Lead Matron - Medicine inSouthampton inSouthampton PUBLISHED MON 11 NOV 2024

University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust is delighted to offer a fantastic opportunity to work with us.

Please see below for detailed job description of the role.

An opportunity has arisen within the Medicine Care Group to join the team as Lead Matron, this is a permanent position. As part of the management team within Medicine, your role will be fundamental in developing the focus of the patient experience and the quality agenda. This role will be pivotal in the planning, implementation and delivery of specialist pathway services.

The medicine care group incorporates Medicine for Older People, Respiratory, Gastroenterology, Hepatology, Infectious Diseases and General Medicine. You will be working with the Divisional Head of Nursing, Care Group Manager, Care Group Clinical Lead and Matron colleagues as well as an extensive multi-disciplinary team.

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WHAT YOULL DO:

In this role you will lead on development of nursing, advanced clinical practice and allied health professional leadership roles to transform services to meet rising demand.

You will support strategic planning led by the care group manager to focus on the future development of the Medicine services, improving care and integration with the community and local providers.

This post will lead on quality, safety and culture change within the care group to improve patient safety across the different specialist and service delivery areas of the care group.

WHAT WERE LOOKING FOR:

Your role will be to drive consistently excellent clinical quality standards by providing inspirational and visible clinical leadership to the clinical team and supporting them in assuring the delivery of a contemporary, high quality, progressive, effective and evidence-based nursing service.

You will be a key member of the care group management team working to innovate and change care pathways and develop and deliver on other workforce, financial performance and capital strategies for the benefit of patients and the trust.

You will require a high level of organisational skill and have a resourceful and professional approach to work. You should be able to demonstrate excellent inter-personal and communication skills and have the ability to forge and maintain relationships with a variety of clinical and non-clinical staff.You will be able to demonstrate outstanding, inspirational leadership skills, with evidence of change management including culture and clinical service transformation resulting in enhanced patient safety and care.