Matron - Centralised Outpatients Staffordshire Sites

University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust

The closing date is 29 October 2026

We are seeking an experienced, compassionate, and highly motivated Outpatient Matron to lead and develop our outpatient services. This is an exciting opportunity for an inspirational nursing leader who is passionate about delivering high-quality, patient-centred care and driving continuous improvement across a diverse range of specialties.

As an Outpatient Matron, you will provide visible clinical and operational leadership for our nursing teams across the Staffordshire sites of Queens Hospital Burton, Samuel Johnson and Sir Robert Peel Hospitals, ensuring the delivery of safe, effective, and responsive services. You will work collaboratively with multidisciplinary teams, senior clinicians, operational managers, and corporate departments to improve patient experience, clinical outcomes, and service efficiency.

We are looking for an ambitious and talented individual who is looking to take the next step in their nursing career in the NHS.

This will be a demanding role with influence and impact across the sites, so it will require good stakeholder management skills via clear communications and visible leadership.

You will therefore need to provide professional nursing leadership across outpatient services. Ensure the highest standards or patient safety, quality and experience. Lead service improvement initiatives. Manage clinical governance, risk management and compliance with regulatory standards. Act as a role model for professional nursing practice and leadership.

You will also be joining us at a time of unprecedented change as we look to revolutionise our Outpatient Services, we are currently engaged in an ambitious improvement programme including the introduction of a new electronic patient record systems (EPR). These programs of work will allow us to become more agile and efficient in our response to change and to getting things right first time.

This will require you to have experience and knowledge of effective change management tools and techniques. You will champion service improvement and support the Trust's ambition to deliver outstanding care, whilst at the same time ensuring that the patient is at the centre of everything you do.

If this sounds like just the challenge you've been looking for, then we look forward to hearing from you.

Closing date of applications: 29 October 2026

Interview date: 12 November 2026

As a trusted organisation at the heart of our communities, we recognise the important role we can play in supporting the public, patients, our own people and local partners in achieving the best of health for the local population and the communities in which they live by providing Exceptional Care Together.

Our fundamental Values of Compassion, Openness and Excellence underpin how we intend to work as a Trust and the associated behaviours are becoming embedded in all aspects of how we work.

In return we will offer:

• Development opportunities, both professional and leadership development
• On-going support from recruitment to when you join our team and beyond.
• Staff benefits including employee assistance programme, discounted gym membership, onsite fitness classes, car schemes

Key Facts:

• We see on average 4810 OP appointments a day.
• We are the 4th busiest Trauma & Orthopaedic outpatients department in England - an average of 2077 per week.
• An average of 1115 patients are seen in A&Es across our network every day - 3rd largest in the country.
• Our hospitals admit an average of 195 emergency patients daily.
• Last year we undertook almost 33,700 planned surgical operations in our 57 operating theatres.
• We are one of…