Job summary
- Main area
- Midwifery
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8a
- Contract
- Fixed term: 9 months (from start date Maternity cover)
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 293-SWNS-0503
- Employer
- Homerton Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Homerton University Hospital/Maternity service
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £64,156 - £71,148 p.a. inc. pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 08/10/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Matron for Community and Antenatal Clinic
NHS AfC: Band 8a
Advert
Job overview
We are looking for an outstanding midwife with strong clinical and managerial experience to join our supportive team as Matron for Community and Antenatal Services. This is a fixed-term opportunity to provide maternity leave cover and to play a key leadership role in shaping safe, compassionate care for women, birthing people and families.
The Matron for Community and Antenatal Clinic is pivotal to the provision of high quality and effective service to the users of Homerton maternity services.
As a key member of the senior midwifery team, you will be a highly visible presence within the multi-disciplinary maternity team, with a role that is 30% clinical and 70% non-clinical management. You will be an advocate for high-quality patient experience and choice, and demonstrate excellence in clinical practice.
The Matron will be a collaborative and inclusive leader, prepared to manage staff effectively to ensure the delivery of a cost-effective, efficient and equitable service.
As the lead for the Community and Antenatal Clinic, you will oversee key areas including Community Midwifery and Homebirth Service, Antenatal Clinic, Diabetes and Maternal Medicine services .
Main duties of the job
The Matron will be a highly visible, accessible, and authoritative presence across the Maternity pathway, to which patients, their families and others can turn for leadership, assistance, advice, and support. The post holder will be part of the Divisional Midwifery Leadership team with specific responsibility for areas across the Antenatal and community pathway
The post holder will:
- Work together with the senior midwifery team to deliver the Maternity strategy.
- Ensure a woman-centred approach throughout the maternity pathway.
- Create and sustain efficient care processes that provide high quality clinical care
- Create a supportive environment in which training, coaching and practice development needs are accurately identified and progressed through agreed structures, appraisals, PDRs and performance management.
- Ensure appropriate provision and care for the management of resources for midwifery and support staff, consumables and environment.
Working for our organisation
Homerton University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is a high performing and flourishing organisation serving the population of Hackney, East London, The City and beyond.
We are extremely proud of the fact that Homerton Hospital has recently attained the highest possible rating of "Outstanding" from the Care Quality Commission (CQC).
Our integrated Trust provides comprehensive hospital and community health services for its local population and a range of specialist services for a wider group of patients. In addition, the Trust manages services out of St Leonard's Hospital and the Mary Seacole Nursing Home.
Homerton aims to ensure equality and value diversity, and we are committed to inclusion for all of our staff. This is reflected in our policies, our procedures and our People Plan. All of our staff are expected to embody our Trust values at all times.
We are also committed, through our Fair Recruitment Standards, to ensuring all applicants are treated fairly.
Homerton has a proud tradition of supporting and developing its staff, including its well regarded and valued nursing community, and all staff are able to take advantage of a great range of benefits.
Homerton is proud to have been included on the HSJ and Nursing Times Best Places to Work list.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. For both documents please view the attachment/s on this page.
The person specification below is not the full person specification, but outlines the criteria against which your application form will be assessed.
Person specification
Education and Qualification
Essential criteria
- NMC Registered Midwife
- Evidence of post registration education at degree level
- Mentorship qualification / ENB 998 or equivalent
Desirable criteria
- Management or leadership course
Trust Values, Equal Opportunities & Other Requirements
Essential criteria
- Understanding and demonstration of the Trust values
- Commitment and adherence to equality, diversity and inclusion
- Flexible to meet service needs
- Demonstrate recent achievements at work Work under pressure to meet deadlines
- Able to work sensibly and collaboratively across organisational and professional boundaries, recognising changes in circumstances and to incorporate them into practice.
- Demonstrates awareness of priorities, deals with workload, adapts to changing requirements, and uses initiative
Skills/ Abilities
Essential criteria
- Demonstrable commitment to and expertise in midwifery
- Well-developed verbal and written communication skills including presentations & publications
- Influencing skills.
- Highly developed interpersonal skills with meticulous attention to detail.
- Evidence of managerial skills.
- Experience of developing policies and procedures
- Able to command respect of multi-disciplinary team.
- Computer literate
- Knowledge of standard setting and audit process.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Evidence of substantial clinical experience and ability to function at level required of the post
- Current experience of clinical midwifery practice
- Experience of working in partnership with multi-disciplinary team
- Demonstrable experience of managing change within a clinical environment.
- Ability to both influence and work across professional boundaries.
- Experience of managing a clinical team including human resources management.
- Knowledge of current developments in midwifery & political awareness of NHS.
- Experience of developing staff.
- Up to date knowledge on Safeguarding issues and statutory framework that apply
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Knowledge/understanding of confidentiality issues
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
- Arona Ahmed
- Job title
- Deputy Director of Midwifery
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07702232000
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