Quality Matron

This vacancy is open to employees of Isle of Wight NHS Trust and Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust only.

Band 8a

Full time: 37.5 hours per week

Permanent contract

Are you looking to join a creative innovative supportive and empowered team  Are you an experienced Registered Nurse with proven organisational leadership and influential skills at Band 7 level or an existing senior nurse/Matron looking to use your wealth of leadership experience and skills within a Corporate setting 

We are recruiting to the Quality Matron post within the Corporate Nursing Team!

The Quality Matron will lead on the delivery of the Accredited Clinical Environment (ACE) scheme at PHU.  Working closely with Quality Matron at IWT who provides leadership to QAAS (Quality Assurance and Accreditation Scheme) there will be opportunities for peer support and joint working to ensure consistent standards across both organisations.   

QAAS and ACE are core components of the Trusts quality assurance programme providing multi-disciplinary visits to a range of services across the organisations. The Matron will work closely with the Senior Nursing Leadership teams including DNDs Heads of Nursing Senior Matrons Matrons and Senior Sisters/Charge Nurses/Ward Leaders on quality and service improvement work.

This role will establish and foster effective working relationships with colleagues from the

multi-disciplinary teams across both organisations utilising skills in negotiating and influencing

to secure and support change and improvement in care and service delivery.

The role of Quality Matron is pivotal in driving quality and safety providing active and visible clinical leadership and assurance for service users and staff.

For a full list of roles and responsibilities please see the attached job description. 

Qualifications :

Essential

• Registered Nurse on the NMC register
• Educated to degree level in nursing midwifery or leadership and management and / or Registered Allied Health Professional or Pharmacist with live registration with the Registering Authority
• Management qualification or relevant experience

Desirable

• Recognised teaching and assessing qualification
• Educated to Masters Level
• Evidence of development of Evidence Based care.

Experience

Essential

• Specialist knowledge of the professional leadership and management of nursing midwifery or Allied Health Professional services has been developed.
• Evidence of ongoing and relevant personal and professional development in the last 2 years.
• Expert knowledge of nursing and Allied Health Professional practice and understanding of related clinical services providing clinical advice to annual planning and service developments
• In depth knowledge of the quality governance agenda including health and safety clinical risk issues and quality initiatives.

Desirable

• Knowledge and experience of human resource management Project management experience

Additional Information :

Great opportunity to develop an existing model of accreditation and through the identification of areas of good practice and that which requires improvement and make a real difference to patient care and services.

Here at Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust we are proud to provide expert compassionate care for our local population. We are ranked as the third in the country for research embedding education and training across the organisation. Our main hub is the Queen Alexandra Hospital which is one of the largest hospitals on the south coast employing over 8700 staff. Our patients come from all walks of life and so do we. We hire great people from a wide variety of backgrounds because it makes our hospital stronger. If you share our values and our enthusiasm for getting it right for patients colleagues and our community you will find a home at Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust.

We welcome the unique contributions that you can bring in terms of your education opinions culture ethnicity race sex gender identity and expression nation of origin age languages spoken veterans status colour religion disability sexual orientation and beliefs.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time