Matron Emergency Medicine

We are delighted to offer an exciting opportunity to join the Urgent & Acute Clinical Business Unit, as the Emergency Medicine Matron.

We are seeking an experienced Senior Nurse with a passion for excellence in patient care and team leadership. In this pivotal role, you will provide strategic and operational leadership to the Nursing and AHP workforce, ensuring the highest standards of clinical quality, patient safety, and governance are consistently maintained.

You will work closely with the Directorate Team to drive service improvement, support staff development, and deliver outstanding patient outcomes., To provide senior leadership to the nursing and allied health professional workforce within the directorate(s) to deliver frontline professional and operational priorities and manage the ward and departmental Nurse Managers and specialist nurses. To support the Clinical Directors and as part of the Directorate management team develop, implement and monitor quality and business plans for the directorates. To facilitate staff andteam development and ensure effective communication systems operate within the Directorates.

The matron is expected to work for the clinical and business success of the directorate and to contribute to the corporate success of the Trust. This will require innovation and may include participation in the development of corporate polices and strategic plans and initiating changes in line with Trust Management team decisions to local services.

University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust is one of the largest and most modern in the country. Based across two sites, Royal Stoke in Stoke-on-Trent and County Hospital in Stafford, we are proud to serve around three million people and we're highly regarded for our facilities, teaching and research. We are the specialist centre for major trauma for the North Midlands and North Wales.

All of our employees make a valuable contribution regardless of role here at UHNM and we are proud of our wide range of development packages aimed at ensuring that everyone has the opportunity to fulfil their true potential.

UHNM create and encourage a culture of inclusion, providing equal opportunities for career development that are fair and transparent. We are committed to being a diverse and inclusive employer and foster a culture in which all staff feel valued and respected. In return we ask all of our employees to make a commitment to the values, co-created by or staff, patients and carers, and that unite us as a Trust.

At University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust we know that investing in, supporting and developing our staff has a direct impact on the quality of care that we deliver. Our employees are as important as our patients and the population that we serve.