Matron | Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Interview Date: 09th June 2026

Are you a visionary and motivated nursing leader passionate about delivering exceptional patient care? We are seeking a Matron to lead and inspire our nursing teams within the Division of Medicine.

You will be supported and encouraged to drive clinical excellence, patient safety, and innovation across our teams. You will be a visible and approachable leader, championing high standards, mentoring staff, and ensuring outstanding patient experiences. If you thrive in a fast-paced environment, have a strong track record in leadership, and are committed to shaping the future of healthcare, we want to hear from you.

The Matron will have operational and strategic responsibility working in collaboration with the Deputy Divisional Directors and Clinical Leads to ensure services are delivered in a culture where clinical quality, service improvement and financial accountability are paramount. Whilst responsible for the nursing workforce and the delivery of safe staffing, the role expands to influencing and shaping all areas of the service line business through leadership and role modelling. The Matron will ensure all clinical, quality, safety, financial and workforce standards are agreed and delivered. The Matron will provide quality assurance, ensuring the fundamentals of care are delivered effectively and efficiently against recognised best practice. This will facilitate continuous review/peer review, benchmarking, improving nursing services and ensure clinical effectiveness.

We are proud to be part of BSW Hospitals Group – a formal partnership between Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust and Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust. With a combined workforce of over 17, 600 colleagues, and budget of 1.6 billion the Group is united by a common purpose to deliver the best possible care to over 1 million people.

We are creating a heath and care system that works with the people we care for, reducing the differences people currently face in access, experience and outcomes, improving the experience of our colleagues and tackling shared challenges like sustainability and finances. Every improvement we make across our Group will be guided by what creates the greatest benefit for our colleagues, our patients, our communities and our partners.

1. Support and drive the implementation and maintenance of safety, quality, clinical effectiveness and patient experience through the implementation and monitoring of key standards and outcome measures to deliver safe and effective harm free care.

2. Act as the expert in delivering the quality and safety agenda that is unique to nursing, implicit in this is continuous improvement and a reduction in harm.

3. Utilise expert analytical and critical thinking skills to ensure that care and service improvement agendas are innovative, contemporaneous and clinically effective. Integrate cutting edge information technology to support clinically effective and safe care.

4. Develop and utilise monitoring tools and techniques to provide assurance against key performance indicators and care standards both within the Division and across the Trust.

5. Monitor and analyse data and trends to establish early recognition of areas of concern to develop and improve services

6. Develop a culture of listening, whereby patients, relatives and carers and staff are central to service delivery and development.

7. In partnership with the service line triumvirate and with the Divisional Director of Nursing, lead, coordinate and facilitate the development, implementation and review of standards, policies, procedures, competencies, and clinical guidelines with the multi-professional team.

8. Act as a clinical expert in relation to emerging themes, for example safeguarding, vulnerable children and adults, mental health, sexual exploitation to ensure patients with complex needs receive equitable care.

9. Ensure the governance agenda within the service line encompasses learning, continual quality monitoring and improvement that focuses on reducing risk, harm and developing efficiency and quality in care.

10. Ensure the appropriate use of the Infection Prevention and Control Team, ensuring practice adheres to national standards and emerging advances in care. Undertake inspections of clinical areas across the Trust to monitor and maintain standards.

Full duties can be found on the attached JD.

This advert closes on Monday 18 May 2026

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