Midwifery Matron for Professional Practice

Maudsley Learning; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust in London is recruiting a Midwifery Matron for Professional Practice (Band 8a) on a fixed-term six-month contract. The role focuses on staff wellbeing, development, and evidence-based care within a large tertiary maternity service.

You will lead midwifery and nursing practice, ensure safe training, and work with senior leaders to maintain high standards and governance. A strong emphasis on collaboration, learning from incidents, and delivering excellent

Qualifications

• Registered midwife with current UK registration.
• First-level degree in a related healthcare discipline or substantial experiential equivalence.
• Post-graduate qualification and/or equivalent knowledge gained through extensive experience.
• Leadership qualifications and/or experience.
• Evidence of continuing professional development.
• Master’s qualification and teaching/educational experience desirable.

Responsibilities

• Provide professional, clinical and operational leadership to midwifery and nursing practice.
• Line manage professional development midwives, fetal well-being midwives and support midwives.
• Ensure safe, evidence-based training aligned with NMC and NHS England priorities.
• Collaborate with leadership and education leads to audit training records.

Skills

Clinical leadership

Interpersonal communication

Microsoft Word & Excel

Evidence-based practice

Staff development

Education

Registered Midwife

First level degree in related healthcare

Post-graduate qualification

Master’s qualification

Post Graduate Certificate of Education

Leadership qualifications/experience

CPD evidence

Job description

Midwifery Matron for Professional Practice

Band 8a

Fulfil your potential in hospitals that make history:

Charing Cross, Hammersmith, St Mary’s, Queen Charlotte's & Chelsea and Western Eye.

With five world-renowned hospitals, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust is full of opportunity if you are looking to develop your healthcare career.

We are an NHS Trust of approximately 16,000 people, providing care for over a million and a half patients from north west London and beyond every year.

We have a rich heritage and an ambitious vision for the future of our patients and local communities.

With our partners, Imperial College London, and The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, we form Imperial College Academic Health Science Centre, one of 6 academic health science centres in the UK, working to ensure the rapid translation of research for better patient care and excellence in education.

We are proud of our heritage in innovation and we are early adopters of new insights in technologies, techniques and treatments for improving health.

Job overview

We are recruiting a midwifery matron for professional practice who shares our vision to provide consistently outstanding care to our women babes and families.

This post will be fixed term for six months.
This role has multiple priorities with the safety of mothers and babies and excellent patient experience as it's main goal, achieved by ensuring a highly trained, competent and well-staffed workforce. It will focus on staff wellbeing and staff development, effective teamworking, an open and honest approach to maternity specific training and development with a strong focus on evidence-based care and learning from incidents.

Working in partnership with the Director of Midwifery and the Senior Leadership Team, the professional practice matron will ensure that our midwifery, nursing and support staff have the skills to provide a safe, high quality service to women and babies.

At the heart of everything we do are our core values: Aspirational, Expert, Kind and collaborative. We encourage you to embrace these values throughout the recruitment process and in your role with us.

Main duties of the job

• The matron for professional practice will provide professional, clinical, and operational leadership to ensure high standards of midwifery and nursing practice, education, and staff development within a large tertiary maternity and neonatal service. Acting as an expert practitioner and visible role model, the post holder will promote a positive learning culture, professional accountability, and continuous improvement in care delivery.
• The role includes line management and leadership of the professional development midwives, fetal well-being midwives, and clinical placement support midwives. The Matron will also maintain a professional link with the Neonatal Educators to support collaborative working and alignment of maternity and neonatal education where appropriate.
• The matron will ensure that clinical practice, education provision, and student support processes are safe, evidence-based, and aligned with the standards of the Nursing and Midwifery Council and national priorities set by NHS England.
• The post holder will work collaboratively with the senior midwifery and nursing leadership team and multidisciplinary colleagues, including obstetric, neonatal, and anaesthetic education leads, to ensure accurate and auditable training records, providing clear governance assurance, and driving achievement of the safety actions required under the NHS Resolution Maternity Incentive Scheme

Working for our organisation

At Imperial College Healthcare you can achieve extraordinary things with extraordinary people, working with leading clinicians pushing boundaries in patient care.

Become part of a vibrant team living our values - expert, kind, collaborative and aspirational. You’ll get an experience like no other and will fast forward your career.Benefits include career development, flexible working and wellbeing, staff recognition scheme. Make use of optional benefits including Cycle to Work, car lease schemes, season ticket loan or membership options for onsite leisure facilities.

We are committed to equal opportunities and improving the working lives of our staff and will consider applications to work flexibly, part time or job share. Please talk to us at interview.

Environmental sustainability
Climate change and poor air quality is a health emergency that harms people’s health and wellbeing and widens health inequalities. The Trust is also committed to reducing its impact on the environment by reducing our greenhouse gas emissions to Net Zero by 2045. All our employees have a role to play, and we have an active green network that supports staff to act in ways that ensures that our services are efficient, sustainable and reduce our impact on the environment www.imperial.nhs.uk/about-us/our-strategy/green-plan .

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 overviews please view the Job Description attachment with the job advert.

Person specification

Education

• Registered Midwife
• First level degree in related healthcare discipline or substantial experiential equivalence
• Evidence of continuing professional development
• Post-graduate qualification and / or equivalent level of knowledge gained through extensive experience
• Leadership qualifications and or experience
• Has obtained a Master’s qualification.
• Post Graduate Certificate of Education or equivalent

Experience

• Practised advanced midwifery skills in all aspects of clinical midwifery
• Experience of NLS training
• Evidence of multidisciplinary working
• Lead on formulation, dissemination and implementation of policies and guidelines
• Service development experience, delivering clinical quality improvements and successful service change
• Formal teaching practice in HIEs

Skills

• Up to date and evidence based knowledge of current clinical and professional issues
• Good level of skills in Microsoft Word and Excel
• Maintain accurate data records for training
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
• Experience in writing for publication

Right to work

If you need sponsorship to work in the UK, please visit the Home Office website for information on sponsorship and visa status before you fill in your application form. Due to recent changes in the UK immigration rules which affect Skilled Worker Visas, Global Business Mobility, Higher Skill Level and Increased Salary Thresholds, please ensure that you are able to meet the requirements to live and work in the UK before applying. Further information about eligibility is available on UK Visas and Immigration - GOV.UK

We operate a joint recruitment hub across the North West London Acute Provider Collaborative Group. As part of this, your application and personal data may be shared with partner trusts within the group for recruitment and workforce purposes, in line with general data protection regulation (GDPR).

Vacancy Closing Date

This vacancy may close before the current listed closing date. You are advised not to delay submitting your completed application.

Please ensure you check your emails regularly as this is how we will communicate with you throughout the recruitment process. If you are shortlisted you will be contacted by email and text message (if you provide a mobile contact number).

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

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.