Modern Matron

Job summary
Are you an experienced, compassionate, and forward thinking leader looking for your next challenge? We are seeking a Modern Matron to join our dynamic Place Team, providing visible leadership and driving excellence in patient care across a diverse portfolio of community and integrated services.

Our Place Team brings together a wide range of services, including CINSS, Podiatry, Wheelchair Services, Urgent and Emergency Care, the Integrated Care Home Team, Clinical Educators, Digital Services, and Parkinson's Specialist Services. This unique role offers the opportunity to work across multidisciplinary teams, supporting quality improvement, service development, workforce wellbeing, and outstanding patient experiences.

As Modern Matron, you will be a highly visible leader, championing clinical standards, professional practice, and innovation while fostering strong partnerships across health and care services.

If you are passionate about delivering high quality care, empowering teams, and shaping the future of community services, we would love to hear from you.

Main duties of the job
A credible senior leader with managerial responsibility for both nursing and allied health professionals ensuring services are responsive to patient needs. Working as a visible lead within the group management structure, demonstrating and developing collaborative working within and across the MDT. The Modern Matron has a pivotal role in creating the best experiences and opportunities for our staff to become local, national, and international leaders in healthcare with the patient at the centre of everything we do.

The Matron's role focuses on the 10 key responsibilities outlined in the Matrons Handbook (2019)

• 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.

About us
University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust, rated as good by the Care Quality Commission, is one of the largest teaching Trusts in the UK.

We are extremely proud of our employees across our hospital sites, with high quality patient care at the heart of everything we do.

Boasting some of the most modern facilities in Western Europe, the Trust is renowned for being at the forefront of research and innovation as part of its blossoming reputation as a worldwide leader in healthcare.

We are proud to be recognised as a Pathway to Excellence designated organisation - please click the link for further details about this prestigious award. Pathway To Excellence - University Hospitals Coventry & Warwickshire (uhcw.nhs.uk)

By joining our exciting journey, you will form part of a passionate, talented team and will be able to access a wide range of learning and development opportunities. There has never been a better time to join our team.

The Trust is committed to building an organisation that makes full use of the talents, skills, experience, and different perspectives available in our diverse society. We want everyone to feel they are respected, valued, can achieve their potential and receive the most appropriate and relevant care. We will create an environment where the equality and human rights principles of fairness, respect, equality, dignity and autonomy are promoted and are part of the organisation's core values.

Job responsibilities

• To be a visible leader, ensuring a physical presence, providing professional nurse leadership and demonstrating, through personal behaviours, the core values of UHCW NHS Trust. Ensuring a professional appearance, maintaining professional standards, and leading by example.
• To visit and be present on wards and departments within areas of responsibility daily and to be accessible to staff via face to face or other forms of communication, ensuring time is provided to staff to discuss concerns, inequalities or clinical issues that may affect clinical effectiveness.
• To conduct planned gemba walks or rounding in their areas of responsibility in order to support their teams and improvement opportunities, potential issues and waste.
• To act as an expert resource, providing advice on nursing issues in relation to policies, protocols, service delivery and the adoption of the organisations aims.
• To demonstrate inclusive leadership, embedding local and national standards to ensure the delivery of safe care, working collaboratively with the wider MDT.
• To act as an influence on maintaining cleaning standards, maintaining environmental cleanliness, infection prevention and control compliance locally, ensuring that IPC is everyones responsibility.

For further details of the role please see the attached job description.
A full UK driving license is essential for this post. Please note that an international driving license is not accepted.
Closing Date: Please be advised that this job advert will close as soon as sufficient applications have been received. Please apply for this job as soon as you can, if interested.
Successful applicants will be required to provide an immunisation and vaccination report, from either their current UK occupational health provider or their UK GP.

Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential

• Graduate and/or working towards Masters degree
• Current professional registration (NMC or HCPC)
• Demonstrable CPD
• Completion of leadership development programme or course

Desirable

• Management course/qualification
• Qualifications in specialism

Experience
Essential

• Professional clinical experience at a senior level
• Proven record of leading and effectively managing change
• Experience of successfully resolving complex problems
• Experience of successful resource & budget management
• Experience in service development

Desirable

• Evidence of conference presentation or journal publication
• Project management
• Experience of working in primary care or community services

Knowledge
Essential

• A sound knowledge of professional priorities and issues
• A knowledgeable clinician with ability to ensure clinical governance is embedded in practice
• Knowledge of the national and local NHS healthcare agenda and its implications
• Knowledge of research/audit processes and application

Desirable

• Experience of successful patient/public involvement

Skills
Essential

• Demonstrate ability to produce complex reports and formulate policies
• Highly developed communication, influencing and negotiating skills
• Ability to prioritise and meet deadlines
• Able to use initiative and make decisions
• Ability to engage effectively with diverse teams

Desirable

• Presentation skills

Commitment to Trust Values and Behaviours
Essential

• Must be able to demonstrate behaviours consistent with the Trust's values. (As detailed in UHCW's Values in Action document below)
• Applicants applying for job roles with managerial responsibility will be required to demonstrate evidence of promoting equal opportunities through work experience

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).