Quality Matron | Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 02 February 2026 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £55,690 - £62,682 pa, pro rata |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 04 March 2026 |
| Location: | Trust wide, OL6 7SR |
| Company: | Pennine Care NHS FT |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7778723/311-S687-25-A |
Summary
Job overview
An opportunity has arisen to join our Nursing and Quality teams in the role of Quality Matron, specifically within Tameside and Stockport Older Adult Services. This post forms part of our wider network structure with eight Quality Matrons across our care hubs, including Bury, Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside, Stockport, CAMHS, Learning Disabilities, and Rehabilitation/High Support.
As a Quality Matron based in Tameside and Stockport Older Adult Services you will play a pivotal role in supporting inpatient and residential services for older adults. Reporting directly to the Network Director of Nursing, AHPs and Quality, you will be an integral member of the network, ensuring that high-quality, personalised care is consistently delivered to patients and their families. This role builds upon the “outstanding” work already achieved and seeks to further strengthen our commitment to excellence in care.
The Quality Matron position is a cornerstone of improving patient care standards. You will provide visible, inclusive leadership, engaging directly with patients, families, frontline staff, and senior management teams to drive continuous improvement and uphold the highest standards of safety, compassion, and clinical effectiveness.
We invite applications from experienced, self-motivated, and qualified nurses who demonstrate strong leadership qualities and a passion for continuous improvement. This is an exciting opportunity to make a meaningful impact within Tameside and Stockport Older Adult Services, contributing to the ongoing transformation of care provision across our networks.
Main duties of the job
The Quality Matron will support the Head of Nursing and the Network directors of Nursing, AHPs & Quality to deliver clinical and professional leadership within the inpatient/residential services. Supporting the services to ensure delivery of safe, timely, effective, high-quality evidence-based care, consistent with internal and external standards.
This will be in line with the nationally agreed ten key responsibilities set out in the matron’s handbook as below:
1. Inclusive leadership, professional standards, and accountability
2. Governance, patient safety and quality
3. Workforce planning and resource management
4. Patient experience and reducing health inequalities
5. Performance and operational oversight
6. Digital and information technology
7. Education, training, and development
8. Research and development
9. Collaborative working and clinical effectiveness
10. Service improvement and transformation.
As a key member of the Senior Leadership Team the post holder will provide values-based leadership to facilitate consistent best practice, this will include taking a key role in the future transformation and development of services.
Working for our organisation
We are proud to provide high quality mental health and learning disability services, both inpatient and in the community across five boroughs of Greater Manchester - Bury, Oldham, Rochdale, Stockport and Tameside and Glossop.
Our vision is for a happier and more hopeful life for everyone in our communities and our staff work hard to deliver the very best care for the people who use our services. We are proud of our #PennineCarePeople and do everything we can to make sure we are a great place to work.
Our ambition is to maximise people’s potential, and we aim to promote an inclusive environment and improve the diversity of our workforce, so our people truly represent the communities we serve.
All individuals regardless of race, age, disability, ethnicity, nationality, gender, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage and civil partnership are encouraged to apply for this post. We would also encourage applications from individuals with a lived experience of mental illness, either individually or as a Carer.
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Please view job description and person specification attached for more details.
f you come and work for us, we will offer a range of benefits and opportunities, including:
1. Generous annual leave entitlement for Agenda for Change and Medical and Dental staff.
2. Flexible working opportunities to support your work/life balance
3. Access to Continued Professional Development
4. Involvement in improvement and research activities
5. Health and Wellbeing activities and access to an excellent staff wellbeing service
6. Access to staff discounts across retail, leisure, and travel
If you are Kind, Fair, Ingenious and Determined then we want you to come and join our #PennineCarePeoplehttps://www.penninecare.nhs.uk/values
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This advert closes on Monday 16 Feb 2026