Go back
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust

Clinical Matron Emergency Department

The closing date is 26 April 2026

Apply for this job

Job summary

Clinical Matron, Emergency Department

Frimley Park Hospital

The Clinical Matron for the Emergency Department is a senior nursing leader responsible for delivering safe, effective, and high-quality patient care within a fast-paced, complex environment. The postholder will provide visible, compassionate leadership, acting as a professional role model and ensuring consistently high standards of clinical practice and patient experience.

Working within the ED leadership team, the Clinical Matron will support and develop multidisciplinary staff, promoting a culture of accountability, continuous improvement, and patient-centred care. They will have operational oversight of the department, including patient flow, workforce deployment, and performance against key targets.

The role includes leading on quality, safety, and governance, ensuring compliance with national standards and regulatory requirements, including those of the Care Quality Commission. The postholder will contribute to service development, incident management, and clinical audit.

In addition, the Clinical Matron will lead workforce development, supporting education, wellbeing, and retention to maintain a skilled and resilient team.

Main duties of the job

  • Provide strategic and operational leadership for nursing and clinical support staff in the ED.
  • Ensure consistently high standards of patient safety, quality, and experience.
  • Lead workforce planning, rostering, recruitment, and retention to maintain a resilient and skilled workforce.
  • Promote a culture of continuous improvement, professional development, and accountability.
  • Work collaboratively with multidisciplinary teams to support flow, performance targets (e.g., 4-hour standard), and service transformation.
  • Act as the professional lead for nursing governance, safeguarding, infection prevention, and regulatory compliance.

About us

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme. We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available.

Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too.

We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users.

Frimley Health Trust benefits on Vimeo

Details

Date posted

17 April 2026

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 8a

Salary

£59,798 to £67,020 a year per annum incl HCAS

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

151-KMU445

Job locations

Frimley Park Hospital

Portsmouth Road

Frimley

GU16 7UJ


Job description

Job responsibilities

For a full list of responsibilities and tasks associated with this role, please refer to the job description/person specification attached to this vacancy.

Job description

Job responsibilities

For a full list of responsibilities and tasks associated with this role, please refer to the job description/person specification attached to this vacancy.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Educated to degree level or working towards
  • NMC Registration
  • Extensive post registration emergency qualifications

Desirable

  • Educated to master's degree level

Experience

Essential

  • Significant experience at senior clinical/managerial level in emergency medicine
  • Some NHS experience at a Band 7

Desirable

  • In-depth experience in a variety of hospital units
  • Involvement in clinical audit and/or research

Skills & Knowledge

Essential

  • Understands the concepts of clinical governance and shared governance including evidence-based practice and critical appraisal of research findings
  • Demonstrates knowledge of effective risk management
  • Knowledge of current NHS issues including performance targets and the wider health economy
  • Knowledge and experience of management models, implementing change and/or new clinical practices and current professional issues
  • Understand principles of effective budgetary management and demonstrate experience of managing budgets

Special requirements

Essential

  • Flexible working hours including unsocial hours and bank holidays
  • Able to travel between sites
Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Educated to degree level or working towards
  • NMC Registration
  • Extensive post registration emergency qualifications

Desirable

  • Educated to master's degree level

Experience

Essential

  • Significant experience at senior clinical/managerial level in emergency medicine
  • Some NHS experience at a Band 7

Desirable

  • In-depth experience in a variety of hospital units
  • Involvement in clinical audit and/or research

Skills & Knowledge

Essential

  • Understands the concepts of clinical governance and shared governance including evidence-based practice and critical appraisal of research findings
  • Demonstrates knowledge of effective risk management
  • Knowledge of current NHS issues including performance targets and the wider health economy
  • Knowledge and experience of management models, implementing change and/or new clinical practices and current professional issues
  • Understand principles of effective budgetary management and demonstrate experience of managing budgets

Special requirements

Essential

  • Flexible working hours including unsocial hours and bank holidays
  • Able to travel between sites

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Additional information

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Frimley Park Hospital

Portsmouth Road

Frimley

GU16 7UJ


Employer's website

https://www.fhft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details

Employer name

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Frimley Park Hospital

Portsmouth Road

Frimley

GU16 7UJ


Employer's website

https://www.fhft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer contact details

For questions about the job, contact:

Head of Nursing

Angela Ballard

angela.ballard@nhs.net

07944988289

Details

Date posted

17 April 2026

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 8a

Salary

£59,798 to £67,020 a year per annum incl HCAS

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

151-KMU445

Job locations

Frimley Park Hospital

Portsmouth Road

Frimley

GU16 7UJ


Supporting documents

Privacy notice

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust's privacy notice (opens in a new tab)