Job summary
The Matron for Orthopaedics and Plastic Surgery will provide clinical and professional leadership to nursing teams, ensuring the delivery of high-quality, patient centered care. This role involves managing the day to day nursing service, influencing strategic direction, and contributing to service development in line with patient needs and organizational objectives. The post holder will collaborate closely with service leads, consultants, and multidisciplinary teams to ensure safe, effective care delivery while driving continuous improvement and innovation.
Main duties of the job
- Leadership & Management: Provide clinical and professional leadership to nursing teams, ensuring that nursing staff are supported, competent, and able to deliver high-quality care across orthopaedic and plastic surgery services.
- Strategic Development: Collaborate with service leads and consultants to shape the strategic direction of the service, contributing to the achievement of corporate objectives.
- Service Improvement & Innovation: Lead service improvement initiatives, implementing change management processes to modernize nursing roles and enhance patient care.
- Patient Centered Care: Ensure that care delivery is patient-focused, safe, and effective, while maintaining a high level of clinical expertise in orthopaedics and plastic surgery.
- Collaboration & Governance: Work with multidisciplinary teams, external organizations, and stakeholders to ensure effective governance, quality standards, and compliance are met.
- Staff Development: Oversee the development and mentorship of the nursing team, fostering professional growth and ensuring clinical competence.
- Operational Management: Take responsibility for the day-to-day management of nursing services, including staffing, budgeting, and resource allocation.
- Visibility & Accessibility: Be visible and accessible to staff, patients, and visitors, ensuring a supportive environment where nursing staff are well-equipped to perform their roles.
About us
Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain's leading healthcare providers.
The Barts Health group of NHS hospitals is entering an exciting new era on our improvement journey to becoming an outstanding organisation with a world-class clinical reputation. Having lifted ourselves out of special measures, we now have the impetus and breathing space to chart a fresh course in which we are continually striving to improve all our services for patients.
Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time. It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.
We strive to live by our WeCare values and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience, and knowledgerequired. For both documents, please view the attachment/s below.
We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and minority ethnic candidates as they are underrepresented within Barts Health at this band.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience, and knowledgerequired. For both documents, please view the attachment/s below.
We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and minority ethnic candidates as they are underrepresented within Barts Health at this band.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- oExperience at Band 7 or above within an Acute Care Environment within Orthopaedics and Plastic surgery
- oEffective budgetary management experience
- oHas previous experience of successfully introducing change
- oHas previous experience of managing a variety of clinical nursing teams
Desirable
- oPrevious Experience as Matron
- oExperience in preparing for CQC inspection
Skills
Essential
- oAbility to build good relationships with the multi-disciplinary teams
- oAbility to write and implement policy & other documents
- oAbility to manage and develop successful teams
- oHuman Resource and employee relations Skills
Desirable
- oBudgetary management skills
- oCoaching skills or experience
Qualifications
Essential
- oRegistered Nurse Adult
- oEvidence of continued professional Development
- oEducated to Degree Level
Desirable
- oLeadership Course or Development Programme
- oManagement qualification
- oEducated to Masters level or for completion within 24 months of appointment
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- oExperience at Band 7 or above within an Acute Care Environment within Orthopaedics and Plastic surgery
- oEffective budgetary management experience
- oHas previous experience of successfully introducing change
- oHas previous experience of managing a variety of clinical nursing teams
Desirable
- oPrevious Experience as Matron
- oExperience in preparing for CQC inspection
Skills
Essential
- oAbility to build good relationships with the multi-disciplinary teams
- oAbility to write and implement policy & other documents
- oAbility to manage and develop successful teams
- oHuman Resource and employee relations Skills
Desirable
- oBudgetary management skills
- oCoaching skills or experience
Qualifications
Essential
- oRegistered Nurse Adult
- oEvidence of continued professional Development
- oEducated to Degree Level
Desirable
- oLeadership Course or Development Programme
- oManagement qualification
- oEducated to Masters level or for completion within 24 months of appointment
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).
