Vulnerable Women's Team Leader (NHS AfC: Band 7) - Maternity - University College London Hospit[...]

UCLH (University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust); London; On-site; GBP 54,000 - 61,000; Part time

Job summary

Join UCLH as the Vulnerable Women Lead Midwife, overseeing the Tulip Team amidst a vibrant healthcare environment. This part-time role calls for a passionate leader dedicated to enhancing maternity care for vulnerable women, driving service improvements while contributing to the team’s clinical excellence and patient advocacy.

Benefits

Flexible working options

Season ticket loan

Staff discounts

Access to wellness programs

Creative arts engagement opportunities

Qualifications

• Registered Midwife with significant experience.
• Knowledge of children's safeguarding and complex patient care.
• Experience in teaching and mentoring.

Responsibilities

• Provide clinical leadership to the Tulip Team.
• Manage caseloads and staff deployment effectively.
• Conduct audits and support clinical governance.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Organizational skills

Clinical risk management

Multi-disciplinary collaboration

Education

Degree in Midwifery

Leadership Qualification

Educated to Masters Level

Tools

MS Teams

Excel

Word

PowerPoint

Job description

Current vacancies

Site Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Wing, University College London Hospital Town London Salary £54,320 - £60,981 per annum inclusive of HCAS Salary period Yearly Closing 27/06/2025 23:59

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Job overview

We are seeking an enthusiastic, experienced, and organised midwife to join our dedicated team as the Vulnerable Women Lead Midwife at UCLH.

This fixed-term role is a unique opportunity to make a lasting impact on the care of vulnerable women by managing her own caseload of patients and lead the expansion of Tulip Team—a specialist group of Band 6 midwives providing enhanced antenatal and occasional intrapartum care to women who meet our safeguarding criteria.

You will play a central role in the development, management, and daily leadership of this essential service, working closely with the wider safeguarding team to ensure high-quality, compassionate care. Your leadership will be crucial in promoting safe, effective clinical practice, building strong team dynamics, and delivering a consistently excellent patient experience.

We're looking for a motivated leader with strong organisational and communication skills, committed to safeguarding and equity in maternity care. If you are passionate about service development and have the drive to make a difference, we want to hear from you.

Join us and help shape a service that truly puts the most vulnerable women at the heart of maternity care.
This part time role anticipates working hours across 4 days a week, Mon-Fri but can be discussed further on a case by case basis.

Main duties of the job

The Vulnerable Women Lead Midwife provides clinical leadership to the Tulip Team, supporting the delivery of high-quality, woman-centred safeguarding care. Working closely with the Specialist Midwives and corporate safeguarding team, the postholder will act as a clinical role model, maintain NMC standards, and ensure safe, evidence-based practice. Key duties include caseload oversight, managing complex care needs, ensuring effective staff deployment, and supporting multi-disciplinary collaboration. The role involves supervising clinical staff, supporting CPD, delivering safeguarding training, and promoting a safe, inclusive learning environment. The postholder leads on clinical risk management, governance audits, and incident reporting, supporting service improvements and the Trust’s safeguarding responsibilities. Strong leadership, communication, and organisational skills are essential, as is the ability to manage staff rosters, sickness, appraisals, and recruitment. The Lead Midwife contributes to local and Trust-wide initiatives, ensures compliance with safety policies, and fosters strong interdepartmental relationships to enhance service delivery for vulnerable women under UCLH’s care.

Working for our organisation

University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (UCLH) is one of the most complex NHS trusts in the UK, serving a large and diverse population. We provide academically led acute and specialist services, to people from the local area, from throughout the United Kingdom and overseas. Our vision is to deliver top-quality patient care, excellent education, and world-class research.

We provide first-class acute and specialist services across eight sites:

· University College Hospital (incorporating the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Wing)

· National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery

· Royal National ENT and Eastman Dental Hospitals

· University College Hospital Grafton Way Building

· Royal London Hospital for Integrated Medicine

· University College Hospital Macmillan Cancer Centre

· The Hospital for Tropical Diseases

· University College Hospital at Westmoreland Street

We are dedicated to the diagnosis and treatment of many complex illnesses. UCLH specialises in women’s health and the treatment of cancer, infection, neurological, gastrointestinal and oral disease. It has world class support services including critical care, imaging, nuclear medicine and pathology.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For the full Person Specification and more information regarding the main responsibilities of this role, please refer to the attached Job Description.

Come and be a part of the best NHS trust in England to work for, according to our staff*

* UCLH top trust to work at in England - In the most recent NHS staff survey UCLH had the highest percentage of staff who said they would recommend us as a place to work, out of all general acute or acute/community NHS trusts in England – for the third year in a row.

UCLH recognises the benefits of flexible working for staff – To find out more, visit: Flexible working.

To discover more about what makes UCLH a great place to work, visit: Why Choose UCLH?

Person specification

Knowledge and Qualifications

• Registered Midwife
• Educated to Degree level or equivalent
• Leadership Qualification
• Evidence of continued professional Development
• Educated to Masters Level

Experience

• Significant midwifery experience in all areas of midwifery
• Up to date knowledge and understanding of the key issues facing the NHS with regards to children’s safeguarding and wider social issues
• Experience of teaching and mentoring more junior staff and/or SSSA
• Recent experience in the field of children’s safeguarding and caring for vulnerable patients with complex needs
• Ability to build professional relationships and rapport with staff of all levels
• Evidence of innovative practice that involves developing staff and teaching
• Experience of audit/guideline writing
• Experience of undertaking research

Skills and Abilities

• Track record of effectively handling competing priorities, meeting challenging deadlines and delivering under pressure
• Strong IT skills, familiar with MS Teams, Excel, Word, Powerpoint
• Able to work effectively within multi-disciplinary teams
• Able to meaningfully engage stakeholders
• Able to challenge clinical decisions in the best interest of patients
• Demonstrating awareness of maternity related clinical governance
• Highly professional role model
• Able to manage time effectively
• Ability to provide care to women whilst remaining impartial of opinion and maintaining confidentiality

Communication

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Able to present to large and varied audience
• Able to communicate sensitively and appropriately

Personal and People Development

• Ability to manage high risk, stressful situations
• Negotiating skills and ability to resolve conflict
• Experience of working with a diverse team
• Ability to provide feedback and develop to staff / colleagues
• Proven ability to motivate staff and improve performance, involving individuals and teams
• Able to work independently and self-motivated.
• Committed to professional and personal development and always maintaining updated mandatory training
• Experience of, or proven ability to manage people

Responsibilities towards promoting Equality Diversity and Inclusion

• Understanding the needs of those from marginalised groups, and those at risk of or experiencing health inequalities
• Demonstratable understanding of the Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion

Ensure the risk of infection to self, colleagues, patients, relatives and visitors is minimised by:

• Being familiar with, and adhering to Trust policies and guidance on infection prevention and control.

Specific Requirements

• Commitment to working Monday-Friday but flexible to work unsociable hours on occasion to meet service needs
• Willingness to support maternity department clinically as required

At UCLH, we have a real ‘One Team’ ethos, and our values – safety, kindness, teamwork and improving, are central to the way we work. This is supported by our staff, who voted us as the #1 NHS Acute Trust to work for in the whole of England.

At UCLH we take equality of opportunity seriously and are committed to being a diverse and inclusive employer, with a culture that creates a real sense of belonging and trust. It is our fundamental aim, to recruit, retain and promote a diverse mix of people who are representative of our local communities. Applications are encouraged from candidates of all backgrounds, cultures, and perspectives to support our world class research, innovation and creativity.

UCLH recognises the benefits of flexible working for staff and has a dedicated policy which allows staff to apply for flexible working right from the beginning of employment. For more information please go to: https://www.uclh.nhs.uk/work-with-us/why-choose-uclh/flexible-working.

We offer our permanent staff an interest free season ticket loan for travel, all our staff have access to free independent and confidential support, large retail discounts, a staff discount platform, cycle to work scheme and on-site accommodation to name a few.

Additionally, UCLH Arts and Heritage’s staff wellbeing programme, Creative Comfort, offers a variety of ways to engage with the arts as a member of UCLH staff. You can try out the weekly choir, weekly art club and join the Culture Club for exclusive access to free and discounted tickets for opera, exhibitions, theatre and more.

We recognise, reward and thank colleagues by nominating them for our annual Celebrating Excellence Awards, which are funded by UCLH Charity.

We are also members of www.mytrustbenefits.co.uk/ which offers discounts on high street retail stores, offers on travel deals, and also to take advantage of cash back schemes.

This vacancy may close before the current listed closing date. You are advised not to delay submitting your completed application.

Please note that all correspondence regarding your application will be via email. The emails will be sent to you via TRAC.jobs and not via NHS Jobs, we encourage you to check your inbox regularly.

Please note that if you are at present in a training position on the 2016 new junior doctor’s contract and are applying for a Trust doctor role your salary will not be pay protected.

You will be placed on the appropriate point of the Trust Doctor pay scale based on your previous experience.

Please note that if you have not heard from us within 3 weeks of the closing date of the advert to assume that you have not been shortlisted on this occasion.

The Trust uses electronic new starter forms on Trac to collect personal details. Information collected is securely stored and used to set up the employee record on the ESR HR system.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.