Matron – Community Children’s Nursing Services | Barts Health NHS Trust

Are you a dynamic senior children’s nurse leader ready to make a real impact in community services?

We have an exciting 6‑month secondment opportunity for a Band 8a Matron to provide senior clinical, professional, and operational leadership across Community Children’s Nursing Services in Tower Hamlets.

In this pivotal role, you will lead and inspire nursing teams to deliver safe, high‑quality, compassionate and family‑centred care to children and young people across diverse community settings. Working autonomously in a complex environment, you’ll translate Trust values and strategy into day‑to‑day operational excellence.

Key highlights of the role include

• Leading on clinical quality, safeguarding, patient experience, and workforce performance
• Holding teams to account for evidence‑based practice, outcomes, and governance
• Embedding strong clinical governance, risk management, and quality improvement
• Actively involving children, families, and carers in service evaluation and redesign
• Developing, supporting, and appraising staff to maximise potential and drive continuous improvement

This is an excellent opportunity for a motivated leader who thrives in complexity, champions quality, and is passionate about improving outcomes for children and families in the community.

If you’re ready to step into a high‑impact senior leadership role and shape the future of community children’s nursing, we’d love to hear from you.

The Band 8a Matron will provide senior professional, clinical, and operational leadership for Community Children’s Nursing Services, with delegated responsibility and accountability for standards of care, patient experience, workforce performance, and clinical governance. The postholder will ensure delivery of safe, effective, compassionate, and family‑centred care for children and young people across diverse community settings by translating Trust values, policies, and strategic objectives into operational practice. Working autonomously within a highly complex environment, the Matron will hold teams to account for safeguarding, evidence‑based care planning, and quality outcomes; lead and embed robust governance, risk, and quality improvement processes; actively involve children, families, and carers in service evaluation and redesign; and support, develop, and appraise staff to maximise potential and ensure continuous service improvement aligned to Barts Health and system priorities.

Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain’s leading healthcare providers.

The Barts Health group of NHS hospitals is entering an exciting new era on our improvement journey to becoming an outstanding organisation with a world-class clinical reputation. Having lifted ourselves out of special measures, we now have the impetus and breathing space to chart a fresh course in which we are continually striving to improve all our services for patients.

Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time. It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.

We strive to live by our WeCare values and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment.

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 documents, please view the attachment/s below.

We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and minority ethnic candidates as they are underrepresented within Barts Health at this band.

This advert closes on Monday 25 May 2026