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Job summary
Substantive, 6 month and 12 month fixed term posts available The Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust is offering an exciting opportunity for you to join our Maternity service as a Delivery Suite Coordinator. This is a pivotal role providing inspirational leadership of the multi-disciplinary delivery suite teams and providing excellence in clinical skills and support to staff. Successful applicants would be required to work on both City sites at Leeds General Infirmary and St James Hospital on a rotational basis.
Main duties of the job
We are looking for a candidate with highly advanced intrapartum clinical skills, who is ready to take the next step into clinical midwifery leadership within our large NHS Trust. The ideal candidate should have significant intrapartum care experience, be an advocate for women and families using our service, have excellent interpersonal and communication skills and be used to working in a busy environment with a large multi-disciplinary team.
About us
The Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust is committed to delivering the highest quality and safest treatment and care to every patient, every time. Our vision is to provide the highest quality specialist and integrated care. We will do this through delivery of our multi-year goals and strategic priorities, which you can read about on this page. Central to it all is The Leeds Way our values and behaviours that are at the heart of everything we do.
Details
- Date posted: 29 May 2026
- Pay scheme: Agenda for change
- Band: Band 7
- Salary: £49,387 to £56,515 a year
- Contract: Permanent
- Working pattern: Full-time
- Reference number: 001093
- Job locations: Leeds General Infirmary, Leeds, West Yorkshire, LS1 3EX, United Kingdom
Job responsibilities
For questions about this job, contact:
Name - Ceri Hall or Louise Spicer Position - Intrapartum Matrons Email - ceri.hall2@nhs.net or louise.spicer@nhs.net Phone number - 0113 2066619
Job Summary
Substantive, 6 month and 12 month fixed term posts available
The Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust is offering an exciting opportunity for you to join our Maternity service as a Delivery Suite Coordinator. This is a pivotal role providing inspirational leadership of the multi-disciplinary delivery suite teams and providing excellence in clinical skills and support to staff. Successful applicants would be required to work on both City sites at Leeds General Infirmary and St James Hospital on a rotational basis.
We are looking for a candidate with highly advanced intrapartum clinical skills, who is ready to take the next step into clinical midwifery leadership within our large NHS Trust. The ideal candidate should have significant intrapartum care experience, be an advocate for women and families using our service, have excellent interpersonal and communication skills and be used to working in a busy environment with a large multi-disciplinary team.
Why you should join our Team
We are a large tertiary referral centre with more than 8500 deliveries each year across 2 sites. Each site has specific maternal medicine specialities and we have level 3 neonatal facilities at the LGI site and level 2 at SJUH site. We have a 3 bedded alongside midwifery unit- Lotus Midwifery Unit- at the LGI site, with birth pools available at both sites.
We work closely with obstetric, anaesthetic and neonatal colleagues on our perinatal improvement journey and are passionate about and dedicated to improving experiences and outcomes for our service users. Leeds is a great place to further your midwifery career and widen your knowledge and experience.
What you will bring to the role
The post holder is an expert clinical practitioner of midwifery. S/he coordinates and manages the day-to-day activities for the delivery suite, obstetric theatres, obstetric enhanced maternal care (EMC), and alongside midwifery unit (Lotus Midwifery Unit), allocating the team in accordance with capabilities and workload. The post holder is responsible for the unit out of hours and at weekends whilst on duty. S/he provides management and professional leadership. The post holder is responsible for the assessment of care needs, the development, implementation and evaluation of programmes of care and the setting of standards of care. The post holder provides clinical guidance and support for other members of the multidisciplinary team within the delivery suite, ward areas and other outside agencies i.e. GPs and community midwifery services. He/She facilitates an environment that cultivates the concepts of evidence-based care and is responsible for supervision, education and professional development of staff and students. This post will involve direct liaison with delivery suite based at our sister site, across the city.
Please see the attached job description for further information about this vacancy.
About Leeds Teaching Hospital NHS Trust
Our values are part of what make us different from other trusts, so we see this as a strength, as well as a responsibility. They have been developed by our staff and set out what they see as important to how we work. Our five values are:
Patient-centred Collaborative Fair Accountable Empowered
All our actions and endeavours will be guided and evaluated through these values
We’re committed to recruiting exceptional people to deliver outstanding services across Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust and helping every colleague reach their full potential. We’re looking for a compassionate, inclusive, and collaborative leader who shares our values and can build strong partnerships. We warmly invite applications from people from a variety of backgrounds and sectors, and are especially keen to hear from individuals from a minority ethnic background. We’re dedicated to creating a diverse and inclusive environment where everyone feels valued, supported, and has a true sense of belonging, as we work together to deliver the best in healthcare to the people of Leeds and beyond.
To comply with UK Government regulations on Skilled Worker sponsorship, Leeds Teaching Hospital NHS Trust is unable to provide sponsorship to applicants who do not meet the eligibility criteria or the salary threshold concessions set out under the Skilled Worker visa route. Please take this into consideration before submitting your application. Full guidance on these concessions, including details of who may qualify, can be found here.
We reserve the right to close this advert early if we receive a high number of suitable applications.
Applying for this NHS job
This advert is for Delivery Suite Coordinator with Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust in Leeds, North East and Yorkshire, England. It is listed as a Band 7 Administrative and IT role. The advertised salary is £49,387 to £56,515 a year. The contract type is Permanent. The application deadline is 19 Jun 2026.
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