Band 8B Matron - Oncology

Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust; Romford; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 81,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare trust in the United Kingdom is seeking a Band 8B Matron for Oncology. This senior role involves providing leadership to nursing staff, ensuring high-quality, safe clinical services across Queen's and King George Hospitals. The successful candidate will have significant experience in nursing management, specifically in oncology, and will be responsible for implementing clinical strategies. The trust offers a salary range of £70,396 to £80,837 per annum, with an emphasis on inclusive leadership and staff support.

Qualifications

• Significant experience at senior level of cancer in clinical practice.
• Proven experience in nursing management.
• Ability to provide compassionate and inclusive leadership.

Responsibilities

• Provide leadership and direction to nursing staff across designated service line.
• Ensure safe and effective delivery of clinical services.
• Contribute to and implement the Clinical Group strategy.

Skills

Leadership

Clinical Practice

Nursing Management

Education

Registered General Nurse/Midwife

Experience at Band 7

Job description

Go back Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust

Band 8B Matron - Oncology

The closing date is 18 January 2026

The Matron role is a senior nursing/midwifery role providing leadership and direction to nursing/midwifery staff within a designated service line across Queen's and King George Hospitals, and other satellite sites.

You will work in a service line triumvirate with the Clinical Lead and the Service Manager, with a particular focus on day‑to‑day management of nursing/midwifery services across their areas of responsibility. You will be responsible for ensuring provision of high quality, safe, well‑governed, productive and cost‑effective services which support the Trust in delivering its strategic objectives. You will practice at an advanced level demonstrating a high level of autonomy and decision‑making; supporting the planning, provision and promotion of a comprehensive Oncology and Haematology Service at BHRUT.

Main duties of the job

This role, along with triumvirate colleagues, will provide compassionate and inclusive leadership to those within their areas of responsibility. In addition, there will be joint responsibility and accountability for delivering patient safety, financial targets, efficiencies, workforce planning and service delivery to improve safe patient flow within their areas of responsibility.

Recognising and celebrating our workforce demographics, the postholder will be responsible for ensuring the service line operates in an inclusive and transparent way. Improving and maintaining staff experience within the service line is a key requirement for this role.

With guidance and direction from the Clinical Group triumvirate the postholder will contribute to and implement the Clinical Group strategy. This will include working with the Lead Cancer Nurse, Heads of Nursing and Senior Nurses to influence the development and delivery of excellent patient care.

About us

We're an organisation that is getting better and better and our improvements are driven by a determination to deliver care we're proud of and our patients are happy with.

They are benefitting from a new electronic patient record (we were the last acute trust in London to introduce one) and our maternity services have been rated good by the Care Quality Commission.

We operate from two main sites - KGH in Goodmayes and Queen's Hospital in Romford. We have two busy emergency departments with more than 346,000 people visiting them last year. We're campaigning to secure the £35m we need to transform the A&E at Queen's and get rid of corridor care.

We're proud of our regional Neurosciences Centre, Radiotherapy Centre and Hyper Acute Stroke Unit. We're also part of the North East London Cancer Alliance.

We run a Women's Health Hub in Ilford; an Ageing Well Centre in Hornchurch; and Community Diagnostic Centres (CDC) at Barking Community Hospital and at St George's Health and Wellbeing Hub. These CDCs are open 12 hours a day, 7 days a week.

The majority of our 8,400 staff - who come from 146 different countries - live in the three diverse London boroughs we serve and are from black, Asian and minority ethnic groups. Many can work flexibly and more than 400 of them are on our Ofsted accredited apprenticeship programmes. We're proud to be a London Living Wage employer.

Job responsibilities

For further information on this role, please see the attached detailed Job Description and Person Specification.

The person specification listed below is not the full specification requirements for the role. Please ensure you review the full specification on the job description prior to submitting your application.

Applicants are advised to read all the information on the advert and the supporting information before completing and submitting an application. As you complete your application please ensure you clearly demonstrate how you meet the criteria in the person specification for this post by adequately completing the supporting information section of the application form.

All new staff appointed at the Trust are subject to a probationary period.

Applications should be made online, however, queries regarding the application process, assistance with completion of the application form or if you require any adjustments (for applicants with a disability) please contact Sarah Wood, Recruitment Advisor, on 01708 435000 ext. 4188. Further details regarding the post may be obtained by contacting the manager as per the contact details above.

Person Specification

Education / Qualifications

• Registered General Nurse/Midwife on the Nursing and Midwifery Council with significant experience at senior level of cancer in clinical practice (Proven experience at band 7). Nurse Level 1

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust

£70,396 to £80,837 a year per annum inclusive