You will play a key role in supporting the Outpatient nursing team to deliver safe, effective, and high-quality care across a range of specialties, ensuring best practices align with HCRG Care Group policies and procedures. Leading on clinical governance within the department, you will oversee the delivery and audit of key areas, including medicines management and adherence to infection control protocols.Base: Outpatient Department, Farnham Hospital, Hale Road, Farnham, GU9 9QL.As part of the interview process, successful applicants will be invited for an informal visit to the department. We also welcome applications for job share opportunities. Package DescriptionYou will feel valued as a Band 7 Matron with HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:£43,742 - £50,056 and 7 with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditionsFree tea, coffee, and milk at your base location Plentiful onsite parkingMembership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on everyday purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to youAccess to your wages as you earn them to help cover life’s emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest ratesOnline and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing – from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our ‘Outstanding’ learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise An open, just culture where you’re encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care – backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each yearThe pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with a majority of our rated services holding “good” or “outstanding” ratings from the Care Quality Commission Main ResponsibilitiesAs an Outpatient Matron, you will be a dynamic, innovative, and enthusiastic leader, providing expert guidance on operational, clinical, and professional matters. You will lead by example, upholding HCRG Care Group values and demonstrating excellence in clinical care and practice.Your responsibilities will include maintaining your own clinical competencies to ensure evidence-based practice, overseeing workforce planning—including recruitment, succession planning, and rostering—and fostering a positive and supportive environment for both patients and colleagues.You will play a key role in building and maintaining strong professional relationships, ensuring effective communication, and promoting a harmonious working environment. Your leadership skills will be essential in conflict resolution, team motivation, and integration at all levels. Through effective clinical planning and decision-making, you will ensure a safe, high-quality care environment for patients.The Ideal CandidateEssentialRegistered Nurse (NMC) 1st Degree Level, Current NMC Registration, with a background in Outpatient Services or similar experience.Evidence of continuing professional developmentPost graduate qualification (level 6/7) or equivalent experience working at this level or willingness to work towards.Demonstrate a commitment to quality, promoting high standards to consistently improve patient outcomes.Demonstrate skills to work in an Outpatient setting delivering safe and excellent clinical care.Value diversity and difference, operating with integrity, openness and positivity.Treating others with compassion, empathy, respect and dignityUses evidence-based care to make improvements, increase efficiencies and seeks out innovation.Can demonstrate experience of supervision of trained and untrained staff, Clinical and Safeguarding supervision and Competency sign off.Can demonstrate a commitment to teaching/sharing knowledge.DesirableCan demonstrate learning from two years’ experience in Outpatients or related area About The CompanyWe change lives by transforming health and care.Established in 2006, we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.While it doesn’t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we’ll need to close it earlier than the date we’ve shown here. If you’re keen to join our team, we’d love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.As you’d expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.Finally, we need to let you know that the company you’ll work for is part of HCRG Care Group Holdings Limited and by applying for this job we’ll need to process and hold information about you. If you would like to know a little more about how we use your information, please see our website's privacy policy.
