Midwifery Matron Professional Practice

Main area Maternity Grade Band 8a Contract 6 months (Fixed term: 6 months) Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week

Site Queen Charlottes & Chelsea Hospital Town London Salary £66,274 - £73,496 pa inclusive Salary period Yearly Closing 26/10/2026 23:59

Fulfil your potential in hospitals that make history:

Charing Cross, Hammersmith, St Mary’s, Queen Charlotte’s & Chelsea and Western Eye.

With five world-renowned hospitals, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust is full of opportunity if you are looking to develop your healthcare career.

We are an NHS Trust of approximately 16,000 people, providing care for over a million and a half patients from north west London and beyond every year.

We have a rich heritage and an ambitious vision for the future of our patients and local communities.

With our partners, Imperial College London, and The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, we form Imperial College Academic Health Science Centre, one of 6 academic health science centres in the UK, working to ensure the rapid translation of research for better patient care and excellence in education.

We are proud of our heritage in innovation and we are early adopters of new insights in technologies, techniques and treatments for improving health.

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 post will be fixed term for six months.
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 team working, 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 collaborative. We encourage you to embrace these values throughout the recruitment process and in your role with us.

• 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 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, and driving achievement of the safety actions…