Maternity Modern Matron | University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust

UHCW NHS Trust; Coventry; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading NHS Trust in the United Kingdom is offering an exciting opportunity for a registered Midwife to join the perinatal senior leadership team for a 12-month period. The successful candidate will lead recruitment and retention efforts, oversee antenatal clinics, and drive service improvements while ensuring high professional standards and safety. The role is aimed at fostering inclusive leadership and collaborative team dynamics while meeting workforce planning objectives. Candidates must be ready to provide necessary immunisation and vaccination reports.

Qualifications

• Registered Midwife with leadership experience in maternity services.
• Ability to oversee antenatal clinics and screening departments.
• Experience in fostering collaborative working across teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead recruitment and retention for the perinatal service.
• Oversee preceptorship and student support programmes.
• Demonstrate inclusive leadership within the team.

Skills

Leadership responsibility

Collaboration across MDT

Expert resource for nursing issues

Inclusive leadership

Job description

Overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a registered Midwife to join the perinatal senior leadership team for a 12‑month period to lead on perinatal workforce, antenatal clinic and antenatal screening.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead on recruitment and retention across the perinatal service providing upward reporting of workforce data.
• Oversee the preceptorship programme for newly qualified midwives and the student support programme.
• Possess leadership responsibility and accountability for the antenatal clinic and antenatal screening departments with innovative service improvement.
• Act as a visible leader within the group management structure demonstrating collaborative working across the MDT.
• Be a modern matron responsible for delivering the goals as outlined in the Matrons Handbook.
• Provide an immunisation and vaccination report from a UK occupational health provider or UK GP.
• For internal candidates: if successful after interview, obtain approval from current line manager to accept the offer.
• To be a visible leader: ensuring physical presence, professional appearance, professional standards and leading by example.
• To visit and be present on wards and departments within areas of responsibility daily and be accessible to staff via face‑to‑face or other forms of communication.
• To conduct planned gemba walks or rounding to support teams, identify improvement opportunities and waste.
• To act as an expert resource providing advice on nursing issues in relation to policies, protocols, service delivery and adoption of organisational aims.
• To demonstrate inclusive leadership, embedding local and national standards to ensure safe care, working collaboratively with the wider MDT.
• To act as an influence on maintaining cleaning standards, environmental cleanliness, infection prevention and control compliance locally.

Strategic Focus Areas

• Inclusive leadership, professional standards and accountability.
• Governance, patient safety and quality.
• Workforce planning and resource management.
• Patient experience and reducing health inequalities.
• Performance and operational oversight.
• Digital and information technology.
• Education, training and development.
• Research and development.
• Collaborative working and clinical effectiveness.
• Service improvement and transformation.

About the Trust

University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust, rated as good by the Care Quality Commission, is one of the largest teaching Trusts in the UK. We are proud to be recognised as a Pathway to Excellence® designated organisation and provide some of the most modern facilities in Western Europe.

We are committed to building an organisation that makes full use of the talents, skills, experience, and different perspectives available in our diverse society. We want everyone to feel respected, valued, able to reach their potential and receive the most appropriate and relevant care. Our core values promote equality, human rights, fairness, respect, equality, dignity, and autonomy.

Application Note

Successful applicants will be required to provide an immunisation and vaccination report, from either their current UK occupational health provider or their UK GP.

This advert closes on Tuesday 6 Jan 2026.