Consultant Midwife, Band 8c

NHS; England; On-site; GBP 76,000 - 89,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent healthcare provider is seeking a Consultant Midwife to lead strategic initiatives and deliver personalized maternity care in Gloucestershire. The successful candidate will provide professional leadership, support midwives, and collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to enhance maternity services, ensuring care is centred on women and families. Candidates should have a Master's Degree and extensive midwifery experience. Competitive salary range of £76,965 to £88,682 annually for a full-time, permanent role.

Qualifications

• Registered with the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) as a Midwife.
• Evidence of maintaining relevant continuing professional development.
• Quality Improvement training or equivalent experience.

Responsibilities

• Provide expert midwifery care and act as a role model to midwives.
• Lead development and implementation of evidence-based models of care.
• Support workforce development, education, training, research, and service improvement.

Skills

Leadership

Midwifery practice

Teaching

Quality improvement

Education

Master's Degree

PhD/Doctorate or willingness to work towards

Job description

Consultant Midwife, Band 8c

The closing date is 18 January 2026.

We are seeking an expert midwife to take a lead role in driving strategic initiatives and delivering safe, personalised maternity care across all clinical settings in Gloucestershire.

This highly autonomous role offers an exciting opportunity to shape the future of maternity services, ensuring care is centred on women, birthing people and their families, and grounded in choice, compassion and evidence-based practice.

As Consultant Midwife, you will provide professional leadership and role modelling in best practice, supporting midwives to reach their full potential as autonomous practitioners. You will play a key part in developing and implementing the vision and strategy for maternity services, promoting professional standards, advancing scope of practice, and fostering clinically curious, research-informed midwives.

This is a rare opportunity to influence maternity care at a strategic level, working alongside multidisciplinary teams to embed innovation, quality improvement and patient‑focused care. You will inspire and lead teams through change, ensuring women and families remain at the heart of every decision, while championing professional development and excellence in midwifery practice. If you are a forward‑thinking, compassionate leader with a proven track record in midwifery leadership and a passion for shaping exceptional maternity services, we would love to hear from you.

Main duties of the job

The role includes working directly in practice to support women, birthing people and their families, providing expert midwifery care, and acting as a role model to midwives. You will lead the development and implementation of evidence-based models of care, promote continuity of carer and midwifery-led services, and ensure safe, high-quality practice across all settings.

You will play a key role in professional leadership, supporting workforce development, education, training, research, and service improvement. This includes mentoring midwives, fostering reflective practice, overseeing clinical governance, and ensuring compliance with national guidance and quality standards. You will contribute to service redesign, strategic planning, and innovation, collaborating with multidisciplinary teams, Higher Education Institutions, and partner organisations to improve outcomes for mothers, babies, and families.

About us

Gloucestershire Hospitals provide acute hospital services from two large district general hospitals, Gloucestershire Royal Hospital and Cheltenham General Hospital, as well as maternity services at Stroud Maternity Hospital.

With a team of over 9,000 employees, representing over 95 nationalities, we are proud to be the largest employer in Gloucestershire. Bringing together a mix of cultures and experiences to the care that we deliver. The Trust continues to work closely with partners and local communities to improve health and wellbeing to ensure access to services.

We take pride in placing people at the centre of everything we do, working together as a united team. Driven by a shared ambition to continually grow, develop, and learn, we recognise and value every contribution. By combining our experience and skills, we not only support our vibrant, diverse communities, but also support one another. Our maternity services provide comprehensive, family‑centred care for women and families across the county supporting around 6,000 births a year.

The service includes consultant-led maternity units Gloucestershire Royal Hospital alongside Stroud Maternity Unit, which offers midwife‑led care and postnatal support. In addition, dedicated community midwifery teams deliver antenatal, postnatal and home birth services across a wide geographical area, ensuring continuity of care and choice for women.

Job responsibilities

(Please see the job description for full details)

For an informal conversation about the post please contact our Recruitment Consultant, Finn McNulty [e-mail] or call 07966 006091.

Qualifications

• Registered with the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) as a Midwife
• Master's Degree
• Evidence of maintaining relevant continuing professional development
• Teaching Qualification or equivalent experience
• Quality Improvement training or equivalent experience
• PhD/Doctorate or willingness to work towards

Knowledge

• Evidence of substantial senior midwife experience at >Band 8a minimum
• Relevant clinical experience in a variety of areas of midwifery practice including community.
• Experience of leading change within a large complex organisation.
• Evidence of undertaking teaching/research/audit and developing innovative midwifery practice.
• Excellent understanding of NHS policy, agenda/drivers for change in maternity and neonatal services.
• High standard of written and analytical skills, including quality board reports.
• Experience of submitting successful applications for funding.

Clinical Experience

• Evidence of ability in strategic leadership
• Demonstrate ability to exercise a high degree autonomy in making effective clinical decisions and judgements on difficult issues
• Well developed influencing and negotiating skills
• Ability to achieve demanding tasks/objectives against tight deadlines
• Ability to network across organisational and professional boundaries
• Able to demonstrate a track record in leading service development, innovation and/or practice development initiatives

Personal Attributes

• Commitment to safe, high quality maternity care. Highly motivated, and can motivate others
• To excel at relationship building and maintenance of positive working relationships with service users, MNVP and local communities
• Positive and optimistic, displaying confidence, exhibiting presence and vision
• Ability to take part in Senior Midwife on-call rota
• Ability to travel between the Trust's sites as required with cross site working

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.

Salary

£76,965 to £88,682 a year (pa, pro rata if part-time)

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

318-25-T0779

Job locations

Trustwide (Gloucester, Cheltenham and Stroud)