# Lead Midwife – High Risk Delivery Suite > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Barts Health NHS Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/lead-midwife-high-risk-delivery-suite/09568b1c-3679-4293-a615-3a1cc8da822f - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/lead-midwife-high-risk-delivery-suite/09568b1c-3679-4293-a615-3a1cc8da822f.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Barts Health NHS Trust - **Location:** St Bartholomew's Hospital - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Midwife - **Grade:** Band 7 - **Salary:** £58,133 - £65,261 per annum inc - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time, Flexible working, 37.5 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-09-13T22:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-08-28T11:10:55.245Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/London/London/Barts_Health_NHS_Trust/Maternity/Maternity-v8262241 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8262241?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.bartshealth.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview We are seeking a dynamic, enthusiastic, and highly motivated midwife to provide strong clinical and managerial leadership within the maternity service and deputise for the Labour Ward Matron in their absence. The successful candidate will lead and support multidisciplinary teams, including midwifery, medical and support staff, as well as students, ensuring the safe and effective management of the delivery suite and wider service. They will demonstrate a proactive approach to delivering high-quality, evidence-based, woman-centred care, facilitating patient flow across clinical areas and enhancing the experience of women and their families. This role includes a 0.4 WTE clinical commitment (two days per week), maintaining direct clinical involvement while supporting service leadership and operational management. The post holder will play a key role in quality improvement initiatives, supporting the implementation, embedding and evaluation of service developments and improvement projects. Working closely with maternity matrons and key stakeholders, they will ensure the delivery of equitable, person-centred, and evidence-based care that aligns with national standards, recommendations, and relevant maternity reports and guidelines. The successful candidate will be visible, approachable, and accessible to women, their families, and staff, fostering a culture of openness and support. ### Main duties of the job Provide clinical leadership to midwifery and non-midwifery staff, medical team students and ensuring effective management the activities of the delivery suite area as well as the service as a whole. The post holder, to be proactive in providing high standards of midwifery care, facilitate patient flow to other clinical areas thus increasing positive experience for women and their families. The post holder to be part of the quality improvement projects in the unit,support in the implementation, embedding and evaluation of results. The post holder will work with maternity matrons and other stake holders to ensure staff deliver a level of service that is equitable, person-centred and evidence-based care that are consistent with the recommendations of all relevant reports and guidelines. ### 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 documents, please view the attachment/s below. ### 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. ## Person Specification ### Knowledge **Essential** - Understanding of own Knowledge and Skills Framework and ability to identify learning needs and interests - Demonstrates a greater understanding of learning needs and evidence of facilitation skills - Understanding and rising to the challenges in service improvement - Can demonstrate a knowledge of current and emerging health care issues **Desirable** - Knowledge of current and emerging NHS strategy and policy ### Experience **Essential** - Post registration experience including recent intrapartum experience. - Recent experience of staff management - Experience of Equal Opportunity polices and procedures - Experience of caring for low risk as well as high dependency women in pregnancy, labour and postnatal delivery and supporting others to do so - Experience of caring for at risk / socially excluded patient ### Qualifications **Essential** - Registered Midwife - Intravenous accreditation - Prep for Mentorship course or equivalent - BSc or working towards ## Documents - [our values and behaviours (pdf, 334.9kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1119) - [candidate information pack (pdf, 549.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2446) - [job description and person specification (pdf, 711.3kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10576216) - [policy statement on the recruitment of ex-offenders (pdf, 92.0kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1120) ## 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.