Emergency Department Matron, Band 8a

at  Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

We are seeking an experienced and dynamic Matron to join UEC team within the Medicine Division at Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. This is an exciting opportunity for a dedicated leader to shape the future of Emergency Care within our progressive team.
As Matron, you will provide clinical, professional, and managerial leadership, ensuring the highest standards of patient care across our services. You will lead and support nursing and allied health professional teams, oversee service delivery, and drive quality improvement initiatives to enhance patient outcomes.
1. Are you passionate about Emergency Care and eager to be part of a team developing innovative pathways?
2. Do you have the vision, expertise, and leadership skills to inspire and support your team in delivering safe, high-quality, and cost-effective care?
3. Can you provide visible, professional leadership to maintain compliance with emergency care standards while fostering an environment of excellence?
If you have the knowledge, experience, and determination to help shape the future of Emergency Care at our Trust, we want to hear from you. This is your chance to make a real impact—join us in delivering outstanding care and exemplary patient experiences .
Additional working pattern: Choice to work a 9 day fortnight
1. Provide transformational leadership by facilitating all specialities in their portfolio to follow the Pathway to Excellence® principles and in turn deliver structural empowerment, continual exemplary professional practice along with innovation & improvements.
2. To work in alignment with the Matron handbook (NHS England and NHS improvement 2020) ensuring focus on all elements outlined in this document https://www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Matrons_Handbook.pdf
3. To provide compassionate leadership through being visible, accessible, authoritative and influential. They will be a presence to who staff, patients, families and carers can rely, to ensure the fundamentals of care are delivered effectively and efficiently.
4. To promote a workforce environment where staff feel they are autonomous, in control with a sense of belonging as well as the competence to deliver safe and quality clinical care.
5. Provide professional and inclusive leadership to nurses, midwives and ward managers, acting as a role model within the Division and the Trust ensuring that competence in managerial and clinical practice is both developed and maintained as well as offering opportunities to all.
Here at Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and within the Medical Matron team, our patients and staff are at the heart of everything we do. We will provide you with a supportive environment which allows you to professionally develop and contribute to exemplary professional practice.
In addition you will work in partnership with a key range of stakeholders to enhance your understanding of the team and how your role supports local and organisational strategies.
For a comprehensive list of responsibilities and duties, please kindly refer to the Job Description and Person Specification by downloading the JD and PS attachment in the advert.
We would be happy to discuss options for secondment however, we ask that all applicants have the endorsement/support of their line manager prior to application.
We welcome visits to the department and discussions regarding the role

Please refer the Job description for details