Senior Midwife Antenatal Clinic

Job overview

Are you an experienced Midwife looking for an exciting opportunity to join the University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust providing maternity care to women and their families from the local population. This is an ideal opportunity to support the area with your expert clinical knowledge.

We are looking to appoint an enthusiastic Senior Midwife to lead and manage the Antenatal Clinic on the Queens Hospital Burton site.

The successful applicant will have a bespoke induction and support package tailored to their development needs.

Main duties of the job

As a senior midwife for Antenatal Clinic you will take overall responsibility and accountability in ensuring women, babies and families receive safe, clinically effective, women centred care across the whole maternity care pathway.

You will lead by example, offer expert midwifery clinical advice, operationally support and manage teams and services ensuring the delivery of high quality, effective and compassionate midwifery care.

You will work closely with multidisciplinary teams to deliver care to women and babies within acute or community clinical environments whose needs are complex.

You will work flexibly across the service in supporting the delivery of midwifery care, using a range of service models, including continuity of carer. Senior midwives provide expert clinical and professional midwifery leadership and are accountable for the women, babies, public and staff experience. This will be in line with local, Trust wide and national policies, procedures, values and behaviours.

Closing date of applications: 7th October 2026

Interview date: 21st October 2026

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

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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.