Job summary
- Main area
- 317 Surgical and Associated Services FH Corporate
- Grade
- Band 8a
- Contract
- Fixed term: 8 months (31 March 2025 - 02 November 2025)
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 317-2025-04-090
- Employer
- The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Freeman Hospital
- Town
- 317 01 Freeman Hospital
- Salary
- £53,755 - £60,504 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 06/02/2025 23:59
- Interview date
- 27/02/2025
Employer heading
Matron
Band 8a
Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the busiest and largest NHS foundation trusts in the country, with around 15,000 staff and an annual budget of £1.6 billion.
We have a long history of providing high quality care, clinical excellence, and innovation in medical research regionally, nationally and internationally.
We’re in the top five providers of specialised health services in the country, supporting people with a range of rare and complex medical, surgical and neurological conditions, cancers and genetic orders.
Our staff oversee around 6,500 patient contacts each day, delivering high standards of healthcare.
We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and recognise the benefit in providing an inclusive environment. We value and respect the diversity of our employees and aim to recruit a workforce which reflects the communities we serve, and is equipped to deliver the best service to our patients. We welcome all applications irrespective of people’s race, disability, sex, sexual orientation, religion or belief, age, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity and in particular those from under- represented groups.
Newcastle Hospitals are proud to be one of the exemplar organisations across the NHS on sustainability, with a long history of delivering Sustainable Healthcare in Newcastle (Shine) and the first healthcare organisation in the world to declare a climate emergency. Our strategy includes commitments to being Net Zero by 2030, for our direct carbon footprint, and Net Zero by 2040 for our footprint plus. Delivering these ambitions will not be possible without the help, support and action of every single member of our team.
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a temporary Matron post within Surgical and Associated Specialties Clinical Board, working predominantly within ENT and the Institute of Transplantation. This is a diverse clinical area and the post holder will have the opportunity to directly influence and improve the care of patients in both in patient and busy specialist outpatient settings. In addition you will mange and lead a number of Clinical Nurse Specialists and Nurse Practitioners , supporting them to develop the services they provide.
We are looking for an innovative and enthusiastic, highly visible nursing leader who is passionate about providing professional and clinical leadership for all the clinical teams, ensuring the delivery of patient focused high quality standards of care.
To undertake this challenging but exciting role you will need to have extensive experience in leading and managing nursing teams and have the ability to work collaboratively with multidisciplinary teams The successful candidate will be proactive and ensure that service needs and patient experience are met to the high standards we aspire to
You will work with a supportive leadership team who will encourage your professional development and provide the opportunities for you to thrive in this role.
Main duties of the job
Demonstrate effective highly visible leadership, setting, monitoring and maintaining professional standards.
Working collaboratively with a range of professionals and lead the nursing contribution for clinical governance at specialty/department level. Ensuring robust processes are in place to share learning from complaints and clinical incidents and to use this knowledge to influence and improve practice.
Be an integral member of the leadership/management team providing nursing advice, manage specialty nursing teams and contribute innovative solutions to the development of clinical pathways.
Monitor clinical standards are practice.
To provide a visible, accessible clinical presence to enable staff, patients and their families to access appropriate advice and support.
- Interview date: Thursday 27 February 2025
- 37 hours 30 minutes/week
- You will be redirected to Trac to apply for the vacancy. Please expand the job details section and read all of the information before applying for the vacancy.
NO AGENCIES PLEASE
Working for our organisation
Our staff oversee over 6,500 patient contacts every day, delivering high standards of healthcare from the following sites:
• Freeman Hospital
• Royal Victoria Infirmary (RVI)
• Health Innovation Neighbourhood (on the former Newcastle General Hospital and Centre for Ageing and Vitality site)
• Newcastle Dental Hospital
• Newcastle Fertility Centre
• Northern Centre for Cancer Care, North Cumbria
• Northern Genetics Service
• Cramlington Manor Walks
These include a range of flagship services which deliver cutting-edge care (supported by state-of-the-art diagnostic services in both radiology and pathology) and are a catalyst for innovation to support pioneering clinical practice in the NHS.
We also have offices at Regent Point in Gosforth and community sites.
Please see attached information on what Staff Benefits we have to offer at our Trust under ‘Documents to download’ or ‘Supporting documents’.
For further information on The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust please visit: Careers | Newcastle Hospitals | NHS | Newcastle Hospitals and Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- The Matron has 24 hour accountability for the wards and departments in their Directorate.
They must ensure appropriate systems and processes are in place to ensure the continuity of safe and effective care at all times.
Deputies for Directorate Manager as required / appropriate and is part of Directorate Management Team.
Please note it is a requirement of The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust that all successful candidates who require a DBS for the post they have been offered pay for their DBS certificate. The method of payment is a salary deduction from your first month’s pay.
As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.
Person specification
KNOWLEDGE
Essential criteria
- Knowledge and understanding of relevant NHS policy or project specific policy context
- Maintain and improve professional knowledge, skills and competence
SKILLS
Essential criteria
- Good IT skills
- Report writing skills
- Effectively manage the directorate nursing resource
- Appropriate clinical skills
- Move and handle objects in line with Trust guidelines using appropriate aids
EXPERIENCE
Essential criteria
- Significant post registration experience, some of which must be at Band 7
- Significant experience at a senior level of managing nursing / clinical teams
- Audit / research experience
- Evidence of achievements in current post
- Evidence of proven leadership skills in relation to professional accountability
- Evidence of significant experience of safeguarding adults / children
QUALIFICATIONS
Essential criteria
- Registered Nurse (appropriate to branch)
- Current NMC registration
- Able to demonstrate academic achievement at post-graduate/masters level or significant demonstrable experience in speciality at Matron level
- Willing to undertake full Master’s Degree within an agreed timescale
- Meets Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) requirements for mentorship relevant to role
Desirable criteria
- Leadership / management qualification
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Helen Whittaker
- Job title
- Associate Director of Operations
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0191 9177291
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