Matron for Maternity Services

NHS; Sutton-in-Ashfield; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in Sutton-in-Ashfield is seeking a Maternity Matron to join their award-winning maternity team. You will provide supportive leadership, drive quality improvement, and ensure excellent care standards. The ideal candidate will have extensive midwifery experience and a proactive approach to healthcare improvement. Join us to make a real difference in maternity care.

Qualifications

• Proven knowledge of midwifery, education and professional issues.
• Good working knowledge of contemporary health care issues.
• Ability to work under pressure.

Responsibilities

• Provide supportive leadership across maternity services.
• Drive quality improvement and professional standards.
• Work closely with senior leadership to deliver outstanding maternity care.

Skills

Leadership

Budget management

Excellent presentation skills

Risk assessment

Teaching skills

Education

RM registration with the NMC

First level degree or equivalent knowledge

Qualification in teaching and assessing

Working towards Masters qualification

Job description

Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Matron for Maternity Services

The closing date is 02 October 2025

Are you a senior midwife ready for your next leadership challenge?

Sherwood Forest Hospitals is seeking a dynamic, compassionate, and forward-thinking Maternity Matron to join our award-winning maternity team.

As Maternity Matron, you will provide visible, supportive leadership across our maternity services, ensuring the highest standards of safe, personalised, and evidence-based care for women, birthing people, babies, and families.

\u2019ll be instrumental in driving quality improvement, professional standards, and staff wellbeing, working closely with our senior leadership team to deliver our vision for outstanding maternity care.

Join us and be part of a team that's committed to making a real difference in maternity care.

Main duties of the job

To see the full detailed job description and the main responsibilities of the job please refer the job description attached.

About us

We are an award-winning NHS Foundation Trust working alongside health and social care colleagues across the county to provide acute and community healthcare services to more than 420,000 people across Mansfield, Ashfield, Newark and Sherwood, and parts of Derbyshire and Lincolnshire.

We put the patient at the heart of everything that we do and it is our aim to make sure that every patient is treated as we would want a member of our own family to be treated. At the same time, we expect our staff to be caring, kind and courteous to each other and to look out for each other. We believe that we are truly a clinically-led organisation.

We are proud that our Trust colleagues have voted us the best acute Trust to work for in the East Midlands for seven years running in the National NHS Staff Survey, while the Care Quality Commission has rated our Trust as 'outstanding' for care and our King\'s Mill Hospital as the only 'outstanding' NHS-run hospital in the East Midlands.

Job responsibilities

To see the full detailed job description and the main responsibilities of the job please refer the job description attached.

Person Specification

Knowledge

• Proven knowledge of the broader midwifery , education and professional issues
• Good working knowledge of contemporary health care issues and professional standards
• Understanding of the complex dynamics of a multiprofessional environment
• Excellent presentation and teaching skills
• Excellent report writing skills and action planning
• Ability to work under pressure
• Sound general management experience - budget management skills, business case preparation, staff management
• Evidence of operational and strategic development of patient safety initiatives and strategies
• Experience in education and professional development

Qualifications

• RM registration with the NMC
• First level degree or equivalent knowledge
• Qualification in teaching and assessing or equivalent
• Demonstration of on-going professional development
• Working towards Masters qualification or equivalent

Further

• Highly motivated and resourceful with a proactive approach to innovation
• Ability to act autonomously with minimal supervision
• Exposure to clinical areas and patient contact
• Carry Trust bleep and undertake on call duties

Experience

• Extensive senior midwifery experience within a complex organisation / NHS
• Proven track record in leadership and management
• Evidence of participating in and leading organisational change that has led to changes in quality
• Experience of operating and communicating effectively with clinicians and Directors
• Experience of working with external agencies and influencing internal change
• Experience of initiating, conducting and evaluating risk assessments and investigations
• Experience of leading and managing staff
• Experience of working towards Care Quality Commission and the NHS Resolution standards
• Complaints Management
• Experience of service improvement methodologies

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

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.

Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust