Peri-Operative Matron

As Peri-Operative Matron, you will:

• Provide visible and compassionate leadership across peri-operative services.
• Champion patient safety, quality and clinical excellence.
• Lead workforce development, staff wellbeing and talent management.
• Drive service improvement, efficiency and performance outcomes.
• Work collaboratively with multidisciplinary teams to enhance the patient experience.

• To provide clinical, professional and managerial leadership across the SBUs.
• To be the nursing lead, providing a strong clinical presence and developing nurses and nursing practice within the SBUs, assuring the provision of a safe, effective and evidence based nursing service to patients. Lead and direct development of privacy, dignity, equality and the delivery of safe patient care including infection control and nutrition/hydration.

Royal Surrey is a compassionate and collaborative acute and community Trust. Recognising that our 5,000 colleagues are our greatest strength, we offer a comprehensive health and wellbeing programme alongside a strong commitment to developing your career. Our diverse and welcoming Royal Surrey family ensures you feel valued from your initial interview and throughout your time with us.

We are clinically led and provide joined-up care by bridging hospital and community services, alongside delivering regional specialist cancer care. Our main acute hospital site is in Guildford, with community sites at Milford, Haslemere and Cranleigh, and services delivered in patients’ homes across Guildford and Waverley.

We work in partnership with Ashford & St Peter’s Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust through a collaborative Group Model, supporting joined-up services, workforce flexibility and development opportunities.

The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has rated us as Outstanding. We are proud of our achievements and continue to invest in our people and infrastructure.

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• To implement the Trust’s Nursing Strategy through the development and implementation of a strong nursing strategy at SBU level.
• To be responsible for implementing and monitoring the agreed trust quality indicators & KPI.
• Ensure infection control agenda is adhered to including the Nursing Indicator Audit programme.
• To be responsible for effective workforce planning within managed areas on a day to day basis reporting variances as appropriate.

• RGN/RM (Adult) registration
• Clinical Specialist qualification (or experience) in their area

• Implementation of national nursing guidance and standards, and championing of good clinical practice
• Clinical competence, including administering drugs and I/V’s

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.