Matron Pre-assessment and Day units

Lewisham and Greenwich; Greater London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust in London is seeking a Senior Matron for Theatres and Day Care Units to lead pre-assessment and perioperative services, driving safety, governance and service improvement with multidisciplinary teams, ensuring high-quality patient care across the perioperative pathway.

As a visible nursing leader, you will champion transformation, workforce development and patient experience, shaping modern perioperative services across the trust's theatres and day unit

Qualifications

• Registered nurse with NMC registration and significant perioperative experience.
• Experience in operating theatre leadership and perioperative care.
• Proven leadership and management experience in clinical settings.
• Postgraduate qualifications relevant to area of practice and leadership.
• Formal supervisory/teaching credentials or education qualifications.

Responsibilities

• Provide nursing leadership for Pre-Assessment and Day Unit services across the Trust.
• Lead transformation and optimisation of perioperative pathways to improve patient experience and outcomes.
• Drive development of innovative care models to support elective recovery.
• Ensure high-quality, safe care through governance, quality improvement and risk management.
• Lead workforce planning, staff development and succession planning.
• Collaborate with surgical, anaesthetic, operational and corporate teams to improve patient flow.
• Support digital solutions and service redesign to enhance pathways.
• Monitor performance against quality, safety, activity and financial targets.
• Model compassionate leadership and foster a culture of continuous improvement.

Education

NMC registered nurse

ODP theatre lead

Master’s degree

Postgraduate qualifications

Education qualification

Job description

Step into a place where exceptional care, patients, culture, and careers come together.

Explore our current vacancies and take your first step toward making a real difference.

Join us. Make a difference. Be part of Team LGT.

Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust, (LGT), is a community-focused provider of local and acute care, delivering high-quality services to over one million people living across the London boroughs of Lewisham, Greenwich, and Bexley. We provide whole-life care and are here to support our communities to live healthier lives as well as taking care of them when they need us the most.

Employing almost 7,500 colleagues, affectionately known as Team LGT, we provide services at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Woolwich, University Hospital Lewisham, and at over a dozen community settings in Lewisham. We also provide some services at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Sidcup.

We have recently launched our new vision and values to mark the LGT10 – the tenth anniversary of our Trust forming in 2013. Our trust vision is to be exceptional. In the quality of our patient care; our support for colleagues; and in the difference we make through our partnerships and in our communities.

Our hospitals and community sites provide a wide range of inpatient and outpatient services, as well as emergency and planned care. The Trust is rated as “good” or “outstanding” in over three-quarters of the services inspected by the Care Quality Commission.

Every year our work includes performing 10,000 procedures in our theatres; bringing seven and a half thousand new lives into the world; carrying out 570,000 visits to patients in their homes or communities and providing emergency care for more than 300,000 patients arriving in our busy Urgent and Emergency Departments.

LGT is a centre for the education and training of medical students enrolled with King’s College London’s GKT School of Medical Education. We are a training centre for nurses, midwives and allied health professionals. We are pioneering new roles that will support the changing needs of our patients and are one of the largest employers of physician associates in the country.

We are committed to working with our partners to deliver the best outcomes for our local communities. This means playing an active role in the South East London Integrated Care System (ICS), and in formal partnerships including the South East London Acute Provider Collaborative, provider partnerships with our local mental health trusts and borough-based boards of theICS in Bexley, Greenwich and Lewisham.

Job overview

This is an exceptional opportunity for a highly motivated individual to lead and develop high-performing pre-assessment and day surgery services, while playing a pivotal role in transforming perioperative pathways across the Trust.

As Matron, you will provide visible and compassionate leadership, ensuring the delivery of safe, effective and patient-centred care. Working collaboratively with multidisciplinary teams, operational managers and clinical leaders, you will drive service improvement, support elective recovery programmes and contribute to the strategic development of modern perioperative services.

The successful candidate will be instrumental in shaping the future of pre-operative assessment and day surgery pathways, ensuring patients receive seamless, timely and high-quality care from referral through to discharge.

Main duties of the job

An experienced senior nurse leader, ideally working at Matron, Senior Sister/Charge Nurse or equivalent level.

Knowledgeable in perioperative care, pre-assessment services, day surgery and elective pathways.

Experienced in leading service transformation and quality improvement projects.

Able to demonstrate strong operational management and workforce leadership skills.

Skilled in managing complex change and influencing across multidisciplinary teams.

Committed to delivering outstanding patient care and improving patient experience.

Passionate about staff development, inclusion and creating positive workplace cultures.

Our people are our greatest asset. When we feel supported and happy at work, this positivity reaches those very people we are here for, the patients. Engaged employees perform at their best and our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) initiatives contribute to cultivate a culture of engagement. We have four staff networks, a corporate EDI Team and a suite of programmes and events which aim to insert the 5 aspirations:

• Improving representation at senior levels of staff with disabilities, from black, Asian, and ethnic minorities background, identify as LGBTQ+ and women, through improved recruitment and leadership development
• Widening access (anchor institution) and employability
• Improving the experience of staff with disability
• Improving the EDI literacy and confidence of trust staff through training and development
• Making equalities mainstream

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Key Responsibilities

Provide professional nursing leadership for Pre-Assessment and Day Unit services across the Trust.

Lead the transformation and optimisation of perioperative pathways to improve patient experience, efficiency and clinical outcomes.

Drive the development of innovative models of care that support elective recovery and national best practice standards.

Ensure the delivery of high-quality, safe and effective care through robust governance, quality improvement and risk management processes.

Lead workforce planning, staff development and succession planning to build resilient, skilled and engaged teams.

Work collaboratively with surgical, anaesthetic, operational and corporate colleagues to improve patient flow and maximise theatre utilisation.

Support the implementation of digital solutions and service redesign initiatives to enhance patient pathways.

Monitor performance against key quality, safety, activity and financial targets.

Act as a role model for compassionate leadership and foster a culture of continuous improvement and excellence.

Person specification

Qaulification and Training

• Registered Healthcare Professional with relevant Professional body 1st Level Nurse/ NMC with significant experience in Nursing.
• Registered Operating Department Practitioner (ODP) with significant experience in theatre leadership.
• Master’s Degree or willingness to complete or relevant experience
• Evidence of Post Graduate Specialist qualifications relevant to area of practice (examples –:non-medical prescribing; mentorship , coaching , clinical expertise, leadership or management)
• Management or supervisory qualification / programme of study
• PTLLS/DTLLS, PGCE or Certificate in Education

Experience

• Clinical expertise relevant to the post
• Experience of providing and receiving complex, sensitive information
• Leadership of clinical governance and patient safety
• Achievement of high quality patient care through evidence based practice
• Management of finances within a budget, including delivery of cost improvements
• Management/Clinical Leadership experience
• Experience of successfully leading and implementing change
• Experience in analysing complex problems and implementing workable solutions
• Ability to think and plan strategically, operationally and creatively and to prioritise work programs in the face of competing demands

Knowledge and Skills

• Understanding of National Service Frameworks and NICE guidance to relevant to care setting and its application across health care services
• Highly developed written and verbal skills
• Ability to be intellectually flexible and to look beyond existing structures, ways of working, boundaries and organisations to produce more effective and innovative service delivery and partnerships
• A strong sense of personal and team accountability coupled with a clear understanding of the boundaries around delegated authority
• Ability To work om service development projects

Personal Qualities and Skills

• Excellent inter-personal and communication skills
• High level of work organisation, self- motivation, drive for performance and improvement
• Flexibility in approach and attitude Strong sense of commitment to openness, honesty and integrity
• Able to work with staff at all levels across the Trust
• Self-confident, assertive and pro-active
• Attentive to detail and able to work to tight deadlines and cope under pressure
• Ability to manage and lead change
• Ability to communicate complex, sensitive information to individuals and groups
• Able to support the implementation of local and national agenda’s for health under the guidance of the senior Practitioner
• Strong influencing and negotiating skills
• Highly developed facilitation skills account Trust policies and procedures.
• Ability to prioritise care delivery in a professional manner, taking into account Trust policies and procedures.

As a local employer and anchor institution we work closely with our community to recruit locally and we welcome applications from the widest variety of people to ensure our workforce are reflective of the local communities which we serve. We encourage all suitable candidates to apply including if you are Black, Asian or other ethnic minorities, live with a disability (visible or not) or are LGBT+. We have a number of active staff networks including Disability, LGBT+, Multicultural Inclusion and Women’s staff networks to bring staff together and celebrate diversity across our whole workforce.

Please note: Information provided during recruitment and pre‑employment checks must be accurate. Misrepresentation may be investigated as fraud and could lead to withdrawal from the process, professional sanctions, or criminal action.

Please note: that sponsorship under the Skilled Worker route is subject to Trust allocation and UK Visas and Immigration (UKVI) approval.

Use of AI in recruitment: We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support the initial review of applications against the essential criteria for this role. Where AI is used, it will support rather than replace human decision-making, and applications will remain subject to appropriate human review.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Name Rebeccah Beck Job title Senior Matron - Theatres and Day Care Units Email address [e-mail] Telephone number 02083333000