Job summary
Are you an experienced District Nurse ready for your next senior leadership challenge? We are looking for a compassionate and credible Matron for Community Nursing to provide visible clinical leadership and help shape high-quality care across Oxfordshire.

In this influential role, you will support community nursing teams to deliver safe, responsive and person-centred care close to home. You will champion excellent standards, strengthen clinical governance, support quality improvement, promote learning and work with colleagues across services to improve outcomes for patients, families and carers.

You will bring extensive District Nursing experience, strong clinical judgement and the confidence to lead, influence and inspire teams in a complex community setting. You will be passionate about staff development, patient experience and continuous improvement.

This is a fantastic opportunity to make a real difference, support brilliant teams and influence the future of community nursing across Oxfordshire. If you are ready to bring your leadership, experience and values to a role with real impact, we would love to hear from you.

Apply now and help us shape the future of community nursing in Oxfordshire.

Main duties of the job

• Clinical Leadership
• Patient and family/carer experience and involvement
• Quality standards, performance and clinical risk management
• Staff development, training and education

About us
Oxford Health is a great place to work and to be able to showcase the best of yourself when making an application please read the "candidate guide to making an application" and ensure your supporting statement is tailored to the role you are applying for and addresses any essential criteria.

As a Trust we provide physical, mental health and social care for people of all ages across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath and Northeast Somerset. Our services are delivered at community bases, hospitals, clinics and people's homes, delivering care as close to home as possible. Our vision is that no matter who you are or where you are, you will tell us that you receive: "Outstanding care delivered by an outstanding team"

Our values are: "Caring, safe and excellent"

We offer a wide range of benefits designed to support your career and wellbeing. These include:

• Excellent opportunities for career progression
• Access to tailored individual and Trust wide learning and development
• 27 days annual leave, plus bank holidays, rising to 33 days with continuous service
• NHS Discount across a wide range of shops, restaurants and retailers
• Competitive pension scheme
• Lease car scheme
• Cycle to work scheme
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Mental Health First Aiders
• Staff accommodation (please note waiting lists apply)
• Staff networking and support groups hosted by our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion team

Details
Date posted: 05 August 2026
Pay scheme: Agenda for change
Band: Band 8a
Salary: £57,528 to £64,750 a year per annum
Contract: Permanent
Working pattern: Full-time
Reference number: 267-CH8119404
Job locations: Abingdon Community Hospital, Marcham Road, Abingdon, OX14 1AG, United Kingdom

Job responsibilities
The Matron for Community Nursing post is a Band 8a senior clinical leadership role responsible for providing visible, professional leadership to community nursing teams across Oxfordshire. The role focuses on maintaining and improving standards of care, supporting safe and effective service delivery, responding to patient and carer experience, and ensuring community services meet regulatory, clinical and professional standards.

Main responsibilities include:

• Providing clinical leadership, direction and role modelling for community nursing teams and managers.
• Promoting innovation, service improvement and effective partnership working across health, social care, voluntary and independent sector organisations.
• Ensuring high standards of care, infection prevention, clinical practice, patient dignity and safety are implemented, maintained and monitored.
• Listening and responding to patient, family and carer feedback, concerns and complaints, and ensuring learning leads to improvement.
• Supporting clinical governance, audit, benchmarking, quality improvement, risk management and CQC compliance.
• Investigating complaints, incidents and near misses, ensuring learning is shared and embedded across services.
• Supporting safe systems of work, including lone working, business continuity, emergency planning and major incident response.
• Developing staff capability through supervision, appraisal, preceptorship, education, mentorship, CPD and workforce development planning.
• Working with service managers and senior leaders to manage resources responsibly, minimise waste and oversee delegated budgets where applicable.
• Maintaining clinical credibility by working clinically within community nursing for at least one day each month.

In summary, the post combines clinical leadership, quality and safety oversight, staff development, patient experience, service improvement and resource management to support excellent community nursing care close to home.

We hope that the advert has given you a clear understanding of the skills we are seeking and the opportunity at hand. You will need to use the supporting statement element of your application form to demonstrate your suitability for this role and you should refer to the job description, person specification and the guidance notes attached to this role to help you tailor your application.

The essential and desirable criteria will be used to shortlist for interview and you should ensure that you refer to these within your application to increase your chances of being selected for interview.

We are aware that some candidates may choose to use AI tools to support their application. We kindly remind applicants that submissions should remain an honest and accurate representation of their experience and must take care to ensure the use of AI tools does not generate an application that does not accurately reflect their knowledge, skills and values.

Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential

• District Nursing Specialist Practitioner Qualification
• Mentor or coaching qualification or equivalent

Desirable

• Formal leadership qualification
• Advanced history taking and examination/equivalent frailty module
• Non-medical prescriber

Experience
Essential

• Extensive clinical and leadership experience and skills within District Nursing

Desirable

• Experience of implementation of clinical governance frameworks.

Knowledge
Essential

• Detailed understanding of the key policy issues affecting the delivery of health and social care across local health economy and at national level, particularly around community health care and community nursing.

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.

UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details
Employer name: Oxford Health NHS Trust
Address: Abingdon Community Hospital, Marcham Road, Abingdon, OX14 1AG, United Kingdom
Employer's website: https://www.oxfordhealth.nhs.uk (Opens in a new tab)

Employer contact details
For questions about the job, contact: Senior Matron for Community Nursing, Gabbie Parham, gabrielle.parham@oxfordhealth.nhs.uk, 07833295413

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.
Applicants must have current UK professional registration.