Job summary
The Matron for Quality Improvement, Workforce and Education will provide coordination, delivery and oversight of quality improvement programmes, education and training frameworks and workforce planning initiatives aligned to national maternity transformation priorities. The postholder will be able to offer visible, influential leadership, acting as a role model who promotes professional standards, positive behaviours and a culture of learning and continuous improvement.
They will work collaboratively with the multidisciplinary teams to ensure all staff are equipped, supported and developed to deliver exceptional, personalised care for women, birthing people, babies and families.
This role requires excellent communication, negotiation and relationship-building skills, with the ability to influence practice at all levels. The postholder will demonstrate expertise in change management, experience of leading complex service developments, and the confidence to guide teams through improvement work using evidence-based methodologies.
As part of the senior maternity leadership team, you will contribute to the delivery of high-quality care across all clinical areas, supporting the operational functioning of services and working closely with the Head of Midwifery, Matrons and Clinical Leads to deliver strategic objectives. You will help shape a sustainable workforce, strengthen our learning culture, and drive improvements that align with local and national maternity safety ambitions.
Main duties of the job
A Maternity Matron is responsible for leading and assuring the delivery of safe, high-quality, evidence-based maternity care across their designated area, ensuring services are effective, timely and aligned with professional and organisational standards. The role provides senior clinical and managerial leadership to nursing and midwifery teams, overseeing staffing, workforce development, performance management and the efficient use of resources to maintain 24-hour service provision. The Matron acts as a visible professional role model and advisor, contributes to policy and service development, and works collaboratively with multidisciplinary teams, patients and stakeholders to improve patient experience and outcomes. They are accountable for governance, risk management, audit and incident investigation, promote continuous improvement and research, manage complaints and complex communications, and exercise professional judgement and authority to uphold standards of care, safety, infection control and organisational objectives.
See Job Description for more detail.
About us
The Humber Health Partnership is one of the largest acute and community Partnership arrangements in the NHS, seeing well over one million patients every year and managing a budget of over £1.3 billion.
Made up of two Trusts - Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust (NLAG) and Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (HUTH) - our Partnership has significant ambitions and is committed to delivering world-class hospital and community services for the 1.65 million people we serve.
Together we employ nearly 20,000 staff. Our five main hospital sites are Diana, Princess of Wales Hospital, Scunthorpe General Hospital and Goole and District Hospital, for NLAG and Hull Royal Infirmary and Castle Hill Hospital for HUTH.
As Teaching Hospitals working with the Hull York Medical School, we both lead and contribute to research in many areas - biomedical research, primary care, palliative medicine, cardiovascular and respiratory medicine, vascular surgery, cancer surgery and oncology.
We believe that by developing a diverse, inclusive, innovative, skilled and caring workforce, we can deliver excellent care to our patients and a great future for our employees, our Partnership and our community.
Job description
Job responsibilities
For more detailed information, please read the job description linked below.
As a Trust we are keen to offer and encourage flexible working opportunities to address health and wellbeing and work-life balance for our employees, this will have a positive impact on the care we provide.
Flexible working is part of a wider commitment to improve the quality and experience of working life and we recognise that it is a key contributor for the recruitment and retention of our employees.
We therefore support and encourage open conversations around a specific working pattern to suit your work-life balance or a multi-role career, if it works for you and works for the role, we'll do our best to make it happen.
Local flexible working arrangements are developed in partnership between the line manager and employee in order to ensure equality of access to flexible working, as far as practicable, regardless of role, shift pattern, team or pay, based on: patient/service user and staff experience, service delivery and work-life balance of colleagues.
We are committed to creating and maintaining a fair and supportive working environment and culture, where contributions are fully recognised and valued by all and staff feel empowered to carry out their duties to the best of their abilities. As employers we are committed to promoting and protecting the physical and mental health and well-being of all our staff. This underpins our values as set out in the NHS Constitution, supports us to be an Employer of Choice and ultimately enables our employees to support the effective care of our patients.
We strongly value the different perspectives and ideas a diverse workforce brings to deliver better outcomes for our patients. We welcome applications irrespective of peoples age, disability, sex, gender identity and gender expression, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or other personal circumstances.
To learn more about Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust, and discover the unique benefits on offer to employees, view our latest videos, plus more, please visit our recruitment website at https://join.humberhealthpartnership.nhs.uk/
In line with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the Recruitment & Workforce team will use and hold your personal data for the intended purpose and in line with the Recruitment & Workforce Privacy Statement.
We are committed to safeguarding the welfare of children/vulnerable adults and expect the same commitment from all staff and volunteers.
Please be aware that all new employees starting work with us will be charged for the cost of their DBS check, if it is required for their role.
Job description
Job responsibilities
For more detailed information, please read the job description linked below.
As a Trust we are keen to offer and encourage flexible working opportunities to address health and wellbeing and work-life balance for our employees, this will have a positive impact on the care we provide.
Flexible working is part of a wider commitment to improve the quality and experience of working life and we recognise that it is a key contributor for the recruitment and retention of our employees.
We therefore support and encourage open conversations around a specific working pattern to suit your work-life balance or a multi-role career, if it works for you and works for the role, we'll do our best to make it happen.
Local flexible working arrangements are developed in partnership between the line manager and employee in order to ensure equality of access to flexible working, as far as practicable, regardless of role, shift pattern, team or pay, based on: patient/service user and staff experience, service delivery and work-life balance of colleagues.
We are committed to creating and maintaining a fair and supportive working environment and culture, where contributions are fully recognised and valued by all and staff feel empowered to carry out their duties to the best of their abilities. As employers we are committed to promoting and protecting the physical and mental health and well-being of all our staff. This underpins our values as set out in the NHS Constitution, supports us to be an Employer of Choice and ultimately enables our employees to support the effective care of our patients.
We strongly value the different perspectives and ideas a diverse workforce brings to deliver better outcomes for our patients. We welcome applications irrespective of peoples age, disability, sex, gender identity and gender expression, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or other personal circumstances.
To learn more about Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust, and discover the unique benefits on offer to employees, view our latest videos, plus more, please visit our recruitment website at https://join.humberhealthpartnership.nhs.uk/
In line with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the Recruitment & Workforce team will use and hold your personal data for the intended purpose and in line with the Recruitment & Workforce Privacy Statement.
We are committed to safeguarding the welfare of children/vulnerable adults and expect the same commitment from all staff and volunteers.
Please be aware that all new employees starting work with us will be charged for the cost of their DBS check, if it is required for their role.
Person Specification
Communication and Interpersonal Skills
Essential
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, report writing and investigation skills
- Excellent time management skills.
- Able to delegate, prioritise and work under pressure
Education and Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Nurse/Midwife - Active on NMC register
- First level degree Teaching experience
- Highly developed specialist knowledge acquired through formal qualification, courses and training and occupational experience
Desirable
- Master's qualification in relevant discipline or working towards qualification within a leadership programme/study or evidence of practical application of expertise at this level
Knowledge, trainig & 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
Person Specification
Communication and Interpersonal Skills
Essential
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, report writing and investigation skills
- Excellent time management skills.
- Able to delegate, prioritise and work under pressure
Education and Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Nurse/Midwife - Active on NMC register
- First level degree Teaching experience
- Highly developed specialist knowledge acquired through formal qualification, courses and training and occupational experience
Desirable
- Master's qualification in relevant discipline or working towards qualification within a leadership programme/study or evidence of practical application of expertise at this level
Knowledge, trainig & 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
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.
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).
Additional information
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.
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).
Employer details
Employer name
Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Across Humber Health Partnership - NLAG & HUTH
Northern Lincolnshire & Goole NHS Foundation Trust
Scunthorpe
DN15 7BH
Employer's website
https://www.nlg.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)
