Matron for Paediatric Critical Care | Barts Health NHS Trust
| Posting date: | 10 June 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £61,927 - £68,676 per annum inc |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 10 July 2025 |
| Location: | London, E1 1FR |
| Company: | Barts Health NHS Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7269942/259-7269942RLH |
Summary
The Royal London Children’s services serves a growing population of babies, children and young people living in East London, which means we're the largest provider of children’s services in London. Last year, our paediatric emergency services treated over 9,500 children - providing care for conditions ranging from minor injuries to life-threatening illnesses.
The Royal London Hospital is a leading, internationally-renowned teaching hospital with one of the largest children's hospitals, with one of the busiest Paediatric Critical Care Unit which serves the population of London and surrounding areas. The unit admits trauma and some of the sickest medical/surgical patients around this area and utilises The Royal London surgical teams to treat these patients. The hospital also has one of the busiest paediatric Accident and Emergency services in London.
We are one of the capital's leading major trauma centres, and benefit from London’s Air Ambulance, which is based at The Royal London Hospital, and provides pre-hospital trauma care at the scene of serious incidents within the M25. We also host the Neonatal Transport Services for Pan London.
We are seeking a motivated and dynamic Children’s Paediatric Critical Care Matron to provide their expertise to the existing established Paediatric Critical Care team.
The post holder will have overall accountability for the day-to-day management of the nursing/midwifery service across the departments they are responsible for.
The Post holder will be responsible for:
Providing professional and clinical leadership within the Paediatric Critical Care Unit at the Royal London Hospital site.
Translating the organisation’s vision and values into meaningful actions for teams.
Managing teams within Children’s and Young People’s Services and holding the teams to account for the delivery of compassionate, high-quality care. This includes ensuring that all patients have an up to date, evidence-based care plan, including safeguarding and that is being actively implemented.
Managing teams within a highly complex environment taking in to account the ethnically diverse nature of staff and patients
Ensuring that patients, their families and carers are fully involved in assessment of the quality of care delivered and in service redesign
Monitoring and measuring the quality of care provided and taking the necessary steps to improve care when issues are identified.
Identifying areas for service improvement and implementing improvement initiatives using evidence-based methodologies
Ensuring that all staff members have up to date appraisals and development plans thus facilitating all staff to reach their full potential whilst protecting their wellbeing. Develop and lead on advanced practice.
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 are dedicated to being an outstanding place to work and will work with you to get the best experience. We know flexible working is not a one size fits all and will mean something different to everyone. We are inclusive, so if you are interested in flexible working, please speak to the recruiting manager.
This advert closes on Tuesday 24 Jun 2025