Matron | South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust

Psychological Medicine, Older Adult and Neurodevelopmental (PMOA & NDS) Directorate are offering an exciting opportunity for a proactive and proficient Inpatient Matron to come and join our team, working within the National Autism Inpatient ward.

This is an exciting post that allows for close working and collaboration with senior management and clinicians in the future development of the directorate. The successful post holder will be based within the Directorate and will be an integral part of the Nursing, Quality and Assurance Team.

The successful candidates will have exceptional communication, motivational and influencing skills being able to influence and encourage teams to work across organisational boundaries whilst holding patient care at the heart of their work.

The candidates will need to be passionate about the delivery of high-quality patient care and have experience in leadership. The post holder will be a ‘self-starter’ and be able to work autonomously as well as part of a multi professional team, with a particular understanding into the requirements of an inpatient unit in terms of good quality care. With a good understanding into the neurodevelopmental pathway and associated clinical and quality outcomes in this area.

We look forward to receiving your application.

The matron role will provide senior overall operational, quality and clinical leadership and responsibility. With the aim to provide senior nursing leadership and responsibility for overseeing the clinical care within the specialist inpatient setting in our National Autism ward under PMOA & NDS directorate, within the neuro-developmental pathway.

The post holder will deliver on the

Matrons 10 responsibilities

· Leading by example

· Making sure patients get quality care

· Ensuring staffing is appropriate to patient needs

· Empowering nurses to take on a wider range of clinical tasks

· Improving hospital/team cleanliness

· Ensuring patients’ nutritional needs are met

· Improving on patients experience (to include supporting teams in identification of ligatures and management plan regarding existing ligatures where patients are seen in outpatients)

· Making sure patients are treated with respect

· Preventing hospital-acquired infection when patients are admitted to the ward.

· Resolving problems for patients and their relatives by building closer relationships

About the team

The Psychological Medicine, Older Adult and Neurodevelopmental Directorate are offering an exciting opportunity for proactive and proficient Matrons to work with Specialist inpatient services and community teams.

This is an exciting post that allows for close working and collaboration with senior management and clinicians in the future development of the specialist directorate, as well as being a key person in shaping future clinical practice across national services, pioneering new ways of care within mental health services.

About the location

The successful post holder will be across all four boroughs. Our base is at Maudsley Hospital, however there is an expectation that you are able to travel between services and sites. We have satellite offices at Bethlem Royal Hospital and Blue Star House Lambeth.

Our Trust headquarters is located at 113 Denmark Hill less than 5 minutes from the train station (zone 2).

The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. For both overviews please view the Job Description attachment with the job advert.

This advert closes on Friday 15 May 2026