Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
Matron for Professional Practice
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Midwifery Matron for Professional Practice
We are recruiting a midwifery matron for professional practice who shares our vision to provide consistently outstanding care to our women, babies, and families.
This role has multiple priorities with the safety of mothers and babies and excellent patient experience as its main goal, achieved by ensuring a highly trained, competent, and well-staffed workforce. It will focus on staff wellbeing and staff development, effective teamworking, an open and honest approach to maternity-specific training and development with a strong focus on evidence-based care and learning from incidents.
Working in partnership with the Director of Midwifery and the Senior Leadership Team, the professional practice matron will ensure that our midwifery, nursing, and support staff have the skills to provide a safe, high-quality service to women and babies.
At the heart of everything we do are our core values: Aspirational, Expert, Kind, and Collaborative. We encourage you to embrace these values throughout the recruitment process and in your role with us.
The matron for professional practice will provide professional, clinical, and operational leadership to ensure high standards of midwifery and nursing practice, education, and staff development within a large tertiary maternity and neonatal service. Acting as an expert practitioner and visible role model, the post holder will promote a positive learning culture, professional accountability, and continuous improvement in care delivery.
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The role includes line management and leadership of the professional development midwives, fetal well-being midwives, and clinical placement support midwives. The Matron will also maintain a professional link with the Neonatal Educators to support collaborative working and alignment of maternity and neonatal education where appropriate.
The matron will ensure that clinical practice, education provision, and student support processes are safe, evidence-based, and aligned with the standards of the Nursing and Midwifery Council and national priorities set by NHS England.
The post holder will maintain robust oversight of statutory and mandatory training compliance across maternity services.
The post holder will work collaboratively with the senior midwifery and nursing leadership team and multidisciplinary colleagues, including obstetric, neonatal, and anaesthetic education leads, to ensure accurate and auditable training records, providing clear governance assurance.
At Imperial College Healthcare you can achieve extraordinary things with extraordinary people, working with leading clinicians pushing boundaries in patient care.
Become part of a vibrant team living our values - expert, kind, collaborative, and aspirational. You’ll get an experience like no other and will fast forward your career. Benefits include career development, flexible working, and wellbeing, staff recognition scheme. Make use of optional benefits including Cycle to Work, car lease schemes, season ticket loan, or membership options for onsite leisure facilities.
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We are committed to equal opportunities and improving the working lives of our staff and will consider applications to work flexibly, part-time, or job share. Please talk to us at interview.
Environmental Sustainability
Climate change and poor air quality is a health emergency that harms people’s health and wellbeing and widens health inequalities. The Trust is also committed to reducing its impact on the environment by reducing our greenhouse gas emissions to Net Zero by 2045. All our employees have a role to play, and we have an active green network that supports staff to act in ways that ensures that our services are efficient, sustainable, and reduce our impact on the environment www.imperial.nhs.uk/about-us/our-strategy/green-plan.
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Contact:
- Name: Denise O'Donnell
- Job Title: Lead Midwife
- Email Address: denise.odonnell@nhs.net
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