# Band 8a - Night Matron, Medicine

**Company**: West Hertfordshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
**Location**: Watford
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: temporary
**Salary**: £59798.00 to £67020.00
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

We are seeking an ambitious, compassionate and highly motivated nurse to join our senior nursing team as a Night Matron. This exciting fixed-term opportunity offers the chance to lead nursing services across the Trust during out-of-hours periods, driving excellence in patient care, safety and operational effectiveness.

As a highly visible and influential leader, you will play a pivotal role in supporting frontline teams, enhancing patient experience and ensuring the delivery of safe, high-quality care every night. This role provides an excellent platform for nurses aspiring to further develop their strategic, operational and professional leadership skills at Band 8A level.

The successful candidate will be a trusted senior leader across our hospital sites, providing expert nursing leadership, professional guidance and operational oversight throughout the night. You will champion safe staffing, patient flow, quality improvement and compassionate care, acting as a senior escalation point for patients, relatives and staff.

Your leadership will contribute to improving patient outcomes, supporting workforce wellbeing and creating a consistent senior nursing presence across Watford General Hospital, St Albans City Hospital and Hemel Hempstead Hospital.

The salary for this role is £59,798 to £67,020 a year.

We offer a variety of flexible working options as we recognise the importance of a good work-life balance.

## Skills

### Required
- Registered Practitioner
- post registration development at Degree level
- Masters' degree or willing to work towards
- Experience at Band 7 or equivalent
- Current knowledge of clinical practice in an acute setting
- Experience of working in partnership with multi-disciplinary team members

### Nice to have
- Management qualification

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