Matron Orthopaedics and Plastic Surgery | Barts Health NHS Trust
| Posting date: | 16 January 2026 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £64,156 - £71,148 per annum inc |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 15 February 2026 |
| Location: | London, E1 1FR |
| Company: | Barts Health NHS Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7741489/ |
Summary
The Matron for Orthopaedics and Plastic Surgery will provide clinical and professional leadership to nursing teams, ensuring the delivery of high-quality, patient centered care. This role involves managing the day to day nursing service, influencing strategic direction, and contributing to service development in line with patient needs and organizational objectives. The post holder will collaborate closely with service leads, consultants, and multidisciplinary teams to ensure safe, effective care delivery while driving continuous improvement and innovation.
• Leadership & Management:Provide clinical and professional leadership to nursing teams, ensuring that nursing staff are supported, competent, and able to deliver high-quality care across orthopaedic and plastic surgery services.
• Strategic Development:Collaborate with service leads and consultants to shape the strategic direction of the service, contributing to the achievement of corporate objectives.
• Service Improvement & Innovation:Lead service improvement initiatives, implementing change management processes to modernize nursing roles and enhance patient care.
• Patient Centered Care:Ensure that care delivery is patient-focused, safe, and effective, while maintaining a high level of clinical expertise in orthopaedics and plastic surgery.
• Collaboration & Governance:Work with multidisciplinary teams, external organizations, and stakeholders to ensure effective governance, quality standards, and compliance are met.
• Staff Development:Oversee the development and mentorship of the nursing team, fostering professional growth and ensuring clinical competence.
• Operational Management:Take responsibility for the day-to-day management of nursing services, including staffing, budgeting, and resource allocation.
• Visibility & Accessibility:Be visible and accessible to staff, patients, and visitors, ensuring a supportive environment where nursing staff are well-equipped to perform their roles.
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 Sunday 1 Feb 2026