Job summary
- Main area
- Medicine
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent: full time
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (will include weekends)
- Job ref
- 326-7240015-SL
- Employer
- Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- East Surrey Hospital
- Town
- Redhill
- Salary
- £53,755 - £60,504 per annum plus high cost allowance
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 29/06/2025 23:59
- Interview date
- 07/07/2025
Employer heading
Matron - Emergency Department
NHS AfC: Band 8a
Job overview
We have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Nurse to join Matrons team to support the safety and quality agenda of the Emergency Department on a full time basis.
The successful candidate will be responsible for Emergency Department Majors and Paediatrics within the Medicine Division providing leadership and supporting the Senior Nurses and their teams. You will lead the safety and quality standards within Emergency Department through completion of the relevant audits, acting on results. You require experience in nursing workforce management including rostering, development of staff and supporting students whilst creating a learning environment.
The individual with the appropriate experience, skills and education, needs to be dynamic and responsive within the role. You will be a visible leader providing support and motivation to the nursing teams whilst working closely with the clinical leads. In addition you will work closely with the Divisional Chief Nurse & the Head of Nursing who will ensure you are supported in this role and assist with your own personal professional development.
Please contact Divisional PA Debbie Wright - [email protected] to arrange an informal discussion/visit
Main duties of the job
For further information, please see the attached trust job description and person specification for a full list of duties and responsibilities.
Working for our organisation
We provide emergency and non-emergency services to the residents of East Surrey, North-East West Sussex, and South Croydon, including the major towns of Crawley, Horsham, Reigate and Redhill; a community of over 535,000 people. We provide acute and complex services and a range of outpatient, diagnostic services whilst Crawley Hospital and Horsham in West Sussex and Caterham Dene Hospital and Oxted Health Centre in Surrey provide less complex planned services. In 2019 the Care Quality Commission (CQC) rated our services as ‘Outstanding’ and we are one of the best performing Trusts in England:
- Winners of Health Service Journal Acute Trust of the year award 2021
- National Patient Safety Awards winner and strive to be a beacon for safety in all that we do
- We are in the top 20% nationally for staff recommending the Trust as a place to work or receive treatment
- Our staff rate us the best in the country among comparable acute trusts when asked if they would recommend the Trust as a place to work and when asked whether care of patients is the organisation’s top priority
- Our workforce are amongst the most motivated in the country; we achieved the top acute hospital score in the country for staff engagement in the last national staff survey
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Once you understand the requirements outlined in the advert, please ensure your application accurately reflects where you match them.
Person specification
criteria
Essential criteria
- • Evidence of a good standard of written English appropriate to the role
- • A complete and accurate application
- • Suitability for role evidenced in supporting statement
- • Evidence of essential experience for role
- • Meet the essential education/qualifications required for the role
- • Hold the necessary mandatory professional/clinical registration
- • Evidence of the Trust values and behaviours
- • Evidence of any other essential criteria outlined in the person specification
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
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
- Elaine Hextall
- Job title
- Divisional Chief Nurse
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01737 768511
- Additional information
Please contact Divisional PA Debbie Wright [email protected] to arrange an informal discussion/visit
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