Band 8a Matron Elderly Medicine and Stroke

This is an exciting opportunity for a visible, compassionate leader who is passionate about delivering high-quality care for our older patients and those recovering from stroke.

In this role, you will provide strong clinical and professional leadership to our nursing teams, ensuring excellent standards of care, patient experience, and staff wellbeing. You will support the delivery of the Nursing and Midwifery Strategy, lead on quality and performance improvement, and ensure effective governance across the service. You will also have responsibility for line managing nursing staff within your area.

The post holder will spend at least 20% of their time in clinical practice, maintaining credibility, supporting teams, and driving best practice at the point of care.

This is a fantastic opportunity for a resilient, forward-thinking nurse leader who is committed to innovation, service improvement, and delivering exceptional standards of dignity and compassion.

The postholder will also undertake the key functions of the matron role ensuring the attainment and monitoring of quality and clinical performance indicators and ensuring that any aspect of Directorate service delivery is underpinned by the patient and service user experience. This role will be primarily based at one site but, where thepostholder is managing a portfolio offering services across more than one site, the postholder will be expected to travel where required and have clear visibility across all health unit sites within their remit.

The Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK's biggest and most innovative trusts. Across three main hospitals, our dedicated army of staff care for over 1.6million patients, treat more than 200,000 in A&E, deliver over 8,000 babies and carry out more than 17million tests.

Our size, scale and influence offer you unrivalled career opportunities and a forward-thinking approach to working that works around your lifestyle. From flexible hours and generous benefits, to next level training, we make it easier to take your career to the top

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A full list of duties and responsibilities will be found within the Job Description and requirements for the role can be found within the person specification.

Please note that you will be required to support the Matron on call weekend rota.

• Demonstrable ability to meet the Trust Values
• Registered Nurse(Adult)
• First degree /or equivalent knowledge and skill
• Relevant post registration courses in speciality
• Recognized teaching and assessing qualification
• Evidence of on-going professional development
• Educated to Masters level or working towards
• Evidence of management and leadership development

• Current experience of line management of staff
• Evidence of teaching and developing junior staff both formally and informally
• Evidence of leading a change management initiative which improved Patient care
• Proven experience of managing budgetary resources
• Evidence of managing Employment relation issues
• Proven experience of recruitment of staff to set world class values

• Demonstrate advanced clinical expertise
• Evidence of political awareness and professional issues in nursing
• Experience of managing and sustaining change
• Experience of developing and implementing new policies and guidance
• Evidence of clinical standard/ guideline setting
• Evidence of understanding professional issues in nursing
• Skilled in staff selection and development
• Thorough understanding and knowledge of key indicators of excellent quality care
• Highly effective communication and relationship skills
• Evidence of involvement with patient/user groups to develop patient centred care
• Demonstrates skills in IT systems and use of word, excel and power point

• Evidence of recent personal development activity
• Demonstrates an ability to work as part of a multidisciplinary team
• Highly professional role model
• Able to work to work under pressure
• To be flexible and approachable

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.

£61,631 to £68,623 a yearper annum including HCAS