Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust
Modern Matron
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About the Role
We are seeking an exceptional, dynamic, and compassionate Modern Matron to provide visible, values-led leadership across our inpatient services. This role will be providing support for the Older Adult inpatient wards. This is a pivotal role focused on driving high standards of patient care, strengthening clinical governance, and supporting our teams to deliver safe, effective, and person-centred services.
As Modern Matron, you will act as a key professional leader, championing quality improvement, fostering positive cultures, and ensuring operational excellence within a fast-paced and highly rewarding environment.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide visible, values-led leadership across our inpatient services.
- Support the Older Adult inpatient wards.
- Drive high standards of patient care.
- Strengthen clinical governance.
- Support teams to deliver safe, effective, and person-centred services.
- Act as a key professional leader.
- Champion quality improvement.
- Foster positive cultures.
- Ensure operational excellence.
Working Environment
The inpatient units are designed to meet the holistic needs of service users/patients and carers, in a working environment conducive to staff development and wellbeing. The post holder supports the delivery of the inpatient hospital model providing leadership to professional and direct care staff, ensuring the availability of appropriate administrative support services in their wards to release clinical time to care. The post holder will be expected to cover a shift pattern 7/7 throughout 24 hours with their colleagues providing leadership and clinical expertise to the capacity and flow, inpatient wards and advice to external agencies as required.
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Requirements
- Provide a visible, accessible, and authoritative presence on wards.
- Be clinically up to date and creditable/have clinical skills expecting others to perform.
- Be passionate about driving up clinical and professional standards.
- Lead on quality agenda within clinical environment.
Diversity and Inclusion
LSCFT values diversity and inclusion, recognising that talent from varied backgrounds creates a flexible, creative, and effective workforce. We actively challenge discrimination and welcome applications from all, regardless of age, disability (including those with experience of accessing or caring for someone who has accessed mental health or learning disability services), ethnicity, gender, religion, belief, or sexual orientation.
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Our aim is to reflect the communities we serve, so we particularly encourage applications from under-represented groups. If you’d like to discuss your application, please ask.
We also welcome individuals with lived experience relevant to the role or service area, as your insight brings authenticity to our services.
Flexible Working
LSCFT supports flexible working, we believe that a positive work/life balance benefits NHS employees through improved health and wellbeing. We would consider working patterns such as term time, part time, compressed hours, and flexi-time.
Wellbeing Support
The wellbeing of our people is at the heart of everything we do. We offer a wide range of resources, tools, and support to help you thrive both in and out of work.
Explore our full wellbeing offer here: Keeping our workforce well
Contact Information
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Louise Stubbs
- Job title: Modern Matron
- Email address: Louise.Stubbs@lscft.nhs.uk
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