Matron Care of the Elderly

This is an exciting opportunity to provide strategic oversight and leadership across our diverse medical wards, which include Frailty, Older People Services, End of Life Care, Respiratory, Cardiology, Gastroenterology, General Medicine, and Stroke. The role also involves some outpatient activity, offering a varied and rewarding portfolio.

What The Role Involves

As a Matron, you will:

• Deliver high-quality, patient-centred care and uphold clinical governance standards across the division.
• Lead, support, and develop nursing teams, focusing on professional growth and staff wellbeing.
• Provide visible, compassionate leadership, empowering ward managers and team leaders to deliver excellence.
• Contribute to the division’s operational and strategic goals, including quality improvement, patient safety, and efficiency metrics.
• Work clinically for at least 50% of your time, maintaining your expertise and credibility as a nursing leader.

What We’re Looking For

• A registered nurse with proven leadership experience, ideally at Band 7 or above in an acute care setting.
• Strong knowledge of clinical governance, safeguarding, and acute nursing practice.
• Demonstrated ability to lead teams in delivering safe, compassionate, and efficient care.
• Commitment to professional development, both personally and for your teams.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to engage with multidisciplinary teams and external stakeholders

This role provides key strategic oversight for our Medical Wards at Whipps Cross Hospital. The post holder provides innovative clinical and professional leadership to nursing at all levels within the service group, ensuring nursing care is delivered to a high standard and the nursing resource is managed effectively. This will be achieved by the post holder supporting ward managers running the directorate wards. The role will be supportive of nursing leads in these areas in their delivery of safe and compassionate care. The post holder is responsible for maintaining the standards as identified by the Care Quality Commission and other regulatory bodies are maintained supporting quality improvement projects with the ward sister/charge nurse and support the multidisciplinary team to take forward the directorate’s quality and safety agenda. This post combines clinical expertise, leadership and educational/research skills with managerial and professional responsibilities.

Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain’s leading healthcare providers.

Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time. It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.

We strive to live by our WeCare values and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment.

We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and minority ethnic candidates as they are underrepresented within Barts Health at this band.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Maria Pitt Job title: Senior Nurse Email address: [email protected]