Matron for Pre-operative Assessment (POA) Cross site

This role encompasses strategic leadership, operational management, and clinical oversight. The Matron leads senior nursing staff, ensures annual appraisals and PDPs, manages budgets, and drives service improvement through audit, incident management, and patient feedback. They work clinically at least 20% of the time, undertaking daily rounds, monitoring standards, and ensuring compliance with infection control, medicines management, and documentation requirements. The post holder also leads education and workforce development, ensuring robust induction, training needs analysis, and support for students and assessors. As the senior clinical expert for POA, the Matron ensures strong clinical governance, adherence to national and regional standards, and evidencebased preoperative optimisation, while representing the service in crosssite and regional forums to support innovation and integrated perioperative pathways.

Clinical

To work in clinical practice for a minimum of 20 per cent of the time, providing clinical expertise and leadership to the team. To undertake daily rounds and obtain real time patient feedback; liaise with the person in charge of the unit to assess the environment with regards to cleanliness and clinical standards. To ensure the provision of safe, high quality care and treatment for all patients which is delivered within agreed standards, protocols and guidelines .PLEASE SEE JOB DESCRIPTION AND PERSON SPECIFICATION FOR DETAILED DUTIES AND MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES