Clinical Lead Midwife

Job overview

• An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced and motivated midwife to join our senior maternity leadership team as a Clinical Lead Midwife. Responsible for the Labour Ward and Enhanced Maternal Care service, you will provide visible clinical leadership, operational oversight, and professional support to multidisciplinary teams, ensuring the delivery of safe, high-quality care for women, babies and families.

The successful candidate will lead service improvement, workforce development, clinical governance and quality initiatives, while maintaining a strong clinical presence within the maternity service. You will play a key role in supporting complex care planning, developing clinical pathways, enhancing staff competencies and driving excellence in maternity care. This role is ideal for an experienced midwifery leader with a passion for improving outcomes, supporting teams and shaping the future of maternity services.

Main duties of the job

The Clinical Lead Midwife will provide strategic, clinical and operational leadership for the Labour Ward and Enhanced Maternal Care services, ensuring the delivery of safe, effective and compassionate care for women, babies and families. The post holder will lead and develop multidisciplinary teams, maintain high standards of clinical practice, and support the management of women with complex care needs.

Key responsibilities include:

• Providing visible clinical leadership and expert midwifery support across maternity services.
• Leading the Labour Ward workforce, including staff management, rota oversight and workforce development.
• Developing and implementing enhanced maternal care pathways and complex care plans in partnership with the multidisciplinary team.
• Driving quality improvement, clinical governance, audit and patient safety initiatives.
• Leading on maternity guidelines, competencies, education and staff training programmes.
• Monitoring quality, safety and performance standards, ensuring compliance with national and local requirements.
• Supporting service transformation, workforce planning and the continued development of maternity services.
• Acting as a senior maternity leader and deputising for the Deputy Head of Midwifery when required.

This role combines senior leadership responsibilities with a strong clinical presence, providing expert support to staff whilst championing excellence in maternity care.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• The post holder will provide professional clinical leadership and expertise in enhanced care and management support for complex care plans.

The post holder will line manage the Labour Ward and will lead on ensuring staff are proficient in recognising, escalating and managing critical ill women and babies jointly with the MDT.

As a key member of the Senior Management Team, you will work closely with the multidisciplinary team to maintain high standards of maternity care, driving compliance with national maternity strategies, policy requirements, quality standards, and improvement programmes to ensure safe, effective and compassionate care for women and families

The post holder will be responsible for providing midwifery leadership to the clinical areas, which will include working clinically for up to 50% of the role and contributing to the operational management within Maternity. You will be responsible for ensuring the efficient and effective use of resources and the development & maintenance of the highest standards of care and efficient service delivery.

This role will include on call. This role is a rotational role and you may be asked to work or rotate in other areas/departments as per service needs.

Applicant requirements

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.