Job requirements
Requirements from the employer’s person specification. These describe the role, not your personal match.
Essential
10 listedRequirements the employer expects applicants to meet.
- Knowledge and Experience
Demonstrate a successful track record of delivering effective nursing services as a senior nurse/manager, multifaceted healthcare environment including staff management, financial management and change management.
- Knowledge and Experience
Evidence of delivering successful nursing strategic and operational performance management and clearly demonstrating improvement in the quality of nursing care delivered at a strategic level.
- Knowledge and Experience
Experience of quality and risk management, to include experience in analysing and resolving complaints and incidents.
- Knowledge and Experience
Experience and understanding of safer staffing models and workforce planning
- Education and Qualifications
Current NMC registered nurse status, eligible to practice
- Education and Qualifications
Educated to master level in relevant subject area Evidence of post qualifying and continuous professional development.
- Education and Qualifications
Completion of appropriate leadership or management development programme
- Skills abilities and attributes
Analytical skills to interpret complex data and action
- Skills abilities and attributes
Excellent communication skills both written and oral, with the ability to liaise and negotiate effectively at all levels
- Skills abilities and attributes
Commitment to self-development with the ability to demonstrate knowledge of current policy and thinking affecting nursing profession
Desirable
2 listedAdditional qualities the employer would prefer.
- Knowledge and Experience
Experience of working at Matron/Senior Nurse level within the NHS
- Education and Qualifications
NHSE Safer Staffing module
Job overview
This role is an essential part of the nursing leadership team focusing on attracting and retaining quality nursing staff to the Trust to meet our current and future workforce plans.
The post holder will support the Deputy Chief Nurse with the overview and coordinating functions for leading and developing the Trust approach to Nursing workforce/safer staffing in line with national and regulatory requirements.
The post holder will build upon their specialist knowledge and function as an expert within workforce development, effectively contributing to the Trust agenda.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will prepare nursing workforce reports for internal and external submissions.
The post holder will play a key leadership role in delivery of the nursing productivity work, providing scrutiny and challenge regarding use of temporary staffing and working with nursing and human resource colleagues to deliver agreed reduction targets
The postholder will work in collaboration with colleagues in the Health Roster team to ensure effective utilisation of the workforce deployment system’s capacity and realisation of the associated benefits.
The role will work in collaboration with our partners and other professional networks to ensure best practice in nurse recruitment and retention is shared across the system.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To view the main responsibility, please see the attached the Job Description and Person Specification
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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This advert is for Workforce Matron with London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust in Harrow, England. It is listed as a Band 8 Matron role. The advertised salary is £63,665 - £70,887 per annum Inclusive of High Cost Area Supplement. The contract type is Permanent. The application deadline is 17 Sep 2026.
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