Quality Matron

Job overview

Job overview

An opportunity has arisen to join our Nursing and Quality teams in the role of Quality Matron, specifically within Tameside and Stockport Older Adult Services. This post forms part of our wider network structure  with eight Quality Matrons across our care hubs, including Bury, Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside, Stockport, CAMHS, Learning Disabilities, and Rehabilitation/High Support.

As a Quality Matron based in Tameside and Stockport Older Adult Services you will play a pivotal role in supporting inpatient and residential services for older adults. Reporting directly to the Network Director of Nursing, AHPs and Quality, you will be an integral member of the network, ensuring that high-quality, personalised care is consistently delivered to patients and their families. This role builds upon the “outstanding” work already achieved and seeks to further strengthen our commitment to excellence in care.

The Quality Matron position is a cornerstone of improving patient care standards. You will provide visible, inclusive leadership, engaging directly with patients, families, frontline staff, and senior management teams to drive continuous improvement and uphold the highest standards of safety, compassion, and clinical effectiveness.

Main duties of the job

Main duties of the job

The Quality Matron will support the Head of Nursing and the Network directors of Nursing, AHPs & Quality to deliver clinical and professional leadership within the inpatient/residential services. Supporting the services to ensure delivery of safe, timely, effective, high-quality evidence-based care, consistent with internal and external standards.

This will be in line with the nationally agreed ten key responsibilities set out in the matron’s handbook as below:

• Inclusive leadership, professional standards, and accountability
• Governance, patient safety and quality
• Workforce planning and resource management
• Patient experience and reducing health inequalities
• Performance and operational oversight
• Digital and information technology
• Education, training, and development
• Research and development
• Collaborative working and clinical effectiveness
• Service improvement and transformation.

As a key member of the Senior Leadership Team the post holder will provide values-based leadership to facilitate consistent best practice, this will include taking a key role in the future transformation and development of services.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please view job description and person specification attached for more details.

f you come and work for us, we will offer a range of benefits and opportunities, including:

• Generous annual leave entitlement for Agenda for Change and Medical and Dental staff.
• Flexible working opportunities to support your work/life balance
• Access to Continued Professional Development
• Involvement in improvement and research activities
• Health and Wellbeing activities and access to an excellent staff wellbeing service
• Access to staff discounts across retail, leisure, and travel

If you are Kind, Fair, Ingenious and Determined then we want you to come and join our #PennineCarePeople https://www.penninecare.nhs.uk/values

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