Matron- Community Services: Sponsorship Available

Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Job summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join our Trust as a Matron within our Child Health Department for our Community Services.

To have management responsibility and accountability for the non-medical staff in the delivery and performance for the Children’s Neurodisability teams (ASD and ADHD) and Children’s Community Nursing Services, which include the Children’s Community Nursing Team, Children’s Continence Service, and Children’s Epilepsy Nursing Team, Looked After Children’s Nursing Team, Children’s Training Team, Home Based Support Team and Children’s Diabetes Nursing Team

The Matron for Community Services will work with the Lead Nurse Family Care Division and, Matron for Acute Paediatric services. Head of Practice and Professional Development and Head of Quality Governance to promote and ensure the highest standards of care within the services and the wider care unit.

It’s an exciting time to join our team as we invest in new leadership roles within our paediatrics structure to strengthen support to our clinical teams and enable excellent clinical outcomes and outstanding patient and staff experience.

As an experienced clinical leader, you will work with the Lead Nurse for Child Health to lead the community teams ensuring that children and young people and their families receive compassionate and high quality care.

Main duties of the job

As Matron, you will provide professional leadership and direction for the Community Nursing Services , ensuring the highest standards of clinical care.

Key to this role will be to provide an accessible and visible presence across paediatric services, advising staff, children and young people and their families.

You will need to demonstrate highly developed leadership behaviours and be a role model for our values, inclusion, staff engagement and supporting our teams. Dealing with all incidents and any complaints relating to community services and managed in line with the trusts policies.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Registered Nurse, Specialty specific registration appropriate to role, RSCN or equivalent/AHD
  • Formal management qualification or equivalent experience
  • Master’s degree (or equivalent experience).
  • Evidence of appropriate relevant professional development

Desirable

  • Experience with nursing children with complex care needs within an acute setting
  • Community Nursing Qualification
  • Neurodisability Experience

Experience

Essential

  • Up to date relevant clinical experience
  • Involvement in developing strategic and operational plans
  • Managing and investigating complaints and incidents
  • Involvement at a leadership level on issues relating to quality governance, monitoring and standard setting
  • Experience of senior management and leadership of operational teams
  • Proven track record of managing complex change within an acute setting
  • Involvement in development and innovation and quality initiatives in a healthcare setting
  • Experience of leading teams, with the ability to motivate others

Desirable

  • Experience of service design
  • Budget management experience

Skills

Essential

  • Leadership skills, with an ability to influence
  • Confident to manage change
  • Effective negotiating, influencing and networking skills
  • Ability to analyse complex information and production of reports
  • Knowledge of up to date safeguarding children’s guidance
  • Ability to deal with sensitive and complex issues.
  • Competent in the use of IT systems
  • Excellent oral and written communication skills, with excellent interpersonal skills
  • Proven track record of success

Desirable

  • Change management experience

Personal

Essential

  • Visible, role model and professional leader
  • Inclusive and developmental personal style and approach
  • Inspiring and motivating and emotional toughness
  • Effective under pressure and portrays self-belief, self-awareness and drive for improvement
  • Emotional toughness
  • Commitment to values and principles of the NHS

Trust Care Values

Essential

  • Proud to Care

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Closing Date: 18 August 2026

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