York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Site Matron
Closing date: 28 April 2026
An exciting new opportunity is available to join our Site Management and Patient Flow teams at Scarborough and York Hospitals as a Site Matron, providing senior clinical leadership and site management 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
This role is central to delivering safe, high‑quality care and a positive patient experience – supporting patients, families, and carers, and ensuring national safety standards are met.
We’re looking for a highly experienced registered nurse with strong leadership skills and a track record of improving quality, patient safety, and flow in an acute setting. You will be a visible, values‑led role model with the confidence to make decisions, coordinate resources, and drive continuous improvement.
Main duties of the job
* Providing senior clinical leadership, advice and support to maintain safe and effective patient flow across the site.
* Act as a visible, positive role model, demonstrating behaviours aligned to organisational and professional values and codes.
* Work with Trust colleagues to deliver national standards for emergency patient flow safely and on time, and to improve patient experience.
* Coordinate demand and capacity, including site and bed management plans, to support emergency and elective access standards, mixed‑sex accommodation, infection and safety requirements.
* Ensure an appropriately skilled workforce is available and deployed efficiently, supporting retention, development and innovation in practice.
* Coordinate complex workforce redeployment and nursing resource reallocation in response to changing demand, liaising with Care Group Matrons and Ward Managers as required.
* Build networks and partnerships regionally and nationally, sharing best practice and embedding learning within the Trust.
* Work within Trust policies, protocols, procedures and guidelines, taking corrective action to protect patient and staff safety and maintain service standard.
Benefits
* Access to the NHS Pension Scheme, providing generous benefits upon retirement, as well as a lump sum and pension for dependants.
* 27 days holiday rising to 33 days (depending on NHS Trust service).
* A generous relocation package of up to 30% of salary (capped at £18k) to support with relocation expenses for hard‑to‑fill positions where relocation would be an expectation.
* A variety of different types of paid and unpaid leave covering emergency and planned leave.
* Confidential advice and support on personal, work, family and relationship issues, 24/7, from our Employee Assistance Programme.
* NHS Car Lease scheme and Cycle to Work scheme.
* An extensive range of learning and development opportunities.
* Discounts on restaurants, getaways, shopping, motoring, cinema and finance from a range of providers.
Qualifications & Training
* Level 1 Registered Nurse.
* Master level qualification in health care leadership or in a relevant nursing specialty or equivalent qualifications or knowledge.
* Evidence of Continuing professional Development.
* Operational Health Commander Training.
* Other relevant specialist training/courses as part of CPD.
Experience & Knowledge
* At least 3 years at senior level in nursing.
* Additional specialised knowledge of healthcare leadership acquired through experience combined with demonstrable evidence of specialist work, short courses and extended self‑study.
* Experience of implementing change in clinical practice or service delivery to improve the quality of patient care.
* Demonstrates knowledge and understanding of the national policy context for nursing practice and development, including knowledge of the nursing strategy, NHS Plan and National Service frameworks.
* Extensive knowledge of National standards relating to patient flow.
* Knowledge of HR policies/procedures relevant to managing people and able to effectively manage a team.
* Excellent negotiation and facilitation skills and able to manage conflict situations including where significant barriers to understanding or acceptance exist such as lack of understanding of OPEL levels across the organisation and the need to balance the needs of all patients across all sites; and cooperation is required. This can involve situations where stakeholders (internal and external) are hostile/highly emotive.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
£57,528 to £64,750 a year per annum/pro rata
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