Theatre Matron / Manager

University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust; East Midlands; On-site; GBP 57,000 - 65,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working arrangements

Clear DBS/check support

Job summary

University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Theatre Matron/Manager to join the Anaesthetics and Theatres Business Unit, overseeing pre-operative assessment and large teams. The role requires extensive theatre clinical experience and strong leadership to improve patient care and resource utilisation.

The post is permanent and offers opportunities for development, with emphasis on wellbeing and staff satisfaction within a busy, high-demand surgical environment.

Qualifications

• Significant leadership experience.
• Experience in people management.
• Experience mentoring and developing staff and teams.
• Clinical theatre experience in operating environments.
• Experience in multidisciplinary teams.

Responsibilities

• Ensure staff practice in line with policies and theatre department standards.
• Monitor quality and timeliness of patient care.
• Maintain safe, clean, well-organised care environments.

Skills

Leadership

Budget management

Change management

Communication skills

Clinical theatre experience

Education

HCPC or NMC registration

Level 6 study evidence

Tools

Theatre qualifications

Job description

Site Royal Derby Hospital/ Queens Hospital Burton Town Derby Salary £57,528 - £64,750 pro rata pa Salary period Yearly Closing 05/10/2026 23:59 Interview date 19/10/2026

As a trusted organisation at the heart of our communities, we recognise the important role we can play in supporting the public, patients, our own people and local partners in achieving the best of health for the local population and the communities in which they live by providing Exceptional Care Together.

Our fundamental Values of Compassion, Openness and Excellence underpin how we intend to work as a Trust and the associated behaviours are becoming embedded in all aspects of how we work.

With over 14,000 members of staff you can expect huge variety and new opportunities every day! Our staff go above and beyond and take pride in caring for our patients.

University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust is fully committed to promoting inclusion, equality, diversity and human rights in employment and delivery of its services. The Trust is committed to providing an environment where all employees, patients, carers and visitors experience equality of opportunity by means of understanding and appreciating the value of diversity.

As a Trust we promote an inclusive environment and welcome applications from a diverse pool of talent and backgrounds. All individuals are valued and given every opportunity to succeed based on merit.

The Trust actively encourages applications from members of our Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic communities. These groups are under-represented in our organisation, and it’s important to us that our workforce reflects the diversity of our communities as much as possible.

Armed Forces and Disability Confident guaranteed interview scheme

To further support the pledges in the Armed Forces Covenant and to make a positive contribution to support ex-armed forces personnel (veterans) make the transition to civilian life, the Trust has introduced a Guaranteed Interview Scheme for veterans who meets the essential criteria set out in the person specification, to help them overcome barriers to find civilian employment. The scheme will operate for all external recruitment.

The Trust is a Disability Confident Employer and committed to both employing and retaining people with disabilities. This commitment is to guarantee an interview for any candidate that has disclosed a disability under the Equality Act 2010 and who meets the essential criteria set out in the person specification. Reasonable adjustments under the Equality Act 2010 will be considered upon request.

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The Trust is proud to be a signatory of the Care Leavers Covenant and is committed to supporting care-experienced people into employment.

Applicants who identify as a care leaver and who meet the essential criteria for the role, as detailed in the person specification, will be guaranteed an interview.

Join us and help make a real difference to our Trust.

Here’s more about the role and what we’re looking for;

Job overview

The UHDB (University Hospitals of Derby and Burton)Anaesthetics and Theatres Business Unit is pleased to be able to offer a permanent position as a Theatre Matron/ Manager to join the current team of theatre matrons, expanding to oversee pre operative assessment.

The successful candidate will have significant experience and knowledge of working clinically in an operating theatre environment as well as managing large teams and budgets. They should be passionate about delivering high quality patient care, supporting well being and job satisfaction in our teams and effective utilisation of resources.

The successful candidate must be either a Senior Registered Nurse or ODP. They will possess excellent communication skills and a strong leadership background. They will have demonstrable record of effecting change in a busy and dynamic environment.

Main duties of the job

This role is accountable through their teams for :

• Ensuring that all staff in areas of responsibility practice in accordance with statutory and corporate policies, including those specific to operating departments including relevant day case wards and recovery services.
• Overseeing and monitoring the quality and timeliness of patient care in accordance with relevant professional standards
• Ensuring that the environments in which patients receive care and treatment are fit for purpose, clean, well ordered and maintained.

Closing date of applications: 5th October 2026

Interview date: 19th October 2026

Working for our organisation

As a trusted organisation at the heart of our communities, we recognise the important role we can play in supporting the public, patients, our own people and local partners in achieving the best of health for the local population and the communities in which they live by providing Exceptional Care Together

Our fundamental Values of Compassion, Openness and Excellence underpin how we intend to work as a Trust and the associated behaviours are becoming embedded in all aspects of how we work.

In return we will offer:

• Development opportunities, both professional and leadership development
• On-going support from recruitment to when you join our team and beyond.
• Staff benefits including employee assistance programme, discounted gym membership, onsite fitness classes, car schemes

Key Facts:

• We see on average 4810 OP appointments a day.
• We are the 4th busiest Trauma & Orthopaedic outpatients department in England – an average of 2077 per week.
• An average of 1115 patients are seen in A&Es across our network every day – 3rd largest in the country.
• Our hospitals admit an average of 195 emergency patients daily.
• Last year we undertook almost 33,700 planned surgical operations in our 57 operating theatres.
• We are one of only 7 Trusts nationally with more than 50 operating theatres.
• We carry out more than 140 elective procedures each working day.
• UHDB is a research active University Hospital with a large and varied portfolio of clinical trials and research opportunities for all staff.

Person specification

Experience

• Significant experience in a leadership role
• Demonstrable experience of people management
• Experience of mentoring and developing staff and teams
• Experience of working clinically in a theatre environment
• Experience of working with other staff groups and in a multidisciplinary team

Qualifications & Knowledge

• HCPC or NMC registration
• Evidence of study and achievement at Level 6
• Evidence of recent relevant CPD
• Has knowledge of quality and assurance metrics
• Holds a recognised theatre qualification

Skills

• Ability to manage complex situations
• Ability to manage budgets
• Ability to effectively manage change

Our Trust aims to provide the highest quality care to patients within Derbyshire and South East Staffordshire and we want the very best people to work with us.

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IMPORTANT INFORMATION

At UHDB , we offer different ways to work flexibly to each and every one of our colleagues, many of whom already work flexibly at all sites of the Trust.

For our roles we are open to discussing the possibility of part-time/ reduced hours/ compressed hours/ flexible start and finish times/ fixed/flexible shifts/annualised hours/ term time hours/ hybrid working – working partly in the trust/partly at home.

Why don’t you talk to us at interview about the flexibility you would like to explore and what it means to you, and we will discuss what’s possible for the job and team, and the opportunities we might be able to create together.

We can’t promise to give you exactly what you want, but we do promise to work with you to look at all the available options.

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