Band 8b Community and birth centre matron

BHRUT maternity department is looking to recruit an enthusiastic Matron for Community and birth centre . This post holder will provide midwifery clinical input and provide level leadership to the maternity. This role requires a highly motivated individual, able to demonstrate leadership and problem-solving skills working closely with the multi-disciplinary team, speciality Matrons, Head of Midwifery (HOM) and Lead Nurse for Women's Health and the Director of Midwifery and Divisional Director of Nursing for Women's Heath (DOM)., The post holder is responsible for providing visible and accessible leadership in order to deliver the key quality, performance and financial standards and plans within their areas of responsibility. Working as an autonomous practitioner, they will lead and be accountable for midwifery performance and the achievement of all local, organisational and national targets and standards, working within the Trust's governance framework and the current regulatory & policy requirements.

This post requires a real commitment to the principles of devolution of decision making to clinical teams, working closely with the Head of Midwifery and Lead Nurse for Women's Health and the Director of Midwifery and Divisional Director of Nursing for Women's Heath.

We're an organisation that is getting better and better. We were the most improved Trust in England for A&E performance in 2023/24; we're no longer in special measures; and Matthew Trainer, our Chief Executive, has been named the top CEO by the Health Service Journal. Our improvements are driven by a determination to deliver care we're proud of and that our patients are happy with.

Many of our 8,000 staff - who come from 146 different countries - live in the three diverse London boroughs we serve and the majority are from black, Asian and minority ethnic groups. More than 400 of them are on apprenticeship programmes and we're proud to be a London Living Wage employer.

We operate from two main sites - King George Hospital (KGH) in Goodmayes and Queen's Hospital in Romford. We have two of the busiest emergency departments in London - more than 300,000 people visited our A&Es in 2023.

Patients across north east London are benefitting from two new state of the art theatres at KGH and our Community Diagnostic Centres at Barking Community Hospital and St George's Health and Wellbeing Hub will significantly increase the number of scans that can be carried out.

We're looking forward to introducing an electronic patient record next year. This will mean the records of any patient visiting one of the seven hospitals run by BHRUT and Barts Health will be accessible to the clinical teams. It'll make things easier for staff and will be better for patients.