As a Senior Midwife, you’ll lead by example, providing expert clinical advice and operational support as you manage our homebirth service and midwifery teams. Your role will be vital in ensuring our workforce is well looked after, promoting staff wellbeing and fostering a culture of inclusivity and support. If you’re ready to step into a position where you can lead quality improvements and contribute to national maternity initiatives, we would love to hear from you. Ready to take the next step in your career? Apply now and join a team that values your expertise and dedication!
We are excited to have the opportunity to recruit to our Senior Midwifery leadership team in Community Midwifery at UHDB. This post is for a 12 month fixed term contract.
We are looking for a Midwife who has demonstrable leadership skills to take the next step and join our management team. As an experienced Midwife this is an opportunity to influence and shape how community midwifery is delivered at UHDB as part of an established and experienced leadership team.
As a senior midwife you will take responsibility in ensuring women and birthing people, babies and families receive safe, clinically effective, individualised care within a team. You will lead by example, offer expert midwifery clinical advice, operationally support and manage teams and homebirth service ensuring the delivery of high quality, effective and compassionate midwifery care.
Senior midwives provide expert clinical and professional midwifery leadership and are responsible for the women and birthing people, babies, public and staff experience. This will be in line with Trust wide policies and procedures and values and behaviours.
Staff wellbeing including appraisals and health and attendance management is vital to this role and requires a confident, inclusive and compassionate leader.
Safe allocation and management of resources are intrinsic to a safe workforce therefore knowledge of workforce rostering and budget management will be required.
The successful candidate will join the Senior Midwifery Team and will be supported to deliver quality improvements in line with our Maternity and Neonatal Improvement Programme and the national maternity agenda.
Closing date of applications: 09 April 2025
Interview date: 24 April 2025
If you are applying for an Internal Secondment, please ensure you have spoken to your line manager and have their support prior to your application. Please speak to the Recruitment Team if you have any questions.
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