Matron Care of the Elderly

Job overview

This is an exciting opportunity to provide strategic oversight and leadership across our diverse medical wards, which include Frailty, Older People Services, End of Life Care, Respiratory, Cardiology, Gastroenterology, General Medicine, and Stroke. The role also involves some outpatient activity, offering a varied and rewarding portfolio.

What the Role Involves

As a Matron, you will:

• Deliver high-quality, patient-centred care and uphold clinical governance standards across the division.
• Lead, support, and develop nursing teams, focusing on professional growth and staff wellbeing.
• Provide visible, compassionate leadership, empowering ward managers and team leaders to deliver excellence.
• Contribute to the division’s operational and strategic goals, including quality improvement, patient safety, and efficiency metrics.
• Work clinically for at least 50% of your time, maintaining your expertise and credibility as a nursing leader.

What We’re Looking For

• A registered nurse with proven leadership experience, ideally at Band 7 or above in an acute care setting.
• Strong knowledge of clinical governance, safeguarding, and acute nursing practice.
• Demonstrated ability to lead teams in delivering safe, compassionate, and efficient care.
• Commitment to professional development, both personally and for your teams.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to engage with multidisciplinary teams and external stakeholders

Main duties of the job

This role provides key strategic oversight for our Medical Wards at Whipps Cross Hospital. The post holder provides innovative clinical and professional leadership to nursing at all levels within the service group, ensuring nursing care is delivered to a high standard and the nursing resource is managed effectively. This will be achieved by the post holder supporting ward managers running the directorate wards. The role will be supportive of nursing leads in these areas in their delivery of safe and compassionate care. The post holder is responsible for maintaining the standards as identified by the Care Quality Commission and other regulatory bodies are maintained supporting quality improvement projects with the ward sister/charge nurse and support the multidisciplinary team to take forward the directorate’s quality and safety agenda. This post combines clinical expertise, leadership and educational/research skills with managerial and professional responsibilities.

Detailed job description and main 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 knowledge required. For both documents, please view the attachment/s below.