Matron for Clinical Education – Theatres, Surgery and Elective Centre

This senior Band 8A role provides leadership for clinical education and workforce development across Theatre services on multiple sites within the STACC Directorate. The post holder is responsible for ensuring high-quality, standardised education and practice development, supporting a workforce of approximately 500 staff and coordinating student learning.

In addition, the post holder will provide expert educational guidance, support and advice to Surgery and the Elective Hub, working collaboratively with clinical and operational leaders to support workforce, service and quality objectives.

Key responsibilities include leading and managing the Clinical Education team; delivering and overseeing education and training programmes; driving practice development and competency frameworks; embedding learning from incidents, complaints and clinical risk reviews; and supporting governance, audit and compliance requirements.

The role also involves working collaboratively with multidisciplinary teams, education providers and corporate functions to improve patient safety, workforce capability and quality of care, while contributing to service improvement and transformation across the Directorate.

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme. We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available.

Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too.

We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users.

Essential

Desirable: - Counselling skills experience

Experience

Essential: - Operating Theatre or Surgical multi-site working experience; - Experience of course design, lesson planning and reviewing poor performance

Desirable: - Good understanding of the NHS modernisation agenda; - In-depth experience in a variety of hospital units.

Professional and functional experience

Essential: - Exposure of working at the inter-face between the hospital and the prehospital environment; - Ability to implement post incident investigations