Matron - Maternity | Liverpool Women's NHS Foundation Trust

Liverpool Women's NHS Foundation Trust; Liverpool; On-site; AUD 124,000 - 152,000; Full time

Job summary

Liverpool Women’s NHS Foundation Trust is recruiting an experienced Matron to lead Maternity services with visible professional leadership across obstetric and neonatal care. You will drive quality, safety, patient experience and workforce development, ensuring high standards of woman-centred care and continuous improvement.

The Matron will manage budgeted resources, lead multidisciplinary teams, and collaborate with divisional leaders to deliver safe, compassionate care for women and families.

Responsibilities

• Provide strong clinical and operational leadership to ensure safe, effective and woman-centred care.
• Coordinate and assure highest standards of care as measured by performance indicators.
• Lead and encourage practice development initiatives and innovation.
• Manage budgets and resources to support divisional efficiency targets and workforce planning.
• Drive Patient Experience and Involvement strategies to improve patient satisfaction.
• Represent the Department on committees and working groups as required.

Job description

Matron - Maternity | Liverpool Women's NHS Foundation Trust

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced and inspirational midwife to join Liverpool Women's NHS Foundation Trust as a Matron.

This senior leadership role is pivotal in delivering high-quality, safe and compassionate care for women and families. The successful candidate will provide visible professional midwifery leadership, promoting excellence in clinical practice, service delivery and patient experience across maternity services.

Working collaboratively with multidisciplinary colleagues and departmental leaders, the Matron will be responsible for driving quality, safety and performance, ensuring that care is consistently delivered to the highest standards. The role requires a highly motivated individual with a passion for innovation, continuous improvement and empowering teams to deliver outstanding outcomes.

• As Matron, you will provide strong clinical and operational leadership, supporting staff to deliver safe, effective and woman-centred care. You will be highly visible and accessible to women, families and colleagues, fostering a culture of compassion, professionalism and accountability.
• Provide midwifery and clinical leadership, coordinating and assuring the highest standards of care for patients as measured by performance indicators
• Provide professional midwifery leadership on the organisation and management of care
• Facilitate and lead team working, innovation and practice development
• Recognise and identify midwifery practice issues and under-performance, manage using the appropriate human resource policies
• Be the named budget holder for their area of responsibility, maximising the use of manpower and resources and delivering a balanced budget. Lead the contribution to the delivery of the Division’s efficiency targets. Work with the Divisional
• management team to prioritise cost pressures
• Allocate duties to staff in accordance with their individual levels of competence
• Lead and encourage practice development initiatives, encouraging innovation and development and ensuring that teams participate in patient safety and quality improvement programmes
• Lead the implementation of the Patient Experience and Involvement strategy, improving the patient experience by being visible, listening to and resolving problems for patients and their relatives and building links with PALS
• To be aware of local and national improvement drivers and implement change that benefits women, babies and their families
• Represent the Department and or Division on working groups, committees etc appropriate to clinical and professional role

You will lead on the delivery and monitoring of clinical quality standards, patient safety initiatives, infection prevention and control, and quality improvement programmes. Working closely with clinical and operational teams, you will proactively address challenges, drive service improvement and ensure that women and families receive care that is respectful, dignified and responsive to their individual needs.

The successful candidate will demonstrate exceptional leadership skills, a commitment to staff development and wellbeing, and the ability to influence and inspire others to achieve excellence.

Liverpool Women’s NHS FT became part of NHS University Hospitals of Liverpool Group (UHLG) in November 2024, following the coming together with Liverpool University Hospitals NHS FT. UHLG was born from a shared aim to improve the care we provide to our patients.

UHLG is one of the largest employers in the region, with over 16,800 colleagues who are dedicated to caring for our communities - from birth and beyond. For the 630,000 people across Merseyside, UHLG is also their local NHS, providing general and emergency hospital care, alongside highly specialised regional services for more than two million people in the North West.

At Liverpool Women’s Hospital, each year we deliver approximately 7,500 babies, carry out around 50,000 gynaecological inpatient and outpatient procedures, care for over 1,000 poorly and premature newborns, perform around 1,000 IVF cycles, and conduct over 4,000 genetic appointments.

We believe that this, along with a strong dedication to research and innovation, makes us the specialist health provider of choice in Europe for women, babies and families.

For roles at Liverpool University Hospitals, visit their careers page.

UKVI guidelines prohibits sponsorship for all Band 2 posts. Guidelines state that many non-clinical posts are not eligible for sponsorship. Please use UKVI guidance on Skilled Worker Visas to determine your eligibility for sponsorship if you were to gain a conditional offer for this role.

The post holder will have responsibility for the delivery of the five corporate aims of the Trust as described earlier in the advert. Further information can be found in the full Job Description, however some examples of main responsibilities in accordance with the five corporate objectives are below.

This advert closes on Friday 16 Oct 2026