About this role
Job summary
Clinical Matron, Emergency Department
Wexham Park Hospital
The Clinical Matron for the Emergency Department is a senior nursing leader responsible for delivering safe, effective, and high-quality patient care within a fast-paced, complex environment. The postholder will provide visible, compassionate leadership, acting as a professional role model and ensuring consistently high standards of clinical practice and patient experience.
Working within the ED leadership team, the Clinical Matron will support and develop multidisciplinary staff, promoting a culture of accountability, continuous improvement, and patient-centred care. They will have operational oversight of the department, including patient flow, workforce deployment, and performance against key targets.
The role includes leading on quality, safety, and governance, ensuring compliance with national standards and regulatory requirements, including those of the Care Quality Commission. The postholder will contribute to service development, incident management, and clinical audit.
In addition, the Clinical Matron will lead workforce development, supporting education, wellbeing, and retention to maintain a skilled and resilient team.
Main duties of the job
Provide strategic and operational leadership for nursing and clinical support staff in the ED. Ensure consistently high standards of patient safety, quality, and experience. Lead workforce planning, rostering, recruitment, and retention to maintain a resilient and skilled workforce. Promote a culture of continuous improvement, professional development, and accountability. Work collaboratively with multidisciplinary teams to support flow, performance targets (e.g., 4-hour standard), and service transformation. Act as the professional lead for nursing governance, safeguarding, infection prevention, and regulatory compliance.
About us
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme. We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available.
Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too.
We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users.
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Job description Job responsibilities
For a full list of responsibilities and tasks associated with this role, please refer to the job description/person specification attached to this vacancy.
Person Specification
Qualifications Essential
Educated to degree level or working towards NMC Registration Extensive post registration emergency qualifications
Desirable
Educated to master's degree level
Experience Essential
Significant experience at senior clinical/managerial level in emergency medicine Some NHS experience at a Band 7
Desirable
In-depth experience in a variety of hospital units Involvement in clinical audit and/or research
Skills & Knowledge Essential
Understands the concepts of clinical governance and shared governance including evidence-based practice and critical appraisal of research findings Demonstrates knowledge of effective risk management Knowledge of current NHS issues including performance targets and the wider health economy Knowledge and experience of management models, implementing change and/or new clinical practices and current professional issues Understand principles of effective budgetary management and demonstrate experience of managing budgets
Special requirements Essential
Flexible working hours including unsocial hours and bank holidays Able to travel between sites
Disclosure and Barring Service Check This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details Employer name Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust
Address Wexham Park Hospital
Wexham Street
Slough
SL2 4HL
United Kingdom
Employer's website https://www.fhft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)