The closing date is 03 April 2025
Job summary
Join Our Maternity Leadership Team as Matron for Community and Midwifery-Led Unit.
Are you an experienced and passionate midwife looking to make a real impact in community and midwifery-led care? Hull University Teaching Hospitals is seeking a dedicated Matron for Community and Midwifery-Led Unit to lead and inspire our teams through an exciting period of transformation and investment.
In this pivotal role, you will provide strategic and operational leadership across our community maternity services and midwifery-led unit, ensuring the highest standards of care for women and families. You’ll work collaboratively with midwives, multidisciplinary teams, and external partners to drive innovation, enhance service delivery, and promote an outstanding experience for the 5,000 families we support each year.
At Hull University Teaching Hospitals, we are committed to evidence-based practice, person-centered care, and continuous improvement. If you’re a dynamic, motivated midwife with a vision for the future of community-based maternity services, we’d love to hear from you!Why Join Us?
- Lead a supportive and forward-thinking team
- Shape the future of community maternity care
- Work in a role that makes a tangible difference in families’ lives
Don’t miss this opportunity to advance your leadership career and be part of a service that truly puts women and families at the heart of everything we do.
Apply today and help us drive excellence in maternity care!
Main duties of the job
This is an exciting and challenging opportunity for a forward thinking experienced individual whom will provide professional advice and support to speciality teams and service line colleagues ensuring delivery of the highest quality of patient care and service delivery.
You will have a high level of autonomy and will work in a self-directed way within the parameters set for the post.
Excellent leadership and communication skills are essential in this role as well as experience of creating successful partnerships with internal and external stakeholders and in the management of Human Resources.
The successful applicant must have high-level people management skills, including decision-making, negotiating, influencing and persuading skills. The post holder will provide a highly visible, accessible and authoritative presence and be available to patients, families and staff to provide assistance, advice and support and address any concerns as required.
The successful individual will contribute to the strategic direction of the service and specialities through meeting key performance indicators and national and local activity targets.
Education/Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Nurse and/or Registered Midwife
- Current registration with NMC
- First level degree Teaching experience
- Highly developed specialist knowledge acquired through formal qualification, courses and training and occupational experience
Desirable
- Post-graduate qualification within a leadership programme/study or evidence of practical application of expertise at this level
- Msc
Knowledge, training & Experience
Essential
- Extensive clinical and managerial credibility and experience gained at charge nurse or equivalent level.
- Highly developed Interpersonal and communication skills. , providing information to senior managers, reassurance to staff and patients/carers.
- Excellent Presentation skills
- Evidence of effective working relationships
- Demonstrable leadership and management skills
- Developed problem solving skills
- Financially astute/business- aware
- Competent with basic IT skills (word processing, spreadsheets, etc)
- Good verbal and report-writing skills
- Skilled negotiator
- Demonstrable broad clinical experience relevant to this post
- Experience at Sister/Charge Midwife or band 7 equivalent level
- Track record of achievement of objectives
- Evidence of robust financial and other resource management
- Experience of embedding robust clinical and corporate systems at local level
- Experience of leading and implementing change
Desirable
- Experience within an acute hospital setting
- Business planning and development
Communication and interpersonal skills
Essential
- Excellent interpersonal skills
- Evidence of effective working relationships
- Good verbal and report writing skills
Special/other
Essential
- Personal integrity and credibility
- Approachable and adaptable
- Able to attend meetings off site
Skills and Attributes
Essential
- Regular requirement to travel Group wide
- Patient-focused
- Ability to manage with complexity and unpredictability, to make difficult decisions and to solve problems
- Ability to manage resources effectively (esp. financial and human)
- Ability to work collaboratively and strategically
- Broad understanding of operational/NHS issues
- Track record of achievement and personal/professional development
- Systematic and analytical
- Personal Integrity and Credibility
- Approachable and adaptable
- Hard working and committed to the principles of public sector values
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).