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Job summary

Main area
Midwifery
Grade
Band 8a
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Part time - 30 hours per week
Job ref
164-7741443
Employer
Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust
Town
Nottingham
Salary
£55,690 - £62,682 per annum
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
26/02/2026 23:59
Interview date
04/03/2026

Employer heading

Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust logo

Midwifery Matron for Community Engagement and Innovation

Band 8a

Job overview

The post holder will lead on the development, implementation and evaluation of community engagement and innovation within Maternity and Neonatal services. They will have responsibility with the consultant midwife for Health Inequalities and in collaboration with the matron for Engagement and Experience, to lead on inclusion of communities in developing delivering and evaluating programmes through feedback from active involvement of women, birthing people and families. The post holder will be part of a team of Health Ambassadors visiting schools and communities promoting careers in health and social care at the same time promoting the great work happening at NUH.

The post holder will be a registered midwife with a high level of clinical credibility and a role model who is easily identifiable, highly visible and accessible to staff, women, birthing people and families. They have leadership, analytical and judgement skills and experience of developing education and continuing professional development capacity and capability across a range of professionals and community groups and will have experience of leading projects that have made significant impact on patient care and patient experience to address health inequalities, ensuring accessible and responsive services for the most vulnerable women and families.

The post holder will work flexible across all hospital sites and external locations as required.

 

 

Main duties of the job

Working with the Consultant midwife for Health inequalities and in collaboration with the ADN for Leadership, Inclusion & Shared Governance, Clinical Lead for Shared Governance and Inclusive Leadership to produce maternity & neonatal directorate community engagement report and reviews.

Expert resource on Nursing and Midwifery community engagement methods and tools.

Evaluating and measuring impact of initiative, supporting the staff within Maternity & Neonatal services with, information and analysis.

With a maternity and Neonatal focus, supports the ADN for Leadership, Inclusion and Shared Governance to provide assurance on community engagement and inclusion activities progress updates.

Provide updates on activities and progress of the inclusion actions to the Director of Midwifery, Maternity Improvement Programme (MIP) and relevant groups both internal and external.

Provide visible and inspirational leadership with associated senior colleagues for the development of a Trust wide Nursing, Midwifery, and AHP community engagement and information service.

Provide expert resource working with the Director of Midwifery, Divisional Nurse and Human Resources to facilitate the development and continuation of community events feeding into the workforce planning, recruitment and retention, education, research and innovation services for Maternity and Neonates.

Working for our organisation

‘With over 19,000 staff, we are one of the biggest employers in the city with a central role in supporting the health and wellbeing of our local population. We play a leading role in research, education and innovation.

Come and join our wonderful team at NUH. We are big believers in diversity and welcome new ideas to help develop our team in order to deliver world class healthcare to the vast patient populations we serve. With endless personal development opportunities available, at NUH we will endeavour to turn your job into a career!

We particularly welcome applications from people who identify as Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic, or Disabled, as we are striving to be better represented at NUH.’

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see detailed job description and person specification for the main responsibilities of this role.

Person specification

Training & Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • NMC Registered midwife
  • Bachelor’s degree in Nursing or closely Health related degree

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Recent experience at a senior level including clinical practice experience across a range of specialities, leading project management, change management, and multidisciplinary working
  • Experience of leading projects in a complex organisation
  • Evidence of leading projects across health and social care settings/clinical practice, teaching and research
  • Experience in national /international networking and presenting to diverse audiences

Communication and Relationship Skills

Essential criteria
  • Able to influence the direction and decisions of Nursing and Midwifery services, Trust and external audiences as required, including Higher education institutions and other stakeholders

Analytical and Judgement Skills

Essential criteria
  • Sensitive to clinical and political demands
  • Evidence of an ability to analyse, interpret and present highly complex, multi-stranded data in appropriate forms

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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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.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Sharon Wallis
Job title
Director of Midwifery
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
07812 277899