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Maternity Matron
Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
Hull and East Yorkshire
On-site
GBP 55,000 - 75,000
Full time
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Job summary
A prominent healthcare provider in Hull is looking for a dedicated Maternity Matron to join their leadership team. The successful candidate will provide strategic and operational leadership across maternity services, ensuring high standards of care and a positive experience for families. This role requires extensive clinical and managerial experience, strong interpersonal skills, and a commitment to evidence-based practice. Opportunities for professional growth and substantial impact in community maternity care await you.
Benefits
Qualifications
- Must have extensive clinical and managerial experience at charge nurse level.
- Demonstrable leadership, problem-solving, and interpersonal skills.
- Experience embedding robust clinical systems at local level.
Responsibilities
- Provide strategic and operational leadership across maternity services.
- Collaborate with midwives and multidisciplinary teams to enhance service delivery.
- Ensure highest standards of care for women and families.
Skills
Education
Tools
The closing date is 12 January 2026.
Join Our Maternity Leadership Team as a Maternity Matron.
Are you an experienced and passionate midwife looking to make a real impact in community and midwifery-led care? Hull University Teaching Hospitals is seeking a dedicated Maternity Matron to work within our existing team, to lead and inspire our teams through an exciting period of transformation and investment.
In this pivotal role, you will provide strategic and operational leadership across our maternity services, ensuring the highest standards of care for women and families. You'll work collaboratively with midwives, multidisciplinary teams, and external partners to drive innovation, enhance service delivery, and promote an outstanding experience for the 5,000 families we support each year.
At Hull University Teaching Hospitals, we are committed to evidence-based practice, person-centered care, and continuous improvement. If you're a dynamic, motivated midwife with a vision for the future of maternity services, we'd love to hear from you!
- Lead a supportive and forward-thinking team
- Shape the future of community maternity care
- Work in a role that makes a tangible difference in families' lives
Don't miss this opportunity to advance your leadership career and be part of a service that truly puts women and families at the heart of everything we do.
Apply today and help us drive excellence in maternity care!
This is an exciting and challenging opportunity for a forward thinking experienced individual who will provide professional advice and support to speciality teams and service line colleagues ensuring delivery of the highest quality of patient care and service delivery.
You will have a high level of autonomy and will work in a self-directed way within the parameters set for the post.
Excellent leadership and communication skills are essential in this role as well as experience of creating successful partnerships with internal and external stakeholders and in the management of Human Resources.
The successful applicant must have high-level people management skills, including decision-making, negotiating, influencing, and persuading skills. The post holder will provide a highly visible, accessible and authoritative presence and be available to patients, families, and staff to provide assistance, advice, and support and address any concerns as required.
The successful individual will contribute to the strategic direction of the service and specialities through meeting key performance indicators and national and local activity targets.
The Humber Health Partnership is one of the largest acute and community partnership arrangements in the NHS, seeing well over one million patients every year and managing a budget of over £1.3 billion.
Made up of two trusts – Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (HUTH) and Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust (NLAG) – our group has significant ambitions and is committed to delivering world-class hospital and community services for the 1.65 million people we serve.
Together we employ nearly 20,000 staff. Our five main hospital sites are Hull Royal Infirmary and Castle Hill Hospital for HUTH and Diana, Princess of Wales Hospital, Scunthorpe General Hospital, and Goole and District Hospital for NLAG.
As teaching hospitals working with the Hull York Medical School, we both lead and contribute to research in many areas – biomedical research, primary care, palliative medicine, cardiovascular and respiratory medicine, vascular surgery, cancer surgery, and oncology.
We believe that by developing a diverse, inclusive, innovative, skilled and caring workforce, we can deliver excellent care to our patients and a great future for our employees, our group and our community.
Should we receive a high volume of applications the advert may be closed earlier than stated.
For further details regarding this vacancy opportunity, please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification.
We welcome applications from candidates who require Skilled Worker Visa sponsorship to work in the UK, and these will be considered alongside all other applications in line with our commitment to equality and inclusion.
Applicants can determine their potential eligibility for a Certificate of Sponsorship by reviewing the Skilled Worker Visa criteria set out by UKVI on the gov.uk website.
- Registered Nurse and/or Registered Midwife
- Current registration with NMC
- Highly developed specialist knowledge acquired through formal qualification, courses and training and occupational experience
- Post-graduate qualification within a leadership programme/study or evidence of practical application of expertise at this level
- MSc
- Extensive clinical and managerial credibility and experience gained at charge nurse or equivalent level.
- Highly developed interpersonal and communication skills, providing information to senior managers, reassurance to staff and patients/carers.
- Demonstrable leadership and management skills
- Developed problem solving skills
- Financially astute/business‑aware
- Competent with basic IT skills (word processing, spreadsheets, etc.)
- Skilled negotiator
- Demonstrable broad clinical experience relevant to this post
- Experience at Sister/Charge Midwife or band 7 equivalent level
- Track record of achievement of objectives
- Evidence of robust financial and other resource management
- Experience of embedding robust clinical and corporate systems at local level
- Experience of leading and implementing change
- Experience within an acute hospital setting
- Business planning and development
- Excellent interpersonal skills
- Evidence of effective working relationships
- Good verbal and report writing skills
- Personal integrity and credibility
- Approachable and adaptable
- Able to attend meetings off site
- Regular requirement to travel Group wide
- Patient-focused
- Ability to manage with complexity and unpredictability, to make difficult decisions and to solve problems
- Ability to manage resources effectively (esp. financial and human)
- Ability to work collaboratively and strategically
- Broad understanding of operational/NHS issues
- Track record of achievement and personal/professional development
- Systematic and analytical
- Personal Integrity and Credibility
- Approachable and adaptable
- Hard working and committed to the principles of public sector values
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.
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.
Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
Hull Royal Infirmary
Anlaby Road
Hull
HU3 2JZ
https://www.hey.nhs.uk/
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