Job overview
To be responsible for leading the nursing workforce within identified clinical units to ensure the delivery of patient focussed high quality nursing care; to work across organisational boundaries to ensure services are patient responsive, ensuring the delivery of national and local strategic, operational service objectives and Trust Key Performance Indicators.
To take appropriate and effective action where any principles of care or professionalism fall below agreed, acceptable standards.
To be responsible for ensuring the efficient and effective day-to-day running of the clinical units, the management of designated staff and the delivery of key quality, and service improvements.
Main duties of the job
To be responsible for leading the nursing workforce within identified clinical units to ensure the delivery of patient focussed high quality nursing care; to work across organisational boundaries to ensure services are patient responsive, ensuring the delivery of national and local strategic, operational service objectives and Trust Key Performance Indicators.
To take appropriate and effective action where any principles of care or professionalism fall below agreed, acceptable standards.
To be responsible for ensuring the efficient and effective day-to-day running of the clinical units, the management of designated staff and the delivery of key quality, and service improvements.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please refer to the attached job description for full details of the main duties and responsibilities that the post holder is required to undertake.
Person specification
Leadership
Essential
- Knowledge and experience of leading significant change, delivering tangible and sustained improvements
Desirable
- Experience of developing business and workforce plans in line with future service requirements.
Personal Qualities
Essential
- Highly professional role model
Desirable
- To be flexible and approachable
Skills and Experience
Essential
- Experience in a Deputy Matron role
- Leadership skills – excellent leadership and influencing skills
- Track record of effectively handling priorities, meeting challenging deadlines and delivering under pressure
Desirable
- Strategic a business planning – able to think and plan strategically, tactfully and creatively, to gain agreement to relevant plans and to implement plans through service delivery.
- Ability to analyse complex and diverse local data in order to identify trends in order to demonstrate appropriate changes that will be required to be undertaken
Education and Qualifications
Essential
- Evidence of recent professional/management/leadership development
Desirable
- Educated to Masters level/working towards
Appropriate NMC/HCPC Registration
Essential
- Evidence of recent professional/management/leadership development
- Appropriate registration qualification within speciality or equivalent experience
- Thorough knowledge and understanding of the key issues facing the NHS
- Extensive knowledge and experience of practice and policy across a broad range of responsibilities, e.g. financial systems and budgetary control, corporate and clinical governance, Health & Safety and Human Resources
Desirable
- Experience of developing business and workforce plans in line with future service requirements.
- Strategic a business planning – able to think and plan strategically, tactfully and creatively, to gain agreement to relevant plans and to implement plans through service delivery.
- Paediatric Nurse Registration
Experience in a Deputy Matron Role
Essential
- Evidence of recent professional/management/leadership development
Desirable
- Experience of developing business and workforce plans in line with future service requirements.
Communication and Interpersonal Skills
Essential
- Excellent communication skills and highly developed interpersonal and influencing skills
- Ability to organise diverse teams to deliver high standard of patient care
Desirable
- Open, participative, dynamic and supportive leadership with a flexible management style
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This advert is for Matron Paediatrics with The Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust in Dudley, Midlands, England. It is listed as a Band 8 Nurse (adult and children) role. The advertised salary is £66,582 - £77,368 Per Annum. The contract type is Permanent. The application deadline is 28 Jul 2026.
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