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Lancashire Care Foundation Trust; Burnley; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a dedicated Modern Quality Matron to provide professional, clinical and quality leadership for Children’s Nursing Services across Pennine. The role focuses on ensuring safe, effective and high‑quality care for children and young people with complex care needs, supported by strong governance and staff development.

The Matron will strengthen patient experience, embed governance, and lead continuous improvements while promoting a

Qualifications

• Experience in senior clinical leadership and governance is desirable.
• Strong leadership skills with a focus on patient safety and quality of care.
• Ability to drive service improvements and engage with diverse stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Provide professional, clinical and quality leadership for Children’s Complex Care Team and School Nursing Services across Pennine.
• Promote a culture of safety, continuous learning and governance across the care group.
• Lead on improving patient experience and patient pathways within Children’s Nursing Services.
• Support staff wellbeing and inclusive leadership across teams.

Job description

Modern Matron | Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust

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.

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.

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.

Explore our full wellbeing offer here:Keeping our workforce well

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

This advert closes on Wednesday 16 Sep 2026