Job summary
- Main area
- Community Hospital Matron
- Grade
- Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 229-IC-7417241
- Employer
- Wye Valley NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Across all three community hospitals
- Town
- Herefordshire
- Salary
- £55,690 - £62,682 Per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 11/09/2025 23:59
- Interview date
- 22/09/2025
Employer heading
Quality Matron
Band 8a
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Job overview
The post holder will work as part of the managerial and operational triumvirate for the three community hospitals, working closely with the Matron (Education) and Deputy General Manager.
The post holder will work across three community hospitals providing clinical practice and leadership and ensuring the provision of high quality and safe care.
Main duties of the job
- Provide professional and managerial leadership for the Integrated Care Division Community Hospitals, delivering a highly visible and influential presence ensuring the provision of high quality and responsive services with the needs of the patient at the centre of care delivery.
- Work in partnership with the General manager and the Divisional Managers to ensure the effective and efficient management of the Integrated Care Division to deliver key targets within resources available.
- Work in partnership with the Matron (Education lead) ensuring the development of nurses and nursing practice.
- Be a key leader in service improvement programmes and support improved patient and staff outcomes.
- Provide advice and guidance on nursing issues
Working for our organisation
About us
Wye Valley NHS Trust is a member of an NHS Foundation Group with South Warwickshire University NHS FT, George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust and Worcestershire Acute NHS Hospitals Trust.
Located on the border with Wales in the shadow of the Black Mountains, we provide acute and community services across Herefordshire and into parts of Powys and run Hereford County Hospital and the community hospitals in Bromyard, Leominster and Ross-on-Wye.
We are a progressive and forward looking trust with ambitious plans to improve quality and integrate patient pathways through close collaborative working with our partners to deliver the quality of care wed want for our family and friends.
More than 3,000 people work for the Trust they tell us its a great place to work, blending the busyness of a DGH with the benefits of working in a beautiful rural and unspoilt county like Herefordshire.
We can offer a great work-life balance and have a fine tradition of working with staff to help them achieve their full potential.
Russell Hardy, Trust Chairman: “The strength of the Trust is its amazing staff; a great place to work, a great place to develop your career and a great place to reach your potential.”
Our values -Care, Accountability, Respect and Excellence - are at the heart of all we do. We believe in providing the right care in the right place at the right time.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For further details on this vacancy, please refer to the job description and person specification within the attachments.
Person specification
Registered Nurse
Essential criteria
- qualified registration NMC
- Degree in Health related subject
- Evidence of professional development
- Teaching and assessing qualification
- Significant experience in managing a unit
- Strong leadership experience and evidence of decision making
- Risk and clinical experience knowledge
Desirable criteria
- Masters Level study
- Leadership and Management training
Personal attributes
Essential criteria
- evidence of extensive communication skills
flexible to meet the needs of the job requirement
Essential criteria
- ability to travel between three community sites
- ability to manage own workload and prioritise
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Louise Bartlett
- Job title
- General Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07795272957
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