Maternity Matron

We are looking for an inspirational and dynamic midwife who can join our friendly, innovative team at Blackpool to provide expert clinical, professional, and operational midwifery leadership to team leaders and all maternity staff across the community service. The maternity matron will ensure that maternity care is delivered to a high standard and that all resources are managed effectively.

Through strong clinical leadership and effective management, the Matron will support the unit and Ward Managers/Team Leaders to promote and deliver excellence in midwifery care maintaining and continually improve clinical standards evidenced by achievement of key quality performance indicators. The matron will assist in the delivery of the Maternity Incentive Scheme, Ockenden Immediate and Essential Actions, Kirkup and any future midwifery reports requiring action and improvement.

The Matron’s key responsibility is to ensure that the Woman and families experience is of the highest quality inspiring patient and public confidence. This will be achieved through high visibility, accessibility, and surveillance.

The jobholder will ensure that all women are treated with compassion, dignity and respect placing value on the diversity of the local community and beyond. He/she will promote best practice in the prevention of infection through ensuring a clean and safe environment.

Work in collaboration with the Divisional Director of Midwifery / Head of Midwifery providing a strong professional voice and effective contribution to the business agenda.

The post holder will contribute to Matrons’ development plan, this will include participation in Trust-wide Matron’s initiatives, Trust Accreditation Schemes (COAST) and other development initiatives as required. As part of professional development, the jobholder may be asked to deputise for the Head of Midwifery as and when required.

Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is situated on the west coast of Lancashire, and offers a full range of district hospital services and community health services to a population of 1.6 million and around 2600 births per year.

**Blackpool Maternity services have**:

- An alongside birth centre
- Consultant led delivery suite
- Maternity Ward
- Community Midwifery
- Complex medical Team
- Complex Social Needs Team.
- Antenatal and Newborn screening team
- Public Health
- Digital
- Continuity of Carer and Workforce.

JOB DIMENSIONS
The jobholder will be expected to work with the minimum of supervision and co-ordinate his / her activities to ensure that an efficient service is
- Manage budgets and resources efficiently and
- Line management responsibilities for delegated

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE REQUIRED
- See attached Person Specification

PRIMARY DUTIES and AREAS OF RESPONSIBILITY

Clinical and Quality Responsibilities
- Ensure high standards of patient care at all times challenging and ensuring others challenge poor practice, in accordance with the NMC Code of Conduct.
- Ensure local plans support all clinical quality external accreditation, for example Care Quality Commission (CQC) priorities and Key Lines of Enquiry, Commissioning for Quality and Innovation (CQUIN), Quality.
- Participate in the out of hours managers on call rota and the Senior manager of the Day (SMOD) for the Division, including some weekends, to ensure the delivery of high level clinical care.
- Ensure agreed systems and process are in situ to consistently provide safe, effective high quality patient care and embed a culture of local improvement, focusing on the Trust’s harm free indicators, measuring practice and using variations in the data to develop and oversee delivery of local improvement projects are in place on all wards / departments/units.
- Ensure that a Midwifery Strategy is fully implemented within Division in line with corporate and local priorities and that action is taken to achieve and maintain quality standards of practice in all areas:
1. with specific focus on midwifery sensitive indicators and the midwifery contribution to the Family and Friends Test.
2. have defined responsibility for the collection of evidence required to demonstrate compliance with specific quality indicators and regulatory
3. through the use of local audit and risk assessment introduce and evaluate practice changes where needed promoting
- Through visible clinical leadership ensure that the delivery of kind, compassionate and respectful care takes place, and that the maternity team develop relationships with women that involve better listening and decision making; ‘you said, we did’
- Act as the woman’s advocate when appropriate, when informed decisions may lead to choices being made concerning personalised choice and care plans.

Using strong leadership skills to promote within teams ensuring:
- Women are cared for in a clean and safe environment, regularly monitoring within the clinical areas taking remedial action if standards are not maintaine