Maternity- Inpatient Matron

Transformationunitgm; Islington; On-site; GBP 61,000 - 69,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading NHS organization seeks an Inpatient Matron for Maternity services in Islington. The role involves leadership in clinical excellence, managing performance targets, and ensuring a woman-centered approach throughout the maternity pathway. Candidates should possess extensive experience and strong communication skills.

Qualifications

• 5 years or more experience managing teams.
• Experience in managing change in clinical practice in all areas of maternity.

Responsibilities

• Provide leadership in maternity services, ensuring quality and performance targets are met.
• Advocate for excellent patient care in all clinical decisions.

Skills

Knowledge of digital maternity systems

Staff Management

Job description

Main area Maternity- Inpatient Matron Grade NHS AfC: Band 8a Contract Permanent Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Monday to Friday) Job ref 220-WHT-3154

Employer Whittington Health NHS Trust Employer type NHS Site Whittington Health NHS Trust Town Islington Salary £61,927 - £68,676 Per Annum inclusive of HCAS Salary period Yearly Closing 01/07/2025 23:59

NHS AfC: Band 8a

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We encourage and support staff to get COVID-19 vaccine and a booster dose as and when they are eligible.

Please note in order to progress your application, your data will be processed by our 3 rd party recruitment providers – North London Partners Shared Service, who conduct recruitment activities on behalf of Whittington Health NHS Trust.

By applying for this role, you accept in the event you are successful that your personal data may be transferred from the Trust to another NHS organisation where your employment transfers within the NHS. This is in accordance with the streamlining programme which is aimed at saving you time and improving efficiencies within the NHS when your employment transfers.

Job overview

The Matron will provide leadership and responsibility for the following key areas in Maternity and work closely with the Matron for Intrapartum care and community services to deliver

• Bereavement team
• Postnatal inpatient care with supporting a review of transitional care and supporting the examination of the newborn screening. With a key relationship to the Neonatal team.
• Baby Friendly Feeding Initiative
• Antenatal inpatient and assessment unit

You will be expected to deliver clinical excellence and demonstrate a strong commitment to multi-professional working. A willingness to learn and work within a constantly changing environment is necessary together with the ability to remain calm under pressure. The role requires specialist knowledge and experience in high risk and normalising patient experience and innovations for improving patient experience, as well as excellent organisational and communication skills.

Main duties of the job

· Ensure a woman-centred approach throughout the maternity pathway.

• Create a supportive environment in which training, coaching and practice development needs are accurately identified and progressed through agreed structures, appraisals, PDPs and performance management.

· Ensure appropriate provision and care for the management of resources for midwifery and support staff, consumables, and environment.

· Lead with credibility and authority and be revered for high standards of patient care.

Working for our organisation

Whittington Health’s maternity unit has excellent women centred facilities and are well-known as a friendly unit. At our Trust, staff are well supported through strong practice development and Professional Midwifery Advocates.

We look after a diverse population where women and their families are treated as individuals. The maternity unit is at the forefront of innovation, this includes partners staying overnight, enhanced recovery, and midwifery led induction of labour and normalising birth.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

· Lead on ensuring that inpatient related maternity performance targets and quality standards are met

· Be a strong advocate for excellent patient care so that this will be fundamental to all clinical decisions within the maternity service

· Positively seek improvements to practice and constructively challenge poor practice / behaviour

· Champion the spread of innovation between departments / wards

Person specification

Skills and Abilitiy

• Knowledge of digital maternity systems
• Staff Management

Knowledge & Experience

• 5 year or more experience, lead, manage teams
• Experience in Managing Change, Clinical practice all areas maternity
• Bereavement and Infant Feeding champion

Knowledge and Experience

• Budget Management
• Safer staffing and Optima

SAFEGUARDING CHILDREN AND ADULTS

To comply with the Trust’s Safeguarding Children and Adults policies, procedures and protocols. All individual members of staff (paid or unpaid) have a duty to safeguard and promote the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults This will require you to:

• Ensure you are familiar with and comply with the London Child Protection Procedures and protocols for promoting and safeguarding the welfare of children and young people.
• Ensure you are familiar and comply with theLondon Multi Agency Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults Pan London Procedures.
• Ensure you are familiar and comply with local protocols and systems for information sharing.
• Know the appropriate contact numbers and required reporting lines.
• Participate in required training and supervision.
• Comply with required professional boundaries and codes of conduct

Whittington Health is committed to safeguarding all children and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

Your application form –

• Provide only business email address for your referees – we are unable to request references from yahoo, Hotmail, Gmail accounts.
• Make sure you to include all evidence of where you meet the essential requirement on the jobs description as this forms the base of our shortlisting criteria.

Our processes –

• Closing dates are given as a guide; we are within our right to close adverts early so please ensure you submit your application as soon as possible to avoid delay.
• If you do not hear from us up to 3 weeks after the closing date of the job unfortunatelythis means you have not been successfullyshortlisted for interview. If your require feedback on your application please contact the appointing manager detailed in the body of the advert.
• Please check your emails regularly as all correspondence from us will be via trac.systems – occasionally these emails will go into your Junk folder.
• Employment at Whittington Health is offered subject to successful completion of a 6 month probationary period for all staff with the exception of GMC Registered Doctors.

Other important information –

• Applications from job seekers who require sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. Before submitting your application and to avoid disappointment please check that you areeligible under theUKVI points based system .
• Applications are welcome from people wishing to job share or work flexible patterns. We are committed to equal opportunities.
• In submitting an application form, you authorise WhittingtonHealth NHS Trust to confirm any previous NHS service details via the Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) process should you be appointed to the post.

If you are offered a role with one of the NLPSS partner trusts, as part of pre-employment checks youridentity and right to work documentation will be verifiedremotely (in most circumstances), using a certified identity verification service provider TrustID. You will be asked to capture an image of the relevant documents as well as a “selfie” using your smartphone/tablet (if available) for facial matching. TrustID will also perform a digital address check using Trunarrative and Equifax, which is a soft check and does not leave a footprint on your credit rating. For more information, visit www.trustid.co.uk

Please note that during the recruitment process your Identity Documentation (i.e. passport, driving licence, visa, etc.) will be scanned using a device which recognises UV, Infrared and Machine Readable Zone security features of the documents provided

The Trust uses electronic new starter forms on Trac to collect personal details. Information collected is securely stored and used to set up the employee record on the ESR HR system.

We would welcome applications from individuals who are from underrepresented groups in the organisation

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Application numbers

This vacancy may close early if it receives a high number of applications. Please complete and submit your application in good time to avoid disappointment.

Name Alicia St Louis Job title Head of Midwifery Email address [e-mail] Telephone number 0207 288 5684 Additional information

Ditte Madsen- [e-mail]

Consultant Midwife for Public Health and Education

Direct Line: 0207 288 5939