Matron - Specialist Surgery ENT

Matron - Specialist Surgery ENT

The closing date is 12 February 2026

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a part-time Matron to work as a job share on our Ashford Site in our Specialist Surgery department, primarily focusing on our ENT patients. As a visible and accessible clinical leader, the Matron will foster a culture of excellence, safety, and continuous improvement, offering guidance and support to staff, patients, and families.

Main duties

The predominant responsibilities of the role will be to provide clinical leadership to department and ward managers in balancing the challenges of providing safe services with excellent outcomes and in a way that delivers efficiencies and meets the expectations of patients and the public.

To provide clinical leadership to department and ward managers in delivering person-centred, safe and effective care and develop the leadership capability of others.

To maintain a highly visible presence as a role model to staff, patients and visitors by working a minimum of 50% time in clinical practice, this can be through face to face complaints management, hands on patient care or part of department/ward-based rounds for example.

To hold professional accountability for patient safety and effective care with a particular focus on the strategic priorities of handover of care, preventable venous thromboembolic events, practice errors, catheter associated UTIs, falls with harm, pressure ulcers and sepsis.

As the Matron, you will be responsible for supporting the Head of Nursing, by establishing effective relationships to enable collaborative working to design local improvements on behalf of Critical Care, Anaesthetics, & Specialist Surgery CCASS Care Group

About us

We are one of the largest hospital trusts in England, with five hospitals and community clinics serving a local population of around 800,000 people. Our vision is 'great healthcare from great people'. Everything we do is guided by our values: 'People feel cared for, safe, respected and confident that we are making a difference'. We have a new way of working at East Kent Hospitals, called 'We care'. It's about empowering frontline staff to lead improvements day-to-day. We're looking for compassionate people to be part of our improvement journey for the patients, families and carers we care for every day.

Please note that if you require a Certificate of Sponsorship to work in the UK you must declare this on your application form, even if you currently have a certificate of sponsorship or a work permit for another role and are already working in the country. Please note we are only able to sponsor candidates on a Skilled Worker Visa applying for roles Band 5 and above.

Job responsibilities

Please scroll down to access the full Job Description and Person Specification located in Documents to download.

If you have further queries please dont hesitate to contact the line manager using the contact details below.

Person Specification Qualification and Training

• Minimum three years at Band 7 (or higher clinical grade) in a hospital setting.
• Ability to evidence continuous quality improvement.
• Ability to evidence resolving user concerns effectively
• Monitoring and audit of facilities services and clinical environment

Clinical Skills and Experience

• Patient and carer centred approach.
• Clinical credibility and knowledge of evidence based clinical practice.
• IT Skills
• Highly developed verbal and written communication skills.
• Influencing and negotiating skills. Coaching and facilitating skills. Staff development and empowerment
• Ability to handle difficult situations with tact and diplomacy. Ability to manage conflicting and complex issues.

Governance

• Ability to prioritise workload and cope under pressure in order to meet deadlines.
• Calm under pressure.
• Ability to lead a team

Personal/Professional Attributes

• Local improvement journey priorities.
• Current Health Service priorities. National and local nursing agenda.
• Clinical Governance.
• Health & Safety
• National Standards for cleanliness in hospitals. PLACE programme.
• National Standards for Privacy & Dignity.
• NHSLA Standards

Other requirements

• Evidence of ongoing personal and professional development related to role.

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 Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust

£55,690 to £62,682 a yearper annum pro rata