# Matron Family Health Division > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/matron-family-health-division/55c541b3-6acd-4f80-8765-f7c89451f469 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/matron-family-health-division/55c541b3-6acd-4f80-8765-f7c89451f469.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust - **Town:** Warwick - **Region:** Midlands - **Country:** England - **Profession:** Nurse (adult and children) - **Grade:** Band 8 - **Salary:** £57,528 - £64,750 per annum - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Part time - 30 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-07-12T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-06-30T12:00:21.414Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Warwickshire/Warwick/South_Warwickshire_University_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Matron/Matron-v8080927 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8080927?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.swft.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview This is an exciting time to join our Matron team here at South Warwickshire Foundation Trust. You will be leading our services in Women's health encompassing our Female  Surgical Ward, and our dynamic Women's health outpatients area. We are looking for a dynamic and experienced leader to join our well established leadership team within the Family Health Division . You will support a speciality triumvirate in the delivery of excellent, compassionate care whilst maintaining high professional standards. We are looking for leaders who are not only ambitious, creative and focused, but individuals with sound clinical expertise and a passion for providing outstanding care every time for our patients & outstanding support for our staff. You will work in collaboration within the family health triumvirate to provide assurance of quality and safety for our patients and lead the team to deliver improvements and innovations in practice. Candidates must be a Registered Nurse and have experience in an acute hospital setting. ### Main duties of the job The post holder will be easily recognisable to patients, staff, and or their carers and will act as a role model, whilst ensuring a visible and accessible presence within the organisation. The post holder will be expected to maintain and enhance standards of patient care, patient experience and clinical outcomes through the implementation of continuous quality improvement initiatives. The post holder will provide strong clinical leadership within the Trust to promote high standards of patient safety and experience and a culture of quality improvement. To maintain clinical credibility through clinical practice To deputise for the Heads of Nursing and occasionally the Deputy Director of Nursing in relation to organisational and professional issues, as required. To participate in the on call managers rota. The post holder will provide professional support and guidance to specialist nurses and work collaboratively with the Multidisciplinary teams across the Divisions and Trust. Act in accordance with current local Warwickshire and Trust Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults and Children’s policies Work with the General and Service Managers, Clinical Directors and other senior members of the MDT in the divisions in delivering service development, business planning and service delivery ensuring achievements in key local and national targets. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities - MANAGEMENT AND LEADERSHIP: To provide a visible, accessible and authoritative presence within the Trust to whom individuals can turn to for assistance, advice and support with regards to patient care and safety. Support the Heads of Nursing to implement the quality nursing agenda, to allow robust measurement of nursing care. To provide and develop clinical leadership across all services of the acute setting at SWFT. Provide professional support for other nursing roles such as clinical nurse specialists and specialist practitioners. Ensure staff have access to appropriate professional and / or clinical supervision, mentoring or coaching as appropriate. Liaise with the Director of Nursing, Deputy Director of Nursing and the Heads of Nursing in relation to any professional practice developments or concerns. Work within the NMC Code of Professional Conduct. Maintain NMC PIN Registration through appropriate clinical activity and clinical development. Participate in regular professional supervision. To be responsible for own professional development and keep up to date with current developments in nursing practice and national NHS policy. To provide clear direction and leadership for nurses with regard to legal, ethical and moral dimensions of nursing across the acute setting. Undertake clinical activities as required to maintain own skills and lead by example. Act as clinical leader and role model, sharing expertise and knowledge with colleagues. To ensure that Trust staff live the Trust values and deliver safe, effective, compassionate, and trusted care and services. To provide nursing representation at a strategic level on committees relevant to acute services or professional portfolio. To foster clinical and professional leadership and support to nursing staff throughout SWFT, ensuring that nursing practice is based on current and best evidence  COMMUNICATION: To be an advocate for patients, their families, carers and staff. To develop and encourage good working partnerships throughout the multidisciplinary team (MDT). Proactively work and engage with Out of hospital colleagues to understand and make links between services to support patients to be discharged in a timely manner and remain at home where possible.   Act as a role model; employing professional behaviour that encourages and coaches team members to challenge their current competencies, whilst seeking opportunities to expand their roles.  This includes the promotion of a culture of appraisals, and personal development whilst setting clear smart objectives to meet the needs of the individual, clinical area and organisation. Liaise with all relevant stakeholders including Clinical Leads, Senior Management Team, Senior Corporate team, Social Care, Community Services and CCG colleagues as required to support pathway development and improved coordination of care. Ensure processes are in place to facilitate effective communication with all disciplines, the patient, their relatives and carers. Develop a network of links with colleagues and attend local, regional and national meetings relevant to Nursing. ANALYSIS AND JUDGEMENT: Handle and process highly sensitive, highly confidential information. Ensure the environment and ward processes are responsive to the needs of patients and their carers Promote a blame free ‘just’ culture in reporting incidents, applying any learning derived from the investigation into practice at the earliest of opportunities, supporting staff in the process. PATIENT INVOLVEMENT AND EXPERIENCE: To ensure that the care environment in the clinical setting is fit for purpose by monitoring, escalating and directing support services as appropriate. Support the collection of service user, relative and carer feedback, through local and national mechanisms such as FFT and use this information to shape services and improve the experience of people using our services. To ensure that there is effective communication and liaison between the PALS and patient experience officers, inpatient services and MDT teams. To investigate any complaint, written or oral with department managers, general managers and MDTs and ensure a written response is recorded within time limits agreed with the complainant. To meet with complainants as required. To audit and improve the inpatient environment and patient experience by implementing the requirements of the Food for life, PLACE, Clean Hospitals Group, ensuring SWFT maintains its high standards. Ensure that all staff consciously review mistakes, complaints and incidents/near misses as well as successes to improve performance and the level of customer care. GOVERNANCE, QUALITY AND SAFETY: To take the lead on safety initiatives as delegated by the Head of Nursing focussing on continual quality improvement To support and develop department managers to ensure that corporate and clinical governance processes are in place and a culture of quality improvement and patient’s safety is embedded. Help prepare the Trust in readiness for any external inspections i.e. Care Quality Commission (CQC) including the collection, cataloguing and analysis of data required for CQC compliance. To develop, implement, monitor and evaluate clinical standards within the Trust and strive for continual quality improvement. Develop policies and protocols for use by the acute services. To ensure that the Patient Care Indicators are consistently maintained in line with the required compliance across the Trust. To ensure the ward accreditation process is embedded into clinical practice and is used to drive quality across services.   Take an active role in the equality and diversity delivery plan and promote accessibility in services and within teams. To ensure that the Trust delivers the CQUIN targets identified for the organisation. To liaise where appropriate with Named Nurse for Safeguarding Adults, Mental Health Services, Social care and/or Learning disability leads about individual cases, to support team members and develop or update procedures. Participate in the planning and preparation for a major incident and provide support as indicated through the call out process as detailed in the Major Incident Policy. Attend Trust and divisional management meetings, ensuring that essential information is cascaded to staff at departmental meetings and that staff concerns and innovations are acted on In collaboration with General and service managers ensure that corporate and clinical governance and risk management policies are effectively deployed and continuously evaluated. Respond to incidents via the Datix system, ensure that risk assessments and identified action plans are implemented and promote a good reporting and safety culture within MDTs. Participate in infection prevention and control activity, surveillance, environmental audits and support departmental managers in the preparing and fulfilling action plans and root cause analysis when needed. SERVICE DEVELOPMENTS & PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT: To ensure that all MDT teams and departmental managers are aware of quality performance indicators which affect their area of practice and support them in continually improving their performance against these. To ensure staff are working towards achieving the Trust objectives and to provide reports as required. To take the lead on quality indicators and work in collaboration with department managers and MDTs to ensure that benchmarking standards and quality improvement is integrated within the ethos of each area. To lead and chair the stranded patients weekly meetings in order to reduce length of stay and improve patient experience, safety and flow Ensure all of the inpatient wards keep their digital systems up to date to help maintain patient flow and patient safety including criteria to reside in the hospital. Support the flow processes across the divisions and wider organisation for patients in our care. Attend all capacity and flow meetings when acting as Corporate Nurse of the Day Support the embedding of National and local innovation and strategies around safe and timely discharge To support General and Service Managers and Clinical Directors in ensuring that clinical strategy development encompasses quality and professional issues. HUMAN RESOURCES: To gain assurance that the training needs of the ward/department teams and managers are individually assessed. To maximise the potential of the departmental managers and their staff, by participating in individual performance reviews, Personal Development Plans and continual professional development where appropriate. In collaboration with the Human Resources department, ensure that all practitioners are practising according to their professional rules and maintaining their registration requirements. This will be monitored through individual performance review (IPR) and Personal Development Plan (PDP). Liaise with Departmental Managers to gain assurance that each member of staff has an annual IPR / Personal Development Plan in relation to the Knowledge and Skills Framework. To support the Heads of Nursing in the professional management of senior nurses throughout the Trust. To support the General Managers & Service Managers in managing the senior nursing staff within area and assist in agreeing service requirements with relevant stakeholders. Ensure that the allocation of staff, caseloads and resources are appropriate to the needs of the service, highlighting where there are potential gaps in service provision and planning actions to mitigate any risks to staff or users of services. As Corporate Nurse of the Day be the escalation contact in hours for urgent or unforeseen nurse staffing issues and provide assurance regarding safe staffing as per SWH 03254 Nurse Staffing Escalation (October-March) To facilitate the recruitment and retention of nursing and support staff throughout the Trust, including job descriptions, advertising vacancies, short listing and interviewing responsibilities. Participate in the management of the Sickness Policy. To provide short-term cover for colleagues during periods of absence. FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT: Support General and service managers and MDT teams to ensure optimal resource management and effective budgetary control. ## Job Details This is an exciting time to join our Matron team here at South Warwickshire Foundation Trust. You will be leading our services in Women's health encompassing our Female Surgical Ward, and our dynamic Women's health outpatients area. We are looking for a dynamic and experienced leader to join our well established leadership team within the Family Health Division . You will support a speciality triumvirate in the delivery of excellent, compassionate care whilst maintaining high professional standards. We are looking for leaders who are not only ambitious, creative and focused, but individuals with sound clinical expertise and a passion for providing outstanding care every time for our patients & outstanding support for our staff. You will work in collaboration within the family health triumvirate to provide assurance of quality and safety for our patients and lead the team to deliver improvements and innovations in practice. Candidates must be a Registered Nurse and have experience in an acute hospital setting. ## Job Description The post holder will be easily recognisable to patients, staff, and or their carers and will act as a role model, whilst ensuring a visible and accessible presence within the organisation. The post holder will be expected to maintain and enhance standards of patient care, patient experience and clinical outcomes through the implementation of continuous quality improvement initiatives. The post holder will provide strong clinical leadership within the Trust to promote high standards of patient safety and experience and a culture of quality improvement. To maintain clinical credibility through clinical practice To deputise for the Heads of Nursing and occasionally the Deputy Director of Nursing in relation to organisational and professional issues, as required. To participate in the on call managers rota. The post holder will provide professional support and guidance to specialist nurses and work collaboratively with the Multidisciplinary teams across the Divisions and Trust. Act in accordance with current local Warwickshire and Trust Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults and Children’s policies Work with the General and Service Managers, Clinical Directors and other senior members of the MDT in the divisions in delivering service development, business planning and service delivery ensuring achievements in key local and national targets. ## Responsibilities MANAGEMENT AND LEADERSHIP: To provide a visible, accessible and authoritative presence within the Trust to whom individuals can turn to for assistance, advice and support with regards to patient care and safety. Support the Heads of Nursing to implement the quality nursing agenda, to allow robust measurement of nursing care. To provide and develop clinical leadership across all services of the acute setting at SWFT. Provide professional support for other nursing roles such as clinical nurse specialists and specialist practitioners. Ensure staff have access to appropriate professional and / or clinical supervision, mentoring or coaching as appropriate. Liaise with the Director of Nursing, Deputy Director of Nursing and the Heads of Nursing in relation to any professional practice developments or concerns. Work within the NMC Code of Professional Conduct. Maintain NMC PIN Registration through appropriate clinical activity and clinical development. Participate in regular professional supervision. To be responsible for own professional development and keep up to date with current developments in nursing practice and national NHS policy. To provide clear direction and leadership for nurses with regard to legal, ethical and moral dimensions of nursing across the acute setting. Undertake clinical activities as required to maintain own skills and lead by example. Act as clinical leader and role model, sharing expertise and knowledge with colleagues. To ensure that Trust staff live the Trust values and deliver safe, effective, compassionate, and trusted care and services. To provide nursing representation at a strategic level on committees relevant to acute services or professional portfolio. To foster clinical and professional leadership and support to nursing staff throughout SWFT, ensuring that nursing practice is based on current and best evidence COMMUNICATION: To be an advocate for patients, their families, carers and staff. To develop and encourage good working partnerships throughout the multidisciplinary team (MDT). Proactively work and engage with Out of hospital colleagues to understand and make links between services to support patients to be discharged in a timely manner and remain at home where possible. Act as a role model; employing professional behaviour that encourages and coaches team members to challenge their current competencies, whilst seeking opportunities to expand their roles. This includes the promotion of a culture of appraisals, and personal development whilst setting clear smart objectives to meet the needs of the individual, clinical area and organisation. Liaise with all relevant stakeholders including Clinical Leads, Senior Management Team, Senior Corporate team, Social Care, Community Services and CCG colleagues as required to support pathway development and improved coordination of care. Ensure processes are in place to facilitate effective communication with all disciplines, the patient, their relatives and carers. Develop a network of links with colleagues and attend local, regional and national meetings relevant to Nursing. ANALYSIS AND JUDGEMENT: Handle and process highly sensitive, highly confidential information. Ensure the environment and ward processes are responsive to the needs of patients and their carers Promote a blame free ‘just’ culture in reporting incidents, applying any learning derived from the investigation into practice at the earliest of opportunities, supporting staff in the process. PATIENT INVOLVEMENT AND EXPERIENCE: To ensure that the care environment in the clinical setting is fit for purpose by monitoring, escalating and directing support services as appropriate. Support the collection of service user, relative and carer feedback, through local and national mechanisms such as FFT and use this information to shape services and improve the experience of people using our services. To ensure that there is effective communication and liaison between the PALS and patient experience officers, inpatient services and MDT teams. To investigate any complaint, written or oral with department managers, general managers and MDTs and ensure a written response is recorded within time limits agreed with the complainant. To meet with complainants as required. To audit and improve the inpatient environment and patient experience by implementing the requirements of the Food for life, PLACE, Clean Hospitals Group, ensuring SWFT maintains its high standards. Ensure that all staff consciously review mistakes, complaints and incidents/near misses as well as successes to improve performance and the level of customer care. GOVERNANCE, QUALITY AND SAFETY: To take the lead on safety initiatives as delegated by the Head of Nursing focussing on continual quality improvement To support and develop department managers to ensure that corporate and clinical governance processes are in place and a culture of quality improvement and patient’s safety is embedded. Help prepare the Trust in readiness for any external inspections i.e. Care Quality Commission (CQC) including the collection, cataloguing and analysis of data required for CQC compliance. To develop, implement, monitor and evaluate clinical standards within the Trust and strive for continual quality improvement. Develop policies and protocols for use by the acute services. To ensure that the Patient Care Indicators are consistently maintained in line with the required compliance across the Trust. To ensure the ward accreditation process is embedded into clinical practice and is used to drive quality across services. Take an active role in the equality and diversity delivery plan and promote accessibility in services and within teams. To ensure that the Trust delivers the CQUIN targets identified for the organisation. To liaise where appropriate with Named Nurse for Safeguarding Adults, Mental Health Services, Social care and/or Learning disability leads about individual cases, to support team members and develop or update procedures. Participate in the planning and preparation for a major incident and provide support as indicated through the call out process as detailed in the Major Incident Policy. Attend Trust and divisional management meetings, ensuring that essential information is cascaded to staff at departmental meetings and that staff concerns and innovations are acted on In collaboration with General and service managers ensure that corporate and clinical governance and risk management policies are effectively deployed and continuously evaluated. Respond to incidents via the Datix system, ensure that risk assessments and identified action plans are implemented and promote a good reporting and safety culture within MDTs. Participate in infection prevention and control activity, surveillance, environmental audits and support departmental managers in the preparing and fulfilling action plans and root cause analysis when needed. SERVICE DEVELOPMENTS & PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT: To ensure that all MDT teams and departmental managers are aware of quality performance indicators which affect their area of practice and support them in continually improving their performance against these. To ensure staff are working towards achieving the Trust objectives and to provide reports as required. To take the lead on quality indicators and work in collaboration with department managers and MDTs to ensure that benchmarking standards and quality improvement is integrated within the ethos of each area. To lead and chair the stranded patients weekly meetings in order to reduce length of stay and improve patient experience, safety and flow Ensure all of the inpatient wards keep their digital systems up to date to help maintain patient flow and patient safety including criteria to reside in the hospital. Support the flow processes across the divisions and wider organisation for patients in our care. Attend all capacity and flow meetings when acting as Corporate Nurse of the Day Support the embedding of National and local innovation and strategies around safe and timely discharge To support General and Service Managers and Clinical Directors in ensuring that clinical strategy development encompasses quality and professional issues. HUMAN RESOURCES: To gain assurance that the training needs of the ward/department teams and managers are individually assessed. To maximise the potential of the departmental managers and their staff, by participating in individual performance reviews, Personal Development Plans and continual professional development where appropriate. In collaboration with the Human Resources department, ensure that all practitioners are practising according to their professional rules and maintaining their registration requirements. This will be monitored through individual performance review (IPR) and Personal Development Plan (PDP). Liaise with Departmental Managers to gain assurance that each member of staff has an annual IPR / Personal Development Plan in relation to the Knowledge and Skills Framework. To support the Heads of Nursing in the professional management of senior nurses throughout the Trust. To support the General Managers & Service Managers in managing the senior nursing staff within area and assist in agreeing service requirements with relevant stakeholders. Ensure that the allocation of staff, caseloads and resources are appropriate to the needs of the service, highlighting where there are potential gaps in service provision and planning actions to mitigate any risks to staff or users of services. As Corporate Nurse of the Day be the escalation contact in hours for urgent or unforeseen nurse staffing issues and provide assurance regarding safe staffing as per SWH 03254 Nurse Staffing Escalation (October-March) To facilitate the recruitment and retention of nursing and support staff throughout the Trust, including job descriptions, advertising vacancies, short listing and interviewing responsibilities. Participate in the management of the Sickness Policy. To provide short-term cover for colleagues during periods of absence. FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT: Support General and service managers and MDT teams to ensure optimal resource management and effective budgetary control. ## Person Specification ### Skills **Essential** - Ability to demonstrate leadership qualities consistently and to develop these in others - Ability to motivate teams to improve performance in health outcomes. - Ability to hold others to account for agreed targets and to demonstrate personal accountability for delivering a high-quality service - Ability to influence and overcome barriers to change, recognising limitation of self and others in taking appropriate action - Clear understanding of the national and local NHS agenda and its relevance to service development - Some knowledge of business planning - Experience of developing guidelines/protocols/policies - Sound knowledge of evidence-based practice and audit process and its relevance to improving patient outcomes. - Evidence of involvement in change management - Sound resource (human and finance) management skills **Desirable** - Experience of project work and report writing ### Experience **Essential** - Experience in clinical and operational management - A minimum of 3 years’ experience at senior position within an acute setting - Experience of change management ### Qualifications **Essential** - Registered Nurse/Midwife / AHP - Post- registration management qualification or specialist relevant qualification - Evidence of continuing professional development - Relevant full master’s degree or equivalent experience. ### Personal qualities **Essential** - Can demonstrate characteristics of effective leadership - Demonstrates ability to motivate, train and develop teams - Is innovative, positive and has ability to stimulate a productive team - Able to set/achieve individual/team objectives and meet deadlines - Able to role model both clinically & managerially - Able to confidently communicate and negotiate with all stakeholders - Able to process and challenge information ### Other Job Requirements **Essential** - Able to pass Occupational Health Clearance - Able to work flexibly to meet the service needs - Non-smoker on trust premises - Able to concentrate for prolonged periods of time. - Needs to be able to agile work when required **Desirable** - Driver with access to own vehicle ## Documents - [gynae matron (pdf, 182.1kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10373080) - [gynae matron ps (pdf, 145.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10373081) ## 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.