East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust
Matron - Children's Services COH
The closing date is 09 October 2025
An outstanding opportunity has arisen for a Senior Children's Nurse who is dynamic and high performing to join the senior management team as Matron for Children's Services based at Colchester hospital.
You will provide managerial, professional and clinical leadership to nurses and support staff working within the children's service ensuring the professional contributions of these staff is maximised to achieve the Trusts objectives and strategic goals in accordance with user needs, and national and local professional standards.
You will work well within the multi-disciplinary team, influencing and leading others in practice, in the delivery of clinical outcomes and support the General Manager to drive high standards of quality care and patient experience.
Working alongside the Children's management team you will oversee a diverse portfolio including inpatient services, Children's elective care, assessment unit and out patients.
Main duties of the job
The Matron is responsible and accountable for implementation of robust systems and processes that ensure there is a continuing improvement in the quality of the service provided to patients, safety to staff and visitors to the Trust premises, who may be affected by the work of the Trust.
They are also responsible and accountable to the Trust:
* For the delivery of the Clinical Specialty Clinical Governance agenda working within the Trust framework of Clinical Governance ensuring nursing and associated clinical services deliver quality, performance and operational objectives.
* For the continuous improvement of clinical productivity, patient safety and experience for all patients and carers
* Accountable for the delivery and monitoring of robust infection control measures through relentless vigilance by ensuring delivery of all aspects of the Infection Control Strategy
* For management of the nursing and clinical service, ensuring the delivery of high quality, timely care
About us
We are ESNEFT and we provide hospital and community health services to almost one million people across east Suffolk and north Essex. Our dedicated staff deliver care from acute hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, community hospitals, surgeries, community clinics and in patients' own homes.
We are the largest NHS organisation in East Anglia, employing more than 12,000 staff.
We pride ourselves on supporting our staff. We offer a wide range of training and development opportunities, as well as flexible working options.
Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals we offer a generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments (where applicable), 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata) and access to a range of NHS discounts. Our Staff Health and Wellbeing programme offer a variety of services.
Our philosophy is that Time Matters to everyone. Across the Trust, we concentrate on improving the things we do and removing those which cause time delays for our staff and patients.
We are investing in our commitment to Time Matters with a partnership with leading electronic patient record (EPR) supplier Epic. This digital transformation will bring what's widely regarded as the world's best EPR system to ESNEFT, transforming life in hospital for staff and patients.
Job responsibilities
For full details of the responsibilities and duties of this role please see the attached job description.
Person Specification
Experience
* Proven experience at senior nurse level with recent experience as Band 7
* Current health policy and its impact on the management and development of acute health services
* Experience of effective budgetary management
* Significant experience of effective staff management
* Evidence of effective working relationships both inside and outside the organisation
* Experience of leading strategic/cross Trust changes
Skills & knowledge
* Excellent communication skills, including the ability to liaise & negotiate
* Proven ability to lead teams effectively, exercising sound judgement
* Ability to think & plan strategically, tactically & creatively and prioritise work programmes
* IT literate
* Carried out clinical changes in light of changing evidence base
Qualifications
* Masters Degree in relation to health management Or equivalent experience
* Professional nursing qualification
* Evidence of academic pathway equivalent to Degree in Nursing or Health Related study
* Management Leadership Qualification, which has been tested in a management post
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.
East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust is an Equal Opportunities Employer.
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