UHS is seeking an experienced and compassionate nursing leader to join our Critical Care, Care Group as General ICU Matron – this will be a co - lead role of the 40 Bedded Adult General Intensive Care Unit (GICU)/ Surgical High Dependency (SHDU).  

The role is pivotal in providing visible, professional leadership across our critical care services, ensuring the delivery of safe high-quality and patient centred care. 

As matron you will, be working with a broad multi-disciplinary team supporting your staff to care for emergency and elective patients, ensuring the clinical area is safe, effective, and responsive.  You will be a leader who is accountable for co-ordinating safe, high-quality care to improve and maintain our patients NHS experience. 

Working in partnership with your critical care matron colleagues, across the care group and other key staff in the Division and across the Trust, as the custodian of the patient experience, you will ensure patients, staff and the Trust have confidence in your areas of responsibility.  

You will maintain a visible presence where patients, staff and visitors can turn for assistance and upon whom they can rely on to ensure fundamental and specialist aspects of care are met.