# Lead Matron - Maternity Services > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/lead-matron-maternity-services/14b12c84-8ab5-4e5d-b4b4-9b4cb903e8e0 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/lead-matron-maternity-services/14b12c84-8ab5-4e5d-b4b4-9b4cb903e8e0.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust - **Location:** W&N Obstetrics Managers - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Nurse (adult and children) - **Grade:** Band 8 - **Salary:** £66,582 to £77,368 per annum, pro rata - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time, Part time, 37.5 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-08-30T22:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-08-13T16:00:51.790Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/-v8229373 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8229373?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.uhs.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust is delighted to offer a fantastic opportunity to work with us. Please see below for detailed job description of the role. ### Main duties of the job We are seeking an exceptional and inspirational maternity leader to join our senior leadership team as Lead Matron for Maternity Services at Southampton University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced senior midwifery leader who is passionate about delivering outstanding care, improving outcomes for women, birthing people, babies and families, and leading high-performing multidisciplinary teams. Serving a diverse population and providing a full range of specialist and tertiary maternity services, our maternity unit delivers approximately 5000 births annually and is committed to excellence, innovation and continuous improvement. As Lead Matron, you will play a pivotal role in providing visible, compassionate and inclusive leadership across Maternity Services, ensuring the highest standards of safety, quality, patient experience and staff wellbeing. The successful candidate will be actively involved in operational leadership and will be a key influencer to ensure the provision of evidence-based midwifery care for service users and families. Working in close partnership with the Director of Midwifery, Senior Midwifery Leadership Team and Maternity Operational Team, this individual will contribute to the development of the framework for the maternity strategy and lead on the operational implementation of the maternity strategic vision both at UHS and within the wider LMNS across SHIP. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities The post holder will provide professional, managerial, and clinical leadership across the Maternity workforce. As an integral member of the midwifery leadership team, the candidate will take an active role in supporting Maternity Services on a divisional level, ensuring that we are achieving agreed performance targets, specifically in relation to issues pertinent to operational workstreams. The post holder will lead on and monitor incoming complaints across the Maternity Service, monitor outgoing responses and ensure that any opportunities for learning are progressed, communicated, and implemented across the team. This role also requires effective and accountable budget management skills with an oversight around the processes for temporary staffing within Maternity Services. Your Responsibilities: - Provide professional leadership and line management to an existing team of midwifery matrons and managers within designated areas and through them, ensure that all members of the clinical teams are managed in accordance with Trust policies and procedures. - To participate and facilitate workforce redesign and modernisation of the midwifery workforce, working in partnership with key stakeholders internally and externally. - To exhibit leadership behaviours that demonstrate respect, resilience, trust, enthusiasm, and energy, positively impacting on the culture of the workforce leading to a happy and healthy workforce. - Take a leadership role, maintaining a high level of visibility across the team, whilst remaining responsive and flexible to the ever-changing priorities of the Maternity Service. - Participate in the duty manager rota assuming full responsibilities for this role in and out of hours, including on-calls. The successful candidate will be required to have experience in working within a senior midwifery role and have a good framework of knowledge around national strategic drivers for maternity services, specifically in relation to the safety agenda. Key core leadership skills to include: - Excellent communication skills, including a high level of self-awareness and emotional intelligence. - Negotiation, facilitation, mediation, influencing and coaching skills. - Flexible, responsive, adaptable, and resourceful in terms of an ever-changing clinical environment. - Professional integrity and judgement. For an overview of the position, please refer to the attached Job Description and Person Specification document. This includes a detailed breakdown of the key responsibilities, role expectations, and the qualifications we are looking for. ### Applicant requirements You must have appropriate UK professional registration. This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service. ## Person Specification ### Trust Values and Behaviours **Essential** - Patients First - Always Improving - Working Together ### Qualifications, knowledge and experience **Essential** - 1st Level registered midwife on relevant part of the NMC Register - First degree or equivalent - Master’s or equivalent education - Specialist qualification - Leadership training - Management training - Extensive experience in acute healthcare in clinical leadership/management position - Evidence of advanced leadership qualities - Formal and informal teaching experience - Staff and resource management experience - Experience of introducing change to clinical environment - Report writing skills and experience - Budget management experience - Car driver, with full driving license/ability to travel between hospital sites/for patient visits **Desirable** - Understanding of specialist area - Extensive knowledge of National and Local NHS and N&M agenda - Project management skills ## Documents - [job description & person specification (pdf, 312.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10539689) ## 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.