Senior Midwife - Delivery Suite

University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust; Burton-on-Trent; On-site; GBP 37,000 - 46,000; Full time

Job summary

The University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust seeks a Senior Midwife for the Delivery Suite. This role emphasizes leadership, clinical responsibility, and ensuring high-quality care for mothers and infants, with a commitment to team support and operational management within maternity services.

Benefits

Development opportunities

Employee assistance programme

Discounted gym membership

Onsite fitness classes

Qualifications

• Responsible for overall maternity care and leading teams.
• Requires extensive midwifery experience and clinical knowledge.
• Must be a Registered Midwife with appropriate qualifications.

Responsibilities

• Ensure safe, effective maternity care across the pathway.
• Lead and manage the Delivery Suite team.
• Support clinical staff and empower decision-making.

Skills

Expert clinical advice

Leadership in midwifery

Compassionate care

Education

Registered Midwife

Job description

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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.

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

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.
  
  

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Jayne Davis Job title: Complex Care Matron Email address: [e-mail] Telephone number: 01283 566333

Tiffany Cork - Lead Midwife - Delivery Suite

01283 566333

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Health Care Provider

• Industries

  Hospitals and Health Care

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