Matron - St Paul's Unit

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The closing date is 26 September 2026

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced registered nurse to join St Paul's Eye Unit as matron covering the Royal and Aintree sites. The matron role provides senior clinical leadership, operational oversight, quality assurance, and professional nursing leadership across the service.

The Matron is a senior nursing leader responsible for ensuring the delivery of high-quality, safe, effective, and patient-centred ophthalmology services across St Paul's Eye Unit. The role provides visible professional leadership to nursing, healthcare support workers, and the wider multidisciplinary team, ensuring that services meet national standards, Trust objectives, governance requirements, and patient expectations.

The Matron leads on quality, safety, patient experience, workforce development, operational performance, and continuous improvement across outpatient, diagnostic, treatment, theatre, emergency eye care, and specialist ophthalmology services delivered at the Royal Liverpool and Aintree sites. St Paul's Eye Unit delivers a comprehensive ophthalmology service including cataract, glaucoma, medical retina, ophthalmic emergency care, corneal services, ocular oncology, oculoplastics and specialist diagnostic services.

The successful post holder will be supported by the Assistant Director of Nursing.

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust comprises Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital & Royal Liverpool University Hospital.

We are part of NHS University Hospitals of Liverpool Group, formed on 1 Nov 2024 from the coming together of LUHFT and Liverpool Women's NHS Foundation Trust. The Group was born from a shared aim to improve the care we provide our patients.

UHLG is one of the largest employers in the region, with over 16,800 colleagues dedicated to caring for our communities - from birth and beyond.

For the 630,000 people across Merseyside, we are their local NHS. We provide general and emergency hospital care, alongside highly specialised regional services for more than two million people in the North West.

Aintree University Hospital is the single receiving site for adult major trauma patients in Cheshire and Merseyside and hosts a number of regional services including an award-winning stroke facility. Broadgreen Hospital is home to elective surgical, diagnostic and treatment services, together with specialist patient rehabilitation. Liverpool Women's Hospital specialises in the health of women and babies, delivering over 7,200 babies in the UK's largest single site maternity hospital each year.

The Royal Liverpool University Hospital is the largest hospital in the country to provide inpatients with 100% single bedrooms and focuses on complex planned care and specialist services.

For roles at Liverpool Women's, visit their careers page.

Clinical Leadership

• Provide visible, professional nursing leadership across all ophthalmology clinical areas.
• Promote high standards of compassionate, patient-centred care.
• Lead and support nursing teams to deliver evidence-based practice.
• Act as a role model for professional standards, Trust values, and patient safety culture.

Clinical Leadership

• Provide visible, professional nursing leadership across all ophthalmology clinical areas.
• Promote high standards of compassionate, patient-centred care.
• Lead and support nursing teams to deliver evidence-based practice.
• Act as a role model for professional standards, Trust values, and patient safety culture.

• Lead implementation of clinical governance arrangements across the service.
• Monitor incidents, complaints, risks, patient experience feedback and audit outcomes.
• Ensure learning from incidents, complaints and investigations is embedded into practice.
• Support delivery of quality improvement programmes and service redesign initiatives.
• Provide assurance regarding compliance with regulatory and Trust standards. Evidence from St Paul's governance meetings shows active Matron involvement in incident management, risk review, complaints oversight and quality assurance.

• Work closely with clinical leads, operational managers and divisional teams to ensure effective service delivery.
• Support achievement of performance targets including capacity, patient flow, waiting times and productivity.
• Manage…