Job Description

Company Description

Here at Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust, we are proud to provide expert, compassionate care for our local population. We are ranked as the third in the country for research, embedding education and training across the organisation. Our main hub is the Queen Alexandra Hospital, which is one of the largest hospitals on the south coast employing over 8,700 staff.

Our patients come from all walks of life and so do we. We hire great people from a wide variety of backgrounds because it makes our hospital stronger. If you share our values and our enthusiasm for getting it right for patients, colleagues, and our community, you will find a home at Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust.

Job Description

NHS Band 8b Salary: £66,582 - £77,368 per annum

Hours Per Week: Full time 37.5 hrs

Contract Type: Permanent

This is a unique opportunity for an experienced and inspirational nursing leader to join a nationally recognised Renal service and make a significant impact on patient care, workforce development and service improvement. As Senior Matron, you will provide visible and compassionate leadership across renal inpatient, outpatient and dialysis services, working in partnership with consultant colleagues, operational leaders and multidisciplinary teams to deliver outstanding clinical quality, patient experience and safety standards. You will play a pivotal role in shaping the future of renal services by leading quality improvement initiatives, driving innovation, supporting workforce redesign, developing future nursing leaders and ensuring the highest standards of professional practice are embedded throughout the service. Through your leadership, you will create a positive and inclusive culture where staff feel valued, empowered and supported to achieve excellence, while contributing to the strategic ambitions and continued growth of the Wessex Kidney Centre.

The Wessex Kidney Centre (WKC) is one of the largest and most comprehensive renal services in the UK, providing specialist care for a population of approximately 2.3 million people across Hampshire, the Isle of Wight and surrounding counties. Based at Queen Alexandra Hospital, the service delivers a full range of renal care including acute and chronic kidney disease management, dialysis, transplantation, home therapies and specialist outpatient services. With over 850 dialysis patients, around 1,000 transplant recipients and a strong focus on innovation, research and service transformation, the Centre offers a dynamic and forward-thinking environment committed to delivering outstanding patient outcomes and experiences.

WKC in Queen Alexandra Hosptial houses three dedicated inpatient renal wards with 50 beds and an additional 7 day-treatment beds. There is an out-patient dialysis ward with 25 stations. WKC has its own integral out-patient department and the facility to see patients as emergencies during the day (Renal ambulatory clinic). WKC also has eight satellite dialysis units.

The unit also provides a dedicated young adult transition service with a dedicated youth worker and an dedicated supportive care team, including nurse specialist, renal counsellor and psychologist. There are excellent, committed nurse specialists in vascular access, transplantation, pre-dialysis care, home haemodialysis, peritoneal dialysis, and anaemia management, who actively participate in and lead multidisciplinary team meetings, nurse-led and -supported clinics, audit and research. The WKC Home Therapies Hub is based in Fareham Community Hospital and houses the PD and Home HD teams.

Out-patient nephrology clinics (including general nephrology, haemodialysis (including home HD), peritoneal dialysis and transplant/vascular access review) run on every day of the week. WKC provides home haemodialysis with a dedicated support staff. This is an ongoing development with the aim to continue to provide home HD to all patients who are eligible. Currently WKC has one of the largest home dialysis patient populations nationally with ambition to grow further.

Key Responsibilities

• To implement the Trust’s Nursing and Midwifery Strategy through the development and implementation of a Divisional nursing strategy at care group level
• To be responsible for implementing and monitoring of agreed trust quality indicators.
• To be responsible for the implementation and progress monitoring of the corporate Patient and Public Involvement strategy within the Care group.
• To be responsible for the implementation, monitoring and evaluation of the corporate Patient Experience Strategy within the care group.
• In collaboration with other senior nursing/AHP leaders to be responsible for the professional leadership for Nursing, Midwifery and other healthcare professionals in the Care Group, advising the Divisional Management Team of key professional issues.
• To work with the Lead Nurse for Professional Education and the Practice Development and Divisional Education Leads to ensure that the development of education and training provision meets the clinical needs of the Care Group and supports compliance of the relevant healthcare standards

For full job details and person specification, please refer to enclosed job description.

Qualifications

Essential

• 1st Level Registered Nurse on relevant part of the NMC register
• First Degree or equivalent
• Master’s degree or equivalent educational or experience to meet this requirement
• Recognised Management and/or Leadership qualification
• Evidence of Continual Professional development
• Evidence of project management experience

Desirable

• Experience and/or teaching qualification
• Published work in a clinical or health care area
• Mentoring/Coaching Qualification

Experience

Essential

• Significant post-registration experience
• Extensive experience of working in a surgical care setting
• Extensive knowledge of National and Local Planned and Emergency Care, NHS and N&M agenda
• Extensive experience in the acute healthcare setting in clinical leadership/clinical management position
• Evidence of advanced leadership qualities
• Formal and informal teaching experience
• Staff and resource management experience
• Experience of introducing change to clinical environment
• Report writing skills and experience
• Budget management experience

Desirable

• Coaching / mentoring experience/ skills
• Understanding of specialist area

Skills & Knowledge

Essential

• Excellent high level leadership skills
• Articulate with highly developed communication skills with the ability to network and build relationships at all levels, including interpersonal skills, liaison and negotiation skills. Writing and presentation skills
• Advising and influencing
• IT skills and ability to develop these skills further
• Ability to prioritise work and adapt to changing deadlines
• Able to develop and implement policy, guidelines and projects from initiation to completion
• Evidence of continuing professional development

Desirable

• Project management skills

Additional Information

The health and wellbeing of our staff is at the forefront of everything we do. We are proud to be able to offer our staff some fantastic benefits including our on-site Nursery, access to our free Beach Hut for those long summer days, our on-site Wellness Centre including a gym and a swimming pool, access to our fantastic staff networks including LGBTQ, Race Equality and DisAbility, and awards ceremonies to recognise your achievements. We believe we can offer support to all of our staff when they need it the most.

We welcome the unique contributions that you can bring in terms of your education, opinions, culture, ethnicity, race, sex, gender identity and expression, nation of origin, age, languages spoken, veteran’s status, colour, religion, disability, sexual orientation, and beliefs.

For more information, please see our People and OD Strategy 2026