Main area Emergency Medicine Grade Band 8a Contract Permanent Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week (occasional on call at weekend) Job
Site Royal Stoke Town Stoke on Trent Salary £57,528 - £64,750 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 18/10/2026 23:59
Job overviewWe are delighted to offer an exciting opportunity to join the Urgent & Acute Clinical Business Unit, as the Emergency Medicine Matron.
We are seeking an experienced Senior Nurse with a passion for excellence in patient care and team leadership. In this pivotal role, you will provide strategic and operational leadership to the Nursing and AHP workforce, ensuring the highest standards of clinical quality, patient safety, and governance are consistently maintained.
You will work closely with the Directorate Team to drive service improvement, support staff development, and deliver outstanding patient outcomes.
Main duties of the jobTo provide senior leadership to the nursing and allied health professional workforce within the directorate(s) to deliver frontline professional and operational priorities and manage the ward and departmental Nurse Managers and specialist nurses. To support the Clinical Directors and as part of the Directorate management team develop, implement and monitor quality and business plans for the directorates. To facilitate staff and team development and ensure effective communication systems operate within the Directorates.
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University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust is one of the largest and most modern in the country. Based across two sites, Royal Stoke in Stoke-on-Trent and County Hospital in Stafford, we are proud to serve around three million people and we're highly regarded for our facilities, teaching and research. We are the specialist centre for major trauma for the North Midlands and North Wales.
All of our employees make a valuable contribution regardless of role here at UHNM and we are proud of our wide range of development packages aimed at ensuring that everyone has the opportunity to fulfil their true potential.
UHNM create and encourage a culture of inclusion, providing equal opportunities for career development that are fair and transparent. We are committed to being a diverse and inclusive employer and foster a culture in which all staff feel valued and respected. In return we ask all of our employees to make a commitment to the values, co-created by or staff, patients and carers, and that unite us as a Trust.
At University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust we know that investing in, supporting and developing our staff has a direct impact on the quality of care that we deliver. Our employees are as important as our patients and the population that we serve.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities- Have frequent visible contact with staff, patients and their carers, and provide feedback about the Trust services, ensuring that concerns that are raised are dealt with quickly and efficiently, ensuring excellent and effective communication takes place.
- Establish and maintain communication with appropriate stakeholders on potentially complex and stressful topics in a range of situations.
- To actively participate in the development and delivery of the Trust Nursing Strategy to ensure a culture of proactive interest, good communication and knowledge based on the Trust Strategy.
- To participate in Trust projects/initiatives as appropriate
- In conjunction with the Clinical Director and Directorate Manager, ensure that systems for clinical governance are in place with appropriate monitoring mechanisms for their continued effectiveness.
- The Matron / Allied Health Professional will ensure that effective and robust communication systems are in place for patients,…
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