Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust

Frailty Matron – Integrated Frailty Team

The closing date is 01 September 2025

Job summary

Lead. Inspire. Champion Outstanding Care for Older People.

Are you an inspiring and forward-thinking nursing leader with a passion for delivering exceptional care in the community? Do you thrive on challenge, innovation, and making a real difference in people's lives?

We're looking for a Frailty Matron to join our vibrant and forward-thinking Integrated Frailty Team at Milford Community Hospital. In this pivotal role, you'll champion high-quality, personalised care for older people living with frailty, leading with compassion, confidence, and vision across urgent and community-based services.

Why This Role?This is it your chance to shape the future of care for older people across services including. This pivotal role in the integrated frailty team, you will manage the following service from a nursing perspective

Urgent Community Response (UCR),

Hospital @ Home,

Milford integrated care hub/OPAT,

Enhanced care practitioner

Intermediate care team.

You will be part of a close-knit leadership team, committed to delivering excellence and innovation in community care

Main duties of the job

What You'll Do:? Be the senior nursing voice across multidisciplinary teams, setting the tone for outstanding, evidence-based care.? Provide expert clinical, professional, and operational leadership.? Champion nursing development and professional growth.? Drive the safe, effective delivery of home-based care for older people living with frailty.? Contribute to strategic planning, service redesign, and exciting new projects.? Manage budgets, actively contributing to cost improvement programmes.

About us

Royal Surrey is a compassionate and collaborative acute and community Trust. Recognising that our 5000 colleagues are our greatest strength, we offer a comprehensive health and wellbeing program along with a commitment to developing and advancing your career. Our diverse and welcoming Royal Surrey family will ensure you that you feel valued from your initial interview through your entire tenure.

We are clinically led and provide joined up care by bridging the gap between hospital and community services alongside regional specialist cancer care. Our main acute hospital site is in Guildford with community hospital sites at Milford, Haslemere and Cranleigh. We provide adult community health services in homes across Guildford and Waverley.

The Care Quality Commission (CQC) have given us an overall rating of Outstanding.

Royal Surrey has a strong reputation and history to build on. We are proud of our achievements and we are investing in our colleagues through our commitment to supporting professional development as well as investing more than £45 million in our physical environment and new equipment in the next few years. There has never been a better time to join us.

Although it isn't the Trusts normal practice, adverts may close early, so you are encouraged to submit an application as soon as possible.

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Details

Date posted

22 August 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 8a

Salary

£57,888 to £64,880 a year Pro Rata Per Annum inc. HCAS

Contract

Fixed term

Duration

12 months

Working pattern

Part-time

Reference number

384-SB-EMF19036

Job locations

Milford Community Hospital

Tuesley Lane

Godalming

GU7 1UG


Job description

Job responsibilities

Why Join Us?You'll be based at Milford Community Hospital, as part of an innovative, friendly and enthusiastic community services management team.

This is an opportunity to lead with purpose, influence real change, and empower teams to deliver exceptional care for older people living with frailty, enabling them to remain well and independent in their own homes.

Are you ready to lead the way in community healthcare?Apply today and help shape a future of compassionate, high-quality care

For further information or to arrange an informal visit, please contact:Annette Cooteacoote@nhs.net

Interviews currently provisionally planned for the 11th September in the afternoon.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Why Join Us?You'll be based at Milford Community Hospital, as part of an innovative, friendly and enthusiastic community services management team.

This is an opportunity to lead with purpose, influence real change, and empower teams to deliver exceptional care for older people living with frailty, enabling them to remain well and independent in their own homes.

Are you ready to lead the way in community healthcare?Apply today and help shape a future of compassionate, high-quality care

For further information or to arrange an informal visit, please contact:Annette Cooteacoote@nhs.net

Interviews currently provisionally planned for the 11th September in the afternoon.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • RGN/RM (Adult) registration
  • Masters Degree or equivalent experience
  • Teaching/mentorship qualification
  • Evidence of Continuous Professional Development relevant to this role.

Desirable

  • Clinical Specialist qualification (or experience) in their area

Knowledge, Experience and Skills

Essential

  • Implementation of national nursing guidance and standards, and championing of good clinical practice
  • Implementing of Safety and Risk Management practices
  • Clinical competence, including administering drugs and I/V's
  • Design and implementation of patient care pathways
  • Extensive experience Band 7
  • Experience of managing and leading a team
  • Relevant experience within area
  • People Management

Desirable

  • Tier 1 and 2 Frailty Academy training
  • Good understanding of The Frailty Framework of Core Capabilities
Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • RGN/RM (Adult) registration
  • Masters Degree or equivalent experience
  • Teaching/mentorship qualification
  • Evidence of Continuous Professional Development relevant to this role.

Desirable

  • Clinical Specialist qualification (or experience) in their area

Knowledge, Experience and Skills

Essential

  • Implementation of national nursing guidance and standards, and championing of good clinical practice
  • Implementing of Safety and Risk Management practices
  • Clinical competence, including administering drugs and I/V's
  • Design and implementation of patient care pathways
  • Extensive experience Band 7
  • Experience of managing and leading a team
  • Relevant experience within area
  • People Management

Desirable

  • Tier 1 and 2 Frailty Academy training
  • Good understanding of The Frailty Framework of Core Capabilities

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

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).

Employer details

Employer name

Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Milford Community Hospital

Tuesley Lane

Godalming

GU7 1UG


Employer's website

https://www.royalsurrey.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)


Employer details

Employer name

Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Milford Community Hospital

Tuesley Lane

Godalming

GU7 1UG


Employer's website

https://www.royalsurrey.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)


Employer contact details

For questions about the job, contact:

ADO Nursing for Adult Community Services

Annette Coote

acoote@nhs.net

Details

Date posted

22 August 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 8a

Salary

£57,888 to £64,880 a year Pro Rata Per Annum inc. HCAS

Contract

Fixed term

Duration

12 months

Working pattern

Part-time

Reference number

384-SB-EMF19036

Job locations

Milford Community Hospital

Tuesley Lane

Godalming

GU7 1UG


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