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Location

Ascot, Berkshire | United Kingdom

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Job description

An opportunity has arisen for an experienced and dedicated individual to join our team. Your leadership will guarantee the delivery of high quality care from admission to discharge. Within the principles of the Modern Matron framework, your key role will be to ensure clinical quality standards are consistently achieved, by providing inspirational and visible clinical leadership to Elective Hub In Patients and Out patients teams, supporting them in assuring the delivery of a contemporary, high quality, safe, effective and evidenced based care.

New HWD Hospital is specialising in planned, non-emergency operations for orthopaedics, plastics, ophthalmology and lithotripsy, some general surgery, urology and gynaecology services, this dedicated, state-of-the-art facility uses the latest technology to deliver outstanding services. Outpatient services include gynaecology, urology, cardiology and orthopaedics, which are supported by endoscopy, physiotherapy, phlebotomy and radiology (CT, mammography, MRI, x-ray and ultrasound).

Replacing the old Heatherwood building, which has stood in Ascot for a century, our new hospital has six operating theatres, 48 in-patient beds, 22 day-case procedure rooms or ‘pods’ and two endoscopy rooms, providing operations, diagnostics and outpatient care to both NHS and Private patients across Berkshire, Hampshire and Surrey.

The services in these areas are provided by dedicated, motivated multidisciplinary teams. You will be responsible for promoting a high standard of nursing care and multi-disciplinary working. You will be expected to adopt a team approach to problem-solving and therefore good communication and organisational skills are essential. The expectation of the matron is to be seen in the clinical areas, undertaking regular clinical rounds, talking to patients and listening to their concerns, dealing with complaints and involving patients in decision-making.

There’s never been a more exciting time to build your career at Frimley Health, one of the country’s largest and most respected trusts

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) has an outstanding reputation and a proud record of achievement. We have an ongoing commitment to improving the health and care services for the 900,000 people we serve across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.

We continue to invest in our services and facilities, including a £10 million upgrade to the hospital maternity unit as well as £49m major new Emergency Assessment Centre on our Wexham Park site. The opening of a brand new £100m state of the art hospital which replaced the existing hospital facility at Heatherwood and are planning to invest further in diagnostics and inpatient capacity at Frimley Park.

We have also made significant investment in our quality improvement and digital programmes to support our vision and we will ensure that we achieve our aim of providing the highest quality healthcare to our patients. Our new EPR – Epic – went live in June and we are already beginning to reap the benefits of this ambitious investment.

Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other.

If you have a passion for clinical excellence, patient care and your own career development, you’ll feel at home at Frimley Health.

The Clinical Matron will have enhanced clinical skills and provide clinical expertise both within their own clinical environment and across the organisation as necessary to support the Organisational Strategy in the achievement of professional, operational and clinical governance objectives. This will involve being responsible for the development and implementation of service improvement and/ or policies in their area of expertise.

The post holder will be accountable for ensuring the highest standard of clinical care is provided within the relevant setting. They will be easily identifiable to clients and users, provide strong, visible leadership and have the appropriate level of authority to provide support, advice and assistance required by patients, their families and carers. Emphasis on the areas of Patient/Client Safety, Patient Experience, User engagement and Clinical Outcomes will be essential.

This advert closes on Thursday 14 Mar 2024

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