Description
We are seeking an experienced Inpatient Matron to provide senior nursing leadership and responsibility for overseeing the clinical care within the working age adults inpatient services under Southwark Directorate.
The successful candidate will deliver on the Matron's 10 responsibilities, including:
- Leading by example
- Ensuring patients receive quality care
- Ensuring staffing is appropriate to patient needs
- Empowering nurses to take on a wider range of clinical tasks
- Improving hospital cleanliness
- Ensuring patients' nutritional needs are met
- Improving wards and community sites for patients
- Making sure patients are treated with respect
- Preventing hospital-acquired infection
- Resolving problems for patients and their relatives by building closer relationships
The main duties of the job will include:
- Ensuring staffing is appropriate to patient needs
- Ensuring patients' nutritional needs are met
- Empowering nurses to take on a wider range of clinical tasks
- Improving hospital cleanliness
- Ensuring and improving the patient environment
- Resolving problems for patients and their relatives by building closer relationships
- Preventing hospital-acquired infection
As an Inpatient Matron, you will be visible and accessible to patients, relatives, and staff, providing immediate assistance, advice, and support. You will also support the development of systems to support relatives and carers, attend Service Users Advisory Groups (SUCAG) as required, and take the lead on infection control policy implementation.
The salary for this post is £66,274 to £73,496 per annum, inclusive of HCAS, on an Agenda for Change contract, band 8a.