Maternity Workforce Matron

1 week ago


Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trusts Full time

Job summary

The Matron for Maternity Workforce is a key leadership position reporting to the Head of Midwifery and accountable to the Director of Midwifery to support the development of the professional midwifery agenda to achieve consistency of practice, high standards of care and innovation across integrated care pathways and services.

The Matron for Maternity Workforce will support the Head of Midwifery (Operational/Workforce) in ensuring a midwifery workforce that meets the needs of now and the future and will focus on recruitment and retention and temporary staffing working closely with key stakeholders and colleagues.

Main duties of the job

Responsible for the provision of a high quality professional Nursing and Midwifery service across a number of departments, promoting best practice and implementing a review process that looks at quality and efficiency to meet the needs of patients and service, working with other departments, specialities and colleagues where support is needed to ensure best practice and safe service delivery.

Ensure that the education, training and professional development needs of the midwifery workforce are identified and appropriate plans are in place to meet the needs as they start in the Trust.

Support the recruitment of NMC registered internationally trained midwives and work to identify other sources for recruitment of midwives and support staff.

Provide reports about the midwifery workforce recruitment position working closely with recruitment and workforce colleagues to provide robust, timely information to meet the needs of all stakeholders.

Work with key stakeholders to look at shift patterns, flexible working and other innovative ideas to increase attraction of staff and improve retention and evaluate outcomes and staff experience.

Provide support to the Maternity Matrons and ward managers to ensure effective rostering of permanent staff and temporary staffing cover working closely with the on-site team.

To understand requirements for clinical staffing levels and triangulate with vacancy data to identify recruitment and retention hotspots.

About us

'With over 19,000 staff, we are one of the biggest employers in the city with a central role in supporting the health and wellbeing of our local population. We play a leading role in research, education and innovation.

Come and join our wonderful team at NUH. We are big believers in diversity and welcome new ideas to help develop our team in order to deliver world class healthcare to the vast patient populations we serve. With endless personal development opportunities available, at NUH we will endeavour to turn your job into a career

We particularly welcome applications from people who identify as Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic, or Disabled, as we are striving to be better represented at NUH.'

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see job description and person specification for detailed job description and main responsibilities.

Person Specification

Training & Qualifications

Essential

Registered Midwife First Degree or equivalent in health related subject Demonstrate Continuous Professional Development

Physical Skills

Essential

IT skills to manage and report on complex performance management information

Other requirements specific to the role

Essential

On-call commitment as part of the senior midwifery manager on call To support/cover cross site during periods of annual leave/sickness

Experience

Essential

Experience in all areas of midwifery practice Experience working as part of a wider multi-disciplinary team Experience of successful resource management Experience of service development Working knowledge of the Birthrate Plus acuity tool

Communication and relationship skills

Essential

Excellent communication, influencing and negotiating skills Experience of delivering training

Analytical and Judgement Skills

Essential

Able to use initiative and make decisions around safe staffing

Planning and organisational skills

Essential

Demonstrate ability to produce complex reports and formulate policies Ability to prioritise and work on own initiative
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