• Job Description

  Req#: C9298-WOM-184?language=en&page=44&sort=publicationDateDesc

  Job summary

  Opportunity has arisen for a dynamic, extremely motivated, resourceful individual with established midwifery, and leadership experience to join our Maternity team.

  Working as part of the senior midwifery team, the post holder will contribute to the future development of the maternity service through participation of development initiatives.

  Main duties of the job

  The Matron for Maternity Workforce is a key leadership position reporting to the Head of Midwifery and accountable to the Director of Midwifery to support the development of the professional midwifery agenda to achieve consistency of practice, high standards of care and innovation across integrated care pathways and services.

  The Matron for Maternity Workforce will support the Head of Midwifery in ensuring a midwifery workforce that meets the needs of now and the future and will focus on recruitment and retention and temporary staffing working closely with key stakeholders and colleagues.

  About us

  Our teams at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust serve communities in one of the largest and busiest acute hospital trust services in the UK. Our services are a regional and national centre for specialised treatments as well as being the local hospital for the Leeds community. The Trust is a major teaching hospital affiliated with the University of Leeds, supporting education and research.

  We have seven hospitals across five sites, with over 22,000 staff members. We care for approximately 1.5 million people annually, including over 200,000 emergency cases.

  Leeds Teaching Hospitals is committed to our process of redeploying 'at risk' members of our existing workforce to new roles. As such, all our job adverts are subject to this policy and we reserve the right to close, delay or remove adverts while this process is completed. If you do experience a delay in the shortlisting stage of the recruitment cycle, please bear with us while this process is completed, and contact the named contact if you have any questions.

  Details

  Date posted

  16 October 2025

  Pay scheme

  Agenda for change

  Band

  Band 8a

  Salary

  £55,690 to £62,682 a year

  Contract

  Permanent

  Working pattern

  Full-time

  Reference number

  C9298-WOM-184

  Job locations

  St. James's University Hospital

  Beckett Street

  Leeds

  LS9 7TF

  
  

  Leeds General Infirmary

  Great George Street

  Leeds

  LS1 3EX

  
  

  Job description

  Job responsibilities

  Ensure that the education, training and professional development needs of the midwifery workforce are identified and appropriate plans are in place to meet the needs as they start in the Trust.

  Ensure robust allocation of preceptorship midwives equally across the sites/areas, working with the education team

  Work with Communications to coordinate midwifery materials through social media.

  Support the recruitment of NMC registered internationally trained midwives and work to identify other sources for recruitment of midwives and support staff.

  Provide reports about the midwifery workforce recruitment position working closely with recruitment and workforce colleagues to provide robust, timely information to meet the needs of all stakeholders.

  Provide workforce data as requested and interpret workforce reports.

  Work with key stakeholders to look at shift patterns, flexible working and other innovative ideas to increase attraction of staff and improve retention and evaluate outcomes and staff experience.

  Provide support to the Maternity Matrons and ward managers to ensure effective rostering of permanent staff and temporary staffing cover working closely with the on-site team.

  To understand requirements for clinical staffing levels and triangulate with vacancy data to identify recruitment and retention hotspots.

  Contribute to the development of nursing and midwifery strategies and polices in conjunction with senior midwives, nurses, workforce and Organisational Development colleagues.

  Ensure that staff development enables career progression and succession planning.

  Contribute to the implementation and triangulate the information of key performance indicators for Annual NHS Staff Survey.

  Develop a culture that is flexible and positive to change, where staff feel valued and where opportunities are actively created for individuals, to maximise potential and excel.

  Encourage and promote an evidence-based culture in staff through the use of procedures and protocols of care within an inter-disciplinary approach.

  Job description

  Job responsibilities

  Ensure that the education, training and professional development needs of the midwifery workforce are identified and appropriate plans are in place to meet the needs as they start in the Trust.

  Ensure robust allocation of preceptorship midwives equally across the sites/areas, working with the education team

  Work with Communications to coordinate midwifery materials through social media.

  Support the recruitment of NMC registered internationally trained midwives and work to identify other sources for recruitment of midwives and support staff.

  Provide reports about the midwifery workforce recruitment position working closely with recruitment and workforce colleagues to provide robust, timely information to meet the needs of all stakeholders.

  Provide workforce data as requested and interpret workforce reports.

  Work with key stakeholders to look at shift patterns, flexible working and other innovative ideas to increase attraction of staff and improve retention and evaluate outcomes and staff experience.

  Provide support to the Maternity Matrons and ward managers to ensure effective rostering of permanent staff and temporary staffing cover working closely with the on-site team.

  To understand requirements for clinical staffing levels and triangulate with vacancy data to identify recruitment and retention hotspots.

  Contribute to the development of nursing and midwifery strategies and polices in conjunction with senior midwives, nurses, workforce and Organisational Development colleagues.

  Ensure that staff development enables career progression and succession planning.

  Contribute to the implementation and triangulate the information of key performance indicators for Annual NHS Staff Survey.

  Develop a culture that is flexible and positive to change, where staff feel valued and where opportunities are actively created for individuals, to maximise potential and excel.

  Encourage and promote an evidence-based culture in staff through the use of procedures and protocols of care within an inter-disciplinary approach.

  Person Specification

  Qualifications

  Essential

  • Registered Midwife
  • Evidence of Continuing Professional Development
  • Degree level education

  Experience

  Essential

  • Complaints management
  • Performance management
  • Experience at senior level in midwifery
  • Understanding of Specialty
  • Experience of managing staff
  • Budgetary skills
  • Change management
  • Current issues in Healthcare
  • Understanding of the underlying social, political land historical factors shaping local and national realities of health services
  • Understanding of the politics with both a small and large p of the health and social care context
  • Knowledge of Midwifery Strategy Making a Difference
  • Knowledge of NHS Plan
  • Knowledge of modernisation of agenda
  • Knowledge of complaints management
  • Knowledge of risk management

  Desirable

  • Project management

  Other

  Essential

  • Influencing & Negotiation
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • Ability to organise and prioritise own and others workload
  • Able to fulfil Occupational Health requirements for the post (with reasonable adjustments if necessary), including clearance on blood borne viruses in compliance with Trust Policy

  Skills & behaviours

  Essential

  • Willing to undergo training in relation to post
  • Strategic thinker

  Person Specification

  Qualifications

  Essential

  • Registered Midwife
  • Evidence of Continuing Professional Development
  • Degree level education

  Experience

  Essential

  • Complaints management
  • Performance management
  • Experience at senior level in midwifery
  • Understanding of Specialty
  • Experience of managing staff
  • Budgetary skills
  • Change management
  • Current issues in Healthcare
  • Understanding of the underlying social, political land historical factors shaping local and national realities of health services
  • Understanding of the politics with both a small and large p of the health and social care context
  • Knowledge of Midwifery Strategy Making a Difference
  • Knowledge of NHS Plan
  • Knowledge of modernisation of agenda
  • Knowledge of complaints management
  • Knowledge of risk management

  Desirable

  • Project management

  Other

  Essential

  • Influencing & Negotiation
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • Ability to organise and prioritise own and others workload
  • Able to fulfil Occupational Health requirements for the post (with reasonable adjustments if necessary), including clearance on blood borne viruses in compliance with Trust Policy

  Skills & behaviours

  Essential

  • Willing to undergo training in relation to post
  • Strategic thinker

  Disclosure and Barring Service Check

  This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

  Certificate of Sponsorship

  Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

  From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

  UK Registration

  Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

  Additional information

  Disclosure and Barring Service Check

  This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

  Certificate of Sponsorship

  Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

  From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

  UK Registration

  Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

  Employer details

  Employer name

  Leeds Teaching Hospitals

  Address

  St. James's University Hospital

  Beckett Street

  Leeds

  LS9 7TF

  
  

  Employer's website

  https://www.leedsth.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

  Employer details

  Employer name

  Leeds Teaching Hospitals

  Address

  St. James's University Hospital

  Beckett Street

  Leeds

  LS9 7TF

  
  

  Employer's website

  https://www.leedsth.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

• About the company

  National Health Service (NHS) is the umbrella term for the publicly-funded healthcare systems of the United Kingdom (UK). The founding principles were that services should be comprehensive, universal and free at the point of delivery—a health service based on clinical need, not ability to pay. Each service provides a comprehensive range of health services, free at the point of use for people ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom apart from dental treatment and optical care.

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