Maternity Matron

We are seeking an experienced and innovative senior midwifery leader to join our maternity leadership team as a Maternity Matron. This substantive Band 8a post will lead the transformation of community maternity services, supporting delivery of our maternity strategy and national ambitions for safer, more personalised and equitable care. The successful candidate will bring significant leadership experience within maternity services and a passion for service improvement, workforce development and improving outcomes for women, babies and families. Alongside the transformation programme, the post holder will provide operational and professional leadership across designated maternity services, working as part of the wider maternity leadership team and participating in the Maternity Manager on Call rota.,

• Lead the transformation of community maternity services, delivering local and national priorities
• Develop and evaluate innovative models of care to improve quality, safety, experience and equity
• Lead quality improvement and service redesign using recognised improvement methodologies
• Provide professional and operational leadership across community, acute and specialist maternity services, including Perinatal Mental Health and HMP Foston Hall teams
• Work with multidisciplinary teams, system partners and stakeholders to improve pathways and outcomes
• Lead and support workforce development, fostering a culture of learning, innovation and continuous improvement
• Monitor quality, performance and patient experience metrics to drive improvement and support strategic objectives
• Support delivery of maternity quality, safety, governance and performance objectives through effective workforce planning and service development
• Lead clinical governance, risk management and assurance, ensuring learning from incidents, complaints, audits and patient feedback is embedded in practice
• Provide visible and compassionate leadership, promoting staff wellbeing, accountability and positive team culture
• Participate in the Maternity Manager on Call rota and support operational service management
• Act as a professional role model, championing personalised, equitable and evidence-based maternity care.
  
  As a trusted organisation at the heart of our communities, we recognise the important role we can play in supporting the public, patients, our own people and local partners in achieving the best of health for the local population and the communities in which they live by providing Exceptional Care Together
Our fundamental Values of Compassion, Openness and Excellence underpin how we intend to work as a Trust and the associated behaviours are becoming embedded in all aspects of how we work. In return we will offer:
• Development opportunities, both professional and leadership development
• On-going support from recruitment to when you join our team and beyond.
• Staff benefits including employee assistance programme, discounted gym membership, onsite fitness classes, car schemes
Key Facts:
• We see on average 4810 OP appointments a day.
• We are the 4th busiest Trauma & Orthopaedic outpatients department in England - an average of 2077 per week.
• An average of 1115 patients are seen in A&Es across our network every day - 3rd largest in the country.
• Our hospitals admit an average of 195 emergency patients daily.
• Last year we undertook almost 33,700 planned surgical operations in our 57 operating theatres.
• We are one of only 7 Trusts nationally with more than 50 operating theatres.
• We carry out more than 140 elective procedures each working day.
• UHDB is a research active University Hospital with a large and varied portfolio of clinical trials and research opportunities for all staff.