Neonatal Matron

Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust (CHFT) are committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from all sections of the community, regardless of any protected characteristics.
We are committed to recruiting to our values. Leading One Culture of Care underpins our values by creating an environment, tone and behaviours across all parts of the Trust that are fundamentally rooted in compassionate care.
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Our Future Plans
The Department of Health and Social Care has awarded capital funding to invest in local health services at both Calderdale Royal Hospital and Huddersfield Royal Infirmary. This is a significant investment and an opportunity to enhance services for our populations in Calderdale and Huddersfield and West Yorkshire for generations to come. To find out more, please visit https://future.cht.nhs.uk, An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced, motivated and independently minded leader to join our team as Matron for neonatal services. If you have the passion and drive to ensure all neonates and their families receive the highest quality, safe care then this might be the right job for you.
The post holder will be supported by the wider team to provide strong clinical leadership on the quality of care provided, cleanliness of the environment and will role model a quality driven, caring and compassionate leadership style, upholding the standards and values of the nursing profession at Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust., · The Matron will ensure that operational plans and performance are closely managed, promptly escalating issues which are unable to be resolved.
· The post holder will implement patient centred national and local clinical, operational strategy and plans, ensuring that systems and processes are in place to comply with relevant legislation and governance requirements.
· The Matron contributes to the strategic direction and policy setting for the Division, forming an essential two way communication link between the Division and staff in the Directorate.
· The post holder will have line manager responsibility for Clinical Manager and any B7 specialist nurses in the service.
· The post holder will work effectively and efficiently with fellow Matrons, Senior Nurses and General Managers to deliver quality services for patients. There is a specific focus on visible, accessible and strong clinical leadership; service quality and development; and the patient's experience of safe, compassionate, timely and effective care.
· The post holder will ensure service improvements are undertaken with the service user voice as an equal partner ensuring true co-design.
· The post holder will participate in the Trust Staffing oversight Huddles, Quality leadership rota, + Embrace the trust vision and support the Director of Midwifery and Women's Services to lead the implementation of the nursing and midwifery ambitions.
+ Contribute to the implementation of major service delivery and transformation plans across the Division, including those involving cross pathway working internally and externally in support of enhanced patient care and quality of services using established project methodology.
+ Contribute and lead on aspects of national driver implementation plans and monitor progress in service delivery. Supporting the success of programmes such as Maternity and Neonatal Transformation plan, Maternity Incentive Scheme and GIRFT, monitoring progress and actioning planning accordingly.
Relationships & Networking
· Seek out and take advantage of a wide range of networks and contacts, building positive relationships with people at all levels both internally and external to the Trust.
· As a minimum, the post holder is responsible for:
· Representing the Directorate and Division within the Trust, and with partner organisations, working closely with them to institute integrated working in the best interests of patient care.
· Actively seeking appropriate internal and external networks to influence the delivery of high-quality patient care and services.
Influencing
+ Create a compelling vision of service(s), and other Trust services skilfully leading discussions and negotiations to influence and persuade internal and external stakeholders.
Delivery
· Lead on identifying and cascading appropriate challenging goals and objectives through business and workforce planning and appraisal, making prompt, clear decisions which may involve tough choices or considered risks, ensuring that monitoring processes are in place.
Commercial
· Lead on ensuring that patient care and services within remit are forward thinking, of exceptional quality and within budget.
Innovation
· Seek opportunities for service improvement, appraise, interpret and implement ideas, recommendations and directives to improve patient care and services.
As a minimum, the post holder is responsible for:
· Encouraging a climate that allows front line staff to question and redefine how their work is undertaken ensuring the on-going development of patient centred care and cost effective use of resources.
· Supporting the development of future orientated patient care and services to improve standards of care, address governance issues, improve efficiency and tariff income.
· Project managing agreed service developments and plans to ensure key targets are achieved, including cross cutting themes and patient pathways, and contributing to the delivery of transformational work streams.
Team Working
· Promote, monitor and maintain best practice in health and well-being ensuring that teams are supported in developing positive relationships, building team spirit and shared understanding of pressures and purpose.
As a minimum, the post holder is responsible for:
· Working with the senior leadership team, support the development of managers and team leaders to ensure that caring and compassionate patient care and services are led by competent, capable and high performing teams.
· Working with the senior leadership team, ensure that staff health and wellbeing is at the heart of all people management practice, and that there are mechanisms in place to develop
resilience, reduce pressure points, and provide support for staff to manage their working lives, including application of Trust HR policies as and when required.
Presenting & Communicating
· Present information in a succinct, accurate manner conveying key messages with skill and confidence, handling questions clearly and concisely.
As a minimum, the post holder is responsible for:
· Demonstrating effective communication skills in delivering key messages with clarity and succinctly whilst ensuring that that main message is clear, whilst encouraging two-way communications.
· Forming an essential two-way communications link between the nursing profession and other staff in the Directorate, ensuring that key messages, team briefs are shared and discussed, escalating media enquiries to the Director of Midwifery and Women's Services.
Quality & Performance
+ Actively lead on improving the delivery of patient care and services by analysis of complex data and information, developing and implementing solutions to enhance quality and meet performance targets.
Patient Safety
· Regularly monitor that the legal obligations and that patient and other safety requirements for area(s) of responsibility are being met.
Knowledge & Expertise
· Lead an organisational learning approach to share and learn from successes and failures, staff and service user feedback, using evidence and research to change and improve patient care and services.
Personal Responsibility & Ownership
· Operate as a role model to team(s) by maintaining optimism in the face of challenge and ambiguity, recovering quickly from setbacks, and learning from feedback.
Leading & Coaching
+ Lead by example to inspire, motivate, and encourage others using a coaching style of leadership ensuring that others have clear direction, support, accountability and responsibility to deliver.
Engagement & Empowerment
+ Develop opportunities for staff engagement within teams ensuring that unnecessary blocks to processes and pathways are removed, taking an active role in monitoring progress of action plans.
Our vision is to provide One Culture of Care for one another in order that we can provide compassionate care for the people who use our services. We are passionate about creating a workplace where we work together to get results, encouraging colleagues to have their say, in order to co create the change we want to see. We take pride in the diversity of our workforce that's why we encourage applications from all. Reasonable adjustments will be made for disabled applicants.
Please ensure your application is submitted with referees who can verify your employment/education history over the last three years and include valid email addresses for them. We will request electronic Factual Employment References from your previous employers. These references will be requested before you are issued with an unconditional offer of employment letter.
If you are appointed to a post, information will also be transferred into the NHS Electronic Staff Records system. The Inter-Authority Transfer (IAT) process is a critical and beneficial component of ESR and following interview your previous NHS employment data, if applicable will be transferred from your current / most recent employer.
You may be required to undertake a DBS. The Trust will administer the DBS check on your behalf and will recover the cost (Enhanced £42.90, Standard £22.90 or Basic £22.90) from your salary when you commence in post (including Internal staff). You will also be required to participate in the DBS Update Service and pay the £13 cost per year. This is a condition of your employment.
CHFT is part of the West Yorkshire Association of Acute Trusts (WYAAT), a collaborative of the NHS hospital trusts from across West Yorkshire and Harrogate working together to provide the best possible care for our patients.
If you have any questions please contact [email protected] for assistance.

We employ more than 6,500 staff who deliver compassionate care from our two main hospitals, Calderdale Royal Hospital and Huddersfield Royal Infirmary as well as in community sites, health centres and in patients' homes. We also are incredibly proud to have almost 150 volunteers here at CHFT.
We provide a range of services including urgent and emergency care; medical; surgical; maternity; gynaecology; critical care; children's and young people's services; end of life care and outpatient and diagnostic imaging services.
We provide community health services, including sexual health services in Calderdale from Calderdale Royal and local health centres. These include Todmorden Health Centre and Broad Street Plaza.
We continue to modernise and invest in our health services to build on our strong reputation. Foundation trusts are public leaders in improving quality in health services. They are part of the NHS - yet decisions about what they do and how they do it are driven by independent boards. Boards listen to their Council of Governors and respond to the needs of their members - patients, staff and the local community.
Foundation trusts provide what the health service wants, yet are also free to invest quickly in the changes to the local community needs, in striving to be the best, and in putting their patients first.