Matron AHP/Nursing-Education & Workforce-Theatres

Job overview

Promote nursing/ AHP leadership that is safe, caring, and responsive.

Lead and manage the development of nurse/ AHP staffing practices, strategies, and innovations in order to enhance patient care.

Lead and manage in collaboration with the Theatre teams timely responsiveness to patient safety related incidents.

Support the Assistant Director of Nursing (ADN) & DADN (Deputy Assistant Director of Nursing) in the delivery of the nursing/AHP staffing quality agenda, ensuring local and national quality and clinical standards initiatives are embedded into practice across the Division- primarily focussing on theatres.

Support the ADN & DADN in the Trust wide strategic development of the Theatre nursing/ AHP workforce, ensuring the workforce is fit for the future to deliver safe, high quality and cost-efficient care.

Develop new nursing/ AHP roles in collaboration with the Assistant Director of Nursing (ADN) and Deputy Director of Nursing (DADN) to support the development of a modern nursing/ AHP theatre work force.

Support the ADN to develop & review policies to drive safe nurse/ AHP staffing, retention, new workforce models and recruitment. Responsive to patient safety incidents. Support the ADN & DADN to develop & review policy and processes to drive safe nurse/ AHP Ensure nursing/ AHP staff have the required skills, knowledge, and competency to deliver safe & effective high quality clinical care.

Main duties of the job

Work alongside Workforce and Human Resources to advise and support in building an effective nursing/ AHP and midwifery workforce strategy.

Influence and lead staff to embrace change using negotiation and change management skills.

Analyse and present results from audits / research or from information systems to all stakeholders and support the DADN, ADN to develop new strategies and innovations to develop nursing/ AHP theatre workforce.

Deliver a communication plan that will be well received and revise as required, making recommendations where necessary.

Work with the divisional communications team to ensure that staff are updated with all information pertaining to nurse staffing, and work with external agencies to share best practice and promote the Trusts- Theatres nurse/ AHP staffing agenda.

Attend and contribute to internal and external meetings, ensuring any key points are raised, recommendations made, and actions taken, complex and varied issues and information are relayed in a clear concise way, with relevance to the audience it is being delivered to.

Ensure any changes to working practice and/or job roles involve the necessary consultation with HR, managers, staff, and their representatives.

This has to be done in line with the Trusts policies and procedures, employment law and impact on the staff.

Where resistance to change is identified, use persuasive, influencing skills to enable change.

Job responsibilities

Work in partnership with workforce information & DADN & ADN to develop and maintain a workforce plan for nursing/ AHP and midwifery in theatre.

Work in partnership with ADN to support and develop practice education and development across the Trust, enabling evidence-based practice, clinical competencies, and confidence in Nursing/ AHP Theatre Workforce.

Be the professional lead in an advisory capacity and through strong leadership, support to promote excellence in nursing/ AHP and midwifery care in order to maintain and improve clinical standards and practice.

To identify local and national good practice in nurse/ AHP staffing, recruitment, and retention strategies, ensuring information and learning is disseminated effectively and proposals made for local implementation.

To lead in challenging existing practices, ensuring progressive solutions and efficiencies, which consider models of best practice and adhering to NMCs/ AHPS expectations and relevant reliable empirical evidence.

To utilise expert critical care knowledge to ensure there is a robust and meaningful Theatre Training and Education Strategy that meets current and future workforce requirements.

Work in partnership with workforce information & DADN & ADN to develop and maintain a workforce plan for nursing/ AHP and midwifery in theatre.

Work in partnership with ADN to support and develop practice education and development across the Trust, enabling evidence-based practice, clinical competencies, and confidence in Nursing/ AHP Theatre Workforce.

Be the professional lead in an advisory capacity and through strong leadership, support to promote excellence in nursing/ AHP and midwifery care in order to maintain and improve clinical standards and practice.

To identify local and national good practice in nurse/ AHP staffing, recruitment, and retention strategies, ensuring information and learning is disseminated effectively and proposals made for local implementation.

To lead in challenging existing practices, ensuring progressive solutions and efficiencies, which consider models of best practice and adhering to NMCs/ AHPS expectations and relevant reliable empirical evidence.

To utilise expert critical care knowledge to ensure there is a robust and meaningful Theatre Training and Education Strategy that meets current and future workforce requirements.