Matron, Equality, Diversity and Inclusivity

Job summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced and
compassionate leader to join our Maternity Services as Matron for Equality,
Diversity and Inclusion (EDI). This is a pivotal role that will drive our
commitment to reducing health inequalities, improving outcomes for women,
babies and families, and creating a truly inclusive culture for both those who
use our services and our workforce. Working across County Durham and Darlington, you will lead
the delivery of local, regional and national priorities to address inequalities
in maternity care, ensuring that every woman, baby and family receives safe,
personalised and equitable care. You will champion initiatives that improve
outcomes for those most at risk of health inequalities, including families
experiencing deprivation, complex social circumstances and those from Black,
Asian and minority ethnic communities, recognising the evidence of persistent
disparities in maternal and neonatal outcomes. As a senior clinical leader, you will work collaboratively
across multidisciplinary teams and partner organisations to deliver innovative
programmes that support prevention, personalised care, population health
management and continuous quality improvement. You will play a key role in
driving service transformation, using data and intelligence to identify
inequalities, develop targeted interventions and ensure maternity services
continue to meet the ambitions set out in national maternity strategies and quality
standards.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will be responsible for all aspects of work
to promote quality, safety improvement and governance.

To lead and coordinate the divisions response to Patient
Safety Incidents, serious incidents and investigation.

The role will involve having to impart unwelcome news to
both stakeholders, patients and their families, where standards of care have
not been met and where harm has been caused.

Under the direction of the Director of Midwifery and
Associate Director of Nursing monitor the Care Group approach to implementing
Patient Safety Incident Response Framework (PSIRF) setting out the NHSs
approach to developing and maintaining effective systems and processes for
responding to patient safety incidents for the purpose of learning and
improving patient safety, within the service and organisation. Direct the
development and implementation of action plans to drive continuous improvement.

Supporting coordination of the Care Group Risk Register and
dissemination of the Risk Register to the Divisional teams, working alongside
the Divisional Leadership teams

To provide analysis and interpretation of clinical risk
management information for comparison and provide reports and remedial plans to
the Care Group clinical/quality governance groups and other operational and
executive committees of the Trust, as required to support the Director of
Midwifery and the Associate Director of Nursing, Quality Governance and the
Care Group Leadership Team.

Person Specification

Special Requirements

Essential

• Commitment to drive service improvement
• Creative and innovative thinker, objective with high level of integrity
• Adaptable and flexible approach to work
• Team worker
• Able to foster positive relationships with co-workers and work across professional and organisational boundaries
• Able to motivate others
• Able to deal with difficult and complex situations

Statutory Registration

Essential

• Registered Nurse on Part 1 of the NMC Register
• Valid UK NMC Pin

Experience

Essential

• Relevant experience and recent community experience at the appropriate level.
• Proven track record of in-service training.
• Ability to manage budget
• Awareness of Public Health agenda.
• Higher level awareness of safeguarding children and adults policies and procedures.

Desirable

• Experience of leading and driving clinical governance.

Qualifications

Essential

• Professional knowledge acquired through degree
• Master or working towards and completion of Master Level (or equivalent experience)
• Management or Leadership qualification and /or experience
• Recognised teaching qualification.
• Evidence of continued professional development.

Desirable

• Working towards completion of masters degree.
• Eligible to be Professional Midwifery Advocate

Special Skills & Knowledge

Essential

• Literate and articulate.
• Able to present information and represent the Care Group multidisciplinary meetings.
• Current knowledge of midwifery developments, nationally, regionally and locally
• Evidence of strategic partnership working
• Previous experience at developing guidelines and protocols on a multidisciplinary level.
• IT skills
• Industrious and versatile able to work on a diverse range of projects at one time.
• Good presentation skills.
• Effective communication skills.
• Demonstrate leadership/management qualities.
• Understand the importance of working with other professionals.
• Able to work under own initiative.
• Commitment to the organisations success
• Ability to work to deadlines
• Experience dealing with conflict management
• Experience with dealing with the public and outside agencies.
• Commitment to the trust wide development strategy for success.
• Management experience of dealing with change.
• Demonstrate leadership/management qualities
• Working knowledge of CQC

Desirable

• Knowledge of Trust wide policies.

Closing Date: 31 July 2026