Home Birth Team Leader | Barts Health NHS Trust

Barts Health NHS Trust; Greater London; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 54,000; Full time

Job summary

Barts Health NHS Trust is seeking an experienced Home Birth Team Leader for the Whipps Cross hospital maternity service in East London. The role requires leading the home birth team, coordinating caseloads, and supporting band 6 midwives within the MDT to maintain safe staffing and high standards of care.

The post emphasizes strong leadership presence, compassionate management, and the ability to facilitate care for women choosing birth outside of guidelines, while ensuring patient safety and

Qualifications

• Experience leading teams in midwifery
• Ability to coordinate caseloads and ensure safety
• Strong communication within MDT and with service users

Responsibilities

• Lead the home birth team and coordinate the overall caseload
• Provide management and leadership to home birth/maternity team
• Support band 6 midwives and ensure safe staffing
• Promote service improvement and effective use of resources
• Deliver comprehensive midwifery care for women choosing home birth

Skills

Leadership

Midwifery experience

Team collaboration

Communication

Education

Registered midwife

Job description

Home Birth Team Leader | Barts Health NHS Trust

Are you ready for your next career move and to utilise your leadership

skills?

Our maternity service at Whipps Cross hospital is provided by a

supportive and friendly team dedicated to delivering the highest standard

of care to our diverse community in East London.

A great opportunity has risen for an experienced midwife to join and

support the homebirth team to develop leadership skills and midwifery

expertise.

You will be expected to work full time (37.5 hours/week) and

collaboratively with homebirth midwives across Barts Health Maternity inco-ordinating the overall caseload of the team, provide comprehensive

support for the band 6 Midwives as necessary.

You will be expected to have strong yet compassionate leadership

presence and be able to communicate within the MDT effectively.

Be able to facilitate care for women seeking to birth outside of guidelines

and to ensure patient safety is upheld.

Ensure the operational aspect of the team is fulfilled and ensure the

service is delivered effectively.

To provide management and leadership to the home birth & normality team. Workcollaboratively with the ADoM and Matron to maintain safe staffing for homebirth services.

Promote service improvement and ensure appropriate use of available resources.

As the expert lead, provide support and organisation ensuring a caseloading model ofcare for healthy women with uncomplicated pregnancies wishing to give birth at Home.

To provide all aspect of clinical midwifery care including individual plan of care inpartnership with the women and the multidisciplinary team as required.

Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain’s leading healthcare providers.

Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time. It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.

We strive to live by our WeCare values and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment.

The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience, and knowledge required. For both documents, please view the attachment/s below.

This advert closes on Wednesday 18 Nov 2026