Modern Matron

The Maternity Matron post is a senior clinical leader responsible for providing visible, professional and operational leadership across maternity services. Working closely with the Head of Midwifery, obstetric, neonatal and wider multidisciplinary teams, the post holder will lead on the delivery of safe, effective and compassionate care, ensuring that women, babies and families receive high-quality services that meet national standards and local priorities.

The Matron will be accountable for maintaining clinical quality, patient safety, governance, workforce management and patient experience across designated maternity areas. They will support staff development, promote a positive culture of continuous improvement, and lead initiatives that enhance service performance, ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements and recommendations from national maternity reviews. The role requires strong leadership, experience in change management, and a commitment to improving outcomes and reducing inequalities for women and babies., The Modern Matron provides senior, visible, and compassionate clinical leadership across maternity services, ensuring the delivery of safe, effective, high-quality and personalised care for women, birthing people, babies, and families. The post holder will lead and support community and rural midwifery-led unit teams to maintain excellence in clinical standards, operational performance, and patient experience.

Working collaboratively with the multidisciplinary team, the Midwifery Matron ensures that services are responsive to women's needs and aligned with national maternity priorities and local service objectives. The role promotes a culture of learning, continuous improvement, professional accountability, and staff wellbeing, acting as a positive role model and clinical expert who drives innovation and delivers equitable, evidence-based maternity care.

We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, covering one of the largest geographical areas of any NHS trust in the country. Leading in innovation and quality - opening a state of the art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn't, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare, this is the Northumbria Way! Please read 'applicant guidance notes' before submitting your