Job summary
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.
About us
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.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To see the full detailed job description and the main responsibilities of the job please refer the job description attached.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To see the full detailed job description and the main responsibilities of the job please refer the job description attached.
Person Specification
Knowledge
Essential
- 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
- Computer literate
Desirable
- 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
Essential
- RM registration with the NMC
- First level degree or equivalent knowledge
- Qualification in teaching and assessing or equivalent
- Demonstration of on-going professional development
- Additional professional/management qualifications
Desirable
- Working towards Masters qualification or equivalent
Further
Essential
- 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
Essential
- 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
Desirable
- Experience of working towards Care Quality Commission and the NHS Resolution standards
- Complaints Management
- Experience of service improvement methodologies
Person Specification
Knowledge
Essential
- 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
- Computer literate
Desirable
- 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
Essential
- RM registration with the NMC
- First level degree or equivalent knowledge
- Qualification in teaching and assessing or equivalent
- Demonstration of on-going professional development
- Additional professional/management qualifications
Desirable
- Working towards Masters qualification or equivalent
Further
Essential
- 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
Essential
- 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
Desirable
- Experience of working towards Care Quality Commission and the NHS Resolution standards
- Complaints Management
- Experience of service improvement methodologies
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).
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
