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Salary for this role£66,582 – £77,368 a year
Health and Care route minimum£25,000 a year
Pay basisNational pay scales (NHS bands)
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Role description
Job summary
NHS Band 8b Salary: £66,582 - £77,368 per annum
Hours Per Week: Full time 37.5 hrs
Contract Type: Permanent
Main duties of the job
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.
About us
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.
Details
Date posted
15 September 2026
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 8b
Salary
£66,582 to £77,368 a year
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-time
Reference number
REF2623Y
Job locations
Queen Alexandra Hospital
Southwick Hill Road, Cosham
Portsmouth
Hampshire
PO6 3LY
United Kingdom
Job description
Job responsibilities
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 Trusts 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 the Job Description.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
1st Level Registered Nurse on relevant part of the NMC register.
First Degree or equivalent.
Masters degree or equivalent educational or experience to meet this requirement.
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 and 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.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website.
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants.
