Matron - Dental Hospital, Dental Outreach & OMFS

An exciting full-time opportunity has arisen for an experienced and highly motivated Dental Lead Nurse/ Registered General Nurse to become the Matron for the Royal London Dental Hospital Network, Oral and Maxillofacial services, Behcets and Ophthalmology within the Surgery Division at Royal London Hospital. The Dental network comprises of the Dental Hospital at the Royal London, Whipps Cross Hospital site, Sir Ludwig Guttman centre and the Barkentine Dental outreach centre and Kenworthy Road Dental Clinic in Hackney.

The post holder will be responsible for leading, developing and managing the nursing teams to consistently deliver exemplary and high-quality care experiences for patients. The successful candidate would be expected to be highly visible within clinical times as an essential part of the role.

The Matron will be a friendly and supportive presence in the team ensuring a safe, happy, and positive environment for all staff. The appointed candidate will work in partnership with the senior management team to ensure that the respective services and division contributes significantly to the achievement of Division and Site objectives and that effective governance arrangements are implemented and maintained.

The post holder will work closely with divisional and site Matrons and Senior Nurses, Governance Leads and Practice Development Nurses, Clinical Nurse Specialists, Service Delivery Managers and Service managers and report directly to the Senior Nurse.

Main duties of the job

The role of the matron is to provide a leadership presence that is both supportive to the team and ensures that patient safety is upheld and maintained. Through strong clinical leadership the Matron will support the Departmental Sisters/Charge Nurses to promote excellence in dental and nursing and midwifery care to maintain and improve clinical standards. The post holder will ensure that all patients are treated with compassion, dignity and respect, placing value on the diversity of the local community and beyond. He/she will promote best practice in the prevention of infection through ensuring a clean and safe environment.

The Matron's key responsibility is to ensure that the patient's experience is of the highest quality inspiring patient and public confidence. This will be achieved through high visibility, accessibility and surveillance. The post holder will be expected to work clinically for 20% of their time (1 clinical Day per week) and where required will be a specialist in their clinical area.

The Clinical Directorate is led by the Clinical Director, the operations and service led by the General Manager and the nursing team led by the Senior Nurse. The Matron reports directly to the Senior Nurse who has overarching responsibility for the operational management and strategic direction of nursing.

About us

Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain's leading healthcare providers.

The Barts Health group of NHS hospitals is entering an exciting new era on our improvement journey to becoming an outstanding organisation with a world-class clinical reputation. Having lifted ourselves out of special measures, we now have the impetus and breathing space to chart a fresh course in which we are continually striving to improve all our services for patients.

Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time. It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.

We strive to live by our WeCare values and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment.

Job responsibilities

The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience, and knowledge required. For both documents, please view the attachment/s below.

Person Specification

Experience

• Demonstrable previous success in leading and delivering change and performance with and through clinical teams, by engaging them in the strategic direction and delivery plans, establishing clear work priorities with them, delegating effectively, ensuring a capability to deliver, monitoring performance and giving feedback.
• Band 7 experience
• Proven ability to analyse complex problems and to develop and successfully implement practical and workable solutions to address them.
• Ability to think and plan strategically, tactfully and creatively, and to prioritise work programs in the face of competing demands.
• A strong sense of personal and team accountability coupled with a clear understanding of the boundaries around delegated authority.
• Ability to collaborate constructively with internal and external partners to create the conditions for successful partnership working.
• A good understanding of the changing NHS environment.
• Ability to manage different teams and take a leading role in the absence of senior leadership
• A good awareness of the NHS Inclusion agenda
• Demonstrate sound ability to nurture team building and team bonding whilst delivering care

Skills

• Well-developed leadership and influencing skills with the ability to enthuse, motivate and involve individuals and teams, and have them understand the Trust's and your performance expectations.
• Ability to be intellectually flexible and to look beyond existing structures, ways of working, boundaries and organisations to produce more effective and innovative service delivery and partnerships.
• A commitment to improving patient services through an ability to sustain a clear performance focus on achieving demanding goals
• Sound political judgement and astuteness in understanding and working with complex policy, and diverse interest groups, and common sense in knowing when to brief "up the line";

Knowledge

• Up to date knowledge of NHS organisational challenges and developments
• Knowledge of organisational funding flows and the complexities of reporting in a complex organisation

Qualifications

• Educated to degree level or equivalent / or experience that is equivalent

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.