Community Hospital Matron

Job overview

We are seeking to recruit an enthusiastic and dynamic Modern Matron  for Stroud and Vale community Hospitals, as a job share with the current post Holder.

We welcome experienced applicants to jointly lead the development of these services, by ensuring care is delivered to the highest standard. This is an opportunity to provide credible and visible clinical leadership, focusing on enhancing the quality of care and promotion of initiatives that support  both patient experience and the health and wellbeing of staff.

Main duties of the job

Provide operational managerial and clinical leadership to Stroud and Vale Community Hospitals, working in partnership with the Community Managers of locality Integrated Community Teams, and other management and professional leads.

Manage and lead the Community Hospital Management team promoting effective governance and ensuring that the highest standard of clinical care is delivered; and ensuring that all clinical and non-clinical performance indicators, targets and objectives are met in line with national and local standards.

Ensure that quality, performance, Cost Improvement Plans (CIPs) and budgetary targets are monitored and interim plans are devised where necessary to enable compliance and achievement.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Gloucestershire Health and Care is committed to embedding and providing personalised care through all of its services as part of our high-quality care strategy. The purpose of personalised care is to empower people to lead the lives they want to live. Personalised care starts with a conversation with people about what matters to them. It builds on what people can do, as well as addressing their health needs.  Including new ways of working and delivering care, emphasising that we need to make effective use of the full range of our people’s skills and experience to deliver the best possible patient care.  So we want to know What Matters to You and that you will share our values and join us on this very important journey.

The qualification, training & experience requirements for the role are underlined in the Job Description/Person Specification.

Please refer to the Additional Information attachment before submitting your application.