Matron - East Suffolk

NHS; Ipswich; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 63,000; Full time

Job summary

A health services organization in Ipswich seeks a dedicated Matron to lead specialist Rehabilitation services. This full-time role offers senior clinical leadership and emphasizes safe, recovery-focused care. The successful candidate will ensure high standards, foster staff wellbeing, and drive service improvements. A strong clinical leadership background and relevant qualifications are essential. The role offers a competitive salary of £55,690 to £62,682 gross per annum.

Benefits

Ongoing training and development opportunities

Supportive work environment

Qualifications

• Proven experience in clinical leadership and management.
• Knowledge of service improvement tools.
• Commitment to ongoing professional development.

Responsibilities

• Lead the rehabilitation services, ensuring high-quality care.
• Support clinical excellence and service development.
• Foster a culture of openness and continuous improvement.

Skills

Clinical Leadership

Service Improvement

Team Management

Education

RMN Educated to degree level or equivalent

Masters Level Degree or equivalent

Job description

We are recruiting a dedicated Matron to lead our specialist Rehabilitation services across both inpatient and community settings in Ipswich, Suffolk. This full-time, permanent role offers an exciting opportunity to provide senior clinical leadership, ensuring safe, effective, and recovery-focused care. The successful candidate will play a key role in supporting staff wellbeing, driving service development, and maintaining high standards of patient care. With responsibilities spanning operational oversight, quality improvement, caseload management, and strategic collaboration, this is a vital leadership position that will help shape the future of rehabilitation services. The role is offered at Band 8a (or as per local agreement).

Main duties of the job

As Matron, you will work closely with the specialist rehabilitation leadership team to ensure high-quality, recovery-focused care is delivered across both inpatient and community services. You will provide professional leadership to the nursing workforce, supporting clinical excellence and service development.

You will foster a culture of openness, learning, and continuous improvement, ensuring staff have the skills, systems, and support to deliver evidence-based rehabilitation care. You will embed lessons learned into practice to enhance patient experience and outcomes.

We are seeking a passionate and experienced leader with a strong track record of influencing teams and partners to deliver outstanding care. You will be an inspirational and compassionate role model, committed to developing others and driving service improvement.

If you are known for your leadership, commitment to quality, and dedication to equity and inclusion, ensuring rehabilitation services are accessible and effective for all, then we encourage you to apply for this vital role.

We are committed to building a safer, kinder, and better organisation, and this role is central to that vision.

About us

Here at NSFT we pride ourselves on being a welcoming, talented, friendly and supportive team who like nothing better than sharing experiences and learning from each other. In addition to ongoing training and development opportunities, we are committed to providing an environment in which you can thrive.

Why work for us? We have challenges as a Trust, but we have ambitious aspirations, are pushing ahead with exciting transformation work and we need dedicated individuals to support us on our journey. We have strong, established professional networks coupled with an exceptional leadership team who will ensure you are truly cared for and cared about.

Why Norfolk and Suffolk? The people here are warm and welcoming, you'll never be far from the beautiful coastline or Broads National Park. We're an hour and a half away from London and have an international airport in Norwich too. Our villages, towns and cities are packed full of history, independent cafes, shops and theatres. We have excellent shopping, eating out, top ranking schooling and affordable house prices too.

Job responsibilities

Please find attached our Job Description and Person Specification for more detail on your Key Accountabilities, then if you feel you have what it takes to make a difference in your local communities, click APPLY!

As part of the select process you will be asked to undertake psychometric testing, details of this will be shared with you in advance of the interview.

Person Specification

Knowledge

• Knowledge of service improvement tool

Qualifications

• RMN Educated to degree level or equivalent
• Continuous professional development relevant to this person specification
• Masters Level Degree or equivalent

Experience

• Clinical Leadership and clinical care
• Involvement in managing change/projects.

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.

£55,690 to £62,682 a yearGross per annum, pro rata for part time