# Matron - Sexual Health > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/matron-sexual-health/442ba085-af0c-4b08-afae-3906a134573a - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/matron-sexual-health/442ba085-af0c-4b08-afae-3906a134573a.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust - **Location:** Royal Liverpool University Hospital - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Matron - **Salary:** Negotiable - **Contract type:** Permanent: regional post - **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week (cross site regional post) - **Closing date:** 2026-10-16T22:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-10-02T15:16:20.033Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/-v8297183 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8297183?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.liverpoolft.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### 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. ## Person Specification ### Skills **Essential** - Coaching & values led leadership style, encouraging engagement and empowerment amongst staff and stakeholders, and in developing high performing teams - 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. - Solve difficult problems, using a solution focused approach demonstrating competent persuasive and influencing skills - Analyse data and information, including preparing responses to issues, weighing risks and forming judgements often within tight timescales. - Competently implement business plans, business cases and project plans in order to deliver the Clinical Service Strategy for the area - Coordinate area day to day clinical operational activity to meet challenging performance targets within tight financial controls - Implement policy and implementation plans to deliver the clinical strategy and plans ensuring successful implementation - Demonstrate competent project management skills - Cope with competing priorities and a demanding workload - Deal with uncertainty in a political environment - Work in an environment with frequent interruptions, and within stressful, unpredictable situations including responding to and solving urgent and emergency situations day to day **Desirable** - Research information and use audit skills to applying findings to influence practice and develop business cases/plans - IT literate and able to use standard office software and bespoke systems - Imaginative and innovative in developing new ways of working in meeting patient care and service needs ### Knowledge **Essential** - Understanding and appreciation of diversity - Key issues and pace of change facing the NHS nationally and locally, assess and describe impact on nursing/clinical professional service. **Desirable** - Principles and impact of the NHS Constitution - Knowledge and understanding of computerised financial, management, budgetary management and workforce information systems - Knowledge and understanding of governance arrangements and standards in the NHS and the wider health and social care economy ### Experience **Essential** - 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 **Essential** - Clinical Professional Qualification. Degree level or equivalent - Post-graduate/registration Management or Training qualification /equivalent ## Documents - [risk id (pdf, 328.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10621395) - [matron jd (pdf, 317.9kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10616359) - [job spec matron (pdf, 317.9kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10616360) - [life at luhft benefits (pdf, 333.2kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2664) ## 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.