Matron - Nottingham Children\'s Hospital

Employer Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust Employer type NHS Site Nottingham Children\’s Hospital, Queens Medical Center Town Nottingham Salary £55,690 – £62,682 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 12/02/2026 23:59

Matron – Nottingham Children\’s Hospital

Band 8a

Job overview

Your skills and talents as a Leader will help ensure our children, young people and families receive the unparalleled quality care they deserve and in return, you’ll find a rewarding career full of opportunity. When you work at NUH, you’re not just helping families – you’re part of one too. As an applicant for the Matron role you must be able to demonstrate multidisciplinary team working; exhibit strong communication and leadership skills. You should have some experience of leading larger scale change, innovation, staff and service development in line with our Children’s Hospital Nursing strategy, to deliver outstanding care, every time.

Nottingham Children\’s Hospital were the first Children’s Hospital across Europe to be accredited with Pathway to Excellence. This is an exciting time to become a pivotal member of our team.

This role is for a Matron to lead our General Medical pathways within the newly restructured Children\’s Hospital. If you are looking for the next challenge in your career, this is an exciting opportunity for you.

Main duties of the job

In addition to the below summary you need to familiarize yourself with full Job Description and Person Specification documents attached to this advert.

As a Matron across Nottingham Children\’s’ Hospital, you will provide day-to-day operational, clinical, professional leadership and support for nursing, maintaining quality focused standards as well as linking with other healthcare professionals throughout the services to ensure we continue to provide excellent care to our Children, Young People and their Families / Carers.

We are seeking an experienced, dynamic, and highly motivated individual with experience in leading and managing children and young people\\\’s surgical pathways.

Working for our organisation

‘With over 19,000 staff, we are one of the biggest employers in the city with a central role in supporting the health and wellbeing of our local population. We play a leading role in research, education and innovation.

We particularly welcome applications from people who identify as Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic, or Disabled, as we are striving to be better represented at NUH.’

Nottingham Children\’s Hospital were recently designated the first Children\’s Hospital across Europe to be re-accredited with Pathway to Excellence. This is an exciting time to become a pivotal member of our team as we move onwards with our journey of care excellence. You will be supported in your role by the Lead Nurse for Nottingham Children\’s Hospital, the Deputy and Divisional Nurse for Family Health.

As well as delivering the highest standards of care to children, young people, their families and carers, Nottingham Children\’s Hospital are committed to developing and investing in you and your personnel and professional development, giving individual staff access and choices to progress in leadership, specialist, clinical academic and other roles. You will be joining a team of highly skilled professionals with a positive work ethic and great team ethos.

If you’re thinking of joining us and would require support with relocating please contact us for a discussion.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please note this is an overview and not an exhaustive list of the job description and main responsibilities

Provide responsive, compassionate, inclusive leadership and management to promote the highest standards of clinical care, patient safety and experience.

Ensure compliance with prevention and control of infections, monitoring cleaning of the environment.

Workforce management, finance and budgeting

Ensuring the highest quality education and development of nursing staff across the services.

To act as a resource , providing advice on professional nursing issues in relation to clinical interventions, policies and protocols, service delivery and service development

To ensure that appropriate resources are in place to support the delivery of high quality services within areas of responsibility

Person specification

Commitment to Trust Values

• Must be able to demonstrate behaviours consistent with the Trust\’s \”We are here for you\” behavioural standards

Training & Qualifications

• Registered with appropriate regulatory body (NMC. HPC, GMC)
• First degree or equivalent in health-related subject
• Evidence of CPD
• Recognised teaching qualification

Experience

• Experience of leading and delivering programmes of change
• Experience of working with patient groups
• Significant post registration experience including management and leadership experience
• Able to provide specialised advice concerning patient care
• Knowledge of budgets/financial control
• Involvement in business planning
• Clinical governance
• Knowledge of complaints management
• Excellent communications skills, written and oral
• Ability to build successful teams
• Ability to influence and motivate staff to deliver challenging targets
• Strong leadership qualities
• Able to motivate and support others and encourage effective team working
• Understands the importance of confidentiality and dealing with sensitive information
• Excellent problem solving skills using team when appropriate
• Able to present and receive complex information within the multi professional team
• Experience of audit and audit tools

Planning/organisational skills

• Ability to prioritise own workload and maintain consistent standards
• Demonstrates strong organisational skills and abilities
• Ability to work on own initiative but also as part of a team
• Ability to plan strategies which impact positively across the service.
• Understanding of pro-active performance management within a large clinical area

Physical Skills

• IT skills to manage and report on complex performance management information
• Adaptable and flexible
• Positive, enthusiastic and motivated
• Confident

Other Role Requirements

• Ability to travel across sites
• Ability to participate on a on call rota

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Come and join our wonderful team at NUH. We are big believers in diversity and welcome new ideas to help develop our team in order to deliver world class healthcare to the vast patient populations we serve. With endless personal development opportunities available, at the NUH we will endeavour to turn your job into a career!

We particularly welcome applications from people who identify as Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic, or Disabled, as we are striving to be better represented at NUH.

Applicants are kindly requested to refrain from using AI at any stage during the recruitment process.

Closing Dates: Please submit your application form as soon as possible to avoid disappointment; we reserve the right to close vacancies prior to the published closing date if we receive a sufficient number of completed application forms.

Communication: All communication related to your application will be via the email address you have provided. Please ensure you check your email account including your junk email regularly.

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If you are aged 16 or 17 and applying for a role that is more than 20 hours a week, please be aware that you will be asked to commence an Apprenticeship within the Trust alongside your role, as long as there is a suitable apprenticeship standard available. This is in line with the current guidance in England that whilst young people under the age of 18 can leave school (on the last Friday in June) they must then do one of the following:

• Stay in full-time education, for example at a college
• Start an Apprenticeship
• Spend 20 hours of more a week working or volunteering, while in part-time education or training

Salary: The quoted salary will be on a pro rata basis for part time workers.

Disability Confidence: All applicants who have declared a disability and who meet the essential criteria for the post will be shortlisted.

At Risk of redundancy: NHS employees within the East Midlands who are ‘at risk’ of redundancy will be given a preferential interview where they meet the essential criteria of the person specification.

ID and Right to work checks : NUH authenticate ID and right to work documentation including passports and driving licenses through a system called Trust ID. NUH will scan your ID and right to work documentation in to the Trust ID system at your face to face ID appointment. The system will run a check against the key security features within your documentation. The system will provide us with an outcome of your check which will be stored securely on your personal file along with all other pre-employment check documentation.

Consent:

• Transfer of information: If I have previous NHS service – I consent to the transfer of my Electronic Staff Record (ESR) data between this and other NHS Trusts. I also consent to the Occupational Health Department confidentially accessing my occupational health records from my current or previous employer in order to check the status of my vaccinations, immunisations s and screening tests as relevant to the post. I understand this is an automated process and the information will only be used for these purposes prior to me taking up the position at NUH.
• Disclosure and Barring Service: Your post maybe subject to a DBS check which incur a cost dependent on the level of check required (£49.50 for enhanced and £21.50 for standard). I agree to reimburse Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust the cost of a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check if it is required (by deduction from first month’s pay). Should I decide to withdraw from my job offer, I agree to reimburse Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust the cost of the DBS check undertaken by cheque or other agreed method.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.