Theatre Matron

The Senior Matron for Theatres will provide expert clinical and professional leadership, ensuring safe, high-quality perioperative care. The role involves leading operational delivery, managing resources and budgets, and driving service transformation to improve patient safety, experience, and efficiency. You will oversee workforce development, embed robust governance processes, and collaborate across multidisciplinary teams to influence strategic planning. Acting as a visible senior leader, you will support staff and patients, promote education and research, and participate in the on‑call rota to provide out‑of‑hours support.

The Senior Theatre Matron provides expert leadership and operational oversight for Operating Theatre Services  role ensures safe, high-quality patient care, compliance with clinical standards, and delivery of the theatre transformation agenda.

• Clinical Leadership:
  Accountable for theatre operations, promoting best practice, patient dignity, and safety. Supports complex cases and maintains robust monitoring processes.
• Professional Management:
  Line manages theatre staff, oversees workforce planning, recruitment, and retention. Ensures compliance with mandatory training and HR processes.
• Quality Governance:
  Implements governance frameworks, audits, and risk management to maintain CQC standards and improve patient experience.
• Education & Workforce Development:
  Leads staff development, training programmes, and fosters a culture of continuous professional growth.
• Research & Improvement:
  Drives quality improvement initiatives and supports research projects aligned with Trust strategy.
• Financial Accountability:
  Manages delegated budgets, contributes to business planning, and ensures efficient resource use.
• Communication &
  
  Collaboration:
  
  Engages with multidisciplinary teams, communicates complex information, and represents theatres at senior forums.
• Safeguarding & EDI:
  Promotes safeguarding, equality, diversity, and inclusion in all aspects of service delivery.

The Trust uses electronic new starter forms on Trac to collect personal details. Information collected is securely stored and used to set up the employee record on the ESR HR system.

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Please note in order to progress your application, your data will be processed by our 3rd party recruitment providers – North London Partners Shared Service, who conduct recruitment activities on behalf of the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust.

The Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust is the largest orthopaedic hospital in the UK and a global leader in our field. We provide a dynamic working environment where we support frontline staff to implement improvements so that we can realise our vision of being a world leading neuro‑musculoskeletal hospital providing the best patient care and staff experience in the NHS, delivering world leading research, and offering a strong foundation of education, training and career progression.

Our dedicated staff come from diverse backgrounds, and our patients benefit from the wide range of experience they bring to the Trust.

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