Named Midwife

Imperial College Healthcare NHS; City of Westminster; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in Westminster seeks an experienced Named Midwife for its maternity safeguarding team. This full-time role involves leadership in safeguarding children, ensuring compliance with statutory duties, and contributing to best practices in care. The ideal candidate will possess significant safeguarding experience and a strong understanding of family law. The role offers opportunities for career development and flexible working arrangements.

Benefits

Career development

Flexible working

Wellbeing initiatives

Staff recognition schemes

Optional benefits for onsite leisure

Qualifications

• Significant experience in a safeguarding role.
• Strong understanding of statutory safeguarding responsibilities.
• Experience managing a team or project.

Responsibilities

• Provide leadership on safeguarding children agenda.
• Deliver expert safeguarding advice, especially in sensitive cases.
• Ensure compliance with national legislation and Trust standards.
• Promote best practices in safeguarding.
• Demonstrate advanced skills in safeguarding and family law.
• Lead research initiatives for evidence-based practices.

Skills

Leadership

Clinical competence

Expert safeguarding advice

Research skills

Education

Relevant nursing or midwifery qualification

Job description

The maternity safeguarding team operates as part of a wider integrated safeguarding service, which includes children's and adults' safeguarding, domestic abuse, modern slavery, learning disability, and autism. This full-time role may involve some weekend working, as we currently provide a six-day service across our two maternity sites: St Mary's Hospital, Paddington, and Queen Charlotte's & Chelsea Hospital, Hammersmith.

The post-holder will play a pivotal role in ensuring compliance with statutory safeguarding responsibilities, including those outlined in Working Together to Safeguard Children (2018), the Health and Social Care Act (2012), and the Children Acts (1989 and 2004). The role also aligns with the Care Quality Commission's core standards.

Interview Process

Shortlisted candidates will be invited to participate in a focus group, deliver a presentation, and attend a formal interview. These will take place on 22nd September 2025.

• Provide effective leadership on all aspects of the safeguarding children agenda, maintaining clinical and professional competence.
• Deliver expert safeguarding advice and support, particularly in complex, emotive, or sensitive cases.
• Offer strategic and operational guidance to ensure compliance with national legislation, local policies, and Trust standards.
• Promote early identification and management of safeguarding concerns through leadership, education, research, and best practice.
• Demonstrate advanced skills and legal literacy in safeguarding and family law to influence care pathways.
• Contribute to and initiate research to support evidence-based safeguarding practices.
• Provide direct line management to the maternity safeguarding team.
• Collaborate strategically with external partners and agencies.

Working for our organisation

At Imperial College Healthcare you can achieve extraordinary things with extraordinary people, working with leading clinicians pushing boundaries in patient care.

Become part of a vibrant team living our values - expert, kind, collaborative, and aspirational. You'll get an experience like no other and will fast forward your career.

Benefits include career development, flexible working, and wellbeing initiatives, staff recognition schemes, and optional benefits such as Cycle to Work, car lease schemes, season ticket loans, or membership options for onsite leisure facilities.

We are committed to equal opportunities and improving the working lives of our staff and will consider applications to work flexibly, part-time, or job share. Please discuss this at interview.

About Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust

With five world-renowned hospitals, ICHT offers numerous opportunities for healthcare career development. We are an NHS Trust of approximately 16,000 staff providing care for over 1.5 million patients annually from northwest London and beyond.

We have a rich heritage and an ambitious vision for the future, working in partnership with Imperial College London and The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust as part of the Imperial College Academic Health Science Centre, one of six in the UK, dedicated to translating research into better patient care and education.

Job overview

Following a recent retirement, ICHT is seeking to appoint a Named Midwife to join our dedicated maternity safeguarding team on a full-time basis. This post is currently classified as 8a and is under review for an 8b.

We are proud to be at the heart of the NHS, exemplifying excellence, ambition, and core values that have defined the NHS for over 70 years.