Maternity Matron, Midwife Led Care

Barts Health NHS Trust; London; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

Barts Health NHS Trust is seeking a Maternity Matron for their Midwifery Led Care service in London. The successful candidate will lead the management of midwifery-led community services and contribute to improving women's birthing experiences. With a focus on high-quality care, the role involves strategic oversight and collaboration with multidisciplinary teams, ensuring effective service provision and staff development.

Qualifications

• Significant experience at a senior level (band 7) in Midwifery.
• Experience in quality, clinical audit, and clinical developments.
• Ability to be part of the Band 8 on call Rota.

Responsibilities

• Management and development of designated areas for midwife-led care.
• Ensure the provision of a 24-hour midwifery service including on-call.
• Contribute to multi-disciplinary and collaborative working.

Skills

Interpersonal skills

Communication skills

Clinical governance understanding

Problem-solving

Education

Teaching & Assessing in Clinical Practice Module

PGCert in Adult Education

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Barts Health NHS Trust

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London, United Kingdom

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Posted:

29.06.2025

Expiry Date:

13.08.2025

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Job overview

We are looking for a dynamic and Senior Midwifery Manager for Midwifery Led Care (Band 8A) Royal London Hospital, who is passionate, committed to providing high quality of care and positive women’s experiences. The post holder will be responsible for the Midwifery led community services, and the Alongside Midwifery Unit (Lotus Birth Centre). As a member of the midwifery management team, the post holder is expected to undertake the midwifery management on-call rota.

At Barts Health NHS Trust our local community is home to families from a diverse mix of ethnicity, social challenge and health needs, The Royal London Hospital is situated in the heart of East London, and we have easy access to very good public transport links. We provide Maternity Services to approximately 5400 women a year and accommodate our women in very modern up to date facilitates. We have a level 3 Neonatal unit situated within the hospital as well as excellent facilities in Fetal Medicine. We are baby friendly hospital with fully accreditation by UNICEF Baby friendly initiatives since 2012. The maternity staff are also skilled and able to support parents who chose to formula feed their babies in a sensitive and effective manner to ensure informed decision.

Barts Health NHS Trust has a world-wide reputation for innovation in the care of mothers to be, and each birth is very special to us, and we strive to make every birth as normal as possible. Building on our existing work around normalising birth we have expanding our services at the Royal London hospital site to include an alongside midwifery-led unit providing choice for women and improving their birthing experience. In line with the Better Births Initiative and NHS Long Term Plan recommendation, we have two Midwifery led Continuity Carer (MCoC) teams i.e., home birth and Group Practice Continuity carer teams. The Home birth team provides case loading care to low risk women whose choice is to birth at home. Whilst GPMCoC being a pilot team caters for women regardless of their obstetrics or medical needs whose place of birth is either our Labour ward or Alongside Midwifery lead Unit and resides within the significant deprived areas of the borough. There is also our specialist (Gateway team) who provides case loading care to our vulnerable women.

Main duties of the job

The post holder has continuing responsibility for the management and development of designated areas for midwife led care and community services.

The post holder, in conjunction with the Midwifery Management team, will ensure the provision of a 24 hour midwifery service including on-call services. As a member of the midwifery management team, the post holder contributes to multi - disciplinary and collaborative working.

Working for our organisation

Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain’s leading healthcare providers.

The Barts Health group of NHS hospitals is entering an exciting new era on our improvement journey to becoming an outstanding organisation with a world-class clinical reputation. Having lifted ourselves out of special measures, we now have the impetus and breathing space to chart a fresh course in which we are continually striving to improve all our services for patients.

Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time. It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.

We strive to live by our WeCare values and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience, and knowledge required. For both documents, please view the attachment/s below.

We are dedicated to being an outstanding place to work and will work with you to get the best experience. We know flexible working is not a one size fits all and will mean something different to everyone. We are inclusive, so if you are interested in flexible working, please speak to the recruiting manager.

Person specification

Experience

• • Significant experience at a senior level (band 7) in Midwifery
• • Experience in quality, clinical audit, and clinical developments
• • Experience of teaching professional development and professional issues
• • Experience of mentoring students and teaching in practice
• • Able to be part of the Band 8 on call Rota
• • Handling complaints and issues involving midwives

Skills

• • Well-developed interpersonal skills with the ability to work with a wide range of professionals, strong communication skills, including report writing and presentation of information.
• • In depth understanding of CNST and Governance, patient involvement
• • Experience of using quantitative information to influence performance improvement using, Excel, Word and Power Point
• • Demonstrate capacity to identify problems in order of importance and develop actions to address these.
• • Ability to take decisions but with sound judgement about reporting “up the line”

Knowledge

• • Demonstrable experience in training and developing staff
• • Experience of chairing Multidisciplinary meetings
• • Experience with working with multidisciplinary teams and other staff at all levels
• • Clear understanding of the national and local Healthcare agenda
• • Knowledge of Clinical Governance issues.
• • Knowledge of understanding of equal opportunities.
• • Knowledge about current evidence and reports influencing practice.
• • Knowledge of infection prevention and Control.
• • Understanding of Child and vulnerable adults Protection.
• • Demonstrable track record in implementing change

Qualifications

• • Teaching & Assessing in Clinical Practice Module/ENB 997/998 /PGCert in Adult Edu
• • Attendance on a clinical leadership program