Job summary
- Main area
- Nursing
- Grade
- Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 337-NP-9920KS
- Employer
- London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Northwick Park Hospital
- Town
- Harrow
- Salary
- £63,665 - £70,887 per annum Inclusive of High Cost Area Supplement
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 17/09/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Workforce Matron
Band 8a
London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust (LNWH) cares for the people of Brent, Ealing, Harrow and beyond.
Our team of more than 8,200 clinical and support staff serve a diverse population of almost one million people.
We run major acute services at:
- Northwick Park Hospital: home to one of the busiest emergency departments (A&E) in the country. The hospital provides a full range of services including the country’s top-rated hyper-acute stroke unit and one of only three hyper-acute rehabilitation units in the UK
- St Mark’s Hospital: an internationally renowned specialist centre for bowel disease
- Ealing Hospital: a busy district general hospital providing a range of clinical services, as well as 24/7 emergency department and urgent care centre, and specialist care at Meadow House Hospice
- Central Middlesex Hospital: our planned care site, hosting a range of surgical and outpatient services and collocated with an urgent care centre.
We are a university teaching NHS trust, in recognition of the important role we play in training clinicians of the future and bringing the benefits of research to the public.
Find out more about our Trust and why you should join us#WeAreLNWH
Find out more about Our HEART values
Find out more about our Trust Staff Benefits
Our vision at London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust is to put “Quality at our HEART”. Find out more about our ambitious strategy
We are clear that our vision can only be achieved by our staff, who are our most valuable asset.
Our vision is driven by our HEART values and behaviours which were developed together with our staff.
- H onesty
- E quity
- A ccountability
- R espect
- T eamwork
These values describe how we interact with each other and our patients and must underpin everything we do to achieve our vision.
LNWUH is a flexible working friendly organisation, we want you to be able to work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Please speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s job share, part time or another flexible pattern. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.
Job overview
This role is an essential part of the nursing leadership team focusing on attracting and retaining quality nursing staff to the Trust to meet our current and future workforce plans.
The post holder will support the Deputy Chief Nurse with the overview and coordinating functions for leading and developing the Trust approach to Nursing workforce/safer staffing in line with national and regulatory requirements.
The post holder will build upon their specialist knowledge and function as an expert within workforce development, effectively contributing to the Trust agenda.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will prepare nursing workforce reports for internal and external submissions.
The post holder will play a key leadership role in delivery of the nursing productivity work, providing scrutiny and challenge regarding use of temporary staffing and working with nursing and human resource colleagues to deliver agreed reduction targets
The postholder will work in collaboration with colleagues in the Health Roster team to ensure effective utilisation of the workforce deployment system’s capacity and realisation of the associated benefits.
The role will work in collaboration with our partners and other professional networks to ensure best practice in nurse recruitment and retention is shared across the system.
Working for our organisation
London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust (LNWH) cares for the people of Brent, Ealing, Harrow and beyond.
Our team of more than 8,200 clinical and support staff serve a diverse population of almost one million people.
We run major acute services at:
- Northwick Park Hospital: home to one of the busiest emergency departments (A&E) in the country. The hospital provides a full range of services including the country’s top-rated hyper-acute stroke unit and one of only three hyper-acute rehabilitation units in the UK
- St Mark’s Hospital: an internationally renowned specialist centre for bowel disease
- Ealing Hospital: a busy district general hospital providing a range of clinical services, as well as 24/7 emergency department and urgent care centre, and specialist care at Meadow House Hospice
- Central Middlesex Hospital: our planned care site, hosting a range of surgical and outpatient services and collocated with an urgent care centre.
We are a university teaching NHS trust, in recognition of the important role we play in training clinicians of the future and bringing the benefits of research to the public.
“We operate a joint recruitment hub across the North West London Acute Provider Collaborative Group. As part of this, your application and personal data may be shared with partner trusts within the group for recruitment and workforce purposes, in line with general data protection regulation (GDPR).”
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To view the main responsibility, please see the attached the Job Description and Person Specification
Person specification
Education and Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Current NMC registered nurse status, eligible to practice
- Educated to master level in relevant subject area Evidence of post qualifying and continuous professional development.
- Completion of appropriate leadership or management development programme
Desirable criteria
- NHSE Safer Staffing module
Knowledge and Experience
Essential criteria
- • Demonstrate a successful track record of delivering effective nursing services as a senior nurse/manager, multifaceted healthcare environment including staff management, financial management and change management.
- • Evidence of delivering successful nursing strategic and operational performance management and clearly demonstrating improvement in the quality of nursing care delivered at a strategic level.
- • Experience of quality and risk management, to include experience in analysing and resolving complaints and incidents.
- • Experience and understanding of safer staffing models and workforce planning
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working at Matron/Senior Nurse level within the NHS
Skills abilities and attributes
Essential criteria
- Analytical skills to interpret complex data and action
- Excellent communication skills both written and oral, with the ability to liaise and negotiate effectively at all levels
- Commitment to self-development with the ability to demonstrate knowledge of current policy and thinking affecting nursing profession
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Helen Hardy
- Job title
- Deputy Chief Nurse
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07796705861
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