Matron Neonatal Unit, Band 8a inGloucester inGloucester PUBLISHED
THU 2 JAN 2025
The successful candidate will demonstrate a patient-centered approach, utilizing expert clinical knowledge and skills to address complex care issues, facilitate effective multidisciplinary teamwork, and engage with patients to enhance service delivery. They will be responsible for fostering a motivated nursing team, promoting best practices, and ensuring continuous development of services to provide outstanding care in line with both national and local standards.
Are you passionate about providing high quality care to babies and their families? Do you want to drive improvements and new initiatives? if yes, then this might be the role for you.
The proposed interview date is 21st January
An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the Neonatal team at Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. As Matron you will have clinical responsibility for the Neonatal Unit and will be an inclusive, transformational, autonomous leader who will play a pivotal role in the quality agenda and the delivery of care to babies and their families .
You will also have strategic responsibility with the General Manager and Specialty Director to ensure business plans, budgets, workforce and continual staff development with an ethos of continual listening and engaging to deliver quality of service for the division and Trust. Together you will have responsibility to ensure all clinical, quality, safety, financial and workforce targets are agreed and delivered upon, and be professionally accountable to the Divisional Director of Quality & Nursing for Women and Children.
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- Demonstrate and promote a patient and family centred style of clinical practice that works to go above and beyond to deliver continual outstanding patient care.
- To ensure best evidence, clinical reasoning skills and techniques to assess, plan, implement and evaluate patient care and progress. This will include patients with families with diverse or complex presentations/multi-pathologies.
- Manage operational and strategic issues together with direct care nursing staff and other clinical services such as Transitional care/Maternity to minimise the need for admission and length of hospital stay, reduce cot days and facilitate timely discharge and pathways of care. Participate in supporting ward teams with complex Multi-Disciplinary Team (MDT) meetings to aid effective patient care, which will include taking an active role in team meetings, case conferences and specialist interest group meetings.
- Act as an expert professional clinical resource within the areas of responsibility utilising highly specialist knowledge, underpinned by theory and practice experience.
- Lead on and facilitate complex care, discharge or patient care issues or complaints using analytical skills to problem solve and find solutions to ensure best practice and best patient care outcomes are achieved. To ensure that services are continually developed and reviewed this will include meeting with patients and their representatives to learn from patient experience, manage and resolve issues.
- Provide clear vision and motivation, by utilising enhanced leadership and communication skills, ensuring that nursing teams and individuals have clear objectives for developing nursing care provision in line with national and local objectives.
- Be a transformational leader and promote and represent nursing at a local and corporate level if required. While working to ensure nursing has a sustainable workforce for the future.
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