Maternity Matron

An outstanding opportunity has arisen for a senior experienced, dynamic, high performing midwife to join the senior midwifery management team as Matron for Maternity Services within the Community in Ipswich and surrounding areas.

Under the leadership of Deputy Head of Midwifery and Head of Midwifery you will hold an important professional role for the delivery of maternity services locally, providing strong and inspirational leadership to help influence and change the development of these services.

You will be expected to provide managerial, professional and clinical leadership to midwives and support staff working within the maternity service ensuring the professional contributions of these staff is maximised to achieve the Trusts objectives and strategic goals in accordance with user needs, and national and local professional standards.

You will need to work well within the multi-disciplinary team, influencing and leading others in practice and in the delivery of clinical outcomes.

In conjunction with the Deputy Head of Midwifery, you will facilitate and implement appropriate training and development programmes for midwives, nurses and support staff that enhance practice and care whilst meeting Trust objectives and Government initiatives.

One of the largest Trust’s in East Anglia, East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust (ESNEFT) provide hospital and community health services to people living across a wide geographical area. We deliver care from two main hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, six community hospitals and in patients’ own homes. You will be joining a team of almost 12,000 amazing colleagues providing care to approximately a million people.

Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals we offer a generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments (if applicable), 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata) and access to a range of NHS discounts. Our Staff Health and Wellbeing programme offer a variety of services. We offer a range of flexible working opportunities.

Our philosophy is thatTime Mattersto everyone. Across the Trust, we concentrate on improving the things we do and removing those which do not work or cause time delays for our staff and patients.

To support our employees to achieve their career aspirations you may be eligible to obtain a qualification via an apprenticeship. All successful applicants will be required to undertake a skills review to facilitate this. For full details please see the attached Apprenticeship Handbook.

If you are passionate about patient care and want to develop your skills and knowledge then we are keen to hear from you.
- Support the Community midwifery service and the MLBU on the Ipswich site to promote excellence in maternity care and to maintain and improve clinical standards in antenatal, intrapartum and postnatal care. You will also have leadership responsibilities for the Smoke Free team and the Infant Feeding team.
- Ensure that patient experience is of the highest quality, and that all patients are treated with compassion, dignity and respect; will be aware of local demographics and devise and implement strategies to reduce health inequalities.
- Provide managerial, professional and clinical leadership to midwives and support staff working within maternity services, ensuring the professional contributions of these staff is maximised to achieve the Trusts objectives and strategic goals in accordance with service user needs, and local and national professional standards.
- Work in partnership with the Head of Midwifery, Inpatient Matrons, the Consultant midwife and the QI midwife across Ipswich and Colchester sites to develop safe, effective and evidence based practices.