Job summary
- Main area
- Maternity
- Grade
- Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 188-SNM160925
- Employer
- University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- University Hospital Southampton
- Town
- Southampton
- Salary
- £55,690.00- £62,682.00 Per Annum (PA) Pro Rata
- Closing
- 09/10/2025 23:59
- Interview date
- 23/10/2025
Employer heading
Midwifery Matron
Band 8a
Job overview
University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust is delighted to offer a fantastic opportunity to work with us.
Please see below for detailed job description of the role.
Main duties of the job
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a highly motivated midwife who aspires to take the next step as a Midwifery Matron with an accountability and responsibility for leading teams working across maternity services. We are looking for a skilled and proficient senior midwifery practitioner to join the existing midwifery matron team working in a flexible and rotational model across all areas of the service.
UHS Maternity is a fast-paced progressive service with just over 5000 births every year. The successful candidate will be actively involved in operational leadership and will be a key influencer to ensure the provision of safe, effective, and evidence-based midwifery care for service users and families.
Working in close partnership with the Director of Midwifery, Midwifery Leadership Team and Maternity Operational Team, this individual will contribute to the development of the framework for the maternity strategy and lead on the operational implementation of the maternity strategic vision both at UHS and within the wider LMNS across SHIP.
Working for our organisation
University Hospital Southampton is one of England's largest acute teaching Trusts, offering a wide range of learning and development opportunities to support your career aspirations.
Located on the south coast with an international airport and direct rail links to London, Southampton offers an ideal setting to live and work, with the New Forest, South Downs and Jurassic Coast.
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At UHS we’re committed to providing a flexible working environment where possible. Whether you are balancing family, study, or your wellbeing with your career, we want to support you so you can help our patients.
At UHS, we proudly champion individuality, recognizing that outstanding care is only possible with a diverse, inclusive team. We’re committed to creating an anti-racist, anti-discriminatory environment where everyone feels valued, safe, and empowered to make a meaningful impact in our communities. We welcome applicants of all backgrounds, identities, and experiences to join us in building a healthcare community where everyone can belong, thrive, and contribute.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The post holder will provide professional, managerial, and clinical leadership across the maternity workforce. As an integral member of the Midwifery Leadership Team, the candidate will take an active role in supporting Maternity Services on a divisional level, ensuring that we are achieving agreed performance targets, specifically in relation to issues pertinent to intrapartum care provision.
The post holder will lead on and monitor incoming complaints relating to operational issues, outgoing responses and ensure that any opportunities for learning are progressed, communicated, and implemented across the team. This role also requires effective and accountable budget management skills with an oversight around the processes for temporary staffing within Maternity Services. This role will involve regular liaisons with the Head of Midwifery and Maternity Business Support Manager on recruitment and retention workstreams in addition to the continuous develop our workforce on a daily/weekly basis.
The successful candidate will lead on women and birthing people’s experience across our service working with internal and external stakeholders where required to improve care and outcomes.
Your Responsibilities:
• Provide professional leadership and line management across the midwifery workforce.
• To participate and facilitate workforce redesign and modernisation of the midwifery workforce, working in partnership with key stakeholders, both within UHS and across the LMNS.
• To exhibit leadership behaviours that demonstrate respect, resilience, trust, enthusiasm, and energy, positively impacting on the culture of the workforce leading to a happy and healthy workforce.
• Take a leadership role, maintaining a high level of visibility across the team, whilst remaining responsive and flexible to the ever-changing priorities of the maternity service.
What we are looking for:
The successful candidate will be required to have experience in working within a senior midwifery role and have a good framework of knowledge around national strategic drivers for maternity services, specifically in relation to the safety agenda. Key core leadership skills to include:
• Excellent communication skills, including a high level of self-awareness and emotional intelligence.
• Negotiation, facilitation, mediation, influencing and coaching skills.
• Flexible, responsive, adaptable, and resourceful in terms of an ever-changing clinical environment.
• Professional integrity and judgement.
Person specification
Trust Values
Essential criteria
- Patient First
- Always Improving
- Working Together
Qualifications / training required
Essential criteria
- 1st Level Registered midwife on relevant part of the NMC Register
- First degree or equivalent
- Ability to work at Masters level and evidence
- Specialist qualification
- Leadership training
- Management training
- Masters or equivalent experience
Previous or relevant experience necessary
Essential criteria
- Extensive knowledge of National and Local NHS and Midwifery agenda
- Extensive experience in the acute healthcare setting in clinical leadership/clinical management position
- Evidence of advanced leadership qualities
- Formal and informal teaching experience
- Staff and resource management experience
- Experience of introducing change to clinical environment
- Report writing skills and experience
- Budget management experience
Desirable criteria
- Understanding of specialist area
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Carly Springate
- Job title
- Head of Midwifery
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 023 8120 3829
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