Modern Matron | Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust

Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust; Cambridgeshire and Peterborough; On-site; GBP 47,000 - 54,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare organization in Cambridgeshire is seeking an experienced leader for the Modern Matron position overseeing adult inpatient wards. The role focuses on safe, high-quality care, governance, and performance improvement. Responsibilities include team management, clinical governance, and collaboration with service users. Applicants should have strong leadership skills and experience in mental health services. This position contributes to an impactful mental health acute care pathway.

Responsibilities

• Provide highest quality service within allocated resources.
• Ensure team systems provide effective service to users and carers.
• Deliver services within a robust clinical governance framework.
• Promote ongoing service improvement within the team.
• Provide leadership and develop the team.
• Maintain an appropriate working environment.
• Investigate and respond to complaints/incidents.
• Develop and maintain high performing team.
• Manage team performance framework and communication.
• Maintain clinical and care records per Trust policies.

Skills

Leadership

Team management

Clinical governance

Service improvement

Multi-disciplinary working

Job description

We are seeking an experienced leader with a background in managing diverse teams at a senior level to join our leadership group. The Modern Matron position is available to support Oak 1 and Oak 3 Adult Inpatient Wards based at the Cavell Centre in Care Group 2.

The role involves overseeing safe, high‑quality care, governance, and performance to improve service user experience across the wards, as well as supporting our new inpatient clinical model to enhance service flow.

This band 8a portfolio contributes to shaping, developing, and maintaining the mental health acute care pathway, aiming to ensure safe and effective clinical interventions and strengthen the integration between Crisis, Community, and Inpatient services.

To lead and manage the acute adult mental health across the inpatient & associated teams in Care Group 2 delivering safe and effective high‑quality services, within the available resources to achieve the team targets.

The post holder will provide leadership and expertise to deliver services within an agreed service model, working with service users and carers, and other stakeholders, maintaining effective working relationships.

The post holder will work to establish effective multi‑disciplinary working within and across the wider acute services.

Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust is a health and social care organisation dedicated to providing high‑quality care with compassion to improve the health and wellbeing of the people we care for, as well as supporting and empowering them to lead a fulfilling life.

Our clinical teams deliver many NHS services, not only via inpatient and primary care settings, but also within the community. These services include children's, adult and older people's mental health, forensic and specialist mental health, learning disabilities, primary care and liaison psychiatry, substance misuse, social care, research and development.

To achieve our goal, we look to recruit high‑calibre candidates who share our vision and values. As an equal opportunities employer, we encourage applications from all sectors of the community, particularly from under‑represented groups including disabled people and members of our ethnic minority and LGBTQ+ communities.

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Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities.

Responsibilities

1. To provide the highest quality service within the resources allocated.
2. To ensure that there are team systems and processes to provide a responsive and effective and service to service users and carers.
3. To ensure that the services are delivered within a robust clinical governance framework, monitoring and evaluating standards of care routinely in accordance with Trust governance arrangements.
4. To promote an ongoing process of service improvement within the team.
5. To provide leadership within the team, supporting and developing the team to provide effective services.
6. To maintain an appropriate working environment.
7. To investigate and respond to comments/complaints/incidents in line with the Trust policy and take appropriate action.
8. To develop and maintain high performing team.
9. To maintain the team performance management framework, taking appropriate actions, and ensuring that there is clear communication of the team functions, standards and targets.
10. To ensure that the teams maintain clinical and care records in line with the Trust policies and procedures.

This advert closes on Wednesday 22 Oct 2025