Clinical Quality, Standards and Culture Lead Midwife

Job overview

Lead the future of compassionate, personalised maternity care.

We are seeking an exceptional and motivated Clinical Quality, Standards and Culture Lead Midwife to join our senior midwifery leadership team. This pivotal role will shape clinical quality, professional standards and culture across our maternity services, driving improvements that make a real difference for women, birthing people, babies, families and staff.

Working closely with the Director, Deputy Director of Midwifery and Head of Midwifery, you will provide expert leadership to strengthen midwife-led care pathways and support safe, effective, compassionate and inclusive care. You will work with multidisciplinary teams and service users to deliver evidence-based, person-centred improvements aligned to national guidance, regulatory requirements and Trust priorities.

This dynamic Trust-wide role spans both York and Scarborough Hospitals. You will help align teams, improve consistency and promote high-quality care across both sites. Through collaborative working, shared learning and a strong focus on culture, you will play a key role in delivering outstanding maternity services across our organisation and wider health system.

If you are a passionate and forward-thinking midwifery leader ready to influence quality, culture and standards at scale, we would love to hear from you. You will be supported by the Director and Deputy Director of Midwifery, with opportunities for coaching, mentoring and exposure to senior organisational leadership.

The selection process will include a focus group/task-based activity and panel interview across two days at York and Scarborough Hospitals on 30th and 31st July 2026.

If you are ready to make a lasting impact and lead with purpose, we would love to hear from you.

Main duties of the job

In this role, you will:

• Lead the development and delivery of midwifery-led care pathways that support personalised, safe and effective care

• Champion informed choice, autonomy and personalised care planning throughout the maternity journey

• Drive clinical quality improvement, using learning from incidents, feedback and data to enhance outcomes and experience

• Provide professional leadership to ensure high standards of midwifery practice aligned with national guidance and the NMC Code

• Promote midwifery-led and physiological birth approaches where appropriate

• Foster a positive, inclusive and speaking-up culture for staff

• Strengthen governance, assurance processes and organisational learning

• Work collaboratively to develop guidance, education and support for staff responding to care choices that sit outside recommended pathways, balancing safety, professional accountability and the rights of birthing people to make informed decisions.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

A full description of the role is available in the attachment: job description.

This vacancy may close early if a sufficient amount of applications is received.

Working for the Trust

Across our organisation, people are guided by values that were co-developed with staff: we are kind; we are open; and we pursue excellence.

Our values play into our ambition to develop a more diverse workforce, truly representative of our communities.  We welcome applications from everyone, while working with our Staff Networks - including our Race Equality, LGBTQ+, Disability and Carers Networks - to increase the number of applications we receive from different backgrounds.  If there is anything we can do to make our application process more accessible to you, please contact: [email protected].

As part of seeking to become more inclusive, we will consider requests for flexible working from the start of your employment.  It may not be suitable for every role, but we will try and be supportive where we can.  We would encourage you to speak to the recruiting manager named within this advert to discuss any requirements you may have.

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