# Matron for Surgical Assessment Unit > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/matron-for-surgical-assessment-unit/46e925ff-2266-4db9-ba6b-f82530f31ef7 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/matron-for-surgical-assessment-unit/46e925ff-2266-4db9-ba6b-f82530f31ef7.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust - **Location:** Charing Cross Hospital - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Nurse (adult and children) - **Grade:** Band 8 - **Salary:** £66,274 - £73,496 pa inclusive - **Contract type:** Permanent: N/A - **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-08-26T22:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-08-12T13:40:47.181Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/London/London/Imperial_College_Healthcare_NHS_Trust/Surgery/Surgery-v8216097 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8216097?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.imperial.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview The Opportunity Are you a visionary nurse leader ready to build something from the ground up? We are launching a brand-new Surgical Assessment Unit at Charing Cross Hospital and are looking for an exceptional Band 8A Matron to lead this flagship service. As a central London teaching hospital, we pride ourselves on clinical excellence and innovation. This role isn't just about managing a ward; it’s about shaping a new model of care for surgical patients at one of the UK’s most prestigious trusts. The Role As the Matron for our new SAU, you will be the clinical and operational heartbeat of the unit. You will: - Drive Service Launch: Lead the operational setup and strategic direction of the new unit. - Inspire Excellence: Provide highly visible, expert leadership to a multidisciplinary team. - Innovate Patient Flow: Develop and implement expert surgical pathways to ensure rapid assessment and high-quality care. - Nurture Talent: Mentor a diverse team, fostering a culture of continuous learning and professional development. - Champion Safety: Oversee clinical governance and quality standards to ensure an outstanding patient experience. Be at the forefront of surgical nursing. Help us define the future of emergency surgical care in London. For an informal discussion or to arrange a visit, please contact Dan Pinnick, General Manager. ### Main duties of the job To provide professional leadership and clinical role modelling to inspire the nursing team in the Surgical Assessment Unit (SAU). - To provide a clear focus for clinical leadership, providing a highly visible and authoritative presence, in order to facilitate the provision of high quality care, ensuring that the needs of the patient are placed at the centre of care delivery. - To provide assurance to the Directorate Triumvirate that high quality patient focused care which positively contributes to the patient’s overall experience is being delivered. - To develop and embed procedures, guidelines and protocols to support the development of a safe and efficient service. - To monitor the level of service provided by the support services through regular audit and take remedial action as necessary. - To take responsibility for clinical standards of care, monitoring of quality indicators, infection control prevention and patient experience. - To foster a culture of incident reporting and responding to incidents, reflection, equal opportunity, openness, mutual respect between the professions and professional development within the unit - To support the development of nursing research and audit - To ensure that mechanisms are in place for the collection and submission of appropriate data in respect to service delivery. - To support the achievement of care and service delivery targets ### 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 overviews please view the Job Description attachment with the job advert. ### Applicant requirements 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. ## Person Specification ### Experience **Essential** - Currently working at band 7 or above in an urgent and emergency care or a surgical assessment unit setting - Experience of budget and resource management - Experience of clinical governance, patient safety, patient experience and clinical effectiveness - Work within the scope of the NMC Code Standards of conduct, performance and ethics for nurses and midwives. ### Education/ qualifications **Essential** - RN level 1 - Degree in Nursing - Leadership or management qualification **Desirable** - Leadership or management qualification ### Skills/knowledge/ abilities **Essential** - Demonstrable leadership skills - Effective time management for self and others - Able to manage difficult situations effectively. - Be a competent user of Microsoft 365 - Treat patients, their families and visitors as we would like to be treated ourselves - Be an excellent role model for Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trus ## Documents - [frf sau (pdf, 232.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10524063) - [job description (pdf, 349.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10534175) - [our strategy 2023-25 (pdf, 230.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=427) ## 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.