Senior Named Midwife for Safeguarding & Maternity Leadership

Airedale NHS Foundation Trust; Exley Head; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Cycle to Work

Travel Scheme

Childcare Vouchers with Salary Sacrif…

Onsite Nursery

Buying and Selling Annual Leave

Car Leasing

Employee Assistance Programme

Employee Health and Wellbeing

Extensive Reward Scheme

Counselling Service

Financial packages including Vivup and

Staff Networks, Enable, Rainbow,Gender

Race Equality Ecoaware & Admin Network

Job summary

Airedale NHS Foundation Trust invites an experienced midwifery leader to become Named Midwife for Safeguarding. The role provides visible leadership across maternity services, shaping safeguarding strategy, assurance and improvements while meeting statutory duties.

You will work with the Deputy Chief Nurse and Director of Midwifery, travel as needed, and drive cross-agency safeguarding initiatives for women, babies and families.

Responsibilities

• Provide expert safeguarding advice, supervision and professional leadership to maternity teams.
• Lead the maternity safeguarding work plan, audit programme, policy development and service improvement.
• Support complex case management, reviews and legal processes, ensuring learning is translated into sustained improvement.
• Produce high-quality assurance, performance and annual reports for senior leaders, committees, commissioners and regulators.
• Build strong partnerships across health, social care, police, safeguarding partnerships and regional and national networks.
• Lead and develop the maternity safeguarding team, champions and specialist safeguarding midwife.

Job description

Airedale NHS Foundation Trust invites an experienced midwifery leader to become Named Midwife for Safeguarding. The role provides visible leadership across maternity services, shaping safeguarding strategy, assurance and improvements while meeting statutory duties.

You will work with the Deputy Chief Nurse and Director of Midwifery, travel as needed, and drive cross-agency safeguarding initiatives for women, babies and families.