Senior Matron - Medical Care Group

Overview

A fantastic leadership opportunity has arisen for an exceptional Senior Matron to join our Specialist Medicine directorate. We’re searching for a bold, inspiring, and highly visible nursing leader who thrives on driving change and championing outstanding patient-centred care. If you’re passionate about shaping services, empowering teams, and setting the bar for clinical excellence, this is your moment. In this pivotal role, you’ll join a dynamic triumvirate leadership team, working collaboratively to influence quality outcomes, redesign pathways, and strengthen workforce development across a diverse and fast-moving directorate.

Your voice, vision, and leadership will make a tangible impact every single day.

• Active NMC or HCPC registration
• A track record of confident, compassionate clinical leadership
• Energy, innovation, and a commitment to delivering exceptional care

Base

Location:

Royal Bournemouth and Poole Hospital, cross site working will be required - with work predominately being based at Royal Bournemouth post July 2026

• As part of the senior nursing management team, the Senior Matron will contribute to the strategic direction of the care group, working in partnership with the directorate triumvirate and care group management team to ensure Trust objectives are met; aligned with the Trust values and behaviours in relation to workforce, service delivery, clinical quality and safety, and financial control.
• Lead on nursing care delivery for a designated directorate within the care group, bringing together all component parts to ensure improved patient experience, patient safety and clinical outcomes, target compliance and financial balance.
• To use tools and techniques to optimise use of resources against acuity and patient dependency models, making sure that establishments meet patient need to promote the best possible clinical and performance outcome and workforce safeguarding.
• Lead the quality governance portfolio within the designated directorate, supporting the improvement and strengthening of quality of care by working closely with local governance leads. This will include:
  Clinical and non-clinical risk;
  Staff and patient complaints;
  Patient and user feedback and involvement/engagement-CQC compliance.
• Support the Head of Nursing and Professions to implement the strategic nursing vision by ensuring nursing processes and decisions facilitate a  patient first  philosophy and incorporate all aspects of the identified corporate nursing values.

UHD are investing, developing and transforming Trust services in line with the New Hospital Programme. As part of this, some services may move site this year or next, either temporarily or permanently. Recruiting Managers will be happy to answer any service-specific questions at interview.

If a role or service relocates as part of a planned move, excess mileage will not be reimbursed. Travel from home to the new work base will be classed as a normal commute. Any other changes will be managed under Trust or national terms and conditions.

UHD has active networks including Women’s, DEN, Pride, EU, Pro Ability, and Armed Forces. We support Disability Confident and Armed Forces Covenant interview schemes.

AI tools may be used, but applications must honestly reflect your own skills and experience. Integrity is key to our recruitment process.

For further details / informal visits contact:
Name:
Troy Welch

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