The closing date is 12th Jul 2026
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Job summary
Are you ready to shape the future of maternity care and make a lasting difference to women, families and communities?
We are recruiting two key Matron portfolios within our maternity leadership team, offering exciting opportunities to lead, influence and shape services across Somerset. As a Midwifery Matron, you will be a visible, compassionate and influential leader, driving high-quality, personalised care and championing safety, innovation and continuous improvement.
These are pivotal senior roles where you will lead from the front to create a culture in which both patients and staff thrive. Working collaboratively across multidisciplinary teams, you will influence strategic direction and use data, insight and patient feedback to deliver meaningful improvements in outcomes and experience.
Matron - Practice Education (Cross-site)
Matron - Antenatal Outpatients and Public Health (Cross-site)
Why join us?
You will be part of a dynamic and supportive senior midwifery team, with real scope to influence service improvement, develop your leadership portfolio and make a meaningful impact for women and families.
See more details in the job description section further down the page.
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Main duties, tasks & skills required
Provide visible, inclusive leadership to promote a culture of safety, learning and accountability across maternity services
Lead on quality, safety and governance, ensuring compliance with national standards and driving continuous improvement
Actively manage clinical, operational and workforce challenges, using data and feedback to inform decisions
Champion personalised, woman and family-centred care, improving patient experience and reducing inequalities
Lead workforce planning, recruitment, performance and development to ensure safe staffing and a positive working environment
Foster strong multidisciplinary and external partnerships to deliver seamless, high-quality care
Oversee service performance, analysing key metrics to improve outcomes and operational efficiency
Support education, research and professional development, embedding evidence-based practice
Contribute to strategic planning and service transformation across maternity services
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About us
At Somerset NHS Foundation Trust, we're committed to supporting our employees with a range of benefits designed to enhance your professional and personal life. We offer:
Flexible working options to help you balance work and life
NHS pension scheme for long-term financial security
Generous annual leave allowance to recharge and relax
A strong focus on career development to help you grow and achieve your potential
Additionally, you'll gain access to our Blue Light Card, unlocking exclusive discounts on shopping, dining, and leisure activities, as well as NHS-specific perks to support you both inside and outside of work.
We are proud to foster a diverse, skilled, and inclusive workforce, and we encourage applications from all backgrounds.
Why Somerset? Somerset offers the perfect blend of idyllic countryside, outstanding areas of natural beauty, and breathtaking coastlines, with vibrant cities like Bristol, Bath, and Exeter just a short drive away - and only two hours to London.
The region is home to excellent educational facilities, and with affordable housing compared to other parts of the country, it's a great place to build both your career and your future.
Somerset truly has it all - the peaceful countryside and cosmopolitan city life, with something for everyone to enjoy.
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Job description
Matron - Practice Education (Cross-site)
Lead the future of the maternity workforce in a role that places education, development, continuous learning, and patient experience at the heart of service delivery. As Practice Education Matron, you will shape a culture where staff feel supported, valued, and confident to deliver outstanding, personalised care that reflects the needs, voices, and experiences of women and families.
You will drive the development of a skilled and resilient workforce through high-quality education programmes, strengthening preceptorship, enhancing the student experience, and championing continuous professional development across the service - ensuring that learning is directly aligned to improving quality, safety, and patient experience.
Working at a strategic level, you will embed evidence-based practice, quality improvement, and insight from patient feedback into everyday care, ensuring our teams are equipped to meet the evolving needs and expectations of women and families. You will play a key role in translating experience data into learning opportunities, supporting teams to reflect, adapt, and continuously improve.
This is a unique opportunity to influence workforce capability and retention, foster a strong culture of learning, accountability and compassion, and ensure that education and training directly enhance patient experience, helping to build a sustainable, high-performing maternity service for the future.
Matron - Antenatal Outpatients & Public Health (Cross-site)
Drive innovation across the antenatal pathway in a role that brings together clinical leadership, public health, and patient experience at its core. As Antenatal Outpatients Matron, you will lead the development of safe, responsive, and high-quality services across antenatal clinics, screening programmes, and fetal medicine, shaping care from the very start of the maternity journey.
You will play a pivotal role in improving how women and families experience care, placing their feedback, insight, and lived experience at the centre of service design and delivery. Through co-production and meaningful engagement, you will ensure services are compassionate, inclusive, and responsive to the diverse needs of the population we serve.
With a strong focus on reducing inequalities and improving access, you will lead the public health agenda, championing prevention, health promotion, personalised care, and equitable patient experience throughout pregnancy. You will ensure that improvements in outcomes are matched by improvements in how care is experienced.
Working at both strategic and operational levels, you will use data, patient experience metrics, outcomes, and system insight to drive pathway transformation, strengthen multidisciplinary collaboration, and deliver measurable improvements in quality, safety, and experience.
This is a unique opportunity to shape antenatal services across the Trust, ensuring that patient experience is embedded as a core driver of quality, and to make a lasting difference for women, babies, and families.
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Person specification
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Qualifications
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Essential
Master's Degree or working towards or equivalent exponential experience at senior level
Professional registration
Evidence of Continuing Professional Development.
Neonatal Life Support
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Desirable
Evidence of Leadership course/management training
Post-graduate management qualification and/or equivalent level of knowledge gained through extensive experience.
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Experience
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Essential
Acute Health sector experience including multi-disciplinary professional workforce.
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Desirable
Track record of delivering clinical quality improvements and successful service change.
Experience of audit and continuous quality improvement.
Change management skills.
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Additional Criteria
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Essential
A sound understanding of National Midwifery / nursing and Patient Agendas.
Up to date and evidenced based knowledge of current clinical and professional issues.
Understanding of LMNS priorities
Understanding and experience of regulatory (MIS, CQC) maternity standards
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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.
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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.
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.
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UK Professional Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.
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For help with your application, contact:
Alison Dennett
[email protected]
01823344583
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Pay scheme
Agenda for Change
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Band
Band 8a
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Salary
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£57528.00 to £64750.00 Yearly
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Contract
Permanent
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Working pattern
Full-Time
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Reference number
184-OL-GR-5078
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Job locations
Musgrove Park Hospital
Musgrove Road
Taunton
Somerset
TA1 5DA
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Yeovil District Hospital
Higher Kingston
Yeovil
Somerset
BA21 4AT
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