Senior Midwife - Delivery Suite

NHS; Burton-on-Trent; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 44,000; Full time

Job summary

The NHS is seeking a Senior Midwife for the Delivery Suite to lead clinical care, ensuring patient safety and high standards. The successful candidate will demonstrate expertise in midwifery, manage teams, and ensure effective delivery of services, all while embodying the NHS values of Compassion, Openness, and Excellence.

Benefits

Professional development opportunities

Employee assistance programme

Discounted gym membership

Onsite fitness classes

Car schemes

Qualifications

• Current NMC Registration required.
• Experience in Delivery Suite essential.
• Demonstrated management and leadership experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage Delivery Suite services ensuring high quality care.
• Support multidisciplinary teams in complex care environments.
• Implement systems for safe and effective midwifery practices across 24 hours.

Skills

Leadership skills

Clinical midwifery advice

Operational support

Education

Educated to degree level or equivalent

Job description

Go back University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust

Senior Midwife - Delivery Suite

The closing date is 24 June 2025

As a senior midwife you will take overall responsibility and accountability in ensuring women, babies and families receive safe, clinically effective, women centred care across the whole maternity care pathway. You will lead by example, offer expert midwifery clinical advice, operationally support and manage teams and services ensuring the delivery of high quality, effective and compassionate midwifery care.

You will work closely with multidisciplinary teams to deliver care to women and babies within acute or community clinical environments whose needs are complex. You will work flexibly across the service in supporting the delivery of midwifery care, using a range of service models, including continuity of carer. Senior midwives provide expert clinical and professional midwifery leadership and are accountable for the women, babies, public and staff experience. This will be in line with local, Trust wide and national policies, procedures, values and behaviours.

Main duties of the job

As a Senior Midwife for Delivery Suite you will be visible and accessible as a leader in maternity services. A Senior Midwife is a role model and someone for whom women, staff and public can turn to for assistance, advice and support.

The Senior Midwife will ensure that the Delivery Suite team is managed on a day-to-day basis reflecting HR policies and procedures, including staff performance / sickness and absence. Staff will be coached, supported and appropriately signposted to other agencies.

The Senior Midwife will ensure that systems and processes are in place for woman to receive high quality midwifery care across the 24-hour period and clinical staff feel empowered to make their own decisions in the midwifery matron/senior midwives' absence, reflecting the ward / department team philosophy of care.

Closing date of applications: 24 June 2025

Date of interview: 08 July 2025

About us

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.

Job responsibilities

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Person Specification

Evidence

• Current NMC Registration
• Recent Delivery Suite experience

evidence

• Evidence of management/leadership skills

evidence

evidence

• Educated to degree level or equivalent

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.

University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust