Midwifery Matron Community Services
Job overview
An exciting opportunity exists for you to join Frimley health Foundation Trust as a clinical matron on the Frimley Park site.
This is an opportunity for an ambitious practitioner who is ready to progress in their career. This post will require a unique and talented individual who will continue the strong clinical leadership of the outpatient services which includes antenatal clinics and diabetes services, Community Midwifery teams and safeguarding.
Main duties of the job
The service is seeking an experienced and dynamic midwife to join the senior leadership team, reporting directly to the Head of Midwifery and working collaboratively with a team of dedicated Clinical Midwifery Matrons across both sites.
The post holder will play a pivotal role in supporting the delivery of high-quality, safe, and effective maternity care. This includes contributing to the strategic direction of the service, supporting the implementation of national and local maternity priorities, and driving improvements in clinical practice.
You will support workforce development, service transformation, and performance monitoring to ensure standards of care are continuously improved and maintained. Your leadership and clinical expertise will influence the development of a positive and supportive culture, promoting evidence-based practice and empowering staff to deliver excellent care.Working closely with multi-disciplinary teams, you will ensure that patient experience and safety remain at the heart of all service delivery.
Working for our organisation
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme. We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available.
Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too.
We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users.
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Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For a full list of responsibilities and tasks associated with this role, please refer to the job description/person specification attached to this vacancy.
There is an on-call commitment attached to this role.
For an informal discussion please contact, Kirstie Wells Interim Head of Midwifery, [email protected]
Person specification
PROFESSIONAL/ SPECIALIST/ FUNCTIONAL EXPERIENCE
Essential criteria- Safeguarding experience
- Evidence of professional development
- Community midwifery experience
- Experience of leading a team
- Budget experience
- PMA
qulification
Essential criteria- Registered Midwife
- Masters qualification
- Working towards Masters
Experience
Essential criteria- Leadership experience
- Evidence of leadership and management training
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) has an outstanding reputation and a proud record of achievement. As a well performing, well led and ambitious Foundation Trust, we have exciting times ahead of us. We have an ongoing commitment to improving the health and care services for the 900,000 people we serve across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.
We are proud of the ambitions laid out in our strategy, Our Future FHFT, including our vision to be a leader in health & wellbeing, delivering excellence for our communities.
We continue to invest in our services and facilities, including a £10 million upgrade to the hospital maternity unit as well as £49m major new Emergency Assessment Centre on our Wexham Park site. The opening of a brand new £100m state of the art hospital which replaced the existing hospital facility at Heatherwood and are planning to invest further in diagnostics and inpatient capacity at Frimley Park.
We have also made significant investment in our quality improvement and digital programmes to support our vision and we will ensure that we achieve our aim of providing the highest quality healthcare to our patients. Our new EPR – Epic – went live in June and we are already beginning to reap the benefits of this ambitious investment.
Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.