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Midwifery Matron
The closing date is 19 August 2025
Our Maternity Service at University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust (UHDB) are on a journey of improvement. As a service we strive to improve the experience for our expectant's mothers and their families through listening to our service users with our Trust board who have made significant investment in the maternity services financially and support of staff and service development.
The Maternity Services works in partnership with the Local Maternity and Neonatal Systems (LMNS) to drive the national maternity agenda forward to improve the safety and quality of our services.
We are excited to offer the role of Maternity Matron working cross site. We are looking for an enthusiastic and passionate midwife who wants to make a difference, by leading with compassion, implementing quality improvement initiatives and continuing to develop high quality services.
As a visible and compassionate leader, you will work in close collaboration with your colleagues, providing senior management cover, and working together to lead on delivery of the maternity and wider Trust agenda.
The post holder has a specific responsibility to support the promotion of high standards of care and embed patient safety. This will be through effective translation of learning from incidents and embedding this at a service level.
If you are applying for an Internal Secondment, please ensure you have spoken to your line manager and have their support prior to your application. Please speak to the Recruitment Team if you have any questions.
Main duties of the job
Your role will play a key part in improving the service we provide to the families who use our services at UHDB alongside our vision of maternity transformation. You will be working closely with obstetric, midwifery, neonatal and anaesthetic colleagues to implement national strategy and embed the golden thread of continual improvement across our services.
The Matron will ensure that midwifery and relevant support staff are led, managed, and developed in order to enable them to deliver the highest standards of patient care and experience.
Specifically, the Matron is accountable through their teams for:
* Overseeing and monitoring the quality, timeliness, and development of midwifery care in accordance with relevant professional standards.
* Ensuring that the environments in which patients receive care and treatment are fit for purpose, clean, well ordered and maintained.
* Ensuring that all staff practice in accordance with statutory and corporate policies, including those specific to infection prevention and control.
Closing date of applications: 19 August 2025
Date of interview: 2 September 2025
About us
As a trusted organisation at the heart of our communities, we recognise the important role we can play in supporting the public, patients, our own people and local partners in achieving the best of health for the local population and the communities in which they live by providing Exceptional Care Together
Our fundamental Values of Compassion, Openness and Excellence underpin how we intend to work as a Trust and the associated behaviours are becoming embedded in all aspects of how we work.
In return we will offer:
* Development opportunities, both professional and leadership development
* On-going support from recruitment to when you join our team and beyond.
* Staff benefits including employee assistance programme, discounted gym membership, onsite fitness classes, car schemes
Key Facts:
* We see on average 4810 OP appointments a day.
* We are the 4th busiest Trauma & Orthopaedic outpatients department in England - an average of 2077 per week.
* An average of 1115 patients are seen in A&Es across our network every day - 3rd largest in the country.
* Our hospitals admit an average of 195 emergency patients daily.
* Last year we undertook almost 33,700 planned surgical operations in our 57 operating theatres.
* We are one of only 7 Trusts nationally with more than 50 operating theatres.
* We carry out more than 140 elective procedures each working day.
* UHDB is a research active University Hospital with a large and varied portfolio of clinical trials and research opportunities for all staff.
Job responsibilities
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Person Specification
Registration & Qualification
* First Level degree or equivalent
* NMC Registered
* Master's qualification in relevant discipline or working towards
Education
* Evidence of level 7 study
* Leadership/Management training
Experience
* Significant experience at a band 7 post with demonstratable management and leadership experience
* Knowledge of the drivers for change with the health and social care system and their application to local services
* Educating/Teaching experience
* Experience of time management and prioritising own and teams' workload
* Experience of leading a team to achieve results and deliver projects on time and in budget
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.
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