# Special Care Baby Unit Matron > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Isle of Wight NHS Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/special-care-baby-unit-matron/3b8bcf6f-df27-4a41-9d46-be66cb917298 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/special-care-baby-unit-matron/3b8bcf6f-df27-4a41-9d46-be66cb917298.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Isle of Wight NHS Trust - **Location:** St Mary's Hospital - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Matron - **Grade:** Band 8 - **Salary:** £57,528 - £64,750 pro rata, per annum - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-09-10T22:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-08-27T12:01:05.688Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Isle_Wight/Isle_Wight/Isle_Wight_NHS_Trust/Matron/Matron-v8259573 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8259573?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.iow.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### 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. ## Person Specification ### Abilities **Essential** - Excellent interpersonal negotiating and influencing skills. - Excellent communication skills both oral and written. - Demonstrate innovation and flexible thinking to solve difficult problems. ### Aptitudes **Essential** - Specialist knowledge of the professional leadership and management of nursing, midwifery, or Allied Health Professional services has been developed. - Evidence of ongoing and relevant personal and professional development in the last 2 years. - 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 **Essential** - Ability to initiate, lead and manage change. - Organisational and leadership skills. ### Communication Skills **Essential** - Demonstrate the ability to conceptualise problems and identify solutions. - Ability to understand and contextualise complex information for dissemination to all levels across the Care Group ### Qualifications and role specific knowledge **Essential** - Registered nurse (relevant to the field of practice of the Care Group and or Matron). - Live NMC Registration. - Educated to a bachelor’s degree level in Nursing, Midwifery, Leadership and Management or an Allied Health Professional degree. - Registered Allied Health Professional, or Pharmacist with live registration with the Registering Authority. - Management Qualification or relevant experience. **Desirable** - Recognised teaching and assessing qualification. - Educated to Masters level. - Evidence of development or evidence based care. ## Documents - [matron job description (pdf, 520.7kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10573092) - [rehabilitation of offenders act information (doc, 92.0kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?ddoc=248) ## 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.