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Job summary

Main area
Maternity
Grade
NHS AfC: Band 8a
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref
214-W&C-7433187
Employer
Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
King's Mill Hospital
Town
Sutton in Ashfield
Salary
£55,690 - £62,682 per annum
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
02/10/2025 23:59

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Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust logo

Matron for Maternity Services

NHS AfC: Band 8a

Thank you for your interest in this role, we would be delighted to welcome you to Sherwood Forest Hospitals.

Sherwood is nationally recognised as being an excellent place to work and deliver care. We are rightly proud of the 5,500 colleagues who work here and know that happy colleagues deliver better care.

Our teams work in a supportive, inclusive environment, which nurtures wellbeing and has opportunities for development and progression. We do not just care for our patients, we also care for you.

We would love you to join us.

Job overview

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.

You’ll 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.

Working for our organisation

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. 

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

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

Person specification

Knowledge

Essential criteria
  • 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
  • Computer literate
Desirable criteria
  • 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

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

Further

Essential criteria
  • 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

Essential criteria
  • 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
Desirable criteria
  • Experience of working towards Care Quality Commission and the NHS Resolution standards
  • Complaints Management
  • Experience of service improvement methodologies

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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Applicant requirements

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.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Sarah Ayre
Job title
Head of Midwifery
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
07909918688
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