Modern Matron

Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust; Burnley; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 70,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working options

Positive work/life balance

Job summary

Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust seeks a Modern Quality Matron to provide Professional, Clinical and Quality leadership for Children’s Nursing Services across Pennine. You will ensure safe, effective, and high‑quality care for children and young people with complex needs, while strengthening governance and care pathways.

The post emphasises improving patient experience, staff wellbeing, and inclusive leadership, with a focus on leading change and quality improvement in a

Qualifications

• Masters level or equivalent experiential learning.
• RN child qualification and active NMC registration.
• Sound understanding of contemporary Children’s Nursing agenda and clinical skills.
• Current experience of Children’s Nursing practice in a community setting.
• Management role within a multi-disciplinary service at a senior level.
• Substantial clinical experience with progressive career/management development.
• Community experience or significant leadership experience (if NHS, at Band 7)

Responsibilities

• Professional, Clinical and Quality leadership for Children’s Complex Care Team.
• Delivery of safe, effective, caring, responsive and high-quality clinical services for children and young people with complex care needs.
• Enhancing patient experience by increasing responsiveness to patient needs and strengthening governance across the care group.
• Promoting effectiveness by embedding the governance structure and supporting the team in delivering enhancements.

Skills

Leadership

Clinical leadership

Quality improvement

Governance

Staff development

Education

Masters level or equivalent

RN child qualification and active NMC registration

Job description

Our Vision is to provide the best mental health, learning disability, autism, community, and physical health services for the populations we serve.

As an integrated Trust, Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust (LSCFT) delivers a comprehensive range of services, including:

• Primary and secondary mental health care for children and adults, including specialist inpatient child and adolescent mental health provision, perinatal mental health, and forensic services with low and medium secure care.
• Specialist mental health inpatient care for individuals with learning disabilities, alongside specialist community support for children and adults with learning disabilities and autism, including intensive support.
• Extensive community physical health and well-being services for children and adults, covering prevention, treatment, rehabilitation, and long-term condition management.

The Trust was first established in 2002 and employs approximately 7,500 staff who provide care from more than 400 sites. The organisation offers opportunities for medics, mental health, general nurses, children’s nurses, allied health professionals, psychology, administration and clerical staff, apprentices and volunteers, as well as those specialising in learning disabilities and community physical health services.

Matrons are vital to delivering high quality care to patients and their relatives across the NHS and the wider health and care sector. They are instrumental in promoting high standards of clinical care, reducing health inequalities and promoting equality for all, workforce retention and recruitment, staff education and development, compassionate, inclusive leadership and patient safety.

The matron’s role is the cornerstone of improving the quality of patient care. They do this through visible inclusive leadership and engagement with patients and families, frontline staff and senior management teams. Matrons provide key assurance to the board, providing evidence that the organisation is delivering safe care and supporting and developing staff to fulfil their roles.

Main duties of the job

We are currently seeking a dedicated Modern Quality Matron for Our Children’s Nursing Services across Pennine, you would be responsible for the Professional, Clinical and Quality leadership for Children’s Complex Care Team, Children’s Complex Packages of Care and Special Needs School Nursing Services across Pennine ensuring the delivery of safe, effective, caring, responsive and high-quality clinical services for children and young people with complex care needs.

This pivotal role focuses on enhancing the quality of care for our service users, improving the effectiveness of care pathways, and strengthening governance across the care group.

We are looking for a dynamic leader to ensure rigorous oversight and assurance, with a keen focus on improving patient experience. This role demands a strong influencer capable of implementing quality improvements to boost patient safety, embedding the governance structure, and supporting the team in delivering and maintaining these enhancements.

Working for our organisation

LSCFT values diversity and inclusion, recognising that talent from varied backgrounds creates a flexible, creative, and effective workforce. We actively challenge discrimination and welcome applications from all, regardless of age, disability (including those with experience of accessing or caring for someone who has accessed mental health or learning disability services), ethnicity, gender, religion, belief, or sexual orientation.

Our aim is to reflect the communities we serve, so we particularly encourage applications from under-represented groups. If you’d like to discuss your application, please ask.

We also welcome individuals with lived experience relevant to the role or service area, as your insight brings authenticity to our services.

LSCFT support flexible working, we believe that a positive work/life balance benefits NHS employees through improved health and wellbeing. We would consider working patterns such as term time, part time, compressed hours and flexi-time.

The wellbeing of our people is at the heart of everything we do. We offer a wide range of resources, tools and support to help you thrive both in and out of work.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The Matron will be responsible for enhancing patient experience by increasing responsiveness to patient needs, providing evidence that care is delivered at the highest quality, and fostering a culture of continuous learning across the Three Children’s Nursing Teams.

The ideal candidate will promote effectiveness by embodying Trust values and nurturing a positive, inclusive working environment that supports staff well-being. Demonstrating 'professional curiosity' through positive leadership, the Matron will support clinical decision-making and enhance patient safety across Children’s Nursing Services working closely with The Clinical Nurse Business Manager

Person specification

Education

• Educated to Masters level or equivalent experiential learning
• RN child qualification and active NMC registration

Knowledge/Experience

• Sound understanding of contemporary Children’s Nursing agenda and clinical skills.
• Current experience of Children’s Nursing practice in a community setting.
• Management role within a multi-disciplinary service at a senior level
• Substantial clinical experience with progressive career/management development
• Community experience or significant leadership experience (if NHS, at Band 7)

You are advised to consider applying for LSCFT vacancies as soon as possible as in some instances vacancies are closed as soon as a sufficient number of applications have been received. If you are not invited to interview within four weeks of the closing date then please assume that on this occasion you have been unsuccessful, as it is not possible to contact all unsuccessful candidates.

Please note that further communication from LSCFT will normally be to the email address given on the application form. You should also ensure that email addresses and telephone numbers are provided for your referees, to enable LSCFT to contact them.

Please ensure that you read the person specification as your application will be measured against this document.

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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.