Matron-Paediatrics
The closing date is 06 August 2025
Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a confident highly motivated and inspirational Senior Nurse to join our Paediatric department, you must possess strong leadership qualities and have a passion to foster a culture which values the delivery of high-quality care for children and young people.
As a professional lead you will be expected to demonstrate excellent communication, organisational skills as well as leading, supporting education, ensuring clinical quality standards are achieved and influencing and leading change.
The post offers an opportunity to develop and shape the paediatric department and to work alongside the other Paediatric Matrons.
Reporting to the Divisional Nurse director for Woman's and Children's division, ensuring we are delivering high quality care for children and young people.
The role of Matron is essential to the success of the care pathways in influencing and working with the multidisciplinary and management teams and leading the Nursing workforce to provide a quality service essential to a positive patient experience. Your key role will be to ensure clinical quality standards are achieved by providing inspirational and visible clinical leadership to the nursing teams. The role is based within an acute hospital setting but as patient pathways and services develop, further links may need to be forged outside of the acute hospitals.
Main duties of the job
To carry out this challenging role, you will provide leadership and direction and will be expected to have experience of managing operational services, workforce, and education issues. This role will include overall day-to-day responsibility, visible leadership for the nursing teams whilst ensuring efficient and effective management of complex operational and professional issues to ensure high quality, safe clinical care, and patient experience.
This role will include overall day-to-day responsibility for the nursing teams whilst ensuring efficient and effective management of complex operational and professional issues to ensure high quality, safe clinical care and patient experience.
We are looking for proven clinical experience and a passionate, committed, flexible and enthusiastic individual who can lead in delivering high quality patient care, who is equipped with excellent interpersonal and leadership skills.
The post does involve cross-site working at all UHDB Hospitals and provides an excellent career development for aspiring Senior Nurses who are looking to strengthen their leadership and management experience and professional portfolio.
If you are applying for an Internal Secondment, please ensure you have spoken to your line manager and have their support prior to your application. Please speak to the Recruitment Team if you have any question
Closing date of applications: 6 August 2025
Date of interview: 20 August 2025
About us
As a trusted organisation at the heart of our communities, we recognise the important role we can play in supporting the public, patients, our own people and local partners in achieving the best of health for the local population and the communities in which they live by providing Exceptional Care Together
Our fundamental Values of Compassion, Openness and Excellence underpin how we intend to work as a Trust and the associated behaviours are becoming embedded in all aspects of how we work.
In return we will offer:
- Development opportunities, including both professional and leadership development
- On-going support through every step of the way from recruitment to when you join our team and beyond.
- A variety of other staff benefits including employee assistance programme, discounted gym membership, onsite fitness classes, car schemes
Key Facts about our Trust:
- Our hospitals see more than 4,000 outpatients daily
- We see more Trauma & Orthopaedic outpatients than any other Trust - over 3,300 per week
- An average 860 patients are seen in A&E every day - 6th largest in the country
- Our hospitals admit more than 220 emergency patients daily.
- We carry out more planned surgical operations than any other Trust in England with almost 50,000 operations taking place in our 52 operating theatres
- We are one of only 5 Trusts nationally with more than 50 operating theatres
- We carry out more than 300 elective procedures each working day
Details
Date posted
23 July 2025
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 8a
Salary
£55,690 to £62,682 a year pa
Contract
Secondment
Working pattern
Full-time
Reference number
320-W&C-1062
Job locations
Royal Derby Hospital
Uttoxeter Rd
Derby
DE22 3NE
Employer details
Employer name
University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Royal Derby Hospital
Uttoxeter Rd
Derby
DE22 3NE
Employer's website
https://www.uhdb.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)
Employer contact details
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