Clinical Matron - Emergency Department

Frimley Health Nhs Foundation Trust; Slough; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 67,000; Full time

Job summary

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust's Wexham Park Hospital seeks a Clinical Matron for the Emergency Department. This senior nursing leader will drive safe, high-quality patient care in a fast-paced ED, providing visible leadership and role modelling clinical excellence.

The role includes governance, workforce development, and operational oversight of the department, with a focus on patient flow, performance against targets, and staff wellbeing across sites.

Qualifications

• Educated to degree level; NMC Registration; extensive post-registration emergency qualifications.
• Experience at senior clinical/managerial level in emergency medicine; NHS Band 7 experience desirable.
• Knowledge of clinical governance, risk management, and NHS performance targets.

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic and operational leadership for ED nursing and clinical staff.
• Ensure high standards of patient safety, quality, and experience.
• Lead workforce planning, rostering, recruitment, and retention.
• Promote continuous improvement and accountability.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to support flow and targets.
• Lead nursing governance and regulatory compliance.

Skills

NMC Registration

Emergency qualifications

Governance & risk management

Budget management

Education

Degree level

Master's degree (Desirable)

Job description

Job summary

Clinical Matron, Emergency Department

Wexham Park Hospital

The Clinical Matron for the Emergency Department is a senior nursing leader responsible for delivering safe, effective, and high-quality patient care within a fast-paced, complex environment. The postholder will provide visible, compassionate leadership, acting as a professional role model and ensuring consistently high standards of clinical practice and patient experience.

Working within the ED leadership team, the Clinical Matron will support and develop multidisciplinary staff, promoting a culture of accountability, continuous improvement, and patient-centred care. They will have operational oversight of the department, including patient flow, workforce deployment, and performance against key targets.

The role includes leading on quality, safety, and governance, ensuring compliance with national standards and regulatory requirements, including those of the Care Quality Commission. The postholder will contribute to service development, incident management, and clinical audit.

In addition, the Clinical Matron will lead workforce development, supporting education, wellbeing, and retention to maintain a skilled and resilient team.

Main duties of the job

• Provide strategic and operational leadership for nursing and clinical support staff in the ED.
• Ensure consistently high standards of patient safety, quality, and experience.
• Lead workforce planning, rostering, recruitment, and retention to maintain a resilient and skilled workforce.
• Promote a culture of continuous improvement, professional development, and accountability.
• Work collaboratively with multidisciplinary teams to support flow, performance targets (e.g., 4-hour standard), and service transformation.
• Act as the professional lead for nursing governance, safeguarding, infection prevention, and regulatory compliance.

About us

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.

Details

• Band: Band 8a
• Pay scheme: Agenda for change
• Salary: £59,798 to £67,020 a year per annum incl HCAS
• Contract: Permanent
• Working pattern: Full-time
• Reference number: 151-KMU565
• Closing date: 22 October 2026

Person Specification

• Qualifications (Essential): Educated to degree level or working towards; NMC Registration; Extensive post registration emergency qualifications
• Qualifications (Desirable): Educated to master's degree level
• Experience (Essential): Significant experience at senior clinical/managerial level in emergency medicine; Some NHS experience at a Band 7
• Experience (Desirable): In-depth experience in a variety of hospital units; Involvement in clinical audit and/or research
• Skills & Knowledge (Essential): Understands the concepts of clinical governance and shared governance including evidence-based practice and critical appraisal of research findings; Demonstrates knowledge of effective risk management; Knowledge of current NHS issues including performance targets and the wider health economy; Knowledge and experience of management models, implementing change and/or new clinical practices and current professional issues; Understand principles of effective budgetary management and demonstrate experience of managing budgets
• Special requirements (Essential): Flexible working hours including unsocial hours and bank holidays; Able to travel between sites

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.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

• Employer name: Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust
• Employer's website: https://www.fhft.nhs.uk/

Contact

Head of Nursing: Angela Ballard, [e-mail], 07944988289

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