# Safeguarding Midwife > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/safeguarding-midwife/797b68ea-c4d1-48a7-acad-eae54e2db7ae - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/safeguarding-midwife/797b68ea-c4d1-48a7-acad-eae54e2db7ae.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust - **Town:** London - **Region:** London - **Country:** England - **Profession:** Midwife - **Grade:** Band 7 - **Salary:** £58,133 - £65,261 pa inclusive - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-07-02T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-06-18T09:21:33.787Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/-v8093326 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8093326?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.imperial.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview We are seeking a passionate and highly experienced midwife with a strong background in supporting pregnant women, unborn babies and families during the antenatal and postnatal periods. The successful candidate will demonstrate excellent safeguarding knowledge, sound professional judgement and a commitment to improving safety, wellbeing and outcomes within an acute hospital setting. ### Main duties of the job - Review patient records and relevant information to support clinical staff in developing safe plans of care and identifying appropriate next steps. - Provide expert safeguarding support across maternity services and a wide range of acute hospital specialties. - Work collaboratively and share relevant information with external agencies, including health visitors, General Practitioners (GPs), social care, children’s centres, domestic abuse services and drug and alcohol services. - Delivering safeguarding training, advice and supervision to staff, promoting consistent best practice across the Trust.Advocating for women, unborn babies and children in safeguarding meetings, while working closely with multidisciplinary teams to promote their safety and wellbeing. ### 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. ## Job Details We are seeking a passionate and highly experienced midwife with a strong background in supporting pregnant women, unborn babies and families during the antenatal and postnatal periods. The successful candidate will demonstrate excellent safeguarding knowledge, sound professional judgement and a commitment to improving safety, wellbeing and outcomes within an acute hospital setting. ## Job Description Review patient records and relevant information to support clinical staff in developing safe plans of care and identifying appropriate next steps. Provide expert safeguarding support across maternity services and a wide range of acute hospital specialties. Work collaboratively and share relevant information with external agencies, including health visitors, General Practitioners (GPs), social care, children’s centres, domestic abuse services and drug and alcohol services. Delivering safeguarding training, advice and supervision to staff, promoting consistent best practice across the Trust.Advocating for women, unborn babies and children in safeguarding meetings, while working closely with multidisciplinary teams to promote their safety and wellbeing. ## 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** - Self-discipline and good time management - Ability to adapt to change within the working environment and facilitate change and motivate others - Sound IT skills - Awareness of current professional issues within midwifery **Desirable** - Understanding of resource management, health and safety, clinical risk and quality issues - Knowledge of current safeguarding legislation/guidance - Knowledge regarding Domestic Abuse/Modern Slavery & Contextual Safeguarding ### Education **Essential** - Registered Midwife - Evidence of continuing CPD **Desirable** - Teaching qualification preferable ### Experience **Essential** - Experience of working with safeguarding issues - Experience of working as part of a multidisciplinary team - At least 1 year acute Trust experience. - Experience of working with pregnant women with complex medical/social needs - Experience of problem solving or initiating complex care plans (e.g. complex discharge plans) **Desirable** - Community midwifery experience. - Passed preceptorship - Evidence of an understanding of safeguarding legal and CSC processes - Experience of safeguarding supervision - Experience of inter-agency working ## Documents - [job description (pdf, 334.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10386802) - [our strategy 2023-25 (pdf, 230.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=427) - [functional requirements (doc, 72.0kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10386803) ## 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.