Senior Midwife

University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust; East Midlands; On-site; GBP 37,000 - 43,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider is looking for a Senior Midwife to join their community midwifery leadership team in the East Midlands. This is a 12-month fixed-term contract focusing on ensuring safe, individualized care for women and families. The role involves operational management, team leadership, and participation in quality improvements aligned with national standards. Candidates should demonstrate strong leadership skills and midwifery expertise. Staff benefits include professional development and health assistance programs.

Benefits

Development opportunities

Employee assistance programme

Discounted gym membership

Onsite fitness classes

Car schemes

Qualifications

• Demonstrable leadership experience in midwifery.
• Ability to manage teams and resources effectively.
• Expert clinical advice in midwifery care.

Responsibilities

• Ensure safe, effective, individualised care for families.
• Lead by example and manage community midwifery teams.
• Participate in quality improvements aligned with national agenda.

Skills

Leadership skills

Clinical midwifery expertise

Resource management

Compassionate leadership

Job description

We are excited to have the opportunity to recruit to our Senior Midwifery leadership team in Community Midwifery at UHDB. This post is for a 12 month fixed term contract.

We are looking for a Midwife who has demonstrable leadership skills to take the next step and join our management team. As an experienced Midwife this is an opportunity to influence and shape how community midwifery is delivered at UHDB as part of an established and experienced leadership team.

As a senior midwife you will take responsibility in ensuring women and birthing people, babies and families receive safe, clinically effective, individualised care within a team. You will lead by example, offer expert midwifery clinical advice, operationally support and manage teams and homebirth service ensuring the delivery of high quality, effective and compassionate midwifery care.

Senior midwives provide expert clinical and professional midwifery leadership and are responsible for the women and birthing people, babies, public and staff experience. This will be in line with Trust wide policies and procedures and values and behaviours.

Staff wellbeing including appraisals and health and attendance management is vital to this role and requires a confident, inclusive and compassionate leader.

Safe allocation and management of resources are intrinsic to a safe workforce therefore knowledge of workforce rostering and budget management will be required.

The successful candidate will join the Senior Midwifery Team and will be supported to deliver quality improvements in line with our Maternity and Neonatal Improvement Programme and the national maternity agenda.

Closing date of applications: 28 January 2026

Interview date: 11 February 2026

As a trusted organisation at the heart of our communities, we recognise the important role we can play in supporting the public, patients, our own people and local partners in achieving the best of health for the local population and the communities in which they live by providing Exceptional Care Together.

Our fundamental Values of Compassion, Openness and Excellence underpin how we intend to work as a Trust and the associated behaviours are becoming embedded in all aspects of how we work.

In return we will offer:

• Development opportunities, both professional and leadership development
• On‑going support from recruitment to when you join our team and beyond.
• Staff benefits including employee assistance programme, discounted gym membership, onsite fitness classes, car schemes

Key Facts:

• We see on average 4810 OP appointments a day.
• We are the 4th busiest Trauma & Orthopaedic outpatients department in England – an average of 2077 per week.
• An average of 1115 patients are seen in A&Es across our network every day – 3rd largest in the country.
• Our hospitals admit an average of 195 emergency patients daily.
• Last year we undertook almost 33,700 planned surgical operations in our 57 operating theatres.
• We are one of only 7 Trusts nationally with more than 50 operating theatres.
• We carry out more than 140 elective procedures each working day.
• UHDB is a research active University Hospital with a large and varied portfolio of clinical trials and research opportunities for all staff.

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This advert closes on Wednesday 28 Jan 2026.