Matron for Antenatal Services

Job overview

Do you have a vision of how antenatal services should be delivered? Do you have the enthusiasm to lead an antenatal team across 2 sites that will ensure the woman and her family have the best possible experience? If your answer is yes then the perfect opportunity has arisen for you.

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the senior leadership team at Saint Mary's North Manchester as Antenatal Services Matron . This position will cover the service across North Manchester and Fairfield General (satellite clinic). The antenatal clinics on both sites are multidisciplinary including multiple specialist services. The role will also support across the MCS working with Matrons for Antenatal Services at Oxford Road and Wythenshawe.

If you are an experienced, highly motivated midwife with management experience and a vast knowledge of Antenatal Services  this could be the role for you.

Maternity Services at Saint Mary's Hospital provide women living in  Manchester, Trafford, Salford, the North West and beyond with primary, secondary and tertiary obstetric services. Saint Mary's is renowned both regionally and nationally for its research, clinical fetal and maternal medicine services with a very complex patient population.

Main duties of the job

There is an established midwifery team delivering care to high and low risk women and a multidisciplinary team comprising of obstetricians, midwives, anaesthetists, Neonatologists and physicians providing care to women with specialist fetal and maternal medical needs. You will need to be able to demonstrate excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with a driving passion and determination to support the senior midwifery team in line with the exciting national picture of care and compassion, as well as a local picture of quality improvement. The successful candidates will need to have good knowledge and skill base of both midwifery clinical practice and local leadership. In this role you will lead a team of midwives and develop practice as a midwifery expert; providing advice and leadership to colleagues in the organisation and working in partnership with a range of other agencies. You will be resilient and able to manage complex situations as well as being well organised and innovative. A proven track record of supporting change processes, coupled with good influencing and negotiation skills are key attributes required for these posts in order to provide an integrated and effective service focusing on the delivery and assurance of safe, high quality patient care across our services. In this key role you will work closely with the Deputy Head of Midwifery  and the Head of Midwifery.  You will also contribute to the 24 hour senior midwifery oncall rota across the 3 sites.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience you’ll need, take a look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the ‘Supporting Documents’ heading.  So that you’re even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, you’ll need to take time to read the ‘Candidate Essentials Guide’ that sits with the Job Description and Person Specification. This document provides you with details about the Trust, our benefits and outlines how ‘we care for you as you care for others’. Most importantly, it also contains critical information you’ll need to be aware of before you submit an application form.

Diversity Matters

MFT is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating, and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation are encouraged to apply for this post. As an inclusive employer, we are here to support you. If you have any special requirements to help you with your application, email our team at [email protected].

We’re looking forward to hearing from you!