Employer Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site King's Mill Hospital Town Sutton in Ashfield Salary £55,690 - £62,682 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 02/10/2025 23:59
Matron for Maternity Services
NHS AfC: Band 8a
Thank you for your interest in this role, we would be delighted to welcome you to Sherwood Forest Hospitals.
Sherwood is nationally recognised as being an excellent place to work and deliver care. We are rightly proud of the 5,500 colleagues who work here and know that happy colleagues deliver better care.
Our teams work in a supportive, inclusive environment, which nurtures wellbeing and has opportunities for development and progression. We do not just care for our patients, we also care for you.
We would love you to join us.
Job overview
Are you a senior midwife ready for your next leadership challenge?
Sherwood Forest Hospitals is seeking a dynamic, compassionate, and forward-thinking Maternity Matron to join our award-winning maternity team.
As Maternity Matron, you will provide visible, supportive leadership across our maternity services, ensuring the highest standards of safe, personalised, and evidence-based care for women, birthing people, babies, and families.
You’ll be instrumental in driving quality improvement, professional standards, and staff wellbeing, working closely with our senior leadership team to deliver our vision for outstanding maternity care.
Join us and be part of a team that’s committed to making a real difference in maternity care.
Main duties of the job
To see the full detailed job description and the main responsibilities of the job please refer the job description attached.
Working for our organisation
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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To see the full detailed job description and the main responsibilities of the job please refer the job description attached.
Person specification
Knowledge
* Proven knowledge of the broader midwifery, education and professional issues
* Good working knowledge of contemporary health care issues and professional standards
* Understanding of the complex dynamics of a multiprofessional environment
* Excellent presentation and teaching skills
* Excellent report writing skills and action planning
* Ability to work under pressure
* Sound general management experience – budget management skills, business case preparation, staff management
* Evidence of operational and strategic development of patient safety initiatives and strategies
* Experience in education and professional development
Qualifications
* RM registration with the NMC
* First level degree or equivalent knowledge
* Qualification in teaching and assessing or equivalent
* Demonstration of on-going professional development
* Working towards Masters qualification or equivalent
Further
* Highly motivated and resourceful with a proactive approach to innovation
* Ability to act autonomously with minimal supervision
* Exposure to clinical areas and patient contact
* Carry Trust bleep and undertake on call duties
Experience
* Extensive senior midwifery experience within a complex organisation / NHS
* Proven track record in leadership and management
* Evidence of participating in and leading organisational change that has led to changes in quality
* Experience of operating and communicating effectively with clinicians and Directors
* Experience of working with external agencies and influencing internal change
* Experience of initiating, conducting and evaluating risk assessments and investigations
* Experience of leading and managing staff
* Experience of working towards Care Quality Commission and the NHS Resolution standards
* Complaints Management
* Experience of service improvement methodologies
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Please note that we no longer accept handwritten/paper applications and that the email address given on your application will be used for all correspondence regarding this post.
We reserve the right to close a vacancy before the closing date if a sufficient number of applications have been received. Priority for vacancies at the Trust will be given to existing employees of Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust whose roles are currently at risk of redundancy due to organisational change.
Only applications received on or before the closing date will be considered for short listing. This is to ensure that the Trust meets its commitment to Equality of Opportunity.
In submitting an application, you authorise Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust to confirm any current and previous NHS Service details and you agree to the Trust obtaining and transferring personal date held about you, including Occupational Health data (inoculations and screening tests). This data will be shared using the NHS Electronic Staff Record (ESR) and third party systems via an automated process and will only be used for the purposes of maintaining your employment record.
Please note if you are successful in obtaining this position and the post involves regulated activity you will be required to undertake a Disclosure & Barring Service check. The Trust will pay for the check initially and then the money will then be deducted from your first salary once you've commenced employment. The current price of a check is £26.40 for a standard check and £54.40 for an enhanced. If you are asked to complete a DBS check and have a previous identity that you do not wish to be disclosed to your employer and/or on your DBS certificate, you should call or email the dedicated sensitive applications team before submitting your application. The team is experienced in dealing with sensitive cases and will advise you of the process and what you need to do.
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