Job summary
Are you a highly motivated, compassionate and enthusiastic nurse with a passion for clinical excellence and strong leadership skills in acute nursing?

Our Matron role presents an exciting opportunity for an experienced and motivated senior nurse to provide visible, effective and compassionate leadership across our Urgent and Emergency Care Division.

Working collaboratively with your Matron colleagues, you will form part of an inspirational and supportive nursing leadership team, committed to demonstrating the Trust's CARE values through our behaviours, decisions and actions.

We are seeking a dynamic and forward-thinking senior nurse who can provide strong leadership and support to our Urgent and Emergency Care Division as it continues its journey towards delivering Outstanding Care. You will have the ability to inspire, engage and empower colleagues, while maintaining a clear focus on patient safety, quality improvement and the delivery of consistently high standards of care.

If shortlisted, you will be invited to attend an interview, which will include participation in a number of assessment activities. These may include a written exercise, group activity and/or an individual presentation to a Board panel.Full details of the assessment activities will be provided on the day. There is no requirement for candidates to undertake any preparation in advance.

Main duties of the job
To see the full detailed job description and main responsibilities of the job please refer to the job description attached.

About us
We are an award-winning NHS Foundation Trust working alongside health and social care colleagues across the county to provide acute and community healthcare services to more than 420,000 people across Mansfield, Ashfield, Newark and Sherwood, and parts of Derbyshire and Lincolnshire.

We put the patient at the heart of everything that we do and it is our aim to make sure that every patient is treated as we would want a member of our own family to be treated. At the same time, we expect our staff to be caring, kind and courteous to each other and to look out for each other. We believe that we are truly a clinically-led organisation.

We are proud that our Trust colleagues have voted us the best acute Trust to work for in the East Midlands for seven years running in the National NHS Staff Survey, while the Care Quality Commission has rated our Trust as 'outstanding' for care and our King's Mill Hospital as the only 'outstanding' NHS-run hospital in the East Midlands.

Job responsibilities
Not all of our roles are eligible for sponsorship to find out which roles are eligible for sponsorship please refer to the shortage occupation list found here:
Skilled Worker visa: eligible healthcare and education jobs - GOV.UK

Home Office guidance has changed as of the 9 th April, anyone that requires switching visa type may not be eligible for sponsorship even if the role is on the shortage occupation list.

Person Specification
Experience
Essential

• Extensive senior nursing experience within a complex organisation / NHS
• Proven track record in leadership and management
• Evidence of participating in and leading organisational change that has led to changes in quality
• Experience of operating and communicating effectively with clinicians and Directors
• Experience of working with external agencies and influencing internal change
• Experience of initiating, conducting and evaluating risk assessments and investigations
• Experience of leading and managing staff

Desirable

• Experience of working towards Care Quality Commission and the National Health Service Litigation Authority standards.
• Complaints Management
• Experience of service improvement methodologies

Knowledge
Essential

• Proven knowledge of the broader nursing, education and professional issues
• Good working knowledge of contemporary health care issues and professional standards
• Understanding of the complex dynamics of a multi-professional environment.
• Excellent presentation and teaching skills
• Excellent report writing skills and action planning
• Ability to work under pressure
• Computer literate

Desirable

• Evidence of operational and strategic development of patient safety initiatives and strategies
• Experience in education and professional development.
• Sound general management experience - budget management skills, business case preparation, staff management

Other
Essential

• Highly motivated and resourceful with a proactive approach to innovation
• Ability to act autonomously with minimal supervision
• Exposure to clinical areas and patient contact will be required
• Required to carry Trust bleep and undertake on call duties

Qualifications
Essential

• RN/RM registration with the NMC
• First level degree or equivalent knowledge
• Qualification in teaching and assessing or equivalent
• Demonstration of on-going professional development
• Additional professional/management qualifications

Desirable

• Working towards Masters qualification or equivalent

Contractual
Essential

• Regular Attendance
• Ability to work flexibly
• NMC Registration

Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).