Barking Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust • Romford RM7 0AG
About this role
Do you have a passion for Critical Care? Are you a natural leader who can inspire others while striving for the best care possible? If so, we would love to hear from you.
Due to the expansion of our Critical Care services and bed capacity we are looking for an exceptional candidate to join our senior nursing team for Critical Care at BHRUT. This is an opportunity to help shape the direction of one of the largest ITU facilities in North East London.
You will join a large multi-site Critical Care Service providing care across the Queen's Hospital and King George Sites, including a specialist Neuro Intensive Care Unit, emergency and elective surgical patient pathways and with line management for the Critical Care Outreach Service. Under the guidance of the head of nursing for critical care, you will work closely with the senior team of critical care matrons providing operational support as well as assisting in the strategic direction of an essential service.
The role is a mixture of clinical and managerial responsibilities with a strong focus on delivering first class care that is safe and of high quality. This role incorporates both the day to day delivery of services as well as the strategic delivery of a sustainable and efficient service, whilst fostering a safe working environment where nursing teams can grow and flourish.
Interview date 29th May 2026
The Matron holds 24- hour responsibility for ensuring the day-to-day running of nursing within BHRUT Critical Care.
This will include
- delivering safe, efficient, and effective patient care
- providing professional leadership to all nursing staff
- line managing designated staff
- meeting key quality and performance indicators
- taking forward and achieving service improvements
- meeting financial plans
The postholder will provide professional and management leadership to all nursing staff within BHRUT Critical Care. The Matron will work across organisational boundaries to achieve the Trust’s objectives, and to deliver relevant local, regional and national standards and strategies. In conjunction with key stakeholders the postholder will lead and develop the Critical Care across both sites with anticipated increase in bed numbers and complexity.
To enable cohesive and collaborative working the you will rotate across the units within the service on an annual basis as well as support the service with bed and staffing coordination when required.
We’re an organisation that is getting better and better and our improvements are driven by a determination to deliver care we’re proud of and our patients are happy with.
They are benefitting from a newelectronic patient record (we were the last acute trust in London to introduce one) and our maternity services have beenrated good by the Care Quality Commission.
We operate from two main sites – KGH in Goodmayes and Queen’s Hospital in Romford. We have two busy emergency departments with more than 346,000 people visiting them last year. We’re campaigning to secure the £35m we need totransform the A&E at Queen’s and get rid of corridor care.
We’re proud of our regional Neurosciences Centre, Radiotherapy Centre and Hyper Acute Stroke Unit. We’re also part of theNorth East London Cancer Alliance.
We run aWomen’s Health Hub in Ilford; anAgeing Well Centre in Hornchurch; and Community Diagnostic Centres (CDC) atBarking Community Hospital and atSt George’s Health and Wellbeing Hub. These CDCs are open 12 hours a day, 7 days a week.
The majority of our 8,400 staff – who come from 146 different countries - live in the three diverse London boroughs we serve and are from black, Asian and minority ethnic groups. Many canwork flexibly and more than 400 of them are on our Ofsted accreditedapprenticeship programmes. We’re proud to be aLondon Living Wage employer.
Some of the positive changes we’ve made are captured inthis film.
For further information on this role, please see the attached detailed Job Description and Person Specification.
The person specification listed below is not the full specification requirements for the role. Please ensure you review the full specification on the job description prior to submitting your application.
Applicants are advised to read all the information on the advert and the supporting information before completing and submitting an application. As you complete your application please ensure you clearly demonstrate how you meet the criteria in the person specification for this post by adequately completing the supporting information section of the application form.
All new staff appointed at the Trust are subject to a probationary period.
Applications should be made online, however, queries regarding the application process, assistance with completion of the application form or if you require any adjustments (for applicants with a disability) please contact Rachna Srivastava, Recruitment Advisor, on 01708 435000 ext. 5904. Further details regarding the post may be obtained by contacting the manager as per the contact details above.
This advert closes on Sunday 24 May 2026
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