# Matron

**Company**: Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust
**Location**: London
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: permanent
**Salary**: £57,528 to £64,750 a year Plus HCAS per annum
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

Are you an experienced nursing leader ready to shape the future of surgical services?

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an ambitious and inspirational Surgical Matron to join the senior nursing leadership team within the Surgery Division at Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust, based at Queen Elizabeth Hospital.

As Surgical Matron, you will provide professional and operational leadership across designated surgical wards and departments. You will work closely with the Head of Nursing, Clinical Leads and Service Managers to ensure patients receive safe, effective and compassionate care while driving excellence in patient experience, workforce development and clinical outcomes.

**Main duties of the job**

- Provide visible, compassionate and effective nursing leadership across surgical services.

- Lead quality improvement, patient safety and clinical governance initiatives.

- Champion the delivery of Harm Free Care, patient experience and the Trust Quality and Safety Strategy.

- Support and develop ward managers and multidisciplinary teams to achieve excellence in care delivery.

- Drive performance against key quality, workforce and operational indicators.

- Lead investigations, risk management activities and lessons learned following incidents and complaints.

- Support safe patient flow and timely discharge planning across the division.

- Develop a positive learning culture that promotes professional development, education and staff wellbeing.

- Contribute to service transformation, innovation and workforce planning.

- Participate in the senior leader site oversight rota, including weekend cover.

**About us**

Our people are our greatest asset. We offer a supportive and inclusive leadership team, opportunities for continued professional and leadership development, and a culture focused on innovation, quality improvement and patient-centred care.

**Benefits**

- A supportive and inclusive leadership team.

- Opportunities for continued professional and leadership development.

- The chance to influence strategic nursing priorities across surgical services.

- A culture focused on innovation, quality improvement and patient-centred care.

- The opportunity to make a real difference to the experience and outcomes of patients and their families.

## Skills

### Required
- Registered Nurse
- NMC registration
- Degree-level education
- Post-registration qualification
- Master's degree or equivalent
- Teaching and assessing qualification
- Senior clinical leadership experience
- Quality improvement
- Clinical governance
- Audit and patient safety initiatives

### Nice to have
- Experience of managing budgets and resources
- Non-medical prescribing qualification
- Project management and service development expertise

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