Lead Nurse for Guided Care Matrons

Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust; Uxbridge; On-site; GBP 61,000 - 69,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading NHS organization in Uxbridge is seeking a Lead Nurse for Guided Care Matrons to ensure high standards of patient-centered nursing care. You will manage the Care Connection Teams, providing clinical support and operational leadership. Ideal candidates should possess a post-registration nursing qualification and extensive experience in clinical leadership and community care. This role offers a competitive salary of £61,631 to £68,623 annually, along with numerous professional development opportunities.

Benefits

Wide array of training opportunities

Robust staff health & wellbeing services

Qualifications

• Extensive post-registration clinical experience at a senior level.
• Experience in management and quality improvement.
• Ability to work in a rapidly changing and fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities

• Ensure high standards of operational delivery of the Care Connection Team.
• Lead and manage the Guided Care Matrons and other staff members.
• Engage with patients to ensure services meet their needs.

Skills

Advanced patient assessment skills

Ability to communicate effectively

Problem-solving skills

Leadership skills

Education

Post-registration qualification in district nursing or relevant practice

Registered Nurse - current NMC registration

Job description

Lead Nurse for Guided Care Matrons

The closing date is 24 December 2025

Band 8a Lead Nurse for Guided Care Matrons

To work in collaboration with partner organisations providing strong operational nurse leadership to the Guided Care Matrons and team members as part of the Care Connection Team (CCT) to ensure the delivery of high standards of patient centred nursing care for the residents of Hillingdon.

Main duties of the job

An opportunity has arisen to co‑lead the Care Connection Teams (CCT). Alongside one other lead, you will be responsible for the leadership, management and development of the Guided Care Matrons and other members of staff within the Care Connection Teams (CCT).

The Care Connection Teams are part of the Hillingdon Health Care Partnership (HHCP). They proactively support people over 18 years old that have long term conditions and are at risk of hospital admission. The Care Connection Teams are aligned to neighbourhoods, based in GP practices. They are a team comprised of Guided Care matrons, GP's, Senior Administrator Coordinators, Health Care Support Workers, Pharmacists, Health and Well‑being Officers and Mental Health Nurses.

Interview Date: 8th January at 2 South NHS, The Civic Centre, High Street Uxbridge, UB81UW

Interview's will consist of Q&A, and a stakeholders panel.

About us

The successful candidate will join a friendly, experienced, supportive team of Service Leads.

Service Leads are encouraged to be innovative and committed to service improvements including playing an active role in change management.

CNWL offers a wide array of training and professional opportunities and actively works to be a support staff to be well at work, offering robust staff health & wellbeing services.

Job responsibilities

You will be responsible for ensuring all aspects of the day to day operational delivery of the Care Connection Team. You will be expected to be visible, providing clinical support when necessary. You will be working alongside senior management, commissioners, the CCG and multi‑agency providers, families and carers.

You will be expected to work closely with managers from partner organisations to line manage the Guided Care Matrons and team members to meet CCT targets. You will need to be forward thinking and able to provide integrated leadership. This role requires excellent leadership, organisational, time management and communication skills. This role provides an opportunity to play an integral role in shaping community services for the future.

The successful candidate's main duties will be:

• Act as a role model - demonstrating CNWL core values
• Day to day operational management of the Guided Care Matron and other team members.
• Act as a point of escalation
• Manage the service to consistently meet targets and KPI's
• Oversee the service budgets
• Manage quality Governance to provide a safe effective service
• Promote innovation
• Engage with Patients, relatives and carers to ensure services meet their needs
• Support the Adult Services Manager

Person Specification

Skills and Abilities

• Evidence of ability to maintain and monitor high standards of care
• Advanced patient assessment skills
• Ability to work across boundaries to develop new ways of service delivery.
• Ability to adapt to changing needs of service and ensure sustainability of service
• Evidence of ability to communicate both verbally and in writing at all levels in a multidisciplinary forum and with patients and carers
• Ability to appraise complex situations and facts and take appropriate action.
• Ability to work in a rapidly changing and fast paced environment
• Act as a role model, educator, supervisor, coach and mentor, seeking to instil and develop the confidence of others.
• Ability to effectively delegate activities to appropriate staff
• Ability to Problem Solve / solution focused
• Ability to devise & deliver teaching packages patients and colleagues, formally, informally individually and in groups.
• Ability to sensitively manage & resolve complaints
• Ability to plan own workload and manage time effectively with minimum supervision
• IT literate with ability to use technology and other digital solutions with patients and in the operation of the service
• Able to produce well written and timely clinical records and service reports/presentations/reports
• Qualified coach/coaching skills
• Quality Improvement

Experience and Knowledge

• Extensive post‑registration clinical experience at a senior level
• Experience of working in a community environment providing care to people with long‑term conditions
• Experience in management, quality improvement, audit and evaluating clinical nursing services
• Experience of providing Clinical supervision
• Experience of team/staff management including PDP & appraisal
• Experience in team management including performance management
• Experience of implementing NMC / NICE Guidelines & Essence of Care Benchmarks
• Experience of working collaboratively with a variety of agencies and professionals across organisational boundaries
• Evidence of innovation in practice
• Knowledge across a range of long term conditions, including stroke and rehabilitation
• Knowledge of current NHS organisational structures and policy initiatives
• Knowledge of implementing and monitoring service outcome measures
• Knowledge of resource management
• Knowledge of clinical governance and quality improvement processes, risk assessment and personal accountability
• Experince of working in acute and or speicailist nursing settings
• Other clinical leadership/ improvement leader experience
• Knowledge of Safeguarding, MCA, DOLS legislation

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse - current NMC registration
• Evidence of ongoing and recent post‑registration training and education.
• Post‑registration qualification in district nursing or other relevant practice and/or advanced nursing practice
• Mentorship or teaching qualification / qualification in teaching or practice based learning

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.

Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust

£61,631 to £68,623 a year per annum inc HCAS (pro rata if P/T)