Job summary
We are seeking an experienced and inspirational Midwife to join our leadership team as Community Maternity Matron.

This is an exciting opportunity for a senior midwifery leader with a passion for delivering high-quality care and driving continuous improvement. You will provide strong clinical and operational leadership, supporting managers and senior clinical colleagues to promote excellence in midwifery practice across community maternity services.

You will play a key role in maintaining high clinical standards, ensuring the delivery of safe, compassionate, and effective care for women, babies, and their families. Working closely with multidisciplinary teams, you will lead quality improvement initiatives and support the achievement of key performance and quality objectives.

As a visible and supportive leader, you will foster a culture of accountability, professional development, and continuous learning, empowering teams to deliver excellent patient experiences and outcomes.

Based primarily at Broomfield Hospital, you will work as part of the wider Mid and South Essex Maternity Team, contributing to service development and supporting the delivery of consistent, high-quality maternity care across the Group.

If you are an experienced and motivated midwifery leader looking to make a significant impact on maternity services, we would welcome your application.

Main duties of the job

• Provide visible, accessible and professional leadership to ensure the highest standards of patient experience, inspiring confidence among patients, families, carers and the wider public.
• Act as an expert practitioner and role model, promoting Trust values, professional standards and excellence in clinical practice.
• Ensure all patients receive compassionate, dignified and respectful care, recognising and valuing the diversity of the local community.
• Lead and promote best practice in infection prevention and control, maintaining a clean, safe and high-quality care environment.
• Oversee the delivery of safe, effective and high-quality midwifery and nursing care within community services, ensuring positive outcomes and experiences for patients and families.
• Support acute inpatient matrons and clinical teams to maintain consistently high standards of care, patient safety and patient experience across services.
• Work in partnership with the Associate Director of Midwifery and Governance Team to achieve national and local targets, manage risk, learn from incidents and drive continuous quality improvement.
• Participate in the manager on-call rota, providing senior operational and clinical leadership as required.

For more information on this varied and rewarding role, please see the attached Job Description. We look forward to your application! Please be aware that we reserve the right to close the vacancy early should a high number of applications be received.

About us
Our ambition is to deliver excellent local and specialist services, to improve the health and well-being of our patients, and provide a vibrant place for staff to develop, innovate and build careers. We aim to make the most of our skills and experiences so we can become the best we can be. As one organisation we will recruit the finest and retain more specialist staff due to more employment opportunities across our Trust.

Details
Date posted: 10 July 2026
Pay scheme: Agenda for change
Band: Band 8a
Salary: £57,528 a year
Contract: Permanent
Working pattern: Full-time
Reference number: 390-WAC-BR-6948
Job locations: Broomfield, Court Road, Chelmsford, CM1 7ET, United Kingdom

Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential

• NMC registration
• Educated to Degree Level

Desirable

• Educated to Masters Level
• Leadership qualification

Experience
Essential

• Has experience as a Band 7 Midwife
• Has proven people management/leadership

Desirable

• Has experience regarding data collection and analysis
• Has experience in quality improvement
• Has previous experience working as a labour ward co-ordinator

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: Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust
Address: Broomfield, Court Road, Chelmsford, CM1 7ET, United Kingdom
Employer's website: https://www.mse.nhs.uk (Opens in a new tab)

For questions about the job, contact:
Head of Midwifery: Paula Hollis
Email: paula.hollis1@nhs.net
Phone: 03004435339