Clinical Lead Midwife / Modern Matron

A Vacancy at Northumbria Healthcare - NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust. We are delighted to announce the advert for a Maternity Matron position. The Maternity Matron post is specific to supporting the maternity outpatient services, including the Pregnancy Assessment Unit and outpatient antenatal care services. The full time post is suitable for a midwife with good experience in the operational line management of clinical maternity areas. The post holder will assist the Head of Midwifery in the development and progression of the maternity agenda to achieve consistency of practice, high standards of care and innovation to drive forward service improvement for both staff and patients. The candidate must be able to demonstrate effective leadership skills, meet challenging deadlines and consistently deliver on key performance targets. You will provide clinical and professional leadership to staff in your designated area of responsibility and work collaboratively with Matrons and Managers across the Business Unit. The post holder will also maintain oversight and support the work of specialist midwives working in the maternity service. To undertake the lead clinical role across maternity outpatient services:

• To take shared responsibility with the clinical leads and head of midwifery for perinatal clinical governance.
• To ensure the highest standard of clinical care through the provision of effective management of clinical staff.
• To provide visible, accessible and authoritative presence within the maternity unit to whom women and their families, and members of Trust, can gain assistance, advice and support.
• To provide leadership which inspires and motivates others, empowering the maternity team to have the authority and support they need to improve patient care and resolve clinical issues.
• To exercise accountability as set out in the NMC Standards for midwives.
• To participate in a 24 hour weekend on call rota, to support and advise midwifery practice.
• To role model compassionate and inclusive leadership in order to shape the creation of a collective leadership culture within the trust. This means demonstrating a consistent leadership style which.
(a) engages, enables and empowers others (b) uses coaching to promote ownership of learning and quality improvement and (c) facilitates team working and collaboration within teams / departments and across organisational boundaries We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, covering one of the largest geographical areas of any NHS trust in the country. Leading in innovation and quality - opening a state of the art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn't, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare, this is the Northumbria Way! Please read 'applicant guidance notes' before submitting your application.

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