Matron Inpatient Care

Contract Type - 12 months FTC with possible extension or secondment please. Full - Time 37.5 hours per week

The Matron for Maternity Inpatient Care will provide forward-thinking clinical and professional leadership to midwifery / nursing staff at all levels within the Trust, ensuring that midwifery care is delivered to a high standard.

**The role will also**:

- 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, PDPs and performance management.
- Ensure appropriate provision and care for the management of resources for midwifery and support staff, consumables and environment
- The post holder will also contribute to developing the strategic direction and annual objectives of the Trust.

The Matron will provide leadership and responsibility for the following key areas in Maternity and work closely with the Matron for Intrapartum care and community services to deliver. The Matron will
- Lead with credibility and authority and be revered for high standards of patient care
- Lead on ensuring that inpatient related maternity performance targets and quality standards are met
- Be a strong advocate for excellent patient care so that this will be fundamental to all clinical decisions within the maternity service
- Be accountable for budget and financial targets within the area of responsibility and support the clinical division with delivery of quality and efficiency initiatives
- Monitor and act on patient experience feedback received from e.g. FFT, complaints, matron and improving care rounds
- That measures that support quality and safety within the service e.g. Health e-roster, Datix, complaints, dashboard, sickness and absences, are monitored, up to date and anomalies or concerns escalated where appropriate
- Ensure staff within your areas of responsibilities have regular opportunities for meaningful conversations e.g. staff meetings, appraisal and personal development plans
- Ensure mandatory training compliance within areas of responsibility is maintained above 95%
- Actively contribute to and influence the Corporate and ACW board agenda

Whittington Mission and Goals

We have an excellent reputation for being innovative, responsive and flexible to the changing clinical needs of the local population. We are treating more patients than ever before and are dedicated to improving services to deliver the best for our patients.

Our mission
Helping local people live longer, healthier lives.

Our vision
Provide safe, personal, co-ordinated care for the community we serve.

Our goals
We have developed six key strategic goals to make sure we continue to support people to live longer, healthier lives.
- To secure the best possible health and wellbeing for all our community
- To integrate and coordinate care in person-centred teams
- To deliver consistent, high quality, safe services
- To support our patients and users in being active partners in their care
- To be recognised as a leader in the fields of medical and multi-professional education, and population-based clinical research
- To innovate and continuously improve the quality of our services to deliver the best outcomes for our local population
- Birth Centre - increasing the utilisation of the birth centre and supporting Maternity Continuity of care
- Leading the Bereavement team, providing the highest standard of care for families
- Postnatal inpatient care with supporting a review of transitional care and supporting the examination of the newborn screening. With a key relationship to the Neonatal team.
- Baby Friendly Feeding initiative

For more information regarding the main responsibilities of the role, please refer to the attached Job Description.