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Job requirements
Essential
16 listedRequirements the employer expects applicants to meet.
- Skills
Coaching & values led leadership style, encouraging engagement and empowerment amongst staff and stakeholders, and in developing high performing teams
- Skills
A high level of communication skills, to include but not exclusively, mediation, negotiation, consultation, facilitation, presentation, training and coaching skills using well developed interpersonal skills to influence, inform, reconcile differences and resolve conflicts.
- Skills
Solve difficult problems, using a solution focused approach demonstrating competent persuasive and influencing skills
- Skills
Analyse data and information, including preparing responses to issues, weighing risks and forming judgements often within tight timescales.
- Skills
Competently implement business plans, business cases and project plans in order to deliver the Clinical Service Strategy for the area
- Skills
Coordinate area day to day clinical operational activity to meet challenging performance targets within tight financial controls
- Skills
Implement policy and implementation plans to deliver the clinical strategy and plans ensuring successful implementation
- Skills
Demonstrate competent project management skills
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Cope with competing priorities and a demanding workload
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Deal with uncertainty in a political environment
- Skills
Work in an environment with frequent interruptions, and within stressful, unpredictable situations including responding to and solving urgent and emergency situations day to day
- Knowledge
Understanding and appreciation of diversity
- Knowledge
Key issues and pace of change facing the NHS nationally and locally, assess and describe impact on nursing/clinical professional service.
- Experience
Demonstrable experience as a clinical manager, with responsibility for clinical quality, people management, budget responsibility and successful delivery of performance targets and quality standards within strict financial controls.
- Qualifications
Clinical Professional Qualification. Degree level or equivalent
- Qualifications
Post-graduate/registration Management or Training qualification /equivalent
Desirable
6 listedAdditional qualities the employer would prefer.
- Skills
Research information and use audit skills to applying findings to influence practice and develop business cases/plans
- Skills
IT literate and able to use standard office software and bespoke systems
- Skills
Imaginative and innovative in developing new ways of working in meeting patient care and service needs
- Knowledge
Principles and impact of the NHS Constitution
- Knowledge
Knowledge and understanding of computerised financial, management, budgetary management and workforce information systems
- Knowledge
Knowledge and understanding of governance arrangements and standards in the NHS and the wider health and social care economy
Job overview
We are seeking an experienced and inspirational sexual health Matron to provide visible, compassionate and effective leadership across the axess sexual health & HIV services in Liverpool, Cheshire East, Warrington, Halton and Knowsley.
The post will provide clinical and operational leadership to clinic managers, ensuring high standards of governance, patient safety, quality improvement and service performance whilst working under local and organisational policies and procedures. You will provide professional and operational assurance and deputise for the assistant director of nursing when required. You will provide robust governance and CQC-ready oversight, using workforce, quality, performance, incident and risk data to identify trends, gaps and areas for improvement, developing and monitoring action plans and ensuring timely escalation where required.
Main duties of the job
You will be adept in risk and incident management, ensuring learning is embedded across the services, and you will present clear assurance, trends, risks and improvement actions at governance meetings.
Linking with Trust nursing and professional peers, you will drive consistent standards, patient safety, quality improvement, workforce development and service transformation, while providing highly visible leadership and championing an excellent patient experience
The postholder will also act as a senior professional representative for the service, developing and maintaining effective relationships with external partners and service stakeholders, including attendance at regional networks, and linking with local authority and NHS England teams, to contribute to strategic discussions and service development, and to share best practice
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Providing senior clinical leadership and support across the service-wide nursing team to ensure the delivery of safe, effective and high quality patient-centred care.
Overseeing clinical and professional standards, supporting and supervising staff, promoting safeguarding and infection prevention, monitoring performance, managing and presenting risks and incidents through divisional groups and ensuring compliance with relevant policies, legislation and organisational requirements.
Works collaboratively with multidisciplinary teams and partners to improve patient experience, access and outcomes
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.
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This advert is for Matron - Sexual Health with Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in Liverpool, England. It is listed as a Matron role. The advertised salary is Negotiable. The contract type is Permanent: regional post. The application deadline is 16 Oct 2026.
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