Job summary
Employer heading
Deputy Matron Suwon Operating Theatres.
NHS AfC: Band 8a
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research.
The Trust comprises of four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury.
Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community. We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellence and its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence. These values put patients at the heart of what we do and underpin the quality healthcare we would like for ourselves or a member of our family. Watch how we set out to deliver compassionate excellence via the OUH YouTube channel.
Many of our recruitment programmes use Value Based Interviewing to identify those who have the skills we seek, who share our values and who are able to deliver compassionate excellence from the outset. We know that this makes a significant difference to your job satisfaction and above all the outcomes and experience of our patients and their families. For more information about our Values and Value Based Interviewing please visit www.ouh.nhs.uk/about/vision-and-values
Job overview
At Oxford University NHS Foundation Trust, we are seeking a Deputy Matron for SUWON Theatres to join our cross-site team which includes a ten-theatre suite, Day Surgery Unit and Overnight Recovery Unit at the Churchill Cancer Centre, five theatres in our Women’s Centre (including obstetrics) and four theatres and Day Case Unit at the Horton Hospital in Banbury.
OUH is world-renowned for its cutting-edge developments and there are strong links with Oxford University. Our theatres provide a wide range of services providing innovative technologies and procedures, including participation in the national transplant program, multi-speciality robotic surgery and benign & oncology procedures aligned with British Association of Day Surgery recommendations.
In this role you will work closely with the Matron, Directorate Manager and Clinical Director to provide transformational leadership and change management across our sites. Your portfolio will include visibility in the perioperative environment supporting Clinical Governance, Health & Safety of staff & patients, leadership, and nursing management. Areas of responsibility will include creation of new patient pathways with clinical services, staff management and development, and optimisation of theatre
utilisation. This will be an exciting and challenging role for an individual who has the desire to develop, whist still maintaining a key contribution to patient care within the perioperative environment.
Main duties of the job
In this role you will work closely with the Matron, Directorate Manager and Clinical Director to provide transformational leadership and change management across our sites. Your portfolio will include visibility in the perioperative environment supporting Clinical Governance, Health & Safety of staff & patients, leadership, and nursing management. Areas of responsibility will include creation of new patient pathways with clinical services, staff management and development, and optimisation of theatre utilisation. This will be an exciting and challenging role for an individual who has the desire to develop, whist still maintaining a key contribution to patient care within the perioperative environment.
To succeed at this role, you will require extensive theatre experience, must be a highly motivated, enthusiastic, and a pro-active team player with proven leadership and management skills. You will need to be an excellent communicator, willing to work collaboratively across sites and services, able to motivate others by providing positive, professional, and accountable leadership and will role model both the Trust and NHS. You will also have a flexible and adaptable attitude. Previous managerial experience in the peri-operative environment is essential.
Working for our organisation
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research.
The Trust comprises four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury.
Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community. We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellence and its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence. These values put patients at the heart of what we do and underpin the quality healthcare we would like for ourselves or a member of our family. Watch how we set out to deliver compassionate excellence via the OUH YouTube channel
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To act as a clinical expert, leading progressive nursing practice and contributing to the strategic and operational management of theatres.
To be responsible and accountable for clinical governance and ensuring theatres deliver high standards of evidence-based quality care for patients.
To be responsible for the management and development of staff in the perioperative environment.
To ensure supervision / training to staff and students is delivered, policies / procedures are implemented and evaluated and that educational / development opportunities are optimised.
To ensure the efficient and effective utilisation of material and human resources within agreed budgets and to act as an authorised signatory.
To provide support to the Matron and deputise as required.
For more details, please read the attached Job Description
Terms of Appointment.
The appointment is substantive and requires cross site working. Base site Churchill Hospital.
Person Specification.
Please read the attached Person Specification.
Person specification
Education Qualification
Essential criteria
- • First degree
- • Post registration qualification or equivalent experience in a Perioperative Environment
- • Qualification in teaching and assessing in clinical practice.
- • Current professional registration with NMC or HCPC
- • Demonstrable expertise in nursing
- • Evidence of advanced patient assessment skills
- • Ability to discuss and demonstrate evidence-based practice.
- • Experience of leading practice initiatives
- • Experience of delivering projects
- • Management skills / training
- • Knowledge and experience of change management & service improvement
- • Understanding of clinical governance and audit
- • Evidence of relevant managerial experience within a clinical environment understanding and managing HR and Finance
- • Experience of applying research to practice
Desirable criteria
- • Post graduate education / Masters level education
- • Management course
- • Experience in introducing and managing nurse-led practice
- • Project management skills
- • Advanced computer literacy including MS Office
- • Understanding of research methods and procedure
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Theresa Lowry
- Job title
- Matron
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Additional information
You can also email the [email protected] to organise an informal visit or chat.
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