Neurosurgical Matron

Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust; Hartford; On-site; GBP 200,000 +; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare institution in the UK is seeking an experienced Neurosurgical Matron to provide professional leadership across neurosurgical services. This role involves ensuring high-quality, patient-centered care while overseeing the nursing teams and managing clinical standards. The position offers an opportunity to lead service improvement initiatives and foster a positive work environment focused on kindness and excellence, along with competitive benefits within a vibrant hospital setting.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in a nursing leadership role.
• Strong understanding of clinical governance and operational management.
• Ability to develop and implement nursing practice standards.

Responsibilities

• Provide leadership for nursing teams to ensure patient-centered care.
• Accountable for clinical and non-clinical aspects of service quality.
• Lead service improvement initiatives and clinical pathway development.

Skills

Leadership skills

Compassion

Operational management

Clinical governance

Education

Nursing qualification

Job description

Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is seeking an experienced and compassionate nursing leader to join our Neurosciences Division as Neurosurgical Matron. This is a pivotal role providing visible, professional leadership across our neurosurgical services, ensuring the delivery of safe, high-quality, and patient-centered care.

Responsibilities

• Provide professional and managerial leadership for the nursing teams under your line management, ensuring a highly visible and authoritative presence with patient needs at the centre of care delivery.
• Work in partnership with the Operational and the Divisional Senior Management Team to ensure effective and efficient management of clinical areas, meeting agreed targets within available resources.
• Be accountable for all clinical and non-clinical aspects of quality within the service.
• Maintain a visible presence for patients, staff and visitors, ensuring that fundamental and specialist aspects of care are met.
• Support the Senior divisional nurse by leading and developing nurses and nursing practice.
• Lead on the development and implementation of daily operational systems and processes for the divisional nursing team, collaborating with wider leadership within and external to the division (e.g., patient flow management, senior clinical nurse of the day bleep holder).
• Provide operational management support to ensure standards are monitored, maintained, and enhanced.
• Act as a visible clinical leader, promoting psychological safety and embedding Trust values of kindness, safety, and excellence.
• Oversee workforce planning, appraisals, and safe staffing, ensuring compliance with professional standards and governance.
• Manage nursing budgets and contribute to divisional financial planning.
• Support education, audit, and research, fostering a positive learning environment for staff and students.
• Lead service improvement initiatives, care pathway development, and modernisation programmes.
• Champion equality, diversity, and inclusion across all aspects of care delivery.

About Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest teaching Trusts in the country, comprising Addenbrooke's Hospital and the Rosie Hospital. We provide accessible high-quality healthcare for the local people of Cambridge and regional and national specialist services. It is a great place to nurse, work and live.

You will work on a vibrant hospital campus with a friendly community feel; we have excellent facilities to practise your skills and abilities supporting your career pathway and development. Our values of Together – Safe, Kind, Excellent – support the delivery of outstanding care. We have a fully electronic patient record system that is continuously improving health‑care quality; this transformation enhances patient safety and clinical outcomes.