Job summary
Are you passionate about ensuring women and their families receive high quality, evidenced based compassionate care?
We are looking for a transformational leader with a passion for community maternity services. The successful candidate will need to be highly motivated, hardworking and enthusiastic. Our maternity services across Poole and Bournemouth have now merged creating new opportunities for the team. It is an exciting time to join UHD as we make plans to relocate to a new purpose-built maternity unit, as part of the senior team you will be playing a major part in this process.
As Community Matron, you will have enhanced clinical skills and provide clinical expertise, supporting staff to deliver high quality care in accordance with the Trust values. You will be responsible for ensuring clinical, professional and managerial leadership that positively impacts on the quality of care, culture of the workforce and staff engagement. Whilst working closely with the multidisciplinary team you will provide a significant focus on improving the experience and care for women and be responsible for development and implementation of service improvement.
Main duties of the job
About us
The Maternity Hospital is the centre for all high risk care in east Dorset and is fully equipped to meet the needs of women and babies with complications, as well as women with normal pregnancies and births. The Maternity Serviceprovides a comprehensive service, offering women as much choice as possible in their maternity care; over 4,000 babies are delivered byour maternity staff each year, either at home or within the birth centre and labour ward in the hospital. The Maternity Service offers a traditional model of midwifery care with separate teams for the acute and community service with on-going development of continuity models of care.
The Midwifery Led Haven Birth Centre has a total of five birthing rooms, three of these have pools to facilitate water birth and we offer an aromatherapy service. Care on the Birth Centre is managed completely by midwives and incorporates natural birthing techniques. It is fully equipped to support normal birth in a home-from-home environment.
Our two community teams cover Poole and Bournemouth area. We currently have a base at St Marys Hospital for the Poole team and then a Maternity Hub for the Bournemouth team. In addition to our community team we have a dedicated OASIS team which provides additional support to families. We also provide a homebirth service.
About us
The Labour Ward provides care for women with high risk pregnancies. There are two dedicated obstetric theatres, a two bedded high dependency unit, six birth rooms and one birthing room with a pool. We are keen to promote active birth and where continuous electronic fetal monitoring is advised, we regularly use telemetry monitoring, including for women with medium risk pregnancies who would like to birth in water. Aromatherapy is also used and encouraged on the Labour Ward.
We have a dedicated High Dependency team of Midwives who have undergone specialist training. Midwives on the Labour Ward have opportunities to develop their skills as a part of a cohesive multidisciplinary team.
We have a 12 bedded antenatal ward which also caters for induction of labour. Offering inpatient and outpatient induction of labour dependant on the individual woman's risk factors, we have streamlined our service to include offering women balloon catheter induction.
On the Poole site we have an Antenatal Day Assessment Unit and the Antenatal Clinic.
We have a 16 bedded Postnatal Ward offering traditional postnatal care to women and their babies. We also have an 8 bedded Transitional Care Ward, which provides additional support to more vulnerable babies and provides an outreach service to the Labour Ward.
Job description
Job responsibilities
If you would like further information or a tour of our maternity unit, please contact Amy Higginson on amy.higginson@uhd.nhs.uk or call 0300 019 2190.
Please view our Recruitment video on YouTube, 'Maternity Recruitment March 2021'.
If this interests you, we would love to hear from you!
Base Location: Poole or Royal Bournemouth Hosptial. Please note you will be required to do cross site working
Provisional interview date: 6th December 2022
Our values define who we are as #TeamUHD. They underpin everything we do now and in the future. They define how we treat our patients, visitors, and each other, our valued team mates and colleagues
To understand the role in more detail please read the full job description and person specification documents which are attached to this advert.
Job description
Job responsibilities
If you would like further information or a tour of our maternity unit, please contact Amy Higginson on amy.higginson@uhd.nhs.uk or call 0300 019 2190.
Please view our Recruitment video on YouTube, 'Maternity Recruitment March 2021'.
If this interests you, we would love to hear from you!
Base Location: Poole or Royal Bournemouth Hosptial. Please note you will be required to do cross site working
Provisional interview date: 6th December 2022
Our values define who we are as #TeamUHD. They underpin everything we do now and in the future. They define how we treat our patients, visitors, and each other, our valued team mates and colleagues
To understand the role in more detail please read the full job description and person specification documents which are attached to this advert.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- 1st Level Registered Midwife on relevant part of the Register
- First degree or equivalent
- Accredited management/leadership training or evidence of practical application of expertise at this level
Desirable
Experience
Essential
- Proven track record of operational management in the acute healthcare setting managing a ward / service/ department. Including staff, financial/budgetary and change management
- Experience in the acute healthcare setting in clinical leadership/clinical management position
- Formal and informal teaching experience
- Experience of holding staff to account for poor performance
- Experience of being accountable for the delivery of a clinical/nursing service
Desirable
- Experience of chairing capability disciplinary hearings
Technical Skills Competencies
Essential
- Ability to demonstrate expert clinical and nursing knowledge
- Detailed knowledge of current midwifery issues
- Ability to effectively manage resources to deliver sustained improvement
- Budgetary experience
- Ability to analyse complex information and provide a range of options to share information to the wider team
- Ability and experience of delivering highly sensitive or distressing news to patients, relatives and staff
- Ability to use IT systems for clinical care
Desirable
- Demonstrable experience of achieving financial savings without compromising clinical care
- Ability to write reports
Knowledge
Essential
- Extensive knowledge of National and Local NHS care and N&M agenda
- Highly developed specialist knowledge for field of practice, underpinned by theory and experience
Other Requirements
Essential
- Ability to work flexible hours and fulfil commitments of a Matron
- Ability to fulfil commitments of midwifery management on call rota
- Ability to prioritise workload effectively
Personal Attributes
Essential
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills with good listening skills
- High level of work organisation, self-motivation, drive for performance and improvement, and flexibility in approach and attitude
- Team player and able to work collaboratively
- Emotionally resilient and able to work effectively in a rapidly changing environment
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- 1st Level Registered Midwife on relevant part of the Register
- First degree or equivalent
- Accredited management/leadership training or evidence of practical application of expertise at this level
Desirable
Experience
Essential
- Proven track record of operational management in the acute healthcare setting managing a ward / service/ department. Including staff, financial/budgetary and change management
- Experience in the acute healthcare setting in clinical leadership/clinical management position
- Formal and informal teaching experience
- Experience of holding staff to account for poor performance
- Experience of being accountable for the delivery of a clinical/nursing service
Desirable
- Experience of chairing capability disciplinary hearings
Technical Skills Competencies
Essential
- Ability to demonstrate expert clinical and nursing knowledge
- Detailed knowledge of current midwifery issues
- Ability to effectively manage resources to deliver sustained improvement
- Budgetary experience
- Ability to analyse complex information and provide a range of options to share information to the wider team
- Ability and experience of delivering highly sensitive or distressing news to patients, relatives and staff
- Ability to use IT systems for clinical care
Desirable
- Demonstrable experience of achieving financial savings without compromising clinical care
- Ability to write reports
Knowledge
Essential
- Extensive knowledge of National and Local NHS care and N&M agenda
- Highly developed specialist knowledge for field of practice, underpinned by theory and experience
Other Requirements
Essential
- Ability to work flexible hours and fulfil commitments of a Matron
- Ability to fulfil commitments of midwifery management on call rota
- Ability to prioritise workload effectively
Personal Attributes
Essential
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills with good listening skills
- High level of work organisation, self-motivation, drive for performance and improvement, and flexibility in approach and attitude
- Team player and able to work collaboratively
- Emotionally resilient and able to work effectively in a rapidly changing environment
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.
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 (Opens in a new tab).
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 (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
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.
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 (Opens in a new tab).
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 (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
