# Birth Centre and Ambulatory Matron > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/birth-centre-and-ambulatory-matron/3bf7b39c-b0bc-4de5-b6f9-bc0ff597715b - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/birth-centre-and-ambulatory-matron/3bf7b39c-b0bc-4de5-b6f9-bc0ff597715b.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust - **Town:** London - **Region:** London - **Country:** England - **Profession:** Nurse (adult and children) - **Salary:** £66,274 - £73,496 pro rata per annum incl. HCAS - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Part time, Flexible working, 22.5 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-08-09T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-07-27T21:20:28.117Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/London/London/Chelsea_Westminster_Hospital_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Maternity/Maternity-v8059205 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8059205?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.chelwest.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview An exciting opportunity has arisen for an Birth Centre and Ambulatory Matron. Are you an experienced leader with excellent people skills looking for a new challenge? Are you passionate about working in collaboration with the obstetric team, family centred midwifery care and the provision of personalised and seamless services across the maternity pathway? This senior midwife will join a dynamic, skilled and ambitious leadership team at an exciting time; in which services for women and birthing people alongside support for staff have never been more important. ### Main duties of the job The post holder will provide operational management and clinical leadership across the Birth Centre and Ambulatory maternity areas, set within a strong framework of Clinical Governance.  They will be responsible and accountable for the provision of safe, high quality maternity care, acknowledging the diverse needs of women, birthing people and their babies. They will ensure women, birthing people and their families are at the centre of care, implementing necessary improvements to ensure maternity care provision is responsive and of the highest standard. They will maintain their own clinical practice and act as a role model for the midwifery and nursing workforce, whilst creating an environment of continuous quality improvement and professional staff development. The post holder will lead on quality improvement and new initiatives to ensure that the maternity service is fit for the future. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities - Provide professional leadership by being highly visible, ensuring provision of high quality, responsive maternity services, with the needs of the woman, birthing person and their family placed at the centre of care. - To have overall operational responsibility for the Birth Centre and Ambulatory Service. - To act as an effective role model and demonstrate effective organisational and leadership direction. - Ensure budgetary and performance objectives are achieved. - Provide direct and indirect staff line management for the Intrapartum area. - Act as a catalyst for change, leading the development of policy, practice and staff in the delivery of women and birthing person centred care. - Ensure that process for the recruitment, selection appointment and retention of staff are efficient, effective and in line with Equalities Act. - Create a culture that involves and empowers staff, supports their professional development and encourages them to participate in shaping service developments. - Proactively engage in the Trust Governance agenda. Lead on audit, identifying risk, prepare and implement action plans to improve quality of services. - Participate in Patient Safety Incident Response Framework (PSIRF). - Develop systems in order to learn from and implement changes to practice arising from complaints, clinical risks and litigation. - Ensure that optimal use is made of available manpower resources to provide appropriate and effective cover over any 24 hour period. - Participate in CQC assessments and other internal and external reviews. - Develop and maintain effective communication and working relationships with other professional groups, and staff within the Division and the - Develop plans of action within defined areas to respond to maternity experience surveys and ensure responses are acted upon. - Work in partnership with the local maternity services network. - Support and promote equality, diversity and the rights of women, birthing people, the public and colleagues within the health care environment. Engender a culture of respectful relationships. - Working collaboratively with the Trust complaints and patient advisory service, ensure that any complaints received are dealt with promptly. - To ensure that working conditions are safe in accordance with the Health and Safety at Work Act and Trust local policies. Lead on departmental risk assessment, COSHH and other health and safety issues and ensure safe practice with regard to manual handling, safer sharps, infection prevention and control. - To carry out any other duties that may be required and are consistent with the responsibility and grade of this post and needs of the service. Please see attached job description and person specification to this advert for further details. ## Person Specification ### Experience **Essential** - Substantial recent experience of working as a Senior Midwife - Experience of working in a busy Intrapartum setting - Evidence of managing a clinical area and team of staff - Research/audit/quality improvement experience - Experience of managing and motivating a team and reviewing performance of those individuals. - Guideline and policy development and implementation - Ability to investigate incidents and patient experience complaints to a high standard - Organisational and management skills including budgetary management **Desirable** - Evidence of delivering high quality teaching to staff groups ### Skills and Knowledge **Essential** - Excellent written and verbal communication skills - Attention to detail - Ability to work autonomously & independently - Evidence of ability to influence and motivate others - Management and leadership skills, including an ability to prioritise own work effectively and being able to direct activities of others. - Analytical and problem solving skills, including an ability to respond to sudden unexpected demands - Ability to recognize the contribution of members of the MDT - Computer literate: able to use word, email, excel and manage databases - Ability to generate high quality reports - Aware of current national issues affecting Midwifery and Maternity care ### Education and qualifications **Essential** - Registered Midwife - Evidence of post-registration education - Bachelor’s degree or equivalent - Mentorship module or equivalent ## Documents - [recruitment pack (pdf, 2.8mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1313) - [policy statement (pdf, 144.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=891) - [guidance for applicants (pdf, 85.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=890) - [functional requirements (pdf, 421.0kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10349340) - [staff benefits and wellbeing (pdf, 177.9kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1256) - [jd - b8 matron for birth centre and ambulatory (pdf, 790.8kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10349341) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.