Recruitment, Retention and Pastoral Lead Midwife

Integrated Care System; Kingston upon Hull; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

An Integrated Care System is seeking a Recruitment, Retention and Pastoral Lead Midwife to provide strategic leadership and support within the midwifery team. The successful candidate will be responsible for enhancing midwifery staff retention, organizing induction training for new employees, and developing effective supervision programs. Ideal candidates should be UK NMC Registered Midwives with a midwifery degree and at least four years of experience in an NHS setting.

Qualifications

• UK NMC Registered Midwife.
• Minimum 4 years experience in NHS Healthcare Setting.
• Experience of facilitating restorative clinical supervision.

Responsibilities

• Provide professional leadership to midwives.
• Support early career midwives and provide pastoral care.
• Collaborate with Regional and National Leads for recruitment and retention.

Skills

Leadership skills

Collaborative working

Change management

Education

Midwifery Degree or equivalent

Educated to Masters level

Level 7 PMA Qualification

Job description

Go back Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

Recruitment, Retention and Pastoral Lead Midwife

The closing date is 05 August 2025

The post holder will provide professional leadership to midwives by being an enthusiastic and visionary leader. Able to influence others through support and education for maternity staff to improve retention and recruitment. This will include supporting early career midwives, pastoral care for maternity staff, providing support for newly appointed staff, including induction training. The role will involve working with Regional and National Leads to support the Retention programme as retention is a key component of the People Plan and the NHS Long term plan.

Main duties of the job

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Provide individualised and group support for early career midwives.

Work collaboratively with Regional and National Leads for Recruitment and retention, participate in learning activities locally and nationally. Gather information and feedback on how to improve retention and recruitment processes.

Seek out new and innovative solutions to support retention of the midwifery workforce

Develop preceptorship and support effective preceptorship training programmes to develop the preceptorship package offered to staff.

Provide exit/ learning from leaving interviews. Analyse data from interviews to develop themes to demonstrate areas for improvement.

Support midwives by providing and promoting regular sessions of restorative clinical supervision (RCS)

Collaborate with the local quality & safety, governance, and practice development teams, providing professional advice and supporting quality improvement.

Network with PMAs and the wider region. Implement national recommendations for PMA services.

Provide professional leadership to midwives by embedding the A-EQUIP model of support. Be an enthusiastic and visionary leader able to influence others through education, multidisciplinary working, and in-house training

About us

The Humber Health Partnership is one of the largest acute and community Partnership arrangements in the NHS, seeing well over one million patients every year and managing a budget of over £1.3 billion.

Made up of two Trusts - Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust (NLAG) and Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (HUTH) - our Partnership has significant ambitions and is committed to delivering world-class hospital and community services for the 1.65 million people we serve.

Together we employ nearly 20,000 staff. Our five main hospital sites are Diana, Princess of Wales Hospital, Scunthorpe General Hospital and Goole and District Hospital, for NLAG and Hull Royal Infirmary and Castle Hill Hospital for HUTH.

As Teaching Hospitals working with the Hull York Medical School, we both lead and contribute to research in many areas - biomedical research, primary care, palliative medicine, cardiovascular and respiratory medicine, vascular surgery, cancer surgery and oncology.

We believe that by developing a diverse, inclusive, innovative, skilled and caring workforce, we can deliver excellent care to our patients and a great future for our employees, our Partnership and our community.

Job responsibilities

See attached Job Description and Person Specification for detailed information about the role and requirements

Person Specification

Education & Qualifications

• UK NMC Registered Midwife
• Midwifery Degree or equivalent
• Minimum 4 years experience in NHS Healthcare Setting
• Level 7 PMA Qualification
• Educated to Masters level

Knowledge & Experience

• Experience of undertaking audits & change management
• Evidence of collaborative MDT working
• Experience of leadership skills
• Experience of facilitating restorative clinical supervision
• Experience of leading change
• Experience of developing a PMA team

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.

Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust