Matron for Maternity Services | Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Maternity Matron to join our team on an 18-month secondment.

Are you looking for a development opportunity, we are looking for an experienced clinically sound senior midwife with a broad range of midwifery experience. The post holder will be provide dynamic collaborative leadership and direction across the areas within the maternity service. Do you have operational management experience and are looking to take the next step? Come and join us at Sherwood Forest Hospitals.

The role of the matron is to provide performance and operational oversight, displaying role modelling behaviours and trust values. Work collaboratively within the multi disciplinary team, to contribute to the formulation, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of the Divisions strategic and operational plan concerning, staff competency, staff objectives and targets, and quality improvement

The role will include line management of Band 7 Midwifery staff including ward mangers, team leaders, specialist midwives and shift co-coordinators, being a supportive and a visible leader.

We are a kind, collaborative and compassionate team, who are committed to the development, safety and quality of our services and the experience of our women, their families and our staff.

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Sherwood Forest Hospital 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 we are the Health Service Journal's Trust of the Year in 2020.

The Care Quality Commission rated King's Mill Hospital outstanding and Newark and Mansfield Community Hospitals Good. Overall we are rated outstanding for Care.

For the last three years, we have been ranked as the best NHS Trust to work for in the Midlands and in 2020 we were the third Acute/Community NHS Trust in England.

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.