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Job summary

Main area
Nursing and AHPs
Grade
NHS AfC: Band 8a
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time - Will be required to work weekends and late shifts.
Job ref
423-8364904
Employer
Airedale NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Airedale General Hospital
Town
Keighley
Salary
£57,528 - £64,750 pro rata per annum
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
18/11/2027 23:59
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Matron (Band 8a)

NHS AfC: Band 8a

Be part of our future landscape

At Airedale, we are committed to promoting equality, diversity and inclusion. We actively encourage applications irrespective of people’s age, lived experience of living with a disability or long-term conditions, gender, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or other personal circumstances.

Increasing our diversity and supporting our organisation to be more inclusive is a key priority here at Airedale and our teams are at the centre of how we work towards this.  

We appreciate all people may have diverse and individual needs and we pride ourselves on supporting all people to thrive and flourish at work. We have frameworks in place that support reasonable adjustments and flexible working for colleagues throughout their working lives which starts at recruitment.

These are exciting times for Airedale.  We have the once-in-a-career opportunity to be involved in the planning and building of a completely new hospital here on our Steeton site by 2033.  By joining us now you’ll be a key part of our journey over the next few years, with the chance to input into a state-of-the-art, modern healthcare facility that will deliver care to our communities for decades to come. We are also on the journey to a new electronic patient record, part of our wider ambition for our digital future – a future that builds on our significant telemedicine and digital care success. Ultimately, what makes Airedale special is our people. Not just our staff, but our volunteers, patients, visitors, and wider population who make up the Airedale family. This is a Trust that sits at the heart of our community, and our communities are very proud of their Trust.

Please read the  attached AI statement prior to submitting any application 

 

Job overview

We are seeking an experienced, compassionate and highly motivated Matron for Perioperative Services to provide visible clinical and professional leadership across Operating Theatres, Day Surgery and Pre-assessment at Airedale General Hospital. This currently includes a main suite of nine theatres including obstetrics, a procedure suite and the remote Dales suite.
 
Alongside leading the delivery of safe, effective and person-centred care throughout the perioperative pathway, you will have an opportunity to contribute to the planning and development of our new hospital on the Steeton site by 2033. 
 
Working as part of the Directorate of Anaesthetics and Theatres triumvirate, comprising the Matron, Patient Service Manager and Clinical Director, the post holder will provide collaborative leadership to deliver the Directorate’s strategic, quality and performance objectives.
 
The Directorate sits within the wider Division of Surgery and Diagnostics. The triumvirate will share responsibility for the clinical governance , providing effective oversight and assurance in relation to patient safety, quality, risk, patient experience and continuous improvement. The Matron will play a key role in supporting elective recovery and service transformation. This will include improving theatre utilisation, list scheduling and start-time reliability; increasing clinically appropriate day-case ;pre-operative assessment and optimisation; and reducing avoidable delays and cancellations

Main duties of the job

The successful candidate will combine strong professional credibility with effective operational leadership. They will act as a positive role model, maintain high professional standards, and develop and support the workforce. A key focus will be promoting psychological safety, openness and learning, creating an inclusive environment in which colleagues feel confident to speak up, share ideas, challenge constructively and learn from incidents and experience.

They will ensure that productivity improvements are clinically led, sustainable and delivered without compromising patient safety, quality of care, patient experience or staff wellbeing. They will also provide assurance against national standards and best practice, including NatSSIPs 2, surgical safety requirements and relevant GIRFT principles.

As part of the wider Divisional leadership team, the post holder will provide support across the Division of Surgery and Diagnostics and deputise for other Matrons as required.

Working for our organisation

We are delighted to offer a wide range of benefits to employees including:

  • Cycle to Work
  • Travel Scheme
  • Childcare Vouchers with Salary Sacrifice
  • Onsite Nursery
  • Buying and Selling Annual Leave
  • Car Leasing
  • Employee Assistance Programme
  • Employee Health and Wellbeing
  • Extensive Reward Scheme
  • Counselling Service
  • Financial packages including Vivup and Wagestream
  • Staff Networks, Enable, Rainbow, Gender, Race Equality Ecoaware & Admin Network.

 

Our values:

We understand that it’s down to the hard work, effort and dedication of our staff that makes a difference for our patients. Our people really do make our Airedale experience – we take pride in fostering a friendly, effective and caring work environment. Our values are part of our DNA, which are:

  • Committed to Quality of Care
  • Compassion
  • Working together for patients
  • Improving Lives
  • Everyone Counts
  • Respect and Dignity

 

Got questions before you apply, please contact the recruiting manager to find out more. 

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For detailed job description and responsibilities, please see attached job description and person specification.                .

Person specification

QUALIFICATIONS AND PROFESSIONAL TRAINING

Essential criteria
  • • Registered nurse (level 1) / ODP
  • • Current registration with the Nursing and Midwifery Council as a Registered Nurse or the Health and Care Professions Council as an Operating Department Practitioner.
  • • Postgraduate qualification/certificate in Leadership or equivalent
  • • Relevant post-registration qualification or demonstrable advanced experience in perioperative practice.
  • • Evidence of recent continuing professional development Teaching and assessing ENB 998 (or equivalent)
Desirable criteria
  • • Coaching or mentoring qualification
  • • Hold, or be working towards, a master’s degree in nursing / leadership or equivalent

EXPERIENCE AND ACHIEVEMENTS

Essential criteria
  • • Experience of leading and managing multidisciplinary teams
  • • Substantial senior leadership experience within operating theatres, perioperative services or a closely related acute clinical environment.
  • • Knowledge of theatre productivity and elective recovery programmes.
  • • Recent experience of leaders Experience of theatre productivity and elective recovery programmes.
  • • hip role encompassing clinical governance and patient safety
  • • Experience of clinical governance, patient safety, risk management and incident investigation.
  • • Evidence of delivering improvements in quality, safety or patient experience.
  • • Achievement of high-quality patient care through evidence-based practice
  • • Management of change, service redesign or quality improvement. Management of finances within a budget, including delivery of cost improvements
Desirable criteria
  • • Service redesign
  • • Role design
  • • Experience in quality improvement or service improvement.
  • • Experience in Human factors, patient safety and clinical governance.
  • • Project or programme management.
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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

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Mary Hytch
Job title
Director of Nursing for Surgery & Diagnostics
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
01535294032

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