Inpatient Matron | South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust

To provide senior nursing leadership and responsibility for overseeing the clinical care within the working age adults inpatient services under Southwark Directorate. To secure and to assure that the highest standard of clinical care is provided to our patients/service users. The post holder will deliver on the

Matron’s 10 responsibilities

o Leading by example;

o Making sure patients get quality care;

o Ensuring staffing is appropriate to patient needs;

o Empowering nurses to take on a wider range of clinical tasks;

o Improving hospital cleanliness;

o Ensuring patients’ nutritional needs are met;

o Improving wards and community sites for patients (to include supporting ward in identification of ligatures and management plan regarding existing ligatures);

o Making sure patients are treated with respect;

o Preventing hospital-acquired infection;

o Resolving problems for patients and their relatives by building closer relationships.

• Ensuring staffing is appropriate to patient needs
• Ensuring patients’ nutritional needs are met
• Empowering nurses to take on a wider range of clinical tasks
• Improving hospital cleanliness
• Ensuring and improving the patient environment
• Resolving problems for patients and their relatives by building closer relationships
• Preventing hospital-acquired infection

South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust (SLaM) is one of the United Kingdom’s largest and most comprehensive providers of mental health services, serving a local population of approximately 1.3 million people across south London and delivering specialist services nationally and internationally.

We provide the widest range of NHS mental health and substance misuse services in the UK, spanning more than 240 services including inpatient care, community teams, outpatient clinics and specialist units for children, adults and older people. Each year we deliver inpatient care for thousands of people and treat tens of thousands across the London boroughs of Lambeth, Southwark, Lewisham and Croydon.

The Trust operates multiple psychiatric hospitals, and over 100 community sites and clinical teams, making our Trust a complex multi-site organisation with deep expertise across the full spectrum of mental health care. We are known for our strong partnerships with academia and research, most notably with the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience at King’s College London and as part of King’s Health Partners, contributing to world-leading research and innovation in mental health diagnosis, treatment and care.

An important part of our current strategy, and a core theme we will continue to take forward, is our ongoing journey to being an anti-racist organisation and building on what has been achieved through our Patient and Carer Race Equality Framework (PCREF).

• Ensuring staffing is appropriate to patient needs
• Empowering nurses to take on a wider range of clinical tasks
• Improving hospital cleanliness
• Ensuring and improving the patient environment
• Resolving problems for patients and their relatives by building closer relationships
• To be visible and accessible to patents, relatives and staff in order to provide immediate assistance, advice and support - this also includes liaison with PALS to participate in community meetings as required. To set up opportunities to enable patients/SU to discuss issues of concern.
• Support the development of systems to support relatives and carers. Attend Service Users Advisory Groups (SUCAG) as required.
• Preventing hospital-acquired infection
• Take the lead on infection control policy implementation and represent the Directorate in IPC strategy meetings

*** Please see attached for a detailed JD and main responsibilities.

This advert closes on Monday 9 Nov 2026