Matron (INTERNAL)
The closing date is 19 March 2026
Job summary
***INTERNAL APPLICANTS ONLY***
To be responsible for leading the nursing workforce within identified Clinical Units (Clinical Site Managers, Discharge Lounge & Transport) to ensure the delivery of patient focussed high quality nursing care; to work across organisational boundaries to ensure services are patient responsive, ensuring the delivery of national and local strategic, operational service objectives and Trust Key Performance Indicators.
To take appropriate and effective action where any principles of care or professionalism fall below agreed, acceptable standards.
To be responsible for ensuring the efficient and effective day-to-day running of the Clinical Units, the management of designated staff and the delivery of key quality, and service improvements.
Main duties of the job
- Ensure proactive systems and processes for managing patient flow across all of the Trust sites.
- Work collaboratively as a cohesive team member to ensure effective management and leadership of the Clinical Site Manager Team, Discharge Lounge teams providing professional advice and leadership to the Patient Transport service. This is a senior leadership role and is focussed on the quality of patient experience through delivery of high quality, safe and effective care and the post holder will demonstrate the Trust CARE values and behaviours.
- Responsible for leading safe, resilient and consistent operational site management and facilitate safe and effective discharge in line with the Trust policies and procedures.
- Manage bed capacity and demand through the ED department supporting timely assessment, treatment and transfer.
- Provide a visible presence supporting and liaising with the key assessment areas to facilitate patient flow and improve flow through to the speciality base wards and improve the utilisation of the Patient Discharge Lounge.
About us
Wye Valley NHS Trust is a member of an NHS Foundation Group with South WarwickshireUniversity NHS FT, George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust and Worcestershire Acute NHS Hospitals Trust.
Located on the border with Wales in the shadow of the Black Mountains, we provide acute and community services across Herefordshire and into parts of Powys and run Hereford County Hospital and the community hospitals in Bromyard, Leominster and Ross-on-Wye.
We are a progressive and forward looking trust with ambitious plans to improve quality and integrate patient pathways through close collaborative working with our partners to deliver the quality of care wed want for our family and friends.
More than 3,000 people work for the Trust they tell us its a great place to work, blending the busyness of a DGH with the benefits of working in a beautiful rural and unspoilt county like Herefordshire.
We can offer a great work-life balance and have a fine tradition of working with staff to help them achieve their full potential.
Russell Hardy, Trust Chairman: "The strength of the Trust is its amazing staff; a great place to work, a great place to develop your career and a great place to reach your potential."
Our values -Care, Accountability, Respect and Excellence - are at the heart of all we do. We believe in providing the right care in the right place at the right time.
Details
Date posted
05 March 2026
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 8a
Salary
£55,690 to £62,682 a year pa pro rata
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-time, Flexible working
Reference number
229-MED-7815081
Job locations
Hereford County Hospital
Stonebow Rd
Hereford
HR1 2ER
Employer details
Employer name
Wye Valley NHS Trust
Address
Hereford County Hospital
Stonebow Rd
Hereford
HR1 2ER
Employer's website
https://www.wyevalley.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)
Employer contact details
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