# Matron for Professional Practice > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/matron-for-professional-practice/f9d9929d-a679-4f49-8a28-6d75a41b72c5 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/matron-for-professional-practice/f9d9929d-a679-4f49-8a28-6d75a41b72c5.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust - **Town:** London - **Region:** London - **Country:** England - **Profession:** Nurse (adult and children) - **Grade:** Band 8 - **Salary:** £66,274 - £73,496 pa inclusive - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-08-04T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-07-21T15:42:29.813Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/-v8172794 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8172794?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.imperial.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview We are recruiting a midwifery matron for professional practice who shares our vision to provide consistently outstanding care to our women babes and families. This role has multiple priorities with the safety of mothers and babies and excellent  patient experience as it's main goal, achieved by ensuring a highly trained, competent and well-staffed workforce. It will focus on staff wellbeing and staff development, effective teamworking, an open and honest approach to maternity specific training and development with a strong focus on evidence-based care and learning from incidents. Working in partnership with the Director of Midwifery and the Senior Leadership Team, the professional practice matron will ensure that our midwifery, nursing and support staff have the skills to provide a safe, high quality service to women and babies. At the heart of everything we do are our core values: Aspirational, Expert, Kind and ccollaborative. We encourage you to embrace these values throughout the recruitment process and in your role with us. ### Main duties of the job - The matron for professional practice will provide professional, clinical, and operational leadership to ensure high standards of midwifery and nursing practice, education, and staff development within a large tertiary maternity and neonatal service. Acting as an expert practitioner and visible role model, the post holder will promote a positive learning culture, professional accountability, and continuous improvement in care delivery. - The role includes line management and leadership of the professional development midwives, fetal well-being midwives, and clinical placement support midwives. The Matron will also maintain a professional link with the Neonatal Educators to support collaborative working and alignment of maternity and neonatal education where appropriate. - The matron will ensure that clinical practice, education provision, and student support processes are safe, evidence-based, and aligned with the standards of the Nursing and Midwifery Council and national priorities set by NHS England. - The post holder will maintain robust oversight of statutory and mandatory training compliance across maternity services. - The post holder will work collaboratively with the senior midwifery and nursing leadership team and multidisciplinary colleagues, including obstetric, neonatal, and anaesthetic education leads, to ensure accurate and auditable training records, providing clear governance assurance. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. For both overviews please view the Job Description attachment with the job advert. ## Person Specification ### Experience **Essential** - Practised advanced midwifery skills in all aspects of clinical midwifery - Experience of NLS training - Lead on formulation, dissemination and implementation of policies and guidelines - Service development experience, delivering clinical quality improvements and successful service change **Desirable** - Formal teaching practice in HIEs ### Education / Qualifications **Essential** - Registered Midwife - First level degree in related healthcare discipline or substantial experiential equivalence - Evidence of continuing professional development - Post-graduate qualification and / or equivalent level of knowledge gained through extensive experience **Desirable** - Leadership qualifications and or experience - Has obtained a Master’s qualification. - Post Graduate Certificate of Education or equivalent. ### Skills/knowledge/ abilities **Essential** - Up to date and evidence based knowledge of current clinical and professional issues - Change management skills - Plan, teach/ deliver core training to multidisciplinary team - Good level of skills in Microsoft Word and Excel **Desirable** - Experience in writing for publication ## Documents - [job description (pdf, 314.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10475184) - [our strategy 2023-25 (pdf, 230.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=427) - [functional requirements form (pdf, 400.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10475185) ## 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.