Consultant Midwife

Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in the United Kingdom seeks a full-time Consultant Midwife to join their multidisciplinary team. The ideal candidate will strengthen midwifery leadership, focusing on expert clinical practice and promoting equitable care pathways for pregnant women. Emphasis on teamwork and innovative care approaches is essential for this role.

Qualifications

• Committed to teamwork and delivering safe, high-quality care.
• Ability to innovate and work without precedent.
• Excellent communication and negotiation skills.

Responsibilities

• Develop collaborative relationships with stakeholders.
• Design and implement effective care pathways for pregnant women.
• Promote equitable and expert responsive care.
• Design and implement effective care pathways focused on inequalities.

Skills

Expert Clinical Practice

Professional Leadership

Education, Training, and Development

Research and Evaluation

Job description

Overview

Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust is welcoming applications for a full-time permanent Consultant Midwife post to join our expanding multidisciplinary team. This new post is designed to strengthen our midwifery leadership structure. We are looking for enthusiastic, dynamic, and a forward-thinking individual who are committed to teamwork and to delivering safe, high-quality care.

Delivery of the four pillars of the consultant midwife

• Expert Clinical Practice
• Professional Leadership
• Education, Training, and Development
• Research, and Evaluation

Responsibilities

The post holder will develop collaborative strategic relationships with internal and external stakeholders, working closely with colleagues across midwifery obstetric neonatal and anaesthetic services through application of the four pillars of the consultant midwife. The post holder will work across professional and organisational boundaries to develop local services that meet national and international benchmarks, which are accessible, acceptable, clinically effective and centred in evidence-based practice. This requires the post holder to innovate, work without precedent, process complex information, overcome barriers in communication and negotiate positive change.

In partnership with the midwives, medical staff and maternity and Neonatal voices partnership, the post holder will promote and provide equitable and expert responsive care for all women, birthing people and their families. The post holder will take a strategic lead on the design and implementation of effective care pathways for pregnant women and birthing people with a key focus on addressing inequalities in all aspects of care.

CHFT is an integrated Trust of 6,500+ colleagues providing hospital and community services to patients and communities across Calderdale and Kirklees. We are rated as ‘Good’ by the Care Quality Commission, are a top performing Trust for Elective Recovery, Emergency and Cancer Care and widely acknowledged as a national digital lead when it comes to caring for people across our local and regional systems.

Our people are at the core of everything we do, hence our commitment to One Culture of Care. Our focus is to care for and support each other in order to provide outstanding compassionate care to our patients. That is why we are looking for an inclusive collaborative, creative, innovative and compassionate leader to join us in this role.

Delivery of the four pillars of the consultant midwife (summary)

• Expert Clinical Practice
• Professional Leadership
• Education, Training, and Development
• Research, and Evaluation

Please see job description and personal spec for further details.