Matron - Acute Medicine | Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust


Company:	Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Salary:	£57,528 - £64,750 per annum
Hours:	Full-time
Location:	Sutton-In-Ashfield, NG17 4JL
Job type:	Permanent
Posting date:	4 Sept 2026
Closing date:	17 Oct 2026

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Summary

Are you a highly motivated, compassionate and enthusiastic nurse with a passion for clinical excellence and strong leadership skills in acute nursing?

Our Matron role presents an exciting opportunity for an experienced and motivated senior nurse to provide visible, effective and compassionate leadership across our Urgent and Emergency Care Division.

Working collaboratively with your Matron colleagues, you will form part of an inspirational and supportive nursing leadership team, committed to demonstrating the Trust’s CARE values through our behaviours, decisions and actions.

We are seeking a dynamic and forward-thinking senior nurse who can provide strong leadership and support to our Urgent and Emergency Care Division as it continues its journey towards deliveringOutstanding Care.You will have the ability to inspire, engage and empower colleagues, while maintaining a clear focus on patient safety, quality improvement and the delivery of consistently high standards of care.

If shortlisted, you will be invited to attend an interview, which will include participation in a number of assessment activities. These may include a written exercise, group activity and/or an individual presentation to a Board panel. Full details of the assessment activities will be provided on the day. There is no requirement for candidates to undertake any preparation in advance.

To see the full detailed job description and main responsibilities of the job please refer to the job description attached.

We are an award-winning NHS Foundation Trust working alongside health and social care colleagues across the county to provide acute and community healthcare services to more than 420,000 people across Mansfield, Ashfield, Newark and Sherwood, and parts of Derbyshire and Lincolnshire.

We put the patient at the heart of everything that we do and it is our aim to make sure that every patient is treated as we would want a member of our own family to be treated. At the same time, we expect our staff to be caring, kind and courteous to each other and to look out for each other. We believe that we are truly a clinically-led organisation.

We are proud that our Trust colleagues have voted us the best acute Trust to work for in the East Midlands for seven years running in the National NHS Staff Survey, while the Care Quality Commission has rated our Trust as ‘outstanding’ for care and our King’s Mill Hospital as the only ‘outstanding’ NHS-run hospital in the East Midlands.

Not all of our roles are eligible for sponsorship to find out which roles are eligible for sponsorship please refer to the shortage occupation list found here:

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Home Office guidance has changed as of the 9thApril, anyone that requires switching visa type may not be eligible for sponsorship even if the role is on the shortage occupation list.

This advert closes on Thursday 24 Sep 2026

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