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Matron Pre-assessment and Day units
Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust View all jobs
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Reference: 2383450
Job summary
This is an exceptional opportunity for a highly motivated individual to lead and develop high-performing pre-assessment and day surgery services, while playing a pivotal role in transforming perioperative pathways across the Trust.
As Matron, you will provide visible and compassionate leadership, ensuring the delivery of safe, effective and patient-centred care. Working collaboratively with multidisciplinary teams, operational managers and clinical leaders, you will drive service improvement, support elective recovery programmes and contribute to the strategic development of modern perioperative services.
The successful candidate will be instrumental in shaping the future of pre-operative assessment and day surgery pathways, ensuring patients receive seamless, timely and high-quality care from referral through to discharge.
Main duties of the job
An experienced senior nurse leader, ideally working at Matron, Senior Sister/Charge Nurse or equivalent level.
Knowledgeable in perioperative care, pre-assessment services, day surgery and elective pathways.
Experienced in leading service transformation and quality improvement projects.
Able to demonstrate strong operational management and workforce leadership skills.
Skilled in managing complex change and influencing across multidisciplinary teams.
Committed to delivering outstanding patient care and improving patient experience.
Passionate about staff development, inclusion and creating positive workplace cultures.
About us
Please refer to the Applicant Guide via the link below for key information:- Applying to LGT Guide - Key Information for Applicants
Our people are our greatest asset. When we feel supported and happy at work, this positivity reaches those very people we are here for, the patients. Engaged employees perform at their best and our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) initiatives contribute to cultivate a culture of engagement. We have four staff networks, a corporate EDI Team and a suite of programmes and events which aim to insert the 5 aspirations:
- Improving representation at senior levels of staff with disabilities, from black, Asian, and ethnic minorities background, identify as LGBTQ+ and women, through improved recruitment and leadership development
- Widening access (anchor institution) and employability
- Improving the experience of staff with disability
- Improving the EDI literacy and confidence of trust staff through training and development
- Making equalities mainstream
Details
Date posted
05 October 2026
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 8a
Salary
£57,528 to £64,750 a year per annum
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-time
Reference number
197-R-LC8789
Job locations
University Hospital Lewisham
Lewisham High Street
Lewisham
SE13 6LH
United Kingdom
Job description
Job responsibilities
Key Responsibilities
Provide professional nursing leadership for Pre-Assessment and Day Unit services across the Trust.
Lead the transformation and optimisation of perioperative pathways to improve patient experience, efficiency and clinical outcomes.
Drive the development of innovative models of care that support elective recovery and national best practice standards.
Ensure the delivery of high-quality, safe and effective care through robust governance, quality improvement and risk management processes.
Lead workforce planning, staff development and succession planning to build resilient, skilled and engaged teams.
Work collaboratively with surgical, anaesthetic, operational and corporate colleagues to improve patient flow and maximise theatre utilisation.
Support the implementation of digital solutions and service redesign initiatives to enhance patient pathways.
Monitor performance against key quality, safety, activity and financial targets.
Act as a role model for compassionate leadership and foster a culture of continuous improvement and excellence.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Key Responsibilities
Provide professional nursing leadership for Pre-Assessment and Day Unit services across the Trust.
Lead the transformation and optimisation of perioperative pathways to improve patient experience, efficiency and clinical outcomes.
Drive the development of innovative models of care that support elective recovery and national best practice standards.
Ensure the delivery of high-quality, safe and effective care through robust governance, quality improvement and risk management processes.
Lead workforce planning, staff development and succession planning to build resilient, skilled and engaged teams.
Work collaboratively with surgical, anaesthetic, operational and corporate colleagues to improve patient flow and maximise theatre utilisation.
Support the implementation of digital solutions and service redesign initiatives to enhance patient pathways.
Monitor performance against key quality, safety, activity and financial targets.
Act as a role model for compassionate leadership and foster a culture of continuous improvement and excellence.
Person Specification
Qaulification and Training
Essential
- Registered Healthcare Professional with relevant Professional body 1st Level Nurse/ NMC with significant experience in Nursing.
- Registered Operating Department Practitioner (ODP) with significant experience in theatre leadership.
- Master's Degree or willingness to complete or relevant experience
- Evidence of Post Graduate Specialist qualifications relevant to area of practice (examples -:non-medical prescribing; mentorship , coaching , clinical expertise, leadership or management)
Desirable
- Management or supervisory qualification / programme of study
- PTLLS/DTLLS, PGCE or Certificate in Education
Experience
Essential
- Clinical expertise relevant to the post
- Experience of providing and receiving complex, sensitive information
- Leadership of clinical governance and patient safety
- Achievement of high quality patient care through evidence based practice
- Management of finances within a budget, including delivery of cost improvements
- Management/Clinical Leadership experience
- Experience of successfully leading and implementing change
- Experience in analysing complex problems and implementing workable solutions
- Ability to think and plan strategically, operationally and creatively and to prioritise work programs in the face of competing demands
Knowledge and Skills
Essential
- Understanding of National Service Frameworks and NICE guidance to relevant to care setting and its application across health care services
- Highly developed written and verbal skills
- Ability to be intellectually flexible and to look beyond existing structures, ways of working, boundaries and organisations to produce more effective and innovative service delivery and partnerships
- A strong sense of personal and team accountability coupled with a clear understanding of the boundaries around delegated authority
Desirable
- Ability To work om service development projects
Personal Qualities and Skills
Essential
- Excellent inter-personal and communication skills
- High level of work organisation, self- motivation, drive for performance and improvement
- Flexibility in approach and attitude Strong sense of commitment to openness, honesty and integrity
- Able to work with staff at all levels across the Trust
- Self-confident, assertive and pro-active
- Attentive to detail and able to work to tight deadlines and cope under pressure
- Ability to manage and lead change
- Ability to communicate complex, sensitive information to individuals and groups
- Able to support the implementation of local and national agenda's for health under the guidance of the senior Practitioner
- Strong influencing and negotiating skills
- Highly developed facilitation skills account Trust policies and procedures.
- Ability to prioritise care delivery in a professional manner, taking into account Trust policies and procedures.
Person Specification
Qaulification and Training
Essential
- Registered Healthcare Professional with relevant Professional body 1st Level Nurse/ NMC with significant experience in Nursing.
- Registered Operating Department Practitioner (ODP) with significant experience in theatre leadership.
- Master's Degree or willingness to complete or relevant experience
- Evidence of Post Graduate Specialist qualifications relevant to area of practice (examples -:non-medical prescribing; mentorship , coaching , clinical expertise, leadership or management)
Desirable
- Management or supervisory qualification / programme of study
- PTLLS/DTLLS, PGCE or Certificate in Education
Experience
Essential
- Clinical expertise relevant to the post
- Experience of providing and receiving complex, sensitive information
- Leadership of clinical governance and patient safety
- Achievement of high quality patient care through evidence based practice
- Management of finances within a budget, including delivery of cost improvements
- Management/Clinical Leadership experience
- Experience of successfully leading and implementing change
- Experience in analysing complex problems and implementing workable solutions
- Ability to think and plan strategically, operationally and creatively and to prioritise work programs in the face of competing demands
Knowledge and Skills
Essential
- Understanding of National Service Frameworks and NICE guidance to relevant to care setting and its application across health care services
- Highly developed written and verbal skills
- Ability to be intellectually flexible and to look beyond existing structures, ways of working, boundaries and organisations to produce more effective and innovative service delivery and partnerships
- A strong sense of personal and team accountability coupled with a clear understanding of the boundaries around delegated authority
Desirable
- Ability To work om service development projects
Personal Qualities and Skills
Essential
- Excellent inter-personal and communication skills
- High level of work organisation, self- motivation, drive for performance and improvement
- Flexibility in approach and attitude Strong sense of commitment to openness, honesty and integrity
- Able to work with staff at all levels across the Trust
- Self-confident, assertive and pro-active
- Attentive to detail and able to work to tight deadlines and cope under pressure
- Ability to manage and lead change
- Ability to communicate complex, sensitive information to individuals and groups
- Able to support the implementation of local and national agenda's for health under the guidance of the senior Practitioner
- Strong influencing and negotiating skills
- Highly developed facilitation skills account Trust policies and procedures.
- Ability to prioritise care delivery in a professional manner, taking into account Trust policies and procedures.
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details
Employer name
Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust
Address
University Hospital Lewisham
Lewisham High Street
Lewisham
SE13 6LH
United Kingdom
Employer's website
https://www.lewishamandgreenwich.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)
Employer details
Employer name
Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust
Address
University Hospital Lewisham
Lewisham High Street
Lewisham
SE13 6LH
United Kingdom
Employer's website
https://www.lewishamandgreenwich.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)