Band 7 Midwifery Led Care Unit Manager

Job summary

Are you an experienced and motivated midwife with a passion for leadership, quality improvement and delivering outstanding woman centred care?

We are seeking an enthusiastic Midwifery leader to manage our Midwifery Led Care service at University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust. This is an exciting opportunity to shape and influence care within a low-risk birth setting, ensuring women and families receive safe, personalised and compassionate care throughout their maternity journey.

As Unit Manager, you will provide visible clinical and operational leadership, fostering a culture of excellence, continuous improvement and innovation. You will work alongside a highly skilled multidisciplinary team to maintain high standards of care, support staff development and ensure the service continues to evolve in line with national maternity ambitions and local priorities.

We are looking for an inspiring leader who is passionate about physiological birth, committed to delivering exceptional experiences and motivated to develop both services and people. This role offers excellent opportunities to lead service improvements, influence future practice and contribute to the ongoing development of maternity services across UHB.

If you are an experienced midwife ready to take the next step in your leadership career and want to make a real difference to women, families and staff, we would love to hear from you.

Main duties of the job

The Midwifery-Led Care Unit Manager has responsibility for the operational and professional leadership of the unit, ensuring the delivery of safe, effective and compassionate care. The successful candidate will lead and support the team, promote evidence-based practice and ensure high standards of clinical care, governance and patient experience are consistently achieved.

Key responsibilities include workforce leadership, staff development, performance management, budget oversight, capacity management, clinical governance, risk management and quality improvement. You will oversee audit activity, support learning from incidents and complaints, and lead initiatives that enhance safety, outcomes and families experience.

You will be highly visible within the clinical environment, acting as a role model for professional practice and fostering a positive culture where staff feel valued, supported and empowered to deliver exceptional care. The role requires excellent communication, organisational and leadership skills, alongside the ability to work collaboratively across professional boundaries and manage competing priorities within a dynamic maternity service.

The ideal candidate will be an experienced registered midwife with proven leadership experience, strong clinical credibility, a commitment to continuous improvement and a passion for promoting safe, personalised care for women and families.

About us

University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust strives to have an inclusive culture where everyone feels like they belong, can thrive, knows that they add value and feels valued. We do this by developing compassionate and culturally competent leaders, being values driven in all that we do and by creating a welcoming and inclusive workplace that thrives on the diversity of our people. As such we want to attract and recruit talented individuals from all backgrounds, and for each of you to feel supported for the diversity you bring, to achieve your full potential. For those staff with a disability, including physical disability, long term health condition, mental health or neurodiverse condition, this also means being committed to making reasonable adjustments needed for you to carry out your role.

Details

• Date posted: 18 August 2026
• Pay scheme: Agenda for change
• Band: Band 7
• Salary: £49,387 to £56,515 a year
• Contract: Permanent
• Working pattern: Full-time, Flexible working
• Reference number: 304-9018782
• Job locations: Trustwide, Mindelsohn Way, Birmingham, West Midlands, B15 2TH, United Kingdom

Job responsibilities

*Please Note : For a detailed job description for this vacancy, please see attached Job Description*

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