# Matron Paediatrics > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for The Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/matron-paediatrics/47ba78c0-c245-430d-8441-f5726415d0db - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/matron-paediatrics/47ba78c0-c245-430d-8441-f5726415d0db.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** The Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust - **Town:** Dudley - **Region:** Midlands - **Country:** England - **Profession:** Nurse (adult and children) - **Grade:** Band 8 - **Salary:** £66,582 - £77,368 Per Annum - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week (At The Dudley Group, we understand the benefits of offering a range of flexible working options from day one of employment to support both employees and the Trust. Offering flexible working opportunities is one of the ways that the Trust aims to attract and retain a diverse workforce. Further information on the options available can be found via the link in the job advert.) - **Closing date:** 2026-07-28T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-07-14T10:12:26.430Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Birmingham_Black_Country/Dudley/The_Dudley_Group_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Paediatrics/Paediatrics-v8134667 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8134667?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.dudleygroup.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### 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 ## Documents - [our vision (png, 101.8kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1862) - [useful links (pdf, 193.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1861) - [culture statement (pdf, 1.7mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1991) - [job description (pdf, 286.7kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10439275) - [dudley people plan (pdf, 6.7mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2026) - [employee benefits (pdf, 440.3kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1858) - [our leadership way (pdf, 173.3kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2413) - [gdpr privacy notice (pdf, 248.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1859) - [what is a disability? (pdf, 130.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2274) - [matron person specification (pdf, 448.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10439276) - [rn, rm and ahp career development opportunities (pdf, 396.1kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2297) ## 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.