Workforce Matron | London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust


Company:	London North West Healthcare NHS Trust
Salary:	£63,665 - £70,887 per annum Inclusive of High Cost Area Supplement
Hours:	Full-time
Location:	Harrow, HA1 3UJ
Job type:	Permanent
Posting date:	3 Sept 2026
Closing date:	4 Oct 2026

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Summary

This role is an essential part of the nursing leadership team focusing on attracting and retaining quality nursing staff to the Trust to meet our current and future workforce plans.

The post holder will support the Deputy Chief Nurse with the overview and coordinating functions for leading and developing the Trust approach to Nursing workforce/safer staffing in line with national and regulatory requirements.

The post holder will build upon their specialist knowledge and function as an expert within workforce development, effectively contributing to the Trust agenda.

The post holder will prepare nursing workforce reports for internal and external submissions.

The post holder will play a key leadership role in delivery of the nursing productivity work, providing scrutiny and challenge regarding use of temporary staffing and working with nursing and human resource colleagues to deliver agreed reduction targets

The postholder will work in collaboration with colleagues in the Health Roster team to ensure effective utilisation of the workforce deployment system’s capacity and realisation of the associated benefits.

The role will work in collaboration with our partners and other professional networks to ensure best practice in nurse recruitment and retention is shared across the system.

London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust (LNWH) cares for the people of Brent, Ealing, Harrow and beyond.

Our team of more than 8,200 clinical and support staff serve a diverse population of almost one million people.

We run major acute services at:

• Northwick Park Hospital: home to one of the busiest emergency departments (A&E) in the country. The hospital provides a full range of services including the country’s top-rated hyper-acute stroke unit and one of only three hyper-acute rehabilitation units in the UK

• St Mark’s Hospital: an internationally renowned specialist centre for bowel disease

• Ealing Hospital: a busy district general hospital providing a range of clinical services, as well as 24/7 emergency department and urgent care centre, and specialist care at Meadow House Hospice

• Central Middlesex Hospital: our planned care site, hosting a range of surgical and outpatient services and collocated with an urgent care centre.

We are a university teaching NHS trust, in recognition of the important role we play in training clinicians of the future and bringing the benefits of research to the public.

“We operate a joint recruitment hub across the North West London Acute Provider Collaborative Group. As part of this, your application and personal data may be shared with partner trusts within the group for recruitment and workforce purposes, in line with general data protection regulation (GDPR).”

To view the main responsibility, please see the attached the Job Description and Person Specification

This advert closes on Thursday 17 Sep 2026

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