Job summary
- Main area
- Paediatrics
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8a
- Contract
- Secondment: 12 months
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 381-WC-6997705
- Employer
- Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- SWB NHS Trust
- Town
- Smethwick
- Salary
- 拢53,755 - 拢60,504 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 12/03/2025 23:59
- Interview date
- 26/03/2025
Employer heading
Acute Paediatric Matron
NHS AfC: Band 8a
Sandwell & West Birmingham NHS Trust is a friendly, integrated healthcare provider focused on improving the life chances and health outcomes of our diverse population.
We have three strategic objectives:
People: To cultivate and sustain happy, productive and engaged staff.
Patients: To be good or outstanding at everything we do.
Population: To work seamlessly with partners to improve lives.
We run services from Midland Metropolitan University Hospital, Sandwell Health Campus, City Health Campus, Rowley Regis Community Hospital, Birmingham & Midland Eye Centre, The Lyng and Leasowes Intermediate Care Centre. Our GP practices and community teams provide care in schools, healthcare centres and at home.
Developing and caring for our People is fundamental. We were one of the first Trusts to provide the Real Living Wage, as well as a Live and Work scheme to support people at risk of homelessness into paid work and training. We offer a range of staff benefits, health & wellbeing support and will help you to bring your ambition to life through our bespoke training and development programmes. As 鈥淧eople鈥 is one of our three strategic objectives, we make a continued commitment to prioritise support for all our colleagues.
Healthcare services have a significant impact on the environment. We are committed to embedding sustainable practices. We expect all colleagues to support the delivery of our Green Strategic Plan and to drive positive changes in their department.
Job overview
Acute Paediatric Matron- Band 8a-Secondment Opportunity-9-12 months
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Are you a Paediatric Nurse with substantial experience at a senior level looking for the next step in your career?
听Are you passionate about providing and developing excellent services for babies, children and young people?
If so Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust can offer a secondment opportunity for an individual who is ambitious to develop their leadership skills.
We are looking for a compassionate and determined Paediatric Matron to ensure that children and young people get the best possible care and treatment when accessing services.
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Main duties of the job
You will:
- Be highly visible
- Be clinically credible
- Be committed to developing and transforming services
- Work collaboratively with multi-disciplinary teams across acute and community settings.
For the areas you lead and manage you will be accountable for:
- Ensuring safe, effective, responsive, high-quality services
- Workforce management
- Finance and budgeting
- Education and development
- Patient flow
- Performance management
- Digital technology
- Evidence based Practice and Research
Working for our organisation
Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust (SWBT) is an integrated care听organisation with a budget of approximately 拢600 million and over 7,000 staff. Diversity and social care is at the core of what we do as the Trust provides Community and Acute Services to over half a million people in an urban centre that demands massive regeneration and has substantial premature mortality.听
Our new acute hospital, the Midland Metropolitan University Hospital (MMUH), opens in 2024 and will provide care to our local population from first class, purpose-built premises.听As a result, the base of this role may change to MMUH from 2024 (or beyond). If this is applicable to your role, you will be informed during the recruitment process and continuing your application with this understanding.听The development of the new hospital will play an important role in the regeneration of the wider area and in improving the lives of local people and reducing health inequalities.听
We have three newly emerging strategic objectives:
- Our People 鈥 to cultivate and sustain happy, productive and engaged staff
- Our Patients 鈥 to be good or outstanding in everything we do
- Our Population 鈥 to work seamlessly with our partners to improve live
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Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Acute and Community Paediatrics is an integrated Directorate that sits within the Women & Children's Group.
The Midland Metropolitan University Hospital (MMUH) opened听 in October 2024. 听听The Paediatric Unit has new hospital has 40 paediatric beds over a dedicated PAU alongside, 2 wards which includes 6 HDU and 6 Adolescent beds. The first UK clinical skills lab will be embedded within MMUH allowing emphasis on education within the department. The new state of the art acute hospital in Grove Lane, Smethwick will bring together all acute services onto one site.听 听听听
If you possess strong leadership and management qualities, would like to work in a welcoming and supportive environment where you will be well supported and given the opportunity to develop to fulfil your potential and build the career you want, we welcome an application from you.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- RNC
- Registration with NMC
Desirable criteria
- MSc
Experience
Essential criteria
- Extensive post-graduate and post-competency experience working with children in a variety of settings inclusive of an acute setting.
- Experience of participating in clinical service development in response to local and national priorities involving research, audit and user feedback.
- Experience of managing and prioritising clinical workloads and effective roster management.
- Experience of participating in the delivery and development of training to a variety of recipients, both professional and nonprofessional.
- Evidence of management training
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Knowledge & experience of managing budgets, including planning, forecasting and prioritising
- Knowledge & experience of service-wide performance management, including undertaking supervisions and appraisals
- Experience of leading a team and highly developed leadership skills
- Excellent written skills for the purposes of report writing and contributing to policy documentation.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Petrina Marsh
- Job title
- Clinical Lead Acute & Community Paediatrics
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07817174596
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