OPD Matron

Job Overview

An opportunity has arisen for an experienced and dedicated individual to join our team. Your leadership will guarantee the delivery of high quality care within our Out Patients setting. Within the principles of the Modern Matron framework, your key role will be to ensure clinical quality standards are consistently achieved, by providing inspirational and visible clinical leadership to our teams, supporting them in assuring the delivery of contemporary, high quality, safe, effective and evidenced based care.

Main duties of the job

The services in these areas are provided by dedicated, motivated multidisciplinary teams. You will be responsible for promoting a high standard of nursing care and multi-disciplinary working. You will be expected to adopt a team approach to problem-solving and therefore good communication and organisational skills are essential. The expectation of the matron is to be seen in the clinical areas, undertaking regular clinical rounds, talking to patients and listening to their concerns, dealing with complaints and involving patients in decision-making.

Working for our organisation

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme. We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available.

Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too.

We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users.

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Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities

The Clinical Matron will have enhanced clinical skills and provide clinical expertise both within their own clinical environment and across the organisation as necessary to support the Organisational Strategy in the achievement of professional, operational and clinical governance objectives. This will involve being responsible for the development and implementation of service improvement and/ or policies in their area of expertise.

The post holder will be accountable for ensuring the highest standard of clinical care is provided within the relevant setting. They will be easily identifiable to clients and users, provide strong, visible leadership and have the appropriate level of authority to provide support, advice and assistance required by patients, their families and carers. Emphasis on the areas of Patient/Client Safety, Patient Experience, User engagement and Clinical Outcomes will be essential.

Person specification

Experience

Essential criteria

• Evidence of involvement in the development of programmes of care protocols and audits
• Experience of multi-disciplinary working, demonstrating the ability to work across professional bounderies, acknowledging their unique skills and knowledge
• Evidence of relevant leadership in meeting clinical governance objectives
• Experience of working independently as a clinical leader
• Evidence of skills in diplomacy, negotiation and influencing
  
  

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Significant post registration experience at band 7 in an acute setting
• Registered as a nurse with the NMC
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Educated to master’s degree level
• Leadership qualification
• Quality improvement methodology qualification
  
  

Skills

Essential criteria

• Computer Literacy including presentation skills and report writing
• Proven leadership and management skills
• Excellent negotiating and influencing skills
• Ability to communicate effectively at different levels of the organisation and with staff, patients/service users, vistors or external organisations both verbally and in writing in the exchange of highly complex,sensitive or contentious information
  
  

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) has an outstanding reputation and a proud record of achievement. As a well performing, well led and ambitious Foundation Trust, we have exciting times ahead of us. We have an ongoing commitment to improving the health and care services for the 900,000 people we serve across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.

We are proud of the ambitions laid out in our strategy, Our Future FHFT, including our vision to be a leader in health & wellbeing, delivering excellence for our communities.

We continue to invest in our services and facilities, including a £10 million upgrade to the hospital maternity unit as well as £49m major new Emergency Assessment Centre on our Wexham Park site. The opening of a brand new £100m state of the art hospital which replaced the existing hospital facility at Heatherwood and are planning to invest further in diagnostics and inpatient capacity at Frimley Park.

We have also made significant investment in our quality improvement and digital programmes to support our vision and we will ensure that we achieve our aim of providing the highest quality healthcare to our patients. Our new EPR – Epic – went live in June and we are already beginning to reap the benefits of this ambitious investment.

Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.

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