Matron - Sexual Health

We are seeking an experienced and inspirational sexual health Matron to provide visible, compassionate and effective leadership across the axess sexual health & HIV services in Liverpool, Cheshire East, Warrington, Halton and Knowsley.

The post will provide clinical and operational leadership to clinic managers, ensuring high standards of governance, patient safety, quality improvement and service performance whilst working under local and organisational policies and procedures. You will provide professional and operational assurance and deputise for the assistant director of nursing when required. You will provide robust governance and CQC-ready oversight, using workforce, quality, performance, incident and risk data to identify trends, gaps and areas for improvement, developing and monitoring action plans and ensuring timely escalation where required.

Main duties of the job

You will be adept in risk and incident management, ensuring learning is embedded across the services, and you will present clear assurance, trends, risks and improvement actions at governance meetings.

Linking with Trust nursing and professional peers, you will drive consistent standards, patient safety, quality improvement, workforce development and service transformation, while providing highly visible leadership and championing an excellent patient experience

The postholder will also act as a senior professional representative for the service, developing and maintaining effective relationships with external partners and service stakeholders, including attendance at regional networks, and linking with local authority and NHS England teams, to contribute to strategic discussions and service development, and to share best practice

NHS University Hospitals of Liverpool Group (UHL Group) was formed on 1 November 2024, born from a shared aim to improve the care we provide our communities.

We are one of the largest employers in region, with over 18,900 colleagues who are dedicated to caring for our communities - from birth and beyond.

For the 630,000 people across Merseyside, we are their local NHS. We provide general and emergency hospital care, alongside highly specialised regional services that extend to more than two million people in the North West.

We operate from five hospital sites:Aintree University Hospitalis the single receiving site for adult major trauma patients in Cheshire and Merseyside, and hosts a number of regional services including an award-winning stroke facility.Broadgreen Hospitalis home to several elective surgical, diagnostic and treatment services, together with specialist patient rehabilitation.Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospitalprovide specialist services incardiothoracic surgery,cardiology and respiratory medicine, both in the hospital and out in the community.Liverpool Women's Hospitalspecialises in the health of women and babies, delivering over 7,200 babies in the UK's largest single site maternity hospital each year. TheRoyal Liverpool University Hospital is the largest hospital in the country to provide inpatients with 100% single en-suite bedrooms and mainly focuses on complex planned care and specialist services.