Senior Matron

LEWISHAM AND GREENWICH NHS TRUST; London; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

An established healthcare provider is seeking a Senior Matron to lead nursing excellence across multiple clinical areas. This role involves overseeing the quality of care, managing staff performance, and ensuring adherence to best practices in a dynamic environment. As a pivotal member of the leadership team, you will inspire confidence in patient care while promoting a culture of respect and inclusion. Join a dedicated team committed to delivering exceptional healthcare services to the community and making a significant impact on patient outcomes.

Qualifications

• Registered nurse with significant post-registration experience.
• Experience managing staff and leading clinical governance.

Responsibilities

• Manage quality of nursing care within clinical responsibility.
• Lead staff discipline and performance management.

Skills

Clinical expertise

Leadership

Communication skills

Performance management

Strategic planning

Education

Registered nurse / ODP qualification

Masters degree or equivalent experience

Degree or equivalent clinical/advanced practice

Job description

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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.

To achieve this we value Respect, Compassion, and Inclusion; Being accountable over staying comfortable; Listening over always knowing best; and Succeeding together over achieving alone. You can read more about our visions and values here

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 the ICS in Bexley, Greenwich and Lewisham.

Job overview

The Senior Matron's key responsibility is to provide viable, accessible leadership to all clinical areas within their given areas of responsibility.

The Senior Matron will support the Theatres (including the Lewisham Surgical Centre) and Day Care Ward Senior Nurses to promote excellence in nursing care to maintain and improve clinical standards. The post holder will ensure that all patients are treated with compassion, dignity and respect placing value on the diversity of the local community and beyond. They will promote best practice in the prevention of infection through ensuring a clean and safe environment, and that clinical practices are in accordance with Trust policy and best practice guidelines to minimise the risk of infection.

The Senior Matron will support and oversee practice, standards and productivity at Queen Elizabeth Hospital Woolwich.

The Senior Matron will ensure that the patient experience is of the highest quality inspiring patient and public confidence. This will be achieved through high visibility, accessibility and surveillance.

The Senior Matron will report directly to the Head of Nursing who has overarching responsibility for the operational management and strategic direction of nursing.

Main duties of the job

To manage the quality of the provision of nursing care at all times, within area of clinical responsibility, holding the Theatres and Wards, Matrons, Band 7 leads to account for delivery of their key performance indicators in clinical areas. In conjunction with the Divisional Director of Nursing and Head of Nursing ensure effective action is taken where Theatre and ward staff performance is at risk of falling below expected levels and standards are not maintained.

• Ensuring that the Trust's Nursing, Midwifery and Allied Health Professional priorities are implemented locally.

To lead and ensure action is taken on issues of staff discipline, grievance, poor performance and sickness, including dismissal.

Working for our organisation

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:

1. 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
2. Widening access (anchor institution) and employability
3. Improving the experience of staff with disability
4. Improving the EDI literacy and confidence of trust staff through training and development
5. Making equalities mainstream

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Review skill mix and deployment of staff within the area of responsibility, working closely with their Matrons and Band 7 leads within the remit of responsibility.

Ensure rostering meets service demands and is cost effective and adheres to Trust guidelines.

Review and agree bank and agency requirements and usage and control bank and agency spend.

Oversee recruitment processes and ensure they are adhered to in a timely manner.

Performance manages staff with direct responsibility for the continuous performance review/appraisal of Matron, Band 7 leads theatre practitioners

Matron, Band 7 leads in managing staff absence and report trends in sickness absence to the Head of Nursing.

Oversee the process of continuous performance review within the allocated area of responsibility.

Empower and enable staff to perform their roles effectively.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Registered nurse /ODP qualification
• Theatre Experience
• Significant years post registration
• Masters degree or equivalent experience
• Degree or equivalent clinical/advanced practice

Desirable criteria

• Evidence of post registration qualification
• Management Leadership Qualification

Experience

Essential criteria

• Clinical expertise relevant to the post
• Experience of managing staff
• Significant years' experience working at Band 8a or equivalent in an acute setting
• 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

Essential criteria

• A good understanding of the changing NHS environment
• 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

Desirable criteria

• Ability to work on service development projects

Personal Qualities

Essential criteria

• 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
• Able to work to tight deadlines and cope under pressure

We reserve the right to close the post before the stated closing date, please apply early. We do not contact applicants with the outcome of the shortlisting. If you have been shortlisted, you will receive an invite to an assessment day or interview.

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, not all roles will meet the criteria for a skilled worker visa.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Applicant requirements

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.

Documents to download

• candidate information pack (PDF, 853.7KB)
• Working at LGT (PDF, 4.2MB)
• Visa and Certificate of Sponsorship Information for Applicants (PDF, 3.8MB)