Job summary
Matron - Acute Children and Young People Services
Division: Women, Children and Young People
Care Group: Children and Young People
Band: 8a
Salary: £53,755 - £60,504 per annum
Interview Date: 23rd July 2025
Are you ready to inspire and lead? We are offering an exciting opportunity for a passionate, forward thinking, enthusiastic and motivated Paediatric Nurse / Nurse with Paediatric experience who will be able to provide senior clinical leadership for our children and young peoples' services
You will bring with you a proven track record of managing people, transforming services and have experience in similar clinical environments.
Main duties of the job
Strategic & Operational Leadership: Provide strategic, operational, and clinical nursing leadership within the Children and Young Persons 's Services (CYP) Division, ensuring the consistent development and delivery of high-quality, efficient, and patient-centred nursing services.
Clinical Transformation: Lead and implement a clinical transformation programmes for CYP nursing, working collaboratively with the leadership team to drive service improvement and enhance patient outcomes.
Governance & Quality: Collaborate with the leadership team to uphold robust governance, maintain high patient quality and safety standards, and continuously improve the patient experience within the Division.
Strategic Service Development: Play a key role in shaping the future of CYP services, contributing to strategic planning and service innovation.
Our values are Bold,Every Person Counts, Sharing and Open and Together. It is important that you understand and to refer to our values when completing your application and always reflect our values throughout your employment with the Trust.
We are committed to endorsing diversity, multiculturalism, and inclusion; our policies /procedures ensure that all applicants are treated fairly at every stage of the recruitment process.
To contribute to our exciting future and become part of our team, apply today.
About us
Do you have the ambition and vision to deliver our mission of theBest of Care by the Best of People providing excellent care, every time?
Here at Medway, we pride ourselves on working together as one to ensure that our shared vision is achieved for our patients.
As a key partner in the healthcare of our local population, we are keen to deliver this as an outcome of our Trust-wide strategy - Patient First. Using an Operational Excellence approach to align our priorities and operational management structures, we are just over a year and half into our Patient First deployment. We are looking for creative, skilled people to join our Transformation Team and further support us on this journey.
Our culture and values define us here at Medway NHS Foundation Trust and are the heartbeat of who we are as an organisation.
Our BEST values underpin Patient First and are at the core of the care we give to our patients, the support we offer to our staff and our overall leadership approach:
B - Bold
E - Every person counts
S - Sharing and open
T - Together
Our Trust is a great choice for people who want to develop their career in an ambitious and dynamic environment; our employees are able to choose the coverage and supplemental benefits that best fit their needs and those of their families. This includes the promotion of flexible working opportunities across the Trust.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Key Responsibilities:
Strategic Leadership: Provide visible, professional leadership for Children and Young Peoples Services (CYP), fostering strong multidisciplinary collaboration and ensuring high-quality care.
Clinical Excellence & Patient Experience: Lead in setting and maintaining clinical standards, driving improvements in patient outcomes and experiences for children, young people, and their families.
Operational Management: Provide line management and professional leadership for CYP services.
Service Integration: Lead the interface between CYP services and other areas, ensuring seamless patient transitions.
Patient & Family Engagement: Champion the involvement of children and families in service development and environmental standards.
Quality Improvement: Lead by example and promote a culture of continuous quality improvement (CQI).
Visibility & Accessibility: Maintain a visible and accessible presence for staff, children, and families, ensuring their voices are heard.
Education & Training: Provide specialist education and training, ensuring staff compliance with mandatory training and revalidation.
Staff Wellbeing: Lead the Directorate's staff wellbeing initiatives.
Policy & Compliance: Develop and ensure compliance with CYP-related policies, procedures, and guidelines.
Performance Management: Identify and address issues related to poor performance, risks, and complaints.
Key Stakeholder: Serve as a key member of CYP Services
Pathway Coordination: Collaborate with other Matrons and leads to coordinate patient pathways across services.
Nursing Development: Provide guidance and support to nursing staff, facilitating the development of nursing practice.
Audit & Development: Conduct regular audits and training to identify and plan for service improvements.
Change Management: Support the leadership of CYP clinical areas to drive effective management and change.
Resource Management: Ensure efficient resource utilisation to meet agreed quality standards.
Workforce Management: Coordinate day-to-day nursing activities, ensuring adequate skill mix and staff cover.
Clinical Governance: Coordinate Clinical Governance activities with the Divisional Governance Manager and Leadership Team.
Deputising: Act as Head of Nursing when required.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Key Responsibilities:
Strategic Leadership: Provide visible, professional leadership for Children and Young Peoples Services (CYP), fostering strong multidisciplinary collaboration and ensuring high-quality care.
Clinical Excellence & Patient Experience: Lead in setting and maintaining clinical standards, driving improvements in patient outcomes and experiences for children, young people, and their families.
Operational Management: Provide line management and professional leadership for CYP services.
Service Integration: Lead the interface between CYP services and other areas, ensuring seamless patient transitions.
Patient & Family Engagement: Champion the involvement of children and families in service development and environmental standards.
Quality Improvement: Lead by example and promote a culture of continuous quality improvement (CQI).
Visibility & Accessibility: Maintain a visible and accessible presence for staff, children, and families, ensuring their voices are heard.
Education & Training: Provide specialist education and training, ensuring staff compliance with mandatory training and revalidation.
Staff Wellbeing: Lead the Directorate's staff wellbeing initiatives.
Policy & Compliance: Develop and ensure compliance with CYP-related policies, procedures, and guidelines.
Performance Management: Identify and address issues related to poor performance, risks, and complaints.
Key Stakeholder: Serve as a key member of CYP Services
Pathway Coordination: Collaborate with other Matrons and leads to coordinate patient pathways across services.
Nursing Development: Provide guidance and support to nursing staff, facilitating the development of nursing practice.
Audit & Development: Conduct regular audits and training to identify and plan for service improvements.
Change Management: Support the leadership of CYP clinical areas to drive effective management and change.
Resource Management: Ensure efficient resource utilisation to meet agreed quality standards.
Workforce Management: Coordinate day-to-day nursing activities, ensuring adequate skill mix and staff cover.
Clinical Governance: Coordinate Clinical Governance activities with the Divisional Governance Manager and Leadership Team.
Deputising: Act as Head of Nursing when required.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Children's Nurse on the NMC register
- BSc / 1st degree (health-related) and evidence of working towards MSc with a post-graduate qualification or MSc qualification or equivalent qualification/ experience
- Mentorship / teaching qualification
- Evidence of ongoing continuing professional development in relevant area of speciality supplemented by specialist clinical, managerial training and CPD
- Management qualification or equivalent experience
- Broad clinical experience relevant to the post
Knowledge
Essential
- Ability to be intellectually flexible and to look beyond existing structures, ways of working, boundaries and organisations to produce more effective and innovative service delivery and partnerships
- Ability to think and plan strategically, tactically and creatively, and to prioritise work programs in the face of competing demands
- Able to demonstrate sound safeguarding children knowledge, able to recognise concerns, escalate them appropriately and ensure other ward staffs do the same in line with Trust policy
- Sound political judgement and astuteness in understanding and working with complex policy and diverse interest groups and common sense in knowing when to brief "up the line"
Experience
Essential
- Demonstrable previous success in leading and delivering change and performance with and through clinical teams, by engaging them in the strategic direction and delivery plans, establishing clear work priorities with them, delegating effectively, ensuring a capability to deliver, monitoring performance and giving feedback
- Demonstrable previous success in leading and delivering change and performance with and through clinical teams, by engaging them in the strategic direction and delivery plans, establishing clear work priorities with them, delegating effectively, ensuring a capability to deliver, monitoring performance and giving feedback
- Proven ability to analyse complex problems and to develop and successfully implement practical and workable solutions to address them
- A strong sense of personal and team accountability coupled with a clear understanding of the boundaries around delegated authority
- Ability to collaborate constructively with internal and external partners to create the conditions for successful partnership working
Skills
Essential
- Ability to be intellectually flexible and to look beyond existing structures, ways of working, boundaries and organisations to produce more effective and innovative service delivery and partnerships
- Ability to think and plan strategically, tactically and creatively, and to prioritise work programs in the face of competing
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Children's Nurse on the NMC register
- BSc / 1st degree (health-related) and evidence of working towards MSc with a post-graduate qualification or MSc qualification or equivalent qualification/ experience
- Mentorship / teaching qualification
- Evidence of ongoing continuing professional development in relevant area of speciality supplemented by specialist clinical, managerial training and CPD
- Management qualification or equivalent experience
- Broad clinical experience relevant to the post
Knowledge
Essential
- Ability to be intellectually flexible and to look beyond existing structures, ways of working, boundaries and organisations to produce more effective and innovative service delivery and partnerships
- Ability to think and plan strategically, tactically and creatively, and to prioritise work programs in the face of competing demands
- Able to demonstrate sound safeguarding children knowledge, able to recognise concerns, escalate them appropriately and ensure other ward staffs do the same in line with Trust policy
- Sound political judgement and astuteness in understanding and working with complex policy and diverse interest groups and common sense in knowing when to brief "up the line"
Experience
Essential
- Demonstrable previous success in leading and delivering change and performance with and through clinical teams, by engaging them in the strategic direction and delivery plans, establishing clear work priorities with them, delegating effectively, ensuring a capability to deliver, monitoring performance and giving feedback
- Demonstrable previous success in leading and delivering change and performance with and through clinical teams, by engaging them in the strategic direction and delivery plans, establishing clear work priorities with them, delegating effectively, ensuring a capability to deliver, monitoring performance and giving feedback
- Proven ability to analyse complex problems and to develop and successfully implement practical and workable solutions to address them
- A strong sense of personal and team accountability coupled with a clear understanding of the boundaries around delegated authority
- Ability to collaborate constructively with internal and external partners to create the conditions for successful partnership working
Skills
Essential
- Ability to be intellectually flexible and to look beyond existing structures, ways of working, boundaries and organisations to produce more effective and innovative service delivery and partnerships
- Ability to think and plan strategically, tactically and creatively, and to prioritise work programs in the face of competing
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).
