Midwifery Community Matron

NUH; Nottingham; On-site; GBP 48,000 - 58,000; Full time

Job summary

Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust is seeking a senior midwifery leader to guide and develop 24-hour women-centred care. You will support the Director and Head of Midwifery, manage workforce deployment, and drive governance and quality improvements across the maternity service.

The role requires substantial post-registration leadership experience, budget awareness, and a strong commitment to best practice and patient safety. Weekend/on-call work is required to ensure service continuity.

Qualifications

• Registered Midwife with a first degree or equivalent in a health-related subject.
• Evidence of continuing professional development (CPD).
• Leadership training or qualification completed.

Responsibilities

• Provide clinical leadership and act as a role model for the team.
• Lead development of services and clinically governance initiatives within the Family Health Care Group.

Skills

Excellent communications

Team leadership

Influence & motivation

Performance management IT

On-call commitment

Education

Registered Midwife & First degree (health)

CPD evidence

Leadership training

Tools

HR processes

Job description

Nottingham University Hospitals (NUH) is the biggest employer in Nottingham with over 19,000 staff

**We will not be accepting applications that have been used for this post in the last 6 months**

Lead the 24 hour provision of high quality women centred care across the midwifery community services. Act as an expert resource and role model for the team within their service to support them in the delivery of effective care.

Be responsible for ensuring a good environment in which all women and families receive a high standard of care which is compassionate and takes account of their individual needs and wishes.

Demonstrate clinical leadership in the management of both low and high risk complex maternity care.

Identify and facilitate strategies for service improvement, develop initiatives and organisational change, contributing to the clinical governance and risk management agenda by ensuring best practice is evident.

Implement and follow HR policies regarding workforce management.

Be responsible for ensuring safe deployment of resources to meet and comply with professional midwifery standards, governance, quality and patient safety within the budget set.

An weekend/overnight on-call commitment will be required in support the safe running of the maternity service.

Main duties of the job

To continually act as a highly credible professional clinical leader being a strong professional role model for others to emulate at all times.

Be involved in the delivery of clinical care in a developmental capacity.

Be responsible for ensuring current practice is evidence based and continually updated.

Assist the Director of Midwifery, Deputy Director of Midwifery and Head of Midwifery in providing professional leadership, management and advice within the Family Health Care Group.

To take professional responsibility for the community Midwifery services, ensuring that all teams work collaboratively to deliver integrated care.

Support managers to ensure all areas are compliant with Trust and local training standards.

Continually monitor, evaluate and analyse the effectiveness of midwifery services.

To contribute to the promotion and maintenance of clinical benchmarking, ensuring sharing and development of best practice.

Promote a culture of working and integration of standards across the wider maternity service.

Working for our organisation

With over 19,000 staff, we are one of the biggest employers in the city with a central role in supporting the health and wellbeing of our local population. We play a leading role in research, education and innovation.

Come and join our wonderful team at NUH. We are big believers in diversity and welcome new ideas to help develop our team in order to deliver world class healthcare to the vast patient populations we serve. With endless personal development opportunities available, at NUH we will endeavour to turn your job into a career!

We particularly welcome applications from people who identify as Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic, or Disabled, as we are striving to be better represented at NUH.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For detailed job description and main responsibilities, please see job description and person specification.

Training & Qualifications

• Registered Midwife and First degree or equivalent in health related subject
• Evidence of CPD
• Leadership training/qualification

Experience

• Significant post registration experience including management and leadership experience
• Ability to demonstrate experience of leading or managing a service at Band 7 level
• Experience of delivering programmes of change
• Experience of leading & working with patient groups
• Able to provide specialised advice concerning patient care
• Knowledge of budgets/financial control
• Experience with Clinical Governance
• Experience with HR processes to manage sickness absence, performance, recruitment
• Demonstrates understanding of complex, obstetric led outpatient services and care
• Knowledge of complaints management
• Involvement with recruitment & retention
• Experience of working within obstetric led outpatient services
• Experience of managing complex safeguarding cases and joint MDT working

Communication and Relationship Skills

• Excellent communications skills, written and oral
• Ability to build successful teams
• Ability to influence and motivate staff to deliver challenging targets
• Strong leadership qualities

Analytical and Judgement Skills

• Experience of audit and audit tools
• Able to present and receive complex information within the multi professional team

Planning and Organisational Skills

• Demonstrates strong organisational skills and abilities
• Ability to work on own initiative but also as part of a team
• Ability to plan strategies which impact positively across the service

Physical Skills

• IT skills to manage and report on complex performance management information

Other Requirements Specific to the role

• On-call commitment as part of the senior midwifery manager on call

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Come and join our wonderful team at NUH. We are big believers in diversity and welcome new ideas to help develop our team in order to deliver world class healthcare to the vast patient populations we serve. With endless personal development opportunities available, at the NUH we will endeavour to turn your job into a career!

We particularly welcome applications from people who identify as Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic, or Disabled, as we are striving to be better represented at NUH.

Applicants are kindly requested to refrain from using AI at any stage during the recruitment process.

If you are aged 16 or 17 and applying for a role that is more than 20 hours a week, please be aware that you will be asked to commence an Apprenticeship within the Trust alongside your role, as long as there is a suitable apprenticeship standard available. This is in line with the current guidance in England that whilst young people under the age of 18 can leave school (on the last Friday in June) they must then do one of the following:

• Stay in full-time education, for example at a college
• Start an Apprenticeship
• Spend 20 hours of more a week working or volunteering, while in part-time education or training

Salary: The quoted salary will be on a pro rata basis for part time workers.

Disability Confidence: All applicants who have declared a disability and who meet the essential criteria for the post will be shortlisted.

At Risk of redundancy: NHS employees within the East Midlands who are ‘at risk’ of redundancy will be given a preferential interview where they meet the essential criteria of the person specification.

ID and Right to work checks : NUH authenticate ID and right to work documentation including passports and driving licenses through a system called Trust ID. NUH will scan your ID and right to work documentation in to the Trust ID system at your face to face ID appointment. The system will run a check against the key security features within your documentation. The system will provide us with an outcome of your check which will be stored securely on your personal file along with all other pre-employment check documentation.

Consent:

• Transfer of information: If I have previous NHS service - I consent to the transfer of my Electronic Staff Record (ESR) data between this and other NHS Trusts. I also consent to the Occupational Health Department confidentially accessing my occupational health records from my current or previous employer in order to check the status of my vaccinations, immunisations and screening tests as relevant to the post. I understand this is an automated process and the information will only be used for these purposes prior to me taking up the position at NUH.
• Disclosure and Barring Service: Your post maybe subject to a DBS check which incur a cost dependent on the level of check required (£49.50 for enhanced and £21.50 for standard). I agree to reimburse Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust the cost of a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check if it is required (by deduction from first month’s pay). Should I decide to withdraw from my job offer, I agree to reimburse Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust the cost of the DBS check undertaken by cheque or other agreed method.

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This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.