About this role

Ensuring staffing is appropriate to patient needs - Empowering nurses to take on a wider range of clinical tasks - Improving hospital cleanliness - Ensuring and improving the patient environment - Resolving problems for patients and their relatives by building closer relationships - To be visible and accessible to patents, relatives and staff in order to provide immediate assistance, advice and support - this also includes liaison with PALS to participate in community meetings as required. To set up opportunities to enable patients/SU to discuss issues of concern. - Support the development of systems to support relatives and carers. Attend Service Users Advisory Groups (SUCAG) as required. - Preventing hospital-acquired infection - Take the lead on infection control policy implementation and represent the Directorate in IPC strategy meetings *** Please see attached for a detailed JD and main responsibilities.

Inpatient Matron