Matron for Maternity Services | Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 25 September 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £55,690 - £62,682 per annum |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 25 October 2025 |
| Location: | Sutton in Ashfield, NG17 4JL |
| Company: | Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7433187/214-WC-7433187 |
Summary
Are you a senior midwife ready for your next leadership challenge?
Sherwood Forest Hospitals is seeking a dynamic, compassionate, and forward-thinking Maternity Matron to join our award-winning maternity team.
As Maternity Matron, you will provide visible, supportive leadership across our maternity services, ensuring the highest standards of safe, personalised, and evidence-based care for women, birthing people, babies, and families.
You’ll be instrumental in driving quality improvement, professional standards, and staff wellbeing, working closely with our senior leadership team to deliver our vision for outstanding maternity care.
Join us and be part of a team that’s committed to making a real difference in maternity care.
To see the full detailed job description and the main responsibilities of the job please refer the job description attached.
We are an award-winning NHS Foundation Trust working alongside health and social care colleagues across the county to provide acute and community healthcare services to more than 420,000 people across Mansfield, Ashfield, Newark and Sherwood, and parts of Derbyshire and Lincolnshire.
We put the patient at the heart of everything that we do and it is our aim to make sure that every patient is treated as we would want a member of our own family to be treated. At the same time, we expect our staff to be caring, kind and courteous to each other and to look out for each other. We believe that we are truly a clinically-led organisation.
We are proud that our Trust colleagues have voted us the best acute Trust to work for in the East Midlands for seven years running in the National NHS Staff Survey, while the Care Quality Commission has rated our Trust as ‘outstanding’ for care and our King’s Mill Hospital as the only ‘outstanding’ NHS-run hospital in the East Midlands.
To see the full detailed job description and the main responsibilities of the job please refer the job description attached.
This advert closes on Thursday 2 Oct 2025
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