Matron | Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

Guy’s & St Thomas’ Theatres, Anaesthesia and Peri-operative medicine (TAP) is offering a full time position to join the leadership team as Matron. The Matron for TAP is a senior nursing leader responsible for delivering safe, effective, and high-quality patient care. The post holder will provide visible, compassionate leadership, acting as a professional role model and ensuring consistently high standards of clinical practice and patient experience within afast-paced, complex environment.

Working within the TAP leadership team, the Matron will support and develop multidisciplinary staff, promoting a culture of accountability, continuous improvement, and patient-centred care. They will have operational oversight of the department, including patient flow, workforce deployment, and performance against key targets. They will work with others to transform services to meet the complex demands of the department and wider Trust.

The role includes leading on quality, safety, and governance, ensuring compliance with national standards and regulatory requirements, including those of the Care Quality Commission. The post holder will contribute to risk and incident management, will maintain infection control standards and participate in clinical audit.

The Matron will lead workforce development, supporting education, wellbeing, and retention to maintain a skilled and resilient team.

Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust comprise five of the UK’s best-known hospitals – Guy’s, St Thomas’, Evelina London Children’s Hospital, Royal Brompton and Harefield – as well as community services in Lambeth and Southwark, all with a long history of high-quality care, clinical excellence, research and innovation.

We are among the UK’s busiest, most successful foundation trusts. We provide specialist care for patients including heart and lung, cancer and renal services as well as a full range of local hospital and community services for people in Lambeth and Southwark.

We have around 22,700 staff, making us one of the largest NHS Trusts in the country and one of the biggest employers locally. We aim to reflect the diversity of the communities we serve and continue to develop new and existing partnerships with local people, patients, neighbouring NHS organisations, local authorities and charitable bodies and GPs.

We strive to recruit and retain the best staff as the dedication and skills of our employees lie at the heart of our organisation and ensure that our services are of the highest quality, safe and focused on our patients

For a full list of responsibilities and tasks associated with this role, please refer to the job description/person specification attached to this vacancy.

This advert closes on Sunday 7 Jun 2026