Community Matron - Maternity

Milton Keynes University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

The closing date is 04 March 2026

Hours: 37.5 per week, all MKUH roles will be considered for flexible working

We have an exciting opportunity for a motivated midwife to join our team as Matron for Community Midwipery.

The successful candidate will provide exceptional clinical leadership and expert midwipery practice to families within the Milton Keynes community, including those booked for homebirth care. They will play a key role in shaping, delivering and continuously improving our community and homebirth services.

The role involves leading benchmarking activities to inform ongoing service development and driving initiatives that improve services with a strong emphasis on equity and equality for families and staff. The post-holder will support the Midwipery senior team in delivering personalised community midwipery care and oversee safe, evidence-based homebirth services aligned with national and local guidelines.

They will continuously monitor and evaluate the effectiveness of community midwipery-led services, ensuring high-quality, safe care at all times.

Working collaboratively with senior midwipery leaders and key community stakeholders, the role ensures seamless pathways and safe planning for out-of-guidance births.

For informal discussion, please do not hesitate to contact Layla Rumble - Head of Midwipery -

Interview date:
Week commencing 16th March 2026.

"- NHS Survey, 2024" 94% feel that their role makes a difference to patients and service users.

Providing clinical leadership to the Clinical Service Unit thorough clinical and professional support to all nursing, midwipery and wider team of staff.

Ensuring high quality, safe patient care is delivered by an appropriately skilled and educated workforce, through effective leadership by setting standards and performance monitoring of those standards.

Work collaboratively with all stakeholders to ensure a high standard of quality care delivery including – safety , effectiveness and patient experience, earning from feedback and patient and public involvement strategies learning from feedback and patient and public involvement strategies.

The post-holder will facilitate timely and effective communication with families and multidisciplinary teams, while leading clinical governance activity, including risk management, audit, practice development and the monitoring of professional and clinical standards.

It is a fantastic time to join us at Milton Keynes, we have a supportive and compassionate team, we are committed to development, innovation, safety and quality of our services and the experience of our women, their families and our staff is a top priority.

Milton Keynes University Hospital, in proud partnership with the University of Buckingham, is a University Teaching Hospital committed to advancing patient care through cutting‑edge research and education. With a "Good" rating from the CQC and significant investment underway, this is an exciting time to join our team and grow your career.

As a medium sized general hospital, we provide a full range of general medical and surgical services, including a busy Emergency Department, Maternity, and Paediatrics. As the population of our city and surrounding areas continues to grow rapidly, we are expanding and enhancing our facilities to meet rising demand and improve access to care for all our communities.

We are also proud to offer a growing portfolio of specialist services. In January 2025 we opened our state‑of‑the‑art Radiotherapy Centre, bringing advanced cancer treatment closer to home. Our services also include neonatology, specialist surgical care, and a wide range of diagnostics, supported by the new Community Diagnostic Centre at Whitehouse Health Centre.

Further investment is underway, including the construction of Oak Wards – a new ward block featuring two 24-bed wards – and the recently approved Women and Children’s Centre, set to open by 2030.

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