Job requirements
Requirements from the employer’s person specification. These describe the role, not your personal match.
Essential
15 listedRequirements the employer expects applicants to meet.
- Abilities
Excellent interpersonal negotiating and influencing skills.
- Abilities
Excellent communication skills both oral and written.
- Abilities
Demonstrate innovation and flexible thinking to solve difficult problems.
- Aptitudes
Specialist knowledge of the professional leadership and management of nursing, midwifery, or Allied Health Professional services has been developed.
- Aptitudes
Evidence of ongoing and relevant personal and professional development in the last 2 years.
- Aptitudes
Expert knowledge of nursing and Allied Health Professional practice and understanding of related clinical services providing clinical advice to annual planning and service developments.
- Physical Skills
Ability to initiate, lead and manage change.
- Physical Skills
Organisational and leadership skills.
- Communication Skills
Demonstrate the ability to conceptualise problems and identify solutions.
- Communication Skills
Ability to understand and contextualise complex information for dissemination to all levels across the Care Group
- Qualifications and role specific knowledge
Registered nurse (relevant to the field of practice of the Care Group and or Matron).
- Qualifications and role specific knowledge
Live NMC Registration.
- Qualifications and role specific knowledge
Educated to a bachelor’s degree level in Nursing, Midwifery, Leadership and Management or an Allied Health Professional degree.
- Qualifications and role specific knowledge
Registered Allied Health Professional, or Pharmacist with live registration with the Registering Authority.
- Qualifications and role specific knowledge
Management Qualification or relevant experience.
Desirable
3 listedAdditional qualities the employer would prefer.
- Qualifications and role specific knowledge
Recognised teaching and assessing qualification.
- Qualifications and role specific knowledge
Educated to Masters level.
- Qualifications and role specific knowledge
Evidence of development or evidence based care.
Job overview
Band 8a (£57,528 - £64,750 per annum)
Permanent Position
Full-Time (37.5 hours per week)
We are recruiting for a Matron for Special Care Baby Unit who wishes to join #TeamIOWNHS. You should share our passion and drive to ensure that our patients receive quality and compassionate care and work with us to ensure the Trust continues its journey towards “working together, improving together".
The successful candidate will be expected to support the Group model of working, collaborating across both Isle of Wight NHS Trust and Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust to deliver high-quality neonatal services and shared organisational objectives.
Main duties of the job
- Responsibility for the leadership of nursing, midwifery and Allied Health Professionals (AHP’s) within Special Care Baby Unit.
- Responsible for the delivery of safe and clinically and cost effective and compassionate care within the service, providing assurance evidence in this regard to the Head of Nursing & Quality.
- Has professional responsibility for Senior Sisters, Charge Nurses, Team Leaders and some Allied Health Professionals within the services.
- Leads clinical services in the Care Group.
- Provides credible, visible and effective leadership nursing and midwifery staff within the services.
We are passionate about providing excellent CARE, which is why our values are Compassion, Accountable, Respect and Everyone counts. Our mission is to make sure that our community is at the heart of everything we do and that we hold our values across all our services.
We are committed to endorsing inclusion, diversity and multiculturalism throughout out services and as such, our procedures and policies ensure that applicants are always treated fairly throughout the recruitment process.
Why not come and see for yourself the CARE we give to our patients and staff. Apply to be part of our team today.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Attached you will find the person specification document which provides more detail about the essential and desirable skills and experience needed for this role. We highly recommend you review this document and use it when completing your application as these criteria are used by hiring managers as guidance during shortlisting.
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 Special Care Baby Unit Matron with Isle of Wight NHS Trust in Newport, England. It is listed as a Band 8 Matron role. The advertised salary is £57,528 - £64,750 pro rata, per annum. The contract type is Permanent. The application deadline is 10 Sep 2026.
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