and Poole hospital, with nursing teams leading and supporting in Early pregnancy and Emergency gynae clinic, Colposcopy, outpatient procedure clinics, Uro-gynae services, gynae- oncology service, menopause and endometriosis clinics. Radiology directorate have a teams of nurses who support radiology procedures and the interventional radiology service.
Additional contact information: Sara Curtin General Manager on sara.curtin@uhd.nhs.uk
Location: This job will require cross site working - includes Poole Hospital, Beales, Churchfield House, Royal Bournemouth and Christchurch Hospital
Interview Date: TBC
• The post holder will work closely with the Directorate general managers, their Deputy general managers, Matron for Outpatients, nursing teams including specialist nurses.
• The post holder takes the nursing lead in the directorate triumvirate with the general manager and clinical director sharing leadership responsibility for the operational and strategic leadership of the Outpatient directorate.
• To lead, develop, and continuously improve clinical care and services within the Outpatient directorate, Gynaecology Directorate, and radiology Directorate in the Womens, Childrens, Cancer and Support Services Care group, providing leadership and expertise to strategically influence and assure the provision of high quality, safe, and effective care to nursing staff, patients and the public.
• To provide clinical and professional leadership to assigned Matrons and specialist nursing/midwifery teams ensuring that action is taken at all levels to empower nurses/midwives to provide high standards of care in a safe environment.
· To proactively manage and lead the designated matrons and clinical nurse specialists providing support, guidance and direction to achieve optimal effectiveness, clinical and financial outcomes.
· To play a lead role within the Outpatient care directorate in the care group, ensuring the governance structure and processes are in place, that appropriate risk management and shared learning takes place, and that assurance of quality are provided to the care group. This will include being responsible for contributing to the strategic direction and implementation of the corporate objectives within the care group.
Our values define who we are as #TeamUHD. They underpin everything we do now and in the future. They define how we treat our patients, visitors, and each other, our valued teammates and colleagues.
UHD are investing in services across the Trust, with many being transformed and developed following merger and the New Hospital Programme.
This means that some services may move site this year or next, either temporarily or long term. Recruiting Managers interviewing for this role will be happy to answer any specific questions that you have about this at interview.
As part of the senior nursing management team, the Senior Matron will:
· To contribute to the strategic direction of the care group, working in partnership with the directorate triumvirate and care group management team to ensure Trust objectives are met; aligned with the Trust values and behaviours in relation to workforce, service delivery, clinical quality and safety, and financial control.
· Lead on nursing care delivery for a designated directorate within the care group, bringing together all component parts to ensure improved patient experience, patient safety and clinical outcomes, target compliance and financial balance.
· To use tools and techniques to optimise use of resources against acuity and patient dependency models, making sure that establishments meet patient need to promote the best possible clinical and performance outcome and workforce safeguarding.
· Lead the quality governance portfolio within the designated directorate, supporting the improvement and strengthening of quality of care by working closely with local governance leads. This will include:
- Clinical and non-clinical risk
- Staff and patient complaints
- Patient and user feedback and involvement/engagement-CQC compliance
· Support the Head of Nursing and Professions to implement the strategic nursing vision by ensuring nursing processes and decisions facilitate a 'patient first' philosophy and incorporate all aspects of the identified corporate nursing values.
This advert closes on Sunday 8 Dec 2024
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