Job overview
We are delighted to offer an exciting opportunity for a motivated and values‑driven leader to join our Nursing Leadership Team as Quality Matron for our two male Adults of Working Age inpatient wards at Atherleigh Park.
This post is offered at WTE, working Monday to Wednesday, providing an excellent opportunity for someone seeking a senior leadership role with a flexible working pattern.
In this role, you will work collaboratively with the wider Senior Leadership Team to ensure our services are safe, timely, clinically effective and person‑centred, enabling patients, service users and families to receive the highest standard of care.
As Quality Matron, you will provide visible, compassionate nursing leadership and champion a culture of continuous improvement. You will embed robust clinical governance processes, supporting teams to consistently meet standards across quality, patient safety, safeguarding, physical healthcare, and infection prevention and control (IPC).
You will role‑model professional excellence and contribute to a culture where staff feel psychologically safe, supported and empowered to learn, helping to create a just and learning‑focused environment.
If you share our commitment to delivering outstanding, compassionate care and are excited by the opportunity to influence quality and safety across our inpatient services, we would love to hear from you.
If this sounds like the next step in your leadership journey, please get in touch.
Main duties of the job
1. To ensure high standards of care delivery are consistently delivered, monitoring clinical outcomes and effectiveness of service delivery
2. To ensure clinical practice and development is in line with evidenced best practice
3. To be responsible for auditing clinical practice and clinical policy compliance
4. To monitor and promote development of practitioner clinical skills, knowledge and competency
5. To be responsible for achievement, maintenance and monitoring of environmental standards.
6. To ensure the clinical environment is conducive to promote service users health, safety and recovery and adherence to all clinical policies and protocols is evident. This will incorporate the safe management of medicines.
7. To support the delivery of high quality, clinically safe service and make the best use of resources.
8. To support clinical practice development and ensure that the fundamentals of care are right and that clinical innovations are rolled out in a timely and managed way.
9. To support and Lead on Quality Improvement and Service Transformation
Working for our organisation
Greater Manchester Mental Health (GMMH) Foundation Trust employs over 7000 members of staff, who deliver services from more than 120 locations.
We provide inpatient and community-based mental health care for people living in Bolton, the city of Manchester, Salford, Trafford and the borough of Wigan, and a wide range of specialist mental health and substance misuse services across Greater Manchester, the north west of England and beyond.
Greater Manchester is one of the world's most innovative, original and exciting places to live and work. From the beauty of the surrounding countryside to the heart of the vibrant inner city with great shopping, entertainment and dining options.
Wherever you go you will experience a great northern welcome with people famed for their warmth, humour and generosity.
Our people enjoy their work, have opportunities to learn and develop their skills and are encouraged to generate new ideas that improve care for our service users.
We are working to improve the diversity within our workforce, therefore we particularly welcome applications from people who have Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds, disabled people, LGBTQI+ people, and women
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
See attached detailed job description and person specification:
Staff benefits
10. Pay Enhancements – 30% additional for Evenings (8pm onwards) and Saturdays and 60% additional for Sundays and Bank holidays.
11. 27 days annual leave plus bank holidays rising to 29 after 5 years and 33 days after 10 years
12. Excellent pension
13. Cycle to work scheme
14. Salary sacrifice car scheme
15. Wellbeing programme
Person specification
Experience
Essential criteria
16. extensive clinical leadership
17. Governance experience
Desirable criteria
18. Quality improvement delivery
19. Clinical innovation
20. Estates and environmental improvement
Qualifications
Essential criteria
21. Registered nurse
22. Masters degree
Desirable criteria
23. Experience/training in quality improvement
24. Leadership training/ development
Skills
Essential criteria
25. Reviewing patient safety incidents
Desirable criteria
26. communication and collaborative working across a large care group
The Trust mandates all post holders who require a DBS for their role to subscribe to the DBS Update Service. You will be required to enrol for this service for a fee of £16 per year and maintain registration throughout your employment with GMMH.
Applicants are encouraged to apply for posts at Greater Manchester Mental Health who have direct experience of mental health, learning disability or drug and alcohol services either as a service user or a carer.
The Trust is also committed to safeguarding children, young people and vulnerable adults and requires all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
We are aspiring to ensure our workforce is representative of the diverse communities that we serve, and we are strongly committed to removing barriers to employment for candidates from under-represented groups, for example BAME, Disabled and LGBT+ communities. If you would like to have an informal chat about the recruitment process for this role or would value some additional support, we’d love to hear from you.
Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) when writing job applications
A candidate may utilise the help of AI when writing job application. The assessment of an application is made on its entirety and most times AI-generated content does not fully grasp the context and requirements of the job one applies for thus producing inaccurate and misleading information, especially in the supporting statement section of an application that can lack real life examples of one’s achievements, success and challenges.
We have added a disclaimer to our application process advising that the use of AI is monitored. GMMH reserves the right to follow up with a candidate at the interview on specific responses and those examples used in the supporting statement to explore it further.
Sponsorship
We are proud to be an approved sponsor for the Skilled Worker visa. Applications from individuals who require sponsorship will be considered alongside all other applications. Please be aware that not all roles are eligible for sponsorship. You can review the list of eligible roles and salary requirements on the UK Government’s website – click .
If you are offered a role with us and you require sponsorship, we will check your eligibility in line with the information on the above website. Your offer of employment could be withdrawn if the role is not eligible for sponsorship, and you are not otherwise able to evidence your right to work in the UK.
The Home Office introduces new changes from 22/07/2025 that impact the health and care sector, you may wish to familiarise with it.
Do you have experience outside the NHS?
We want to attract and retain people with diverse skills and experience, to deliver inclusive healthcare services to our communities.
We will consider relevant experience outside the NHS to calculate your salary on appointment.