# Modern Matron Greenwich Working Age Adults Greenwich > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/modern-matron-greenwich-working-age-adults-greenwich/0652aad0-614c-40ac-8b28-fb3fc7e165ab - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/modern-matron-greenwich-working-age-adults-greenwich/0652aad0-614c-40ac-8b28-fb3fc7e165ab.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust - **Town:** Dartford - **Region:** London - **Country:** England - **Profession:** Nurse (adult and children) - **Grade:** Band 8 - **Salary:** £63,665 - £70,887 pa inc - **Contract type:** Permanent: Could be suitable for fixed term contract. - **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Split post between sites - required to travel to both sites) - **Closing date:** 2026-07-02T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-06-19T15:03:28.393Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/London/Woolwich/Oxleas_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Adult_Acute_Crisis_Mental_Health/Adult_Acute_Crisis_Mental_Health-v8098097 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8098097?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.oxleas.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview Greenwich Modern Matron to cover all the three Working Age Adult Wards.  Location: Based at Oxleas House, QEH, Stadium Road, Woolwich, SE18 4QH with an expectation to travel across Trust sites within Bexley, Bromley & Greenwich. We are looking to recruit a highly motivated and experienced mental health nurse to join our senior management team within the Acute and Crisis Mental Health Directorate to manage the provision of high quality, evidence-based care within Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust.  The directorate includes services such as Crisis Teams, Liaison Teams, Health Based Place of Safety and Inpatient services for working age adults and older people.  The post holder will be clinically competent and able to generate pride and accountability for clinical excellence in the services that they lead. The post holder will be comfortable and confident to engage with peers from all professions, with staff, patients, staff, families and carers. The Modern Matron will provide clinical leadership, with a highly visible presence to ensure service users and their carers receive high quality care. They have personal responsibility and accountability for delivering a safe and clean care environment and ensuring that action is taken at all levels by nurses to maintain and provide high standards of care.  The post holder will be accountable for standards and quality, patient experience, patient safety and clinical effectiveness in in-patient services ### Main duties of the job This role provides clinical leadership for nurses and other health professionals providing care in an inpatient setting. You will be available to ward staff, patients and carers and be responsive to their experiences of care and concerns about the ward environment. Greenwich Modern Matron to cover all the three Working Age Adult Wards. The successful candidate will be required to demonstrate effective communication skills, clinical expertise, a flexible problem-solving approach and to lead Quality Improvement projects to improve patient care. The ability to work with adult and older people with acute mental health problems and with all members of the multi-disciplinary team is essential. The successful applicant will have experience of managing services, project management experience and demonstrable adaptive leadership skills. The matron holds a key role as a member of the leadership team for the services alongside psychiatry, psychology, allied health professionals and administration. In addition to this they will contribute to the governance of care and lead on the improvement and development of nursing care with a strong focus on quality improvement, including ensuring that Care Quality Commission (CQC) essential standards are met and exceeded. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities - To provide highly visible, professional leadership promoting a culture of high professional standards - Provide visible and authoritative presence in ward settings to whom service users and their families can turn to for assistance - To lead the quality agenda focusing on service user safety, experience and clinical effectiveness - Provide effective professional and clinical leadership and be accountable for the nursing service in their area of responsibility - To work within the Modern Matrons’ Charter to ensure good standards of infection control, privacy and dignity, cleanliness, and health and safety and report back on action taken to the Service Directorate and Nursing Directorate - In conjunction with the Unit and Service Manager, develop the service in line with national and local requirements ensuring the delivery of performance targets, development of best practice, and modernization agenda - Support the professional aspects of recruitment and deployment of people within in-patient services - To enhance clinical skills and competencies through supervision and teaching qualified and unqualified staff including students ## Job Details Greenwich Modern Matron to cover all the three Working Age Adult Wards. Location: Based at Oxleas House, QEH, Stadium Road, Woolwich, SE18 4QH with an expectation to travel across Trust sites within Bexley, Bromley & Greenwich. We are looking to recruit a highly motivated and experienced mental health nurse to join our senior management team within the Acute and Crisis Mental Health Directorate to manage the provision of high quality, evidence-based care within Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust. The directorate includes services such as Crisis Teams, Liaison Teams, Health Based Place of Safety and Inpatient services for working age adults and older people. The post holder will be clinically competent and able to generate pride and accountability for clinical excellence in the services that they lead. The post holder will be comfortable and confident to engage with peers from all professions, with staff, patients, staff, families and carers. The Modern Matron will provide clinical leadership, with a highly visible presence to ensure service users and their carers receive high quality care. They have personal responsibility and accountability for delivering a safe and clean care environment and ensuring that action is taken at all levels by nurses to maintain and provide high standards of care. The post holder will be accountable for standards and quality, patient experience, patient safety and clinical effectiveness in in-patient services ## Job Description This role provides clinical leadership for nurses and other health professionals providing care in an inpatient setting. You will be available to ward staff, patients and carers and be responsive to their experiences of care and concerns about the ward environment. Greenwich Modern Matron to cover all the three Working Age Adult Wards. The successful candidate will be required to demonstrate effective communication skills, clinical expertise, a flexible problem-solving approach and to lead Quality Improvement projects to improve patient care. The ability to work with adult and older people with acute mental health problems and with all members of the multi-disciplinary team is essential. The successful applicant will have experience of managing services, project management experience and demonstrable adaptive leadership skills. The matron holds a key role as a member of the leadership team for the services alongside psychiatry, psychology, allied health professionals and administration. In addition to this they will contribute to the governance of care and lead on the improvement and development of nursing care with a strong focus on quality improvement, including ensuring that Care Quality Commission (CQC) essential standards are met and exceeded. ## Responsibilities To provide highly visible, professional leadership promoting a culture of high professional standards Provide visible and authoritative presence in ward settings to whom service users and their families can turn to for assistance To lead the quality agenda focusing on service user safety, experience and clinical effectiveness Provide effective professional and clinical leadership and be accountable for the nursing service in their area of responsibility To work within the Modern Matrons’ Charter to ensure good standards of infection control, privacy and dignity, cleanliness, and health and safety and report back on action taken to the Service Directorate and Nursing Directorate In conjunction with the Unit and Service Manager, develop the service in line with national and local requirements ensuring the delivery of performance targets, development of best practice, and modernization agenda Support the professional aspects of recruitment and deployment of people within in-patient services To enhance clinical skills and competencies through supervision and teaching qualified and unqualified staff including students ## Person Specification ### Experience **Essential** - Demonstrable experience of mental health service management - Significant clinical experience in the relevant area ### Skills & Knowledge **Essential** - Advanced theoretical and practical knowledge of mental health nursing and needs of adults with mental health needs - Ability to provide leadership within own profession and beyond - Able to work as part of a senior management team - Able to prioritise workload and mange stress in self and others - Excellent written and verbal communication skills ### Education & Qualifications **Essential** - RMN and/or RNMH or RN (mental health and/or learning disabilities) with current NMC registration **Desirable** - Previously held manager position - Management qualification or working towards ## Documents - [staff benefits (pdf, 2.5mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1847) - [job description (pdf, 296.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10391977) - [privacy notice for staff (pdf, 268.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1659) - [modern matron person specification (pdf, 344.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10391981) - [important additional information for candidates (please read carefully) (pdf, 160.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1656) ## 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.