Job summary
- Main area
- Maternity
- Grade
- Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 197-RF7412
- Employer
- Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Queen Elizabeth Hospital
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £55,690 - £62,682 per annum plus HCAS
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 26/10/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Community Matron
Band 8a
Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust, (LGT), is a community-focused provider of local and acute care, delivering high-quality services to over one million people living across the London boroughs of Lewisham, Greenwich, and Bexley. We provide whole-life care and are here to support our communities to live healthier lives as well as taking care of them when they need us the most.
Employing almost 7,500 colleagues, affectionately known as Team LGT, we provide services at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Woolwich, University Hospital Lewisham, and at over a dozen community settings in Lewisham. We also provide some services at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Sidcup.
We have recently launched our new vision and values to mark the LGT10 – the tenth anniversary of our Trust forming in 2013. Our trust vision is to be exceptional. In the quality of our patient care; our support for colleagues; and in the difference we make through our partnerships and in our communities.
To achieve this we value Respect, Compassion, and Inclusion; Being accountable over staying comfortable; Listening over always knowing best; and Succeeding together over achieving alone. You can read more about our visions and values here
Our hospitals and community sites provide a wide range of inpatient and outpatient services, as well as emergency and planned care. The Trust is rated as “good” or “outstanding” in over three-quarters of the services inspected by the Care Quality Commission.
Every year our work includes performing 10,000 procedures in our theatres; bringing seven and a half thousand new lives into the world; carrying out 570,000 visits to patients in their homes or communities and providing emergency care for more than 300,000 patients arriving in our busy Urgent and Emergency Departments.
LGT is a centre for the education and training of medical students enrolled with King’s College London’s GKT School of Medical Education. We are a training centre for nurses, midwives and allied health professionals. We are pioneering new roles that will support the changing needs of our patients and are one of the largest employers of physician associates in the country.
We are committed to working with our partners to deliver the best outcomes for our local communities. This means playing an active role in the South East London Integrated Care System (ICS), and in formal partnerships including the South East London Acute Provider Collaborative, provider partnerships with our local mental health trusts and borough-based boards of the ICS in Bexley, Greenwich and Lewisham.
Job overview
If you are looking for an exciting opportunity then look no further! Maternity services at Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust are exciting, innovative and woman centred. An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced, enthusiastic and really special midwife to join our management team. You will be working with a dedicated team who are continually evaluating the service so that it is centred around birthing people and is a quality driven, responsive maternity unit.
The post is to manage the community midwifery service in Greenwich and Bexley. With overall responsibility of antenatal clinics at Queen Elizabeth Hospital and Queen Mary’s Hospital in Sidcup; and the Greenwich Birth Centre – a midwife led birthing unit with 4 spa like pool rooms and 5 induction of labour side rooms which opened in March 2015. The community service also has a very successful birth centre at University Hospital Lewisham which takes 20% of all births for the hospital.
You will be self-motivated, enthusiastic and have a passion for the continuous development and wellbeing of your staff and for co-producing maternity services with women and our Maternity Voices Partnership colleagues. You understand the importance of multidisciplinary team working and are able to influence and sustain high care standards, safety and quality within the unit.
This is a five day a week post, with an on-call commitment and some weekend working.
Main duties of the job
The role will focus on the need to contribute to Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trusts strategic objectives and key programmes such as measurable improvements in women’s experiences, safety, experience and productivity, including but not limited to:
Promote Maternity Services in Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust as a Centre of Excellence both internally and externally taking a lead for all women / birthing people/birthing people especially those within vulnerable client groups
Be passionate about midwifery led services with vision for increasing midwife-led births in the birth centre and at home.
Provide 24hour managerial responsibility for designated area of service and provide direction to Midwifery staff, including participation in the Management on call rota.
Provide managerial support for the Head of Midwifery for identified teams across the wider Trust
· Manage budgets within your areas and identify opportunities for cost savings where appropriate
· Work collaboratively with the MVP to ensure that women’s’ are listened to and their experiences are positive
You will be supported to be high-performing within your role and to achieve personal and professional growth by other members of the senior management team, and the Divisional Triumvirate.
Working for our organisation
Our people are our greatest asset. When we feel supported and happy at work, this positivity reaches those very people we are here for, the patients. Engaged employees perform at their best and our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) initiatives contribute to cultivate a culture of engagement. We have four staff networks, a corporate EDI Team and a suite of programmes and events which aim to insert the 5 aspirations:
- Improving representation at senior levels of staff with disabilities, from black, Asian, and ethnic minorities background, identify as LGBTQ+ and women, through improved recruitment and leadership development
- Widening access (anchor institution) and employability
- Improving the experience of staff with disability
- Improving the EDI literacy and confidence of trust staff through training and development
- Making equalities mainstream
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The role will focus on the need to contribute to Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trusts strategic objectives and key programmes such as measurable improvements in women’s experiences, safety, experience and productivity.
Please see JD for full job description
Person specification
Education & professional Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Registered & Practising Midwife
- First Degree
- Robust evidence of relevant
Desirable criteria
- Management Qualification
- Masters Degree or working towards
Experience
Essential criteria
- A track record of delivering maternity services in a senior role at Band 7 or above
- HR management experience
- Child Protection experience
- Proven track record in improving patient experience and proactively gaining patient/public view
- Experience at managing complaints and responding to serious incidents, ensuring that response times are met and lessons learnt and disseminated effectively
Desirable criteria
- Experience in budget management
- Change management experience
Skills and aptitudes
Essential criteria
- Effective leadership, skills and style
- Excellent Interpersonal and counselling skills
- Clinically credible
- Excellent presentation skills using a variety of multimedia tools
- Proven ability to cope under pressure demonstrating emotional resilience when faced with challenging/emotional behaviour of others
- Able to work on own initiative
Personal Qualities
Essential criteria
- Committed to a culture of continuous improvement, openness and honesty
- Current UK driving licence
- A team player
- Flexible and adaptive
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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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
- Sophie Russell
- Job title
- Head of Midwifery
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 020 8836 5852
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