Matron

at  Stockport NHS Foundation Trust

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced senior nurse to join the Medicine, Urgent Care Division at Stockport Foundation Trust within the role of substantive Matron in order to support the senior nursing team in ensuring high quality care continues to be delivered.
You will be a highly visible leader, able to evidence how you have positively influenced nursing and patient care in current and previous roles.
You will be working with a dynamic, busy and friendly nursing team within the Division of Medicine, Clinical Support & Emergency Department that includes diabetes, stroke, complex medicine, care of the elderly, pharmacy and the outpatient services. This is an opportunity to display your leadership skills within a diverse population of patients receiving care from engaged and motivated teams
If you have extensive experience in a nursing leadership role, and have an exceptional track record of leading teams, then we would like you to be part of our team, championing the patient experience and developing services within our vibrant Medicine Division.
Are you driven to make a difference to improving the health outcomes for our adult population, are you passionate and highly motivated to affect and implement change? Do you aspire to work within a future focused, high performing, developing team.
You should be passionate about nursing and want to make a difference and will be value driven and place them central to all service provision. You will be an experienced senior nurse with experience at matron level desirable but not essential, who has also held previous senior leadership roles and have a proven record of delivering high quality care for patients to enhance service users’ experience and promote positive health outcomes.
You will have excellent communication and interpersonal skills, clear decision making capabilities, be a vocal advocate for the patient and have current knowledge and expertise in the care of patients in medical context.
We hold a unique position in the Stockport community as the provider of healthcare and we are one of its largest employers.
We believe that the best organisations are those that reflect the communities they serve. We are therefore seeking to improve the diversity of our workforce to make it truly representative of our local population.
We actively encourage applications irrespective of race, age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage & civil partnership, or pregnancy or maternity. Recognising those communities that are underrepresented within our workforce, we would particularly welcome applications from you.
If you require support with your application please contact a member of the recruitment team, who can discuss alternative application methods.
We recognise that flexible working is important. We take requests for flexible working seriously, consider any request we receive and try to work with you, so we can explore if your request may fit with the needs of the service.

Please refer the Job description for details