Job summary
A fantastic leadership opportunity has arisen for an exceptional Senior Matron to join our Specialist Medicine directorate.
We're searching for a bold, inspiring, and highly visible nursing leader who thrives on driving change and championing outstanding patient-centred care. If you're passionate about shaping services, empowering teams, and setting the bar for clinical excellence, this is your moment.
In this pivotal role, you'll join a dynamic triumvirate leadership team, working collaboratively to influence quality outcomes, redesign pathways, and strengthen workforce development across a diverse and fast-moving directorate. Your voice, vision, and leadership will make a tangible impact every single day.
What you'll bring
- Active NMC or HCPC registration
- A track record of confident, compassionate clinical leadership
- Energy, innovation, and a commitment to delivering exceptional care
Base Location: Royal Bournemouth and Poole Hospital, cross site working will be required - with work predominately being based at Royal Bournemouth post July 2026
Main duties of the job
- As part of the senior nursing management team, the Senior Matron will:
- To contribute to the strategic direction of the care group, working in partnership with the directorate triumvirate and care group management team to ensure Trust objectives are met; aligned with the Trust values and behaviours in relation to workforce, service delivery, clinical quality and safety, and financial control.
- Lead on nursing care delivery for a designated directorate within the care group, bringing together all component parts to ensure improved patient experience, patient safety and clinical outcomes, target compliance and financial balance.
- To use tools and techniques to optimise use of resources against acuity and patient dependency models, making sure that establishments meet patient need to promote the best possible clinical and performance outcome and workforce safeguarding.
- Lead the quality governance portfolio within the designated directorate, supporting the improvement and strengthening of quality of care by working closely with local governance leads. This will include:-Clinical and non-clinical risk-Staff and patient complaints-Patient and user feedback and involvement/engagement-CQC compliance
- Support the Head of Nursing and Professions to implement the strategic nursing vision by ensuring nursing processes and decisions facilitate a 'patient first' philosophy and incorporate all aspects of the identified corporate nursing values.
About us
UHD are investing,developingand transforming Trust services in line with the New Hospital Programme. As part of this, some services may move site this year or next, either temporarily or permanently. Recruiting Managers will be happy to answer any service-specific questions at interview.
If a role or servicerelocatesas part of a planned move, excess mileage will not be reimbursed. Travel from home to the new work base will be classed as a normal commute. Any other changes will be managed under Trust or national terms and conditions.
UHD has active networks including Women's, BAME, Pride, EU, Pro Ability, and Armed Forces. We support Disability Confident and Armed Forces Covenant interview schemes.
AI tools may be used, but applications must honestly reflect your own skills and experience. Integrity is key to our recruitment process.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- To lead, develop, and continuously improve clinical care and serviceswithin a designated directorate in the care group, providing leadership and expertise to strategically influence and assure the provision of high quality, safe, and effective care to nursing staff, patients and the public.
- To provide clinical and professional leadership to assigned Matrons and specialist nursing/midwifery teams ensuring that action is taken at all levels to empower nurses/midwives to provide high standards of care in a safe environment.
- To act as a professional role model, demonstrating the trust vision and values and ensuring that staff work within regulatory, legal and trust policies and procedures in maintaining and improving standards utilising resources available.
- To be highly visible, accessible and an authoritative nursing/midwifery presence providing compassionate and professional assistance or advice to patients, carers and the workforce, spending at least 50% of rostered time in clinical practice.
- To proactively manage and lead the designated matrons and clinicalnurse specialists providing support, guidance and direction to achieve optimal effectiveness, clinical and financial outcomes.
- To champion strong collaboration across clinical pathways and support other care groups to maintain flow across the hospital and wider local system.
- To play a lead role within the designated directorate in the care group, ensuring the governance structure and processes are in place, that appropriate risk management and shared learning takes place, and that assurance of quality are provided to the care group. This will include being responsible for contributing to the strategic direction and implementation of the corporate objectives within the care group.
- To contribute to the delivery of Care Quality Commission (CQC)standards and to work with the Care Group Management Team to move the services to a continuously improving CQC rating.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- To lead, develop, and continuously improve clinical care and serviceswithin a designated directorate in the care group, providing leadership and expertise to strategically influence and assure the provision of high quality, safe, and effective care to nursing staff, patients and the public.
- To provide clinical and professional leadership to assigned Matrons and specialist nursing/midwifery teams ensuring that action is taken at all levels to empower nurses/midwives to provide high standards of care in a safe environment.
- To act as a professional role model, demonstrating the trust vision and values and ensuring that staff work within regulatory, legal and trust policies and procedures in maintaining and improving standards utilising resources available.
- To be highly visible, accessible and an authoritative nursing/midwifery presence providing compassionate and professional assistance or advice to patients, carers and the workforce, spending at least 50% of rostered time in clinical practice.
- To proactively manage and lead the designated matrons and clinicalnurse specialists providing support, guidance and direction to achieve optimal effectiveness, clinical and financial outcomes.
- To champion strong collaboration across clinical pathways and support other care groups to maintain flow across the hospital and wider local system.
- To play a lead role within the designated directorate in the care group, ensuring the governance structure and processes are in place, that appropriate risk management and shared learning takes place, and that assurance of quality are provided to the care group. This will include being responsible for contributing to the strategic direction and implementation of the corporate objectives within the care group.
- To contribute to the delivery of Care Quality Commission (CQC)standards and to work with the Care Group Management Team to move the services to a continuously improving CQC rating.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- 1st Level Registered nurse/Midwife/AHP on relevant part of the Register
- Accredited management/leadership training or evidence of practical application of expertise at this level
Experience
Essential
- Proven track record of operational management in the acute healthcare setting managing a ward / service/ department. Including staff, financial/budgetary and change management.
- Extensive experience in the acute healthcare setting in clinical leadership/clinical management position
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- 1st Level Registered nurse/Midwife/AHP on relevant part of the Register
- Accredited management/leadership training or evidence of practical application of expertise at this level
Experience
Essential
- Proven track record of operational management in the acute healthcare setting managing a ward / service/ department. Including staff, financial/budgetary and change management.
- Extensive experience in the acute healthcare setting in clinical leadership/clinical management position
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
