# Matron Care of the Elderly > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Barts Health NHS Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/matron-care-of-the-elderly/72c271fe-0e0f-4007-8743-ab9755b945b6 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/matron-care-of-the-elderly/72c271fe-0e0f-4007-8743-ab9755b945b6.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Barts Health NHS Trust - **Town:** London - **Region:** London - **Country:** England - **Profession:** Nurse (adult and children) - **Grade:** Band 8 - **Salary:** £63,665 - £70,887 per annum inc - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time, Flexible working, 37.5 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-06-21T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-06-05T13:42:40.418Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/London/London/Barts_Health_NHS_Trust/WXH_Medicine_Management/WXH_Medicine_Management-v8063092 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8063092?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.bartshealth.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### 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. ## Job Details 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 ## Job Description 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. ## 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. ## Person Specification ### Skills **Essential** - Excellent written and verbal communication skills - Formal presentation skills - Promotes, monitors and maintains best practice in health, safety and security **Desirable** - Audit skills - Clinical governance and risk management - Ability to interpret and analyse complex data and findings ### Experience **Essential** - Previous experience as Band 7 in acute care setting - Experience in staff / practice development including Policy development - Experience of leading a team to develop and deliver on action plans related to external organisations assessment ( eg CQC) **Desirable** - Previous experience of working as an 8a - Operational management experience in acute hospital setting - Teaching and education ### Specific requirements **Essential** - Respect privacy &dignity of an individual - Understands the implications of equal opportunities - Data collection and interpretation required - Able to delegate appropriately - Highly professional role model - Budgetary management skills - Skill mix and workforce planning **Desirable** - Thorough understanding of NHS improvement agenda - Business planning - Quality assurance and improvement - Developing policies and procedures ### Qualifications and Knowledge **Essential** - Comprehensive knowledge of acute nursing - Comprehensive knowledge of the role of the ward manager - Knowledge of clinical governance systems in the acute setting - Knowledge of safeguarding policies and procedures **Desirable** - Degree level registered nurse - Ability to study at Masters level (or working towards) - Leadership/management course - Post-registration qualification in a relative area of nursing practice ### People and people development **Essential** - Able to utilise ICT to full potential - Organisational skills - Decision making skills - Professional nursing issues - Able to manage time effectively - Able to prioritise objectives and workload **Desirable** - Human resource skills - Practice development - Clinical supervision ## Documents - [wxh bus route (pdf, 286.3kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10353555) - [job description (pdf, 614.8kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10353554) - [our values and behaviours (pdf, 334.9kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1119) - [candidate information pack (pdf, 549.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2446) - [policy statement on the recruitment of ex-offenders (pdf, 92.0kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1120) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.