Matron for Core Maternity Services

TN United Kingdom; King's Lynn; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

An established healthcare provider is seeking a passionate and experienced midwife to lead maternity services. This role requires strong clinical leadership and a commitment to improving patient care. As a Matron, you will inspire teams, ensure high standards of care, and work collaboratively to enhance maternity safety. The position offers a unique opportunity to make a real difference in the lives of families while working in a supportive environment that values diversity and inclusion. Join a forward-thinking organization dedicated to excellence in healthcare and patient experience.

Benefits

Flexible working opportunities

Free counselling service

Access to Wagestream

Free parking for staff until March 2024

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse/Midwife with NMC registration required.
• Master’s degree or equivalent experience is essential.
• Teaching and assessing qualification needed.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop patient-focused services for women and children.
• Ensure high-quality care and maintain clinical standards.
• Participate in Senior Manager On Call Rota.

Skills

Clinical Leadership

Communication Skills

Team Building

Patient-Centered Care

Data Analysis

Education

Registered Nurse/Midwife on NMC register

Master’s Degree or equivalent

Teaching and Assessing qualification

Tools

IT for Clinical Practice

Job description

Job overview

Are you a highly motivated and dynamic experienced midwife looking to make a difference to maternity services? Are you able to inspire and motivate teams? If you have a passion for providing high quality care and you are looking for an opportunity to lead midwifery care within the framework of the national agenda, then we would welcome your talents and skills.

We are looking for a senior experienced dynamic midwife to join the team as a Matron for Maternity Services. We need someone who possesses strong clinical leadership with excellent communication and networking skills.

You need to be self motivated, enthusiastic and have a drive for continuous improvement in maternity safety and experience. You will have responsibility to provide cost effective clinical services within midwifery and work collaboratively within the division.

To provide clinical and professional midwifery leadership and accountability for the following clinical areas:

• Central Delivery Suite
• Maternity Triage

We welcome informal chats prior to applying, please get in touch!

Main duties of the job

The post holder will lead and facilitate the development of efficient, effective and patient focused services for women and children receiving care within the division. Through strong clinical leadership the Matron will support the teams to promote excellence in nursing and midwifery care to maintain and improve clinical standards. The post holder will ensure that all patients are treated with compassion, dignity and respect placing value on the diversity of the local community and beyond. Partnership working is a priority in supporting the delivery of a seamless and integrated service. Patient experience is a key responsibility of the role to ensure that care is delivered to the highest quality inspiring patient and public confidence. This will be achieved through high visibility, effective communication, accessibility and surveillance. At all times, the post holder will work in accordance with the principles governed by the Nursing & Midwifery Council (NMC) and Trust Policies. Acting with professionalism and integrity, you will be a role model to those around us and ensuring everyone has an equal opportunity.

Our Trust Values of Kindness, Wellness and Fairness, guides appropriate behaviours of all colleagues and enable us all to be accountable for our actions and will be ingrained within our revised appraisal and recruitment processes.

To participate and assume responsibility within the Senior Manager On Call Rota.

Working for our organisation

The Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEH) King’s Lynn is located near some of the most beautiful scenery in the UK, along the north Norfolk coast, and not far from Sandringham House.

We provide a comprehensive range of specialist, acute, obstetrics and community-based healthcare services to around 331,000 people across west and north Norfolk, in addition to parts of Breckland, Cambridgeshire and South Lincolnshire.

We have more than 4,000 staff and volunteers, approximately 530 beds, and a helipad for air ambulances. We work with neighbouring hospitals for the provision of tertiary services, including as part of regional partnership and network models of care, such as the trauma network.

In February 2022 the significant progress that has been made at QEH was recognised by the Care Quality Commission who rated the Trust as ‘Good’ in all of the core services they inspected. They recommended the Trust moves out of the recovery support system (formerly special measures).

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see attached Job Description and Person Specification for further information about this role.

Person specification

Qualifications/training and professional development

• Registered Nurse/Midwife on NMC register
• Educated to Master’s Degree Level or equivalent level of experience and working towards formal qualification
• Evidence of recent relevant professional development
• Teaching and Assessing qualification
• Evidence of enhanced clinical practice

Experience

• Experience in managing staff including performance management
• Experience of the development, implementation and delivery of successful service transformation informed by patients/families/carers
• Understanding of professional accountability and compliance with clinical governance.
• Proven ability to integrate, build and motivate teams to deliver clear outcomes and results.
• Experience of transforming services across systems and pathways
• Experience in financial and budget management
• Experience managing and responding to complaints

Skills, abilities, and knowledge

• Good understanding of and ability to interpret and analyse performance data to inform future delivery and recovery when required.
• Excellent organisational & team building skills
• Ability to use IT to support clinical practice
• Committed to patient centred care
• Ability to develop protocols and guidelines for practice
• Ability to influence change and prioritise work
• Knowledge of current National Drivers
• Professionalism
• Advocating for team and department
• Flexible to meet needs of the service

Applications are welcome from anyone who meets the criteria specified in the person specification regardless of age, gender, disability, race, ethnicity, religion, belief, sexual orientation or other personal circumstances. Only those applicants who demonstrate in the application form how they meet the criteria in the person specification will be shortlisted for interview. We not only recruit employees based on their qualifications and experience - we recruit individuals who possess and can demonstrate the behaviours which underpin our core values (attached).

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We offer our staff a wide range of benefits and support including:

• Flexible working opportunities
• Free counselling service
• Access to Wagestream - an app-based service that provides instant earned wage access*
• Support and advice for staff affected by either Peri-Menopause or Menopause
• Free parking for all staff until March 2024

Opportunity to join our Staff Networks which include: Armed Forces, REACH (Race, Ethnicity and Culture Heritage), Disability and LGBTQ+ networks.

We are committed to being a menopause friendly employer.

Please note due to high volume of applications for some posts, this post may close before the displayed closing date. We recommend that you apply for this role asap.

Admin & Clerical staff may be required to act as Loggists for a major incident.

Everyone within the Trust has or will shortly need to have a minimum level of skill for computer literacy for their day-to day- work as we become more digitally mature. Therefore all staff shoulld be computer literate.

Team QEH are one of the most research-active organisations for our size in the UK, recruiting 2,188 in 20/21 and ranked 10/16 in the Eastern Region. We have a wide-ranging and diverse portfolio of clinical studies and also recognised as one of the fastest trusts in the country from set up to recruitment.