# Labour Ward Coordinator - Maternity > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/labour-ward-coordinator-maternity/2b422336-603b-4956-b303-40a9d76bd40a - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/labour-ward-coordinator-maternity/2b422336-603b-4956-b303-40a9d76bd40a.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust - **Town:** London - **Region:** London - **Country:** England - **Profession:** Administrative and IT - **Grade:** Band 7 - **Salary:** £58,133 - £65,261 pa inclusive - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-07-23T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-07-09T15:12:19.308Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/London/London/Imperial_College_Healthcare_NHS_Trust/Maternity/Maternity-v8142197 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8142197?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.imperial.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview Are you an experienced midwife seeking a role with a plethora of opportunities within a leading London Trust? Whether you're contemplating your next career move or just fancy a change of scenery, we want to hear from you! We are seeking an experienced, dynamic and compassionate senior midwife to join our labour ward team  as a band 7 co-ordinator. This is an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic midwife with strong clinical leadership, excellent communication skills and a passion for providing safe, high-quality woman centred care. You will act as a role model for multidisciplinary team, fostering a supportive culture that reflects our Trust values. You will lead the daily operational management of the labour ward, ensuring the delivery of outstanding care to our service users. You will provide visible clinical leadership and co-ordinate all activity on the labour ward, maintaining oversight of patient safety, acuity and safe skill mix. Working closely with obstetric, anaesthetist and neonatal team, senior midwifery leadership to deliver effective multidisciplinary care. Mentoring and supporting junior midwives, students, and new starters, fostering professional growth and confidence. Ensuring compliance with trust policies, documentation standards and national maternity safety initiatives. You will be involved with quality improvement and audit. ### Main duties of the job - Responsible for the day to day co-ordination of Labour Ward, overseeing the delivery of high quality, safe and effective care focused on improving outcomes and experiences for parents, families and carers. - Ensure safe and effective clinical practice in ensuring own knowledge, skills and competencies are current and act as clinical expert to disseminate specialist skills and knowledge to others. - Manage midwifery and support staff within the clinical area to maintain smooth running of the service. - Enhance women/birthing people’s experience of care and ensure that their needs are placed at the centre of care delivery. - Contribute to the delivery of the organisations objectives by working to improve clinical outcomes, increase productivity, efficiency and quality in care delivery. - The post-holder is an autonomous practitioner in normal pregnancy, birth and the post-natal period and in the care of neonates and is able to detect abnormal conditions in mother and baby, refer to other qualified health professionals appropriately and undertake emergency measures when required. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. For both overviews please view the Job Description attachment with the job advert. ## Person Specification ### Skills **Essential** - Ability to lead a team - Previous comprehensive midwifery experience including the ability to facilitate both high risk and low risk birth - Excellence in competencies (suturing, cannulation, venepuncture, emergencies etc) - Ability to foster a positive learning environment **Desirable** - Evidence of knowledge of recent midwifery research and clinical audit ### Education **Essential** - Degree level or equivalent experience as a registered midwife - Evidence of continuing professional development - Mentorship/Practice Assessor qualification **Desirable** - Evidence of other professional managerial qualifications - NLS - Advanced Life Support in Obstetrics Qualification. ### Experience **Essential** - Recent experience in an intrapartum setting - Knowledge and experience of risk management - Understanding complaints and conflict management **Desirable** - Evidence of previous management experience - Evidence of initiating and implementing quality Improvement Initiatives ## Documents - [job description (pdf, 298.1kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10441020) - [our strategy 2023-25 (pdf, 230.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=427) - [functional requirement form (pdf, 232.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10441021) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.